Another "possible" SD shooting

smart, smartphones...

As posted before, I highly suggest buying or obtaining a smartphone or iPhone if you are a armed citizen.
You can document events or evidence at a scene, you can contact 911 or LE which is then time/date stamped, ;).
You can also take notes or record important details(report #s, license plate #s, LE officer badge #s, etc).

Bad weather(rain, fog, snow, sleet) can damage or obscure evidence. A video or digital image may help defend your statements/actions later.
Be aware too that some "bystanders" on-lookers may not be honest or open with any investigators or local media about the event(s). They may also snatch up any related items(weapons, magazines, spent cases, bags, drugs, tobacco products, etc).

It sounds hard to fathom but about 2 years ago, I saw 2 deputy US Marshals in plain-clothes arrest a guy on a street corner. The cops put the guy in handcuffs & were lifting him up to put him in a SUV when a street bum ran up & collected the subjects property, :eek:.

As posted on other forum topics, in the US criminal justice system is not whats true that matters, it's what you can prove. ;)

Clyde
 
After some of the lunatic behavior I saw among law enforcement in Arizona in post-self-defense cases I have to say that taking pics and at least uploading them to a private location if you shoot somebody has to be viewed as prudent.
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True. But the combination of taking the cell pictures and subsequently fleeing the scene has to be viewed with trepidation if not complete skepticism.
 
There's nothing wrong with leaving the scene, if you call the police first (or very shortly afterward) to report the incident, tell them where you are, and explain why you left.

"...I was afraid of the other people in the car my assailant got out of, so I'm going to [insert safe location here]."

The technical term for this is "retreating from a (potential) threat," and it may be a very smart thing to do.
 
Vanya, in this case the shooter fled the scene AFTER stopping to take photos of the deceased. That doesn't speak to the mindset of someone retreating from a threat.
 
Vanya, in this case the shooter fled the scene AFTER stopping to take photos of the deceased. That doesn't speak to the mindset of someone retreating from a threat.
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That may be true, but we weren't there, and we don't know what what was in her mind or what may have happened before she left. According to the article you linked in post #19, she went to her mother's house and then called the police. As others have pointed out -- taking pictures may not be a bad idea from the point of view of documenting the scene.

My comment was intended as a general one, in any case. My point was that there's nothing inherently suspicious about leaving the scene of such an incident. We have very little evidence of what happened, and no insight into her mental state. Speculation about either is useless, and if there is a point to this thread as a "Law and Civil Rights" topic, it revolves around the advisability of recording such a scene, and under what circumstances one would do well to leave.

Otherwise, there's very little to discuss -- this isn't a "current events" forum.
 
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