A Suicide
A few weeks ago I was at the station working on paperwork when the Corporal running the shift got on the radio and said he had just been flagged down by a woman that said her husband had just shot himself. There were a couple of other officers at the station doing paperwork also. Needless to say we all quit what we were doing and hurried to the Corporals location.
I was the first to arrive. As I pulled up I saw the woman in the back of the Corporal’s car. She was screaming and hollering that her husband was dead and that she wanted out of the car.
The Corporal and I made entry into the house while another officer went to the rear, another officer stayed with the lady. The house was a complete mess. We had to climb over clothes and furniture to get through the front living room. That’s not a very pleasant thing to do when there is possibly an armed person in the house.
Anyway we made it through the house and to a back living room. There he was sitting on a couch, obviously dead. I say obviously dead because there were pieces of his head and brain splattered all over the walls, ceiling and floor. He was holding a shotgun between his legs.
We had dispatch tell the paramedics they could come in. When they came in we told them to watch where they stepped because there were pieces of his skull on the floor. They came in and looked at the guy and hooked up a monitor. They thought they saw a pulse on the monitor. Because their protocol says they will work someone with a pulse they started to work him. The ambulance crew seemed a little overwhelmed by the scene. We had to drag him off of the couch, as we did his head hit the couch. It made a squishy noise kind of like a wet rag hitting something.
One of the paramedics started to put a tube in his mouth. She looked up at us in what appeared to be shock and said she could see the floor. That was about the extent of the work on him. It was determined that his injury was not conducive to life and they stopped working him.
It turns out the man had a history of mental problems and had attempted suicide in the past. He was mad at his recently married daughter over the cost of the wedding. Just before he shot himself he told his wife to go get the daughter, who lived just down the street, because he was tired of being lied to. Then he shot himself.
I was the first to arrive. As I pulled up I saw the woman in the back of the Corporal’s car. She was screaming and hollering that her husband was dead and that she wanted out of the car.
The Corporal and I made entry into the house while another officer went to the rear, another officer stayed with the lady. The house was a complete mess. We had to climb over clothes and furniture to get through the front living room. That’s not a very pleasant thing to do when there is possibly an armed person in the house.
Anyway we made it through the house and to a back living room. There he was sitting on a couch, obviously dead. I say obviously dead because there were pieces of his head and brain splattered all over the walls, ceiling and floor. He was holding a shotgun between his legs.
We had dispatch tell the paramedics they could come in. When they came in we told them to watch where they stepped because there were pieces of his skull on the floor. They came in and looked at the guy and hooked up a monitor. They thought they saw a pulse on the monitor. Because their protocol says they will work someone with a pulse they started to work him. The ambulance crew seemed a little overwhelmed by the scene. We had to drag him off of the couch, as we did his head hit the couch. It made a squishy noise kind of like a wet rag hitting something.
One of the paramedics started to put a tube in his mouth. She looked up at us in what appeared to be shock and said she could see the floor. That was about the extent of the work on him. It was determined that his injury was not conducive to life and they stopped working him.
It turns out the man had a history of mental problems and had attempted suicide in the past. He was mad at his recently married daughter over the cost of the wedding. Just before he shot himself he told his wife to go get the daughter, who lived just down the street, because he was tired of being lied to. Then he shot himself.
posted by TexasCop at 02:57
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