Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Domestic Murder by a Policeman


Shots rang out at the Sheetz in downtown Roanoke across from the Roanoke Civic Center Monday morning. The shooter, police say, is a 32-year-old Franklin County Deputy; his target and victim, police say, is his 30-year-old ex-wife. She is now dead.

Roanoke Police say Jonathan Agee used a rifle to shoot and killed his ex-wife Jennifer Agee at the Sheetz on Williamson Road. Police believe Jennifer wasn't the only person in the car.

"I believe there was a child, but I don't know if he was in the car, out of the car. I don't know those details. That's all a part of the investigation at this point," said Chief Chris Perkins, Roanoke Police Department.

Chief Perkins says Agee then fled in his cruiser.

At exit 128 on interstate 81, a Trooper pulled Agee over. State police say Agee opened fire on Trooper Matt Brannock, and Brannock returned fire after being shot in the leg. Soon, we're told, more Troopers arrived, shooting Agee and ending the threat.
You see how it works? When it's a black kid running away or climbing in the window, shooting him center-of-mass is the only thing to do. They're trained to do that, after all. But when it's one of their own, they suddenly have other options.

Agee has been suspended without pay and is facing numerous charges.
What do you think? Do the cops have a double standard when it comes to shooting offenders? Wouldn't that say something about homeowners too, you know, all those guys who have no other choice but to kill the intruder?

Please leave a comment.

9 comments:

  1. "What do you think? Do the cops have a double standard when it comes to shooting offenders? Wouldn't that say something about homeowners too, you know, all those guys who have no other choice but to kill the intruder?"

    No, I would say that the trooper fired at center mass but hit the criminal in the leg. Since he was being shot at, I seriously doubt that the trooper was trying to do anything other than stop the threat.

    Shooting the gun out of the bad guy's hand is Hollywood, not reality.

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  2. "State police say Agee opened fire on Trooper Matt Brannock, and Brannock returned fire after being shot in the leg."

    The way I read this, the trooper responding was shot in the leg by the criminal. The quoted report does not say where they shot Agee (the criminal), only that they ended the threat.

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  3. The bigger crime is that almost a half-hour before Jennifer Carter Agee was shot to death on Memorial Day, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office was warned that her sheriff’s deputy ex-husband had an assault rifle and was driving to Salem to kill her.

    But Sheriff Ewell Hunt told his dispatch center not to issue a “be on the lookout” alert to other law enforcement agencies, saying he would take care of the situation himself, according to a sheriff’s office radio call log.


    So law enforcement fails in it's responsibilities, to warn and stop someone with a gun, all Mikey can talk about is "oh my, we can't have people defending themselves!!!!!1elevnety-one1111!!!!!

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  4. FWM,

    "No, I would say that the trooper fired at center mass but hit the criminal in the leg. Since he was being shot at, I seriously doubt that the trooper was trying to do anything other than stop the threat."

    The criminal wasn't hit in the leg. The officer returning fire was.


    Sorry Mike, I'm sure the officer wasn't trying to plink the gun out of his hand.

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  5. UnReason wrote"So law enforcement fails in it's responsibilities, to warn and stop someone with a gun, all Mikey can talk about is "oh my, we can't have people defending themselves!"

    Correct, unreasonable; having someone getting into a shooting match with an armed officer is an incredibly stupid idea, no matter how wrong that officer is behaving - in this case criminally.

    Agee's ass should be locked up in jail, charged with murder, not on admin leave.

    "The bigger crime is that almost a half-hour before Jennifer Carter Agee was shot to death on Memorial Day, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office was warned that her sheriff’s deputy ex-husband had an assault rifle and was driving to Salem to kill her.

    But Sheriff Ewell Hunt told his dispatch center not to issue a “be on the lookout” alert to other law enforcement agencies, saying he would take care of the situation himself, according to a sheriff’s office radio call log."

    Sheriff Ewell Hunt should be on administrative leave, prior to being fired with the most extreme possible prejudice and possibly additionally charged as an accessory.

    Further, I'd favor harsher penalties being enacted into law for law enforcement officers who commit domestic abuse like this - be it stalking or murder. Some simple multiplier, like one and a half times the sentence that a civlian would receive.

    They should reasonalby be held to a higher standard, given they have greater access to firearms, greater authority, power and responsiblity.

    Maybe that would get the attention of those bad law enforcement officers who think they are above the law instead of part of it and subject to it.

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  6. I don't see any double standard. In both cases, the criminal was shot.

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  7. You guys are the ones who keep objecting to the cops being treated like more important citizens. I agree with that. I say both cops and civilian gun owners need to be better trained and better screened. I say that among both the police and civilian gun owners there are too many bad apples. These could be easily weeded out if the rest of you weren't so worried about your so-called "rights."

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  8. "These could be easily weeded out if the rest of you weren't so worried about your so-called "rights.""

    So called rights? That is a good one Mikey!

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  9. No, Jim, you know what's a good one, the way you guys have leapt from the "right to life" to the "right to self-defense" and then in a single bound like Superman, to "the right to own a pistol."

    That's the really funny one.

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