Yahoo News(Reuters) – An Indiana police officer was discovered fatally shot in his patrol car early Sunday, state police said.
Jeffrey Westerfield, who had served on the Gary Police Department for 19 years, was on duty when he was shot by an unknown assailant, an Indiana State Police official said.
State police, federal law enforcement and dozens of officers from Gary, a city located in the southeastern Chicago metropolitan area, have launched a manhunt for the suspect, the official said.
It was unclear if Westerfield was specifically targeted in the shooting, local officials said during a news conference Sunday. His body was found in his patrol car by a fellow officer around 5:50 a.m. local time.
“Any loss of life, particularly a police officer’s loss of life, is devastating to a department, is devastating to a community,” said Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson. “We will to go through every legal measure to make sure that the person who is responsible for this is held accountable,” she said.
Gary Police Chief Wade Ingram said Westerfield had responded to a call near where he was shot, but it was unclear if he made contact with anyone in the area.
The last Gary police officer killed in the line of duty was in 2007, according to the Post Tribune. The officer’s car crashed during a pursuit.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in New York; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Marguerita Choy)
http://news.yahoo.com/indiana-police-officer-found-fatally-shot-patrol-car-180453769.html
Who did he piss off?
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Had to post at least ONE story with a happy ending today.
lol
thanks
“Any loss of life,particularly a police officers”,is more devastating then the loss of other lives?,loss of life just sucks,nothing special because a cop.
Yeah James, I noticed that too. and #1 thank you for the happy ending post.
I’m sure the gun grabbers of Indiana will use this story to say, “This is why the state of Indiana should not have a law to allow people to use guns to protect themselves even from the police because people will abuse it like in this incident.”
My opinion of the article, they didn’t kill enough of these bastards.
Isn’t Indiana a state that had a lot of problems with “HOME INVASIONS” from cops. They then passed a “Make My Day” law against the COPS? Just a simple question. Is it too far fetched to assume that possibly someone who had a relative abused, assaulted, or murdered, where there was no justice in the matter wanted to make sure that the perpetrator actually did not escape from justice?
Or the guy was a good cop with a soul and got popped by one another cop who did sell his soul. Remember the movie “Magnum Force”?
All speculation, but it is interesting the lengths they go through to find a cop killer and how little they do in pursuit real criminals to make sure they are brought to justice.
Looks like we are on our own. MILITIA is the way to go. At the very least it is a counterbalance to tyrannical government.
Yep, that’s what I had pointed out in my comment above. They are the state that passed that “Make my day law”. I can see the MSM and gun grabbers using this incident for their propaganda.
““Any loss of life, particularly a police officer’s loss of life, is devastating to a department, is devastating to a community,” said Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson. “We will to go through every legal measure to make sure that the person who is responsible for this is held accountable,” she said.
first- f the police. the dead cop is not ‘devastating’ to the community.
second- going to use ‘legal measures’ are ya? Good luck. our justice system is a joke.
7 years between cop deaths?
HEY GARY INDIANA YA MIND STEPPING IT UP AND DOING YOUR PART?
Check in his matress for unreported cash, or what 12 year old he was helping with home work. And such. This will give you a idea why he was shot as cops just do not get shot for no reason at all. From a ambush. Some one or organization had some reason for that.
JMO, but it looks to have started. Be ready.
you’re right, Enbe. It always begins with cop killings, and the fact that everyone’s glad another pig is dead.