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shooting at Richmond VA Greyhound station

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:07 pm
by ghostjmf
No further details given as yet

Re: shooting at Richmond VA Greyhound station

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:19 pm
by SpacemanSpiff
http://www.nbc12.com/story/31612519/pol ... n-richmond

Local tv station reports 2 dead - one state trooper and the shooter. Six others wounded.

http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city ... 977f1.html

Local newspaper says suspect is in custody. (Of course, that might be custody in the morgue...)

Re: shooting at Richmond VA Greyhound station

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 3:47 pm
by ghostjmf
Thanks; I can't do links from this tablet anyway.

Current broadcast reports say trooper in surgery. Hope that means they aren't dead after all.

Re: shooting at Richmond VA Greyhound station

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:19 pm
by Estonut
ghostjmf wrote:Thanks; I can't do links from this tablet anyway.

Current broadcast reports say trooper in surgery. Hope that means they aren't dead after all.
Spiff's first link was updated at 4:38 PST and says:
A Virginia State Police spokesperson says that the suspect is dead and a trooper has life-threatening injuries after a shooting at the Greyhound station on North Boulevard on Thursday.

Spokeswoman Corinne Geller says a suspect opened fire on an officer at the station around 2:45 p.m. Two nearby troopers then shot the suspect, who died after being transported to VCU Medical Center. Two other people were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Other police sources said the trooper had died, but Geller did not confirm this.

Re: shooting at Richmond VA Greyhound station

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:53 pm
by jarnon
Sadly, Trooper Chad Dermyer has passed away. RIP.

Re: shooting at Richmond VA Greyhound station

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 5:42 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit

Re: shooting at Richmond VA Greyhound station

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 8:06 am
by Bob Juch
The shooter fired at the officer when the officer asked to check his ID.

Re: shooting at Richmond VA Greyhound station

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:08 am
by silverscreenselect
Bob Juch wrote:The shooter fired at the officer when the officer asked to check his ID.
If only we had more good guys with guns parading around Greyhound bus stations, things like this would never happen. That guy would have been ventilated ten times over before he could possibly have shot the policeman.

Re: shooting at Richmond VA Greyhound station

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:34 am
by Bob Juch
silverscreenselect wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:The shooter fired at the officer when the officer asked to check his ID.
If only we had more good guys with guns parading around Greyhound bus stations, things like this would never happen. That guy would have been ventilated ten times over before he could possibly have shot the policeman.
Well there were something like 10 police officers at the bus station for a training exercise; the officer who was shot was one of them.

It's ironic that if there weren't police there the shooter wouldn't have used his gun but the police killed the shooter. Right place, wrong time.