An off-duty St. Louis city police officer is being questioned after investigators say he shot his sister during an argument around 2:00 a.m. Wednesday on Vera Cruz in Affton.
St. Louis County Police say the woman was grazed in the head and suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Investigators add the off-duty officer acted in self-defense.
There is no word on why the two were arguing.
Although we have to wait for all the facts to get out before making a judgment, I find it very suspicious for a fully-trained off-duty police officer to need to shoot his sister in an argument in “self-defense.” Why couldn’t he just leave before the argument? Even if his sister had attacked him, was shooting her really necessary? Couldn’t he have diffused the situation before it came to that, anyway?
What do you think?
Friday, January 12th 2007 at 5:45 pm
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Saturday, December 9th 2006 at 5:55 pm
Michael Williams,
I do not know the facts, I merely find the self-defense claim suspicious. There are of course exceptional circumstances in which a fully-trained police officer would have to shoot his sister in self-defense. However, in most cases, I assume you would agree that he would have contributed to the escalation of the situation and would have had the opportunity to diffuse and/or avoid the situation beforehand. It would be a very rare situation in which he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to avoid the situation, by diffusing it or leaving while it was still escalating.
Thanks for your comments,
Scott
Saturday, December 9th 2006 at 1:53 am
Scott,
Do you not beleave that a “fully trained police officer” can be a victim of a domestic violence incident? Before all of the facts are out (and by the way, all of the facts will never be released) you want to cast doubt on the officers actions by posting your comment. You do not know what the circumstances were that forced him to protect himself. It did not state how he was being attacked or what the situation was. Leave before the argument even started? What’s that all about. How is he going to know that he would be in an argument that would escalate into having to shoot his sister to defend himself. Since were just making things up. Maybe his sister is a 300 pound karate black belt who is addicted to crack and he was trying to convince her to seek treatment when she attacked him…
Wednesday, December 6th 2006 at 1:13 pm
I think thisd just is another example of the police mindset of using over exsessive force for any situation. The tasering of UCLA students and the following mass masing of UCLA Students at the USC – UCLA game plus the numerous police brutality tapes that are surfacing and the shooting incident in NY are all examples of this. Police only have themselves to blame for lowering their hiring standards and excepting lowgrade morons as officers. This combines with the thin blue line principle of protecting your fellow officers even when they are doing criminal acts further erodes the confidence of the public in the police.