OH - Man Shot, Killed After Firing Shotgun At Police (Video)

[Kevlar]

Ricky Diamond Sr. said he knows police had to protect themselves and an entire neighborhood.

But it is difficult for him to understand why six cops - two Union County deputies, two state troopers and two Marysville police officers - fired on his son in a gunfight that proved fatal.

Diamond Sr. and Rickie Diamond Jr., who lived together, fought Tuesday night as they often did. Diamond Sr. called 911 and told authorities his son was bipolar, off his medication, agitated and was leaving the house with a loaded shotgun.

A deputy came to their home on Rapp Dean Road to investigate.

"The last thing I said to that deputy when he left here was 'Don't you (expletive) kill my son,'" the elder Diamond said yesterday afternoon.

Union County authorities say they had no choice.....

http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...n-officers-first-authorities-say.html?sid=101

 

[Palladin]

Nothing to see here, move along.

 

[Nfdbrian]

You can't fix stupid???

 

[SteelShooter]

They couldn't have just shot him in the leg, or shot the gun out of his hands?

 

[06LemansC6]

Sounds like a hell of a family.

Over the years, deputies have frequently been called to the Diamond home for fights, domestic disputes and various complaints. Diamond had, in the past, been charged with menacing, assault and some other petty crimes. When he was shot, he was wanted in Champaign County for failing to appear in court on an old case.

And a brawl in which he and his father were stabbed at his sister's wedding reception four years ago was infamous in the area

 

[Boghog1]

sounds like the LEO DSAF

 

[Jose]

Bravo Zulu to the Union County Sheriff's Office, the Marysville Police, and the Ohio State Highway Patrol

 

[Jose]

Ricky Diamond Sr. said he knows police had to protect themselves and an entire neighborhood.

But it is difficult for him to understand why six cops - two Union County deputies, two state troopers and two Marysville police officers - fired on his son in a gunfight that proved fatal.