Go Skins Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 http://wtop.com/209/3190692/Police-shoot-armed-suspect-hiding-in-San-Diego-theater SAN DIEGO (AP) - Moviegoers at a San Diego theater ducked for cover as police stormed in during a movie and shot and wounded an armed domestic violence suspect pretending to be a patron. The lights came on suddenly during a Saturday matinee screening of "Les Miserables" at Reading Cinemas Carmel Mountain in northern San Diego and two officers who had been going theater-to-theater spotted their suspect among the approximately 15 moviegoers, most of whom quickly hit the floor and started inching toward exits, police and witnesses said. The suspect, Tom Billodeaux of Escondido, 20, at first obeyed the officer who approached him and put his empty hands up, but then "lowered them into his lap ... raised a handgun, and turned it toward the officer," police said in a statement. The officer, who has been with the department for about 18 months, shot Billodeaux in the chest and arm, police said. No one else, including the domestic violence victim in the initial incident, was hurt, police Lt. Ernie Herbert said. Billodeaux was at a hospital Sunday morning and is expected to survive the shooting. He will be booked into county jail on his release, police said. Officers reached by phone did not know if he has an attorney, and contact information could not be found for Billodeaux, his family or friends. Billodeaux became the target of an intense police search after witnesses reported seeing him get into a fight with his girlfriend at her workplace across the street from the theater's surrounding shopping plaza, Lt. Ernie Herbert said. Co-workers and witnesses helped the woman get away safely, but Billodeaux threatened them with a gun and ran to the shopping plaza, police said. The owner of a business next to the Cineplex said police shut down the shopping center's parking lot and stopped every car to look for the man. Officers with dogs checked each store, while a police helicopter hovered above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 Pfffft... Police? I would feel much safer if everyone in the theater had AK's. Yep, that's totally the world I want to live in. United States of Afghanistan. Been workin' on my tactics. Lock n' load! /sarcasm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eva4ben-gal Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 Does Afghanistan even have movie theaters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vol_Bengal Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 Are we to the point of posting EVERY news article now that has any pertinence of guns involved? This dumbass is a domestic violence suspect, took a gun into a "no gun zone", elected to then grab said gun and point it at police officers, and got his ass shot off. Frankly... I view these instances as thinning of the herd... kinda like let the weak / dumb be devoured as it strengthens the remainder of the herd. What does any of that have to do with the gun debate as it sits now? We don't even know if he got this gun legally or illegally. Story doesn't say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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