Joette Shooting Case Study

The shooting occurred at the Fruitvale train station on January 1st, 2009. At the station, a fight broke out in one of the trains and when the train stopped the fight started again outside of the train at one of the stops. While they were fighting on the train the BART officers were called. The officers came and arrested everyone that was in the fight. A guy named Oscar Grant was in the fight and was also arrested (Meyer). While Grant was being arrested by Officer Mehserle, he resisted the officer’s attempts. Since Grant was resisting he was pushed onto the ground on his stomach to be handcuffed. Johannes Mehserle was having trouble handcuffing Grant so the other BART officers helped him. When Grant was on the ground Mehserle was going to tase him since he would not stop resisting. When Mehserle thought he pulled out his TASER, he instead pulled out his gun. Mehserle accidentally shot Grant with his gun since he thought he pulled out his TASER (Bulwa).

There was a shootout that went viral recently in Maryland and the information about it is now available for us to discuss. The young lad who was killed during the shootout is identified as Jason Hendrix who is 16 years old and was from Corbin, Kentucky. The Baltimore County Police officers, Maryland have been on a hunt to find this young lad who is a suspect of his parent’s and his 12 years old sisters’ death. Right from there his hunt was on for the cops of Maryland.

On July 26, 2013, Sammy Yatim, a mentally ill youth was shot nine times and killed by a police officer. He boarded a streetcar and pulled out a switchblade, which he used to threaten passengers (Rogan, 2014). The police arrived shortly after all the passengers had safely exited. Constable James Forcillo was one of the first cops on the scene, and had ordered his partner to radio for a Taser to subdue Yatim. While Yatim was still in the streetcar, Forcillo fired his gun. Officers rushed into the streetcar to taser him and then attempted CPR. However, Yatim was pronounced dead early in the morning of July 27 (Rogan, 2014).

Two people were killed as a result of the officer. Quintonio LeGrier, 19 years old, and 55-year-old Bettie Jones were both shot and killed. Reports state that LeGrier was acting oddly and was carrying a metal bat around his father’s apartment. His mother stated that he was a college student who was suffering from unknown mental health issues.

Pierre was shot by a Chicago police officer on a Tuesday night. The Chicago police department mentioned that on Tuesday night they had to stop a vehicle

Another black man has been shot and killed by police officers this time in Houston, Texas. Alva Braziel is now dead after waving a gun at police and then being shot allegedly 10 times. Hollywood Life shared the details about what happened to Alva. This is just two days after numerous police officers were shot in Dallas. Alva Braziel was allegedly waving his gun in the streets before getting shot by police officers. There is no word at this time about what caused Alva to act this way.

According to Chicago police, seven people were fatally shot this past weekend. In addition to the weekend shootings, a 25-year-old man was found fatally stabbed Saturday morning in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.

In the D.C, Baltimore area, two people, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo drove around on a shooting spree that killed and inflicted terror on many people. The spree lasted from October 2nd, 2002 until October 24th.

The Kent State shooting has sadly been one of the many fatal shootings throughout history in America. There are growing rates in mass shootings in America today as we know. They are becoming more common in our daily news sadly. We have many Anti-shooting, and many rallies to end war on certain topics. This just happened to be one for the Vietnam war. .

At 1051 hours, while dispatch was still on the line with the juvenile Zach Robins, a third call came in to 911 indicating shots had been fired in the 1400 block Virginia Avenue. From Bocephus Rufus Fredricks who lived at 1314 Virginia Avenue, Godfrey, Illinois,

The Kent State shooting played a major role in Nixon’s resignation from presidency and the public’s opinion of the Vietnam War. The students that were protesting started when Nixon announced intervention into Cambodia. Outraged students met on campus the very next day to show that they didn’t agree with the presidents decision. During the shooting students threw containers of tear gas back at the guardsmen. Some students threw rocks as the soldiers left. Protestors would shout “Pigs Off Campus!” (Axelrod et al. 256) Many of the soldiers sent to settle the frustrated protestors were weekend warriors who chose the guard to avoid ending up in Vietnam. Mandy soldiers lacked training for combat and crowds. Most soldiers were confused by the actions of the students and weren’t sure how to react. The student protestors refused the guards orders to disperse which resulted in the guardsmen throwing tear gas toward the rioting protestors. The protestors consisted of upper class and middle class residents.

Normally there is an extreme amount of blood that is found at the scene in most self-inflicted gunshot suicides. Strangely, that afternoon in Fort Marcy Park there was little blood that was found on or around the Vincent Foster’s body. Even more bizarre was Doctor Donald Haut’s coroner report. Dr. Haut is the coroner for Fairfax County, Virginia and the only medical doctor that evaluated Foster’s body. Dr. Haut was quoted in the Fiske report as saying that he observed a large pool of blood around the body at the crime scene. Although Dr. Haut denies that he ever made a statement or was interviewed by a member of Fiske’s investigative team (Balough, 2015). Cory Ashford was one of the Fairfax County Emergency Medical Technicians that was on the scene that day. In fact, Ashford was one of the individuals that put Vincent Foster’s into a body bag at Fort Marcy Park. Cory Ashford told investigators that he did not use gloves nor did he have to wash his hands after putting Foster’s body into the body bag (Balough, 2015). Mr. Ashford was one of four medical technicians that were present at Fort Marcy Park that day and saw Vince Foster’s body. None of the four of them recall seeing a hole in the top or in the back of Foster’s skull but they do recall seeing a puncture wound on the lower right side of Foster’s neck. It was described as a hole approximately the size of a .22 caliber entrance wound. This fact was omitted from all of the reports. (Rodriguez, 1995).

On Tuesday July 6, 2016 at approximately 12:15 a.m. 37 year old Alton Sterling was shot and killed by two police officers responding to a disturbance call. The altercation between Mr. Sterling and the two officers occurred at the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The two officers involved in the shooting have been identified as 28 year old Blane Salamoni, and 28 year old Howie Lake II. Both officers used physical force to bring Mr. Sterling to the ground, but it is unclear through the video which officer used their gun to shoot Mr. Sterling or if both officers shot him.

In Montgomery County, A man was shot in Montgomery Village over a drug exchange. “Police do not think this shooting was random, (ABC7). The man was pronounced dead when police arrived. The police said, “ The victim was found dead between two cars in a parking lot” (ABC7). Another thing happened in Montgomery Village, an officer shot at a man in self-defense. The officer went to knock on this man's door to ask about a reported bike theft earlier in the day. The report says “ Tilley

Police were not sure who was the target of the shooting which occurred outside Anil’s Bar along Caratal Road. A report stated that around 2 am, Jerrod Samuel, 28 and Kenson Welcome, 31, both of Gasparillo, were liming when a silver vehicle pulled up and the occupants opened fire. Samuel was shot on the left side of his jaw and Welcome was struck on his right upper chest. The vehicle sped off without anyone being able to identify the registration plate or brand of the vehicle. The injured men were taken to the San Fernando General Hospital where they were treated and discharged. Gasparillo police led searched through the area