what comes around goes around
NEW YORK --- A man wanted by the FBI on charges that he shot a police officer in Georgia was killed late Tuesday night during a confrontation with narcotics investigators in Brooklyn.
Police said the fugitive, Darin Richardson, was shot twice after he pointed a pistol at two detectives and a plainclothes officer who tried to stop him in the street.
Investigators believe the revolver Mr. Richardson brandished might have been the same one used in 2005 to wound an officer in Austell, Ga.
That shooting earned Mr. Richardson a prominent place on the FBI's wanted list, but it was a chance meeting that led to Tuesday night's violence.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said a group of drug investigators on a routine patrol decided to stop Mr. Richardson after spotting him emerging from a shop about 9 p.m., fiddling with something tucked in his belt.
Thinking the bulge was a weapon, they circled around the block, then flashed their badges and ordered Mr. Richardson to halt. Two of the officers fired when Mr. Richardson pulled a gun and ignored orders to drop it, Mr. Browne said.
Several witnesses confirmed that one or more of the police officers shouted, "Put it down! Put it down!" before opening fire, Mr. Browne said.
It wasn't until later that authorities learned that Mr. Richardson was wanted in connection with the shooting of a police officer in Georgia's Cobb County.
Cobb County police said in a news release that Mr. Richardson was charged with shooting an officer twice on Aug. 20, 2005, after police tried to question him.
The wounded officer survived. Mr. Richardson escaped on foot.
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what comes around goes around
Swift justice!!! So much better than the way the Nichols trial seems to be going...
Good for the NY Cops. One piece of trash gone forever.
way to go!!!!
So he still had the same "GUN" that was used to shoot a cop in Georgia over two years ago.Sounds strange to me,let's not forget that (NYPD) has bad cops.All must read story again,let's not rush to judgement.Still had the same gun over two years later.??????????????????????
backpac-bill, whether it was the same gun or not, this piece of trash had no problem pointing and apparently using a weapon against police.
backpac, the Investigators BELIEVE it MIGHT be the same revolver. The investigation is just getting started. "That (NYPD) has bad cops"????? WTF? That's a rather ignorant blanket statement. Anywhere there's that many employees, there's going to be bad apples. I work with about 300 people & know of several with multiple DUI's, so what's your point? That this idiot apparently had no problem pulling a gun, any gun, on a police officer, makes him a prime candidate for the Darwin Award. He voluntarily removed himself from the gene pool. Could have saved some potential PTSD if he'd just pointed that gun at his own head & pulled the trigger instead of forcing a cop to do it for him.
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