Officer Quickfire Recap: Second Week October

Oct. 19, 2014
Here are some of the top headlines you may have missed that ran on Officer.com this week.

It can be hard to keep up with all of the news that occurs on daily basis.

Because of this, the Officer.com staff presents the "Quickfire Weekly Recap."

Here are some of the stories you may have missed that ran on our site this week:

Weekend (Oct. 10-12)

Jurors were deadlocked and a judge declared a mistrial Friday for a Detroit police officer charged with recklessly handling his gun and killing a 7-year-old girl.

It's the second time a verdict couldn't be reached in the case against Officer Joseph Weekley. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010 during a chaotic search for a murder suspect.

The man convicted of shooting a Cobb County police officer five times was sentenced to 105 years in prison Friday.

James Albert Phillips was found guilty of 12 charges in the shooting of Officer Charles Vill during a traffic stop earlier this year.

Four 911 calls made following a shooting at a high school were released by Louisville police.

The shooting at Fern Creek High School on Sept. 30 led to chaos inside the building. Police said it was a "targeted shooting" but that the student who was shot was not the intended target.

A Navajo Nation police officer was shot and a suspect was in custody Saturday.

Officials said Officer Joseph Gregg was shot in the face in Kaibeto, Ariz. and was taken to Flagstaff and then a Phoenix hospital and listed stable condition.

Monday (Oct. 13)

A Cleveland police officer was saved by his bulletproof vest after being shot in the chest

Officials say that Deshawn R. Castleberry opened fire on officers John Lyons and Matthew Pollack, hitting Lyons.

Demonstrators fanned out across the St. Louis metro area for the "Moral Monday" protests.

Forty-nine people were arrested at two separate events in Ferguson that held during a midday rainstorm.

As fall sets in and leaves begin to fall, the advantage could soon shift to law enforcement in the search for a Pennsylvania State Police trooper's killer.

For the past month, officials say that Eric Frein has capitalized on weather conditions and his own survival skills to elude an ongoing manhunt.

Prison officials recently unveiled the renovated execution chamber inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

The $71,000 reconstruction of the death chamber and adjacent witness rooms gives executioners more space in which to operate.

Tuesday (Oct. 14)

Quick thinking by a Campbell, Calif. police officer helped save a missing woman.

The officer used an iPad to pinpoint where the woman's iPhone was located after her vehicle plunged down a 500-foot ravine near San Jose.

Investigators fear the man suspected of killing a Pennsylvania State Police trooper and wounding a second is looking to strike again.

Police Commissioner Frank Noonan detailed the effort to capture Eric Frein more than a month after the shootings.

Alaska State Troopers continue to craft a strategy on how they would handle enforcement of a new law that bans Spice and other synthetic street drugs based on their packaging.

The law imposes a fine on anyone in Alaska who possesses, advertises or sells the designer chemical drugs often sold with labels that read "not for human consumption."

The Washington State Patrol announced it will throw away speeding tickets given last week after up to eight police officers were not cited.

Patrol officials said it was a matter of "simple fairness" after the officers blasted through a speed trap.

Wednesday (Oct. 15)

A Maryland State Police trooper located was lauded for saving the life of a non-breathing infant.

Trooper Matthew Schoenadel turned the baby boy on his stomach to clear the baby's airway after locating and stopping the vehicle he was in on the highway.

A Connecticut trooper shot and killed a man who was attacking passengers on a tour bus.

Police say the suspect was armed with a "sharp instrument" and had injured passengers on the bus and was "causing injury to himself" when the trooper approached.

Two park rangers were recovering after being stabbed multiple times in Boston Common.

Officials say that 34-year-old homeless man Bodio Hutchinson attacked the rangers. Officers responded quickly, and with the help of witnesses, were able to arrest the man.

Forensic information showed that the 18-year-old man who was shot and killed by an off-duty St. Louis police officer last week had gunpowder residue on his hands and clothes.

Vonderrit Myers Jr.'s death drew scrutiny after his family alleged that he was holding a sandwich and not a gun when an officer fired at him 17 times.

Thursday (Oct. 16)

A man suspected of shooting two McHenry County, Ill. Sheriff's was arrested after investigators received a tip from residents.

Officials said that Scott Peters did not resist arrest about two miles from his Holiday Hills home where the incident occurred. Both deputies were expected to survive.

The head of the FBI warned against smartphone data encryption in the wake of announcements by Apple and Google.

Director James Comey said that homicide cases could be stalled, suspects could go free and "justice may be denied because of a locked phone or an encrypted hard drive."

An unidentified body exhumed in Alabama is not the man accused of using a sledgehammer to kill his family in Maryland in 1976.

The FBI had said photos of the unidentified hitchhiker who was killed in a hit-and-run looked like William Bradford "Brad" Bishop Jr., but using DNA, agency scientists determined it was not him.

A Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot a mentally ill man was terminated.

Police Chief Edward Flynn said that Officer Christopher Manney instigated a fight with the man and ignored his training and police policy.

Friday (Oct. 17)

Florida's highest court ruled that police in the state have no right to use a cellphone to track someone's movements without a warrant.

The state Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision ruled that Broward County Sheriff's Office had no right to stop and arrest Shawn Tracey for possession of more than 400 grams of cocaine.

Snohomish County law enforcement officials said they are thankful no one was killed after dozens of gunshots were directed at police in three cities.

The suspected gunman was captured after two Marysville police officers fired their guns.

Lawyers argued this week that police unions should be able to appeal a federal judge's ruling that the New York Police Department's stop and frisk policy violated civil rights even though the city no longer wants to fight.

A lower court judge has said the unions did not signal soon enough their wish to be included in the case, heard last year in federal court.

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