Paper: Photographer shot by cop who mistook camera for gun
Source: Associated Press
Andrew Welsh-huggins, Associated Press
Updated 4:14 pm, Tuesday, September 5, 2017
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A photographer for a small news organization who was shot by a sheriff's deputy who mistook his camera for a weapon is uninterested in seeing the officer punished, the newspaper said Tuesday.
Photographer Andy Grimm left the office Monday to photograph lightning when he saw Jake Shaw, a Clark County sheriff's deputy, performing a traffic stop in New Carlisle, north of Dayton, The New Carlisle News reports .
Grimm got out of his Jeep to take pictures of the traffic stop and started setting up his tripod and camera when he was shot in the side, the newspaper reported. The shooting happened about 10:15 p.m., according to the sheriff's office.
"I turned around toward the cars and then 'pop, pop,'" Grimm said in the newspaper's story.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/News-organization-says-employee-shot-during-12172794.php
truthisfreedom
(23,169 posts)because he's an improperly trained idiot with a hair-trigger finger and no sensibility of his own.
2naSalit
(86,963 posts)suing quickdraw McGraw.
Judi Lynn
(160,682 posts)Updated 4:06 pm, Tuesday, September 5, 2017
NEW CARLISLE, Ohio (AP) The Latest on a news photographer shot by a sheriff's deputy (all times local):
5 p.m.
The Attorney General's office says state prosecutors will handle the case of an Ohio deputy who shot a photographer for a small news organization after apparently mistaking his camera for a weapon.
The announcement Tuesday means most aspects of the shooting in New Carlisle near Dayton are being handled by state officials.
The investigation already has been turned over to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, a division of the Attorney General's office.
More:
http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Deputy-who-shot-photographer-is-12174635.php
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)how he could be mistaken for a dangerous, scary criminal...
Seriously, how many criminals bring a tripod to steady their aim in that idiot's neck of the woods?
rpannier
(24,350 posts)They apparently know each other and are have no grievance against each other
Town is rather small, where everyone knows each other
The deputy sounds like a real life Barney Fife
Maybe he should keep his bullets in his pocket from now on
on edit
An update on the news organization's Facebook page says Grimm is "is very sore but otherwise is doing fine" after surgery and doesn't want Shaw to lose his job.
"This is a small town. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody looks out for one another," Dale Grimm, Grimm's father and the publisher of the weekly paper along with two others, said in a phone interview Tuesday morning.
Dale Grimm said it's not clear what the deputy was thinking.
Aristus
(66,530 posts)you're probably in a war zone. If not, hold your fire until a weapon is confirmed, idiot!