Opposing Views – by Sarah Fruchtnicht
A Texas police officer and his wife were found shot dead in a murder-suicide on Wednesday, just days after the officer posted a video review online of his new shotgun, claiming he bought it to protect his wife.
Crandall police officer Sgt. Nick Pitofsky, 47, shot and killed his wife Vanessa, 42, in their Dallas-area home Tuesday before he turned the gun on himself, Dallas police reported.
The couple married just over three years ago. Vanessa allegedly revealed to a friend recently that she had to stop using Facebook because her husband was very jealous.
Pitofsky was a gun enthusiast who contributed to the Scout Tactical Channel on YouTube, demonstrating various weapons. Five days before the murder-suicide, Pitofsky posted a video on the Mossberg 500 shotgun.
“I purchased this as a self-defense weapon for my household, essentially for my wife,” he says in the video.
He said his wife, “is not a big fan of it, but she understands the usefullness of it and the reality of the situation in the world we live in today.”
“The wife is only 5’4” about a buck 20,” he continued, “so the recoil on this, she’s not happy with it. I purchased her several handguns. She prefers to use those, but as she’s used this she understands she’s only going to be taking one or two shots in rapid succession. She can suffer through the pain of the recoil.”
Pitofsky had worked as a patrol officer for two years.
“Nick was well respected by his peers and will be deeply missed by the city and department as a whole,” the Crandall Police Department said in a statement. “Nick was an energetic and jovial person who got along with everyone.”
“Nick was an extremely dedicated Police Officer for the City of Crandall and its citizens,” the statement said. “Sergeant Nick Pitofsky will be deeply missed by his fellow Officers.”
Evidently the Crandall police dept psych evaluation on him did not work. The
Mossberg 500 shotgun did.
Im just throwing this out there because it wasn’t covered in the story, and that might have been by design..
but we are made to assume he killed her and than himself…what if that wasn’t really how it went down..maybe she killed him, and than herself
anyone know for sure? and if so, how would they know?
Now on to the subject of home defense..shot gun wins hands down each time, two out of two in this case
And it could have been aliens the illegal kind(which would be any planetary based or not). The point is only the individuals who have seen the location with the gun in his or her mouth and the other dead with the thermometer in the liver to check time of death really know who killed who. This is of course unless neither are really dead and this is another story to promote the disarmament of all Americans.
Is this a stretch or another side to the story that we don’t know about?
I have others if you like.
good points Mark
and added to the list for the disarmament of us all no doubt.
Im sure you do have many, as we have seen lately things of this nature are on the rise
Granted, Freddie was a flaming faggot, but this song doesn’t say it any better for me. Shame about the wife, but hey, if you’re going to marry a POS cop, that’s the kind of chance you take……
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Queen+Another+One+Bites+The+Dust&filters=eid%3a%22music-2D011900-0100-11DB-89CA-0019B92A3933%22+ufn%3a%22Another+One+Bites+The+Dust%22+sid%3a%22662ff363-8174-c859-22df-feac459bb8ae%22&FORM=SNAPST
Yes he is a flameing fag for sure.The song does fit though. Good choice of song for this #1 😆
Seems like they would be better off disarming the police. Could save a lot more lives that way.
She must have not have had a chance to get to one of her handguns that she preferred over the shotgun. Proves they cannot be trusted and we need to be armed to protect ourselves from bad cops as well as criminals.