Deputies kill Cupertino quarry-killings suspect

[sce56]

Source: San Francisico Chronicle

(10-06) 13:54 PDT CUPERTINO -- The suspect in the Cupertino quarry shooting rampage that left three men dead was shot and killed this morning by three Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies in a Sunnyvale neighborhood, authorities said.

The shooting happened at about 7:30 a.m. outside 934 Lorne Way, just north of Homestead Road and east of Wolfe Road, a neighborhood where law enforcement agents went door-to-door Wednesday looking for triple-homicide suspect Shareef Allman.

Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said Allman, 49, had been holding a handgun when the three deputies on routine patrol spotted him crouching behind a car in the driveway of the home.

"The deputies identified him as the suspect," Smith said. "He did display, in a threatening manner, a firearm."

All three deputies shot at Allman, the sheriff said. No one else was injured.

Smith would not say if Allman had fired his weapon.

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[TheWraith]

1. Illegal execution! Immoral! Unconstitutional! Tyranny! Fascism!

Oh wait, that only applies to violent fugitives in Yemen, not the US. Nevermind. :P

[SkyDaddy7]

2. Now that was funny! nt.

[sce56]

3. Well this may be one of those rare times when it was fully justified!

I don't have too much sympathy for people that lose it and kill their fellow workers! I have been in workplaces that had those moments when a fired employee was not trusted to just take his personal item and leave!

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Did those guys try to throw down on the incoming missile?

Apples and fucking oranges.

[ljm2002]

5. So the President was involved? Who knew?

Oh, you're not saying it was the President, but it was the secret commission set up to determine who the bad guys are? Hm, I hadn't heard that either.

Neither of those? Then what, exactly, are you saying?

In this case, there was a mass shooting, it was known who the shooter was and he was on the loose. The situation was ongoing. The officers involved in the shooting will still have to justify their use of lethal force. Not at all the same thing as a secret federal tribunal deciding someone is a bad guy, without having the evidence vetted by a judge or a grand jury, nor ever having to reveal the process or the evidence used, and based on that putting someone on a list for execution-by-drone.

[IamK]

6. did they use a predator?