Police: Cop killers heavily armed, wore diapers
Source: Associated Press
Police: Cop killers heavily armed, wore diapers
By KEN RITTER, Associated Press | June 23, 2014 | Updated: June 23, 2014 5:39pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) A man and woman who killed two Las Vegas police officers in a pizza shop and a shopper in a Wal-Mart before they died in a store shootout earlier this month were heavily armed and carried ammunition including armor-piercing bullets, Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Monday.
Jerad and Amanda Miller wore adult diapers and carried four handguns, a shotgun, water and food, Gillespie said. The couple also smashed a Wal-Mart sporting-goods display case with a baseball bat to get more ammunition as they exchanged gunfire with SWAT officers, he said.
The husband and wife died June 8 after being cornered in the back of the store in the 15-minute shootout. In all, 52 shots were fired by the Millers and police inside the store. The husband and wife fired 36 shots, Gillespie said, and police fired 16.
"The two suspects involved in this horrible event were well-armed and ready to kill as many cops as they could," Gillespie said in the latest update of the investigation of the shooting that left officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck and Wal-Mart shopper Joseph Wilcox dead.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Sheriff-talking-more-about-Vegas-police-shooting-5572866.php
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)People with guns don't kill cops, people who wear diapers wear cops. It all Depends on who you are lobbying for.
vlakitti
(401 posts)Aristus
(65,985 posts)n/t
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)as they were incompetent in life. Multiple firearms. Access to an ammo horde. Only killed 3 persons other than themselves, and had to fire multiple rounds to do that.
IronLionZion
(45,163 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)IronLionZion
(45,163 posts)The shooters' cause? That couple were nuttier than a squirrel's nest.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)juajen
(8,515 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...mere diarrhea is no deterrent.
NBachers
(16,967 posts)This is the future we've all been waiting for?
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)But quickly saw they were in over their heads. So the whole event didn't take long.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)If you look at it that way, their provisioning for a longer time makes perfect sense.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)He drew his weapon on the man, but didnt know the wife was behind him. She killed him.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/264154081.html#ZJcXOhZ53cFdcc3i.97
I guess wearing diapers means they probably thought they would be around for a lot longer.
Snarkoleptic
(5,995 posts)If so, could this be the next trend in mass shootings?
Head to Walmart to find abundant ammo and lots of innocents to victimize.
Ack!
A quick search and I've found a blog that chronicles Walmart shootings...
http://walmartshootings.blogspot.com/p/running-list-of-2014-walmart-shootings.html
LiberalLovinLug
(14,144 posts)In some States they can "open carry" their weapons into the store in full view with no one to stop them, walk up to the ammo department and then demand all their goods.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Man's obviously about to go on a rampage.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Probably thought that if they did, they would reduce the stops that they take, and fling those things at police cars in pursuit.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)hours, with backpacks/guns and must have been 'ready' for their final deed to start. diapers?
Guess their personal 'Fantasy mass murder-siege' didn't include him being shot early & the early suicides.
He was a convicted Felon and also subject to home confinement and monitored parole. No guns are allowed. Why didn't the people associated with his parole terms make sure the woman he lived with, his wife- didn't own or buy guns? The authorities monitored him by computer, why didn't they monitor his computer use? He would have lost his parole over the online statements he made, the statements he made to neighbors or the gun access
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)We have to prioritize. Do you realize how many anti-war activists and environmentalists there are to keep tabs on??
yurbud
(39,405 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)They did a bit like that on THE SHIELD once, where they flushed out a killer by saying evidence at the crime scene indicated he was an impotent bedwetter or something like that.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,053 posts)greiner3
(5,214 posts)Have the cops investigated Vitter yet as he may have been the ring leader?
NickB79
(19,063 posts)The article states they were carrying handguns and a shotgun. The only ammo capable of piercing police vests are rifle cartridges, however, as even top-of-the-line 9mm ammo cannot beat Kevlar.
I wonder if they brought along some 5.56mm ammo, or grabbed some from Walmart, on the assumption they would take the AR-15's from the officer's car, or find one in Walmart?
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)I've not seen them, and don't know how easy they are to get
But maybe they were talking about these:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_3_16/522352_.html
NickB79
(19,063 posts)Steel-core rifle ammo is still OK, I believe. But even if that were banned as well, an old-fashioned lead-and-copper rifle round will still penetrate body armor; it's just the fact it's going so damn fast more than the bullet's construction.