Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Dallas gang unit police officer killed; suspect on suicide watch
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Senior Cpl. Norman Smith, an officer in the Dallas Police Department's gang unit, was shot in the head and killed Tuesday night when he was trying to serve a warrant at an apartment in Oak Cliff. Charles Patrick Payne has been arrested and charged with the killing, and is reported to now be under a suicide watch
Posted by Alex B.
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Pavel Lishin Verified
One day I hope to become jaded to the point where people's idiocy stops amazing me.
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Rawlins Gilliland Verified
This offer's death is a real tragedy. I am very proud of Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, listening to his almost poetic eulogy in speaking to the press at Baylor Hospital where this officer was taken and pronounced dead. Chief Kunkle spoke of Officer Smith in the most human terms; as a man grieving the loss of a friend, as a leader grieving the loss of a valued and tenured member of his team, and as a husband about the murdered officer's wife, also a police leader and colleague, now a police widow. All this because someone born but probably never raised saw his real power not in acquiring knowledge but, rather, in getting a gun.
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JW Richard Verified
Extremely tragic.
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Scott Doyle Verified
Does suicide watch mean the cops will happily watch him suicide? Don't imagine a way while incarcerated that would be any less painful than the needle he'll inevitably get stuck with.
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snowboard9 Anonymous
I would give him a spoon and see how creative he can be.
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