WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio said two officers were fatally shot at a home in a Columbus suburb on Saturday, and a suspect was in custody.
Westerville police said in a statement that the shootings happened Saturday after officers responded to a 911 hang-up call. The officers were shot around noon after entering the residence.
Westerville Police Chief Joe Morbitzer identified the officers as 39-year-old Eric Joering and 54-year-old Tony Morelli. He said the officers were responding to a “potential domestic situation.”
“The officers gave their lives in defense of others,” Morbitzer said, struggling to keep his emotions in check. “They’re true American heroes.”
Police provided no details about the suspect during a brief news conference.
Republican Gov. John Kasich, who lives with his family in a nearby township, tweeted that he was “very saddened to learn of the deaths of two of my hometown police officers.” He asked Ohio residents to join him in “lifting up these officers’ families in prayer.”
President Donald Trump tweeted: “My thoughts and prayers are with the two police officers, their families, and everybody at the @WestervillePD.”
Westerville, on the northeast side of Columbus, is a suburb with about 39,000 residents.
“Two more notches!” Nationalist Russian Alliance Vice President Wayne LaPierre exclaimed.
NRA protocol when a bad guy with a gun shoots someone is to insist that there need to be more armed civilians on sites with similar profiles.
Perhaps the 911 system could be integrated with a civilian militia network, so that armed civilians could converge on the site that police are responding to. Two police are dead, because the area behind the backs of policemen has traditionally been a gun-free zone when they are on a call.
Speaking of bad guys with guns:
Tennessee sheriff taped saying ‘I love this shit’ after ordering suspect’s killing
The sheriff looks pretty much what you America-hating liberal elite marxists imagine he looks like:
The victim wouldn’t look out of place at a Trumpp rally:
and wouldn’t look out of place at a Trumpp rally, too:
Luckily, these guys are being prayed for.
Oddly enough, the guys who buy ink by the barrel seem to’ve become less and less impressed.
And now — gadzooks! — a fruit of Merril’s loin, a girl [cue: blood-curdling shriek] has become mayor of Hildale, UT, causing 11 religion-driven Neanderthals to quit in protest; preternaturally ignorant animated bags of sperm are like that, I guess.
Fun times ahead.