Carjacker shot overnight

[funeralweb]

WISH-TV showed pic of perp, calling him "victim"

"Good child....wrong crowd" -family members

Carjacking suspect dead in northeast side police shooting | WISH-TV

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Was the "vitim" language on the newscast?

This article says "suspect".

 

[patience0830]

Bu-bye!

'Nuther idget outta the jean pool.

(Suppressing my grammar Nazi)

 

[funeralweb]

Yes. Teresa Mackin used that description from the scene around 5:45, displaying a picture of the more aptly termed "suspect" as the "victim".

 

[chubbs]

It appears he had been shot at before in that picture. I'm guessing that's a graze wound in his hair or possibly lost a fight with a lawn mower.

 

[jblomenberg16]

Hope all the officers involved are ok. Wonder if it was any of our INGO members?

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Hope all the officers involved are ok. Wonder if it was any of our INGO members?

Denny was probably asleep when it all went down. VUPD and I work a different district. BBI was, well, who knows what he was doing.

 

[tbhausen]

Heard the whole thing go down on my feed. It sounded rather dramatic.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

... BBI was, well, who knows what he was doing.

Nothing useful, just secretarial work after an earlier pharmacy robbery.

...

 

[IndyDave1776]

Was the "vitim" language on the newscast?

This article says "suspect".

Kirk, you need to read further down the page. This linked article does in fact refer to the little bastard as a 'victim'.

 

[spec4]

As I read this my thinking is many future crimes have been prevented by this incident.

 

[IndyDave1776]

As I read this my thinking is many future crimes have been prevented by this incident.

Exactly. Odds are that otherwise he probably would have lived at least another 30 years barring a moment of bad luck like this. If he did time averaging 2 to 3 years at a time, that would give him at least a dozen spells of being on the street during each of which he could reasonable be expected to commit a number of crimes. This one well-placed bullet could potentially have stopped hundreds of crimes.

 

[mondomojo]

Exactly. Odds are that otherwise he probably would have lived at least another 30 years barring a moment of bad luck like this. If he did time averaging 2 to 3 years at a time, that would give him at least a dozen spells of being on the street during each of which he could reasonable be expected to commit a number of crimes. This one well-placed bullet could potentially have stopped hundreds of crimes.

Plus 1 on that. One good shot can save the taxpayers so much time, money and grief. As far as the "victim" language, it's because "journalists" no longer think about what they write. I'm disgusted at least once a day by the shoddy writing on local news. Worst part is that the dimwit talking heads just say it without regard to context or meaning. People hear it then start to believe it. As was said in a post about Fergusuon, there is too much media. I'll add that this excessive media is doing a crap job.

 

[MCgrease08]

I feel badly for the officers who were forced to take the life of this kid, just because he didn't have enough sense to value it himself.

He was probably looking to make a name for himself and earn some street cred. He earned it alright. Now he'll be forever immortalized in the form of airbrushed t-shirts and as a R.I.P. window decal on the back of somebody's Impala.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

This linked article does in fact refer to the little bastard as a 'victim'

Good grief, you are right! I thought that was the name of the person that had the car stolen.

Textbook self-defense. Calling Green a "victim" is stretching the word to say the least.

Auto Theft, Resisting Law Enforcement, Battery with a Deadly Weapon, Carrying a Handgun Without a License, etc., all the day before school is to start?

 

[IndyDave1776]

Good grief, you are right! I thought that was the name of the person that had the car stolen.

Textbook self-defense. Calling Green a "victim" is stretching the word to say the least.

Auto Theft, Resisting Law Enforcement, Battery with a Deadly Weapon, Carrying a Handgun Without a License, etc., all the day before school is to start?

Easy to understand. It seems that since journalists lack the talent to dazzle us with brilliance they baffle us with BS--and sometimes even the most focused mind can miss details in sorting it out.

As you implied, this could have had a much different outcome had he been rounding up school supplies instead of carjacking and starting a gunfight with the police.

 

[HoughMade]

“Unfortunately nobody wins in this situation,” said IMPD Officer Chris Wilburn. “The officers are traumatized, and there’s going to be a subsequent investigation of course, and a family is going to get the very tragic news that their teenager is deceased.”

I can think of one group of people who won. Congratulations to all the law abiding residents of Indianapolis who have one less ne’er do well to look out for.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Good grief, you are right! I thought that was the name of the person that had the car stolen.

Textbook self-defense. Calling Green a "victim" is stretching the word to say the least.

Auto Theft, Resisting Law Enforcement, Battery with a Deadly Weapon, Carrying a Handgun Without a License, etc., all the day before school is to start?

Not auto theft. Armed robbery.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Not auto theft. Armed robbery.

Is it still armed robbery if committed by a paraplegic holding the gun with his toes?

 

[Birds Away]

This is still a tragedy any way you slice it.