Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Why aren't Police Releasing more Information?

   My mind shoots back years, to when I was discussing a home invasion shooting with a gun advocate, and he suggested the homeowner shouldn't even be questioned by police, as he had been traumatized enough.
   I think he was serious. And, judging from some of the things said by online commentors to a Deseret News story on the shooting death of Makayla Yeaman, I wonder if some them might feel the same way.
   "Why is there even a follow-up story? Second-guessing gun use," says a commentor identified as Say No to BO.
   "She tried to burglarize the wrong home. Case closed," says someone calling himself (or herself) Mainly Me.
  My thoughts go the other way. Why is it that we are days past the event and police still haven't released some of the basics -- some of which  they surely knew as quickly as they interviewed the homeowner? What did the invader do to threaten the homeowner? Did she pull the knife, or make threatening motions with it? Did she make any verbal threats? How close to the shooter was she? Did the homeowner even know she had a knife? How many rounds were fired? Where did the bullets hit? How long after the shooting was it before paramedics were called?  Did she die on the spot or was she transported to the hospital?
   Hey, police didn't even release this basic information -- that a knife was found -- until days after the shooting. It would seem you surveyed the scene of the crime and found the knife immediately after the shooting.
   Why is so little information being released? These are basics belonging in any news story about a shooting. Why are they being withheld by police?

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