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07-02-2013, 01:46 PM
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Re: Man Took Two Year Old As Hostage At GunPoint
Apologies if this is a re post :( A stand-off filmed by surveillance cameras ends when the officer fires a single shot at the hostage taker's head. CCTV Shows Cop Killing Child Snatcher A stand-off filmed by surveillance cameras ends when the officer fires a single shot at the hostage taker's head. 6:14pm UK, Tuesday 02 July 2013 Video at base of post: US Cop Shoots Dead Child Snatcher CCTV images have been released of a child hostage situation in an Oklahoma supermarket, which ended with a policeman shooting dead the suspect. The surveillance video released by police in Midwest City shows a man snatching a two-year-old girl from a shopping trolley and then holding a knife to her throat. The toddler's mother, Alicia Keating, frantically pleads with the man, identified as Sammie Wallace, 37, as other shoppers crowd around. She is seen and heard calling 911 for help. Local police are quickly on the scene and clear the store. After 30 minutes of tense negotiation, police said Wallace began talking about a satanic cult and counting down from 60. One of the officers, Captain David Huff, determined that the only way to ensure the safety of the toddler would be to take drastic action. On the video he is seen moving quickly towards the hostage-taker and preparing to fire a single shot at his head. The pictures stop at that point, but the police commentary continues and confirms Wallace was killed. The child was unharmed. "Obviously, our goal was to talk him down to get him to release the child," Police Chief Brandon Clabes told reporters. "I mean, we waited until the last second to use deadly force. No one wants to take a life, especially in the line of duty." The Oklahoma County district attorney said the shooting on June 17 was justified, and hailed Captain Huff as a hero. Wallace served time in a Texas prison from 2000 to 2011 on drug and assault charges. He was known to have a long history of mental illness. |
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07-03-2013, 01:58 PM
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Re: Man Took Two Year Old As Hostage At GunPoint
Eun Kyung Kim, TODAY July 3, 2013 8:01 AM A mom's routine grocery trip turned into a harrowing ordeal after one of her girls was taken hostage in a deadly standoff. “I was literally begging for my daughter’s life,” said Alicia Keating, whose recent trip to an Oklahoma Wal-Mart was captured by the store’s surveillance video. The scene in the store as Wallace walks away holding Zoey, captured on surveillance video. While Keating's back was turned, a complete stranger walked up to Keating's cart and picked up her 2-year-old daughter, Zoey. He walked away as the girl's 12-year-old sister watched in shock. “Here's this huge man standing there with my daughter in his arms and he has a knife pointing towards her side,” Keating said on TODAY in a segment that aired Wednesday. “He said really quietly, ‘Hey, little mamma. You see this knife?’” Keating became hysterical. She began screaming, pleading with the suspect to let her daughter go. “I did not maintain my composure. I was completely freaked out,” she said. “I wanted to reach out and grab her but he had a knife. There was nothing I could do but stand there and beg for her life.” Meanwhile, other shoppers in the store had called 911. "There’s someone with a knife holding a little girl hostage,” one man told the emergency operator. Police provided Wallace with a chair. As he began a threatening countdown, they said they took action. “He took this woman's kid and we need police here immediately,” said another caller. Midwest City, OK, police cleared the store as soon as they arrived. They negotiated for more than 30 minutes with the suspect, Sammie Wallace, who continued to hold a knife to the toddler’s neck. At one point, they gave Wallace a chair and talked with him one-on-one, according to the video. Police said Wallace then started a 60-second countdown that the suspect warned would end up with him harming the child. That’s when police Capt. David Huff walked up to Wallace and shot him point-blank in the head. Little Zoey is safe and sound at home after her ordeal. "When you have a suspect that starts counting down on a child's life, we're going to have to take appropriate action and unfortunately we had to use deadly force,” said Sid Porter, Midwest City’s assistant police chief. Keating was outside when she heard the shooting. “I heard the shot go off and I thought, ‘Oh my God, they just killed her.’ I thought, ‘she's dead,’” she said. Today, Keating and her daughters are back home safe and Zoey is none the wiser. “My hugs are a lot tighter,” said Keating, still amazed by what happened. “When I watch her play, I have never been more thankful.”  ·  ·  · |
