CMPD Officer involved shooting Wednesday night ends the life of domestic call suspect.
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The Following From WSOC:
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot and killed a 20-year-old, knife-wielding woman Wednesday night, according to Chief Rodney Monroe.
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Officers responded to a domestic dispute at about 9 p.m. on Bellefonte Drive in northeast Charlotte, Monroe said.
According to police, Janisha Fonville was carrying a knife and confronted the officers after they entered the home.
They told her to put down the knife, but she didn’t comply, Monroe said.
Instead, she lunged toward officer Anthony Holzhauer, who shot at her twice, striking the woman, the chief said.
Fonville later died at the hospital.
Officers responded to a domestic dispute at about 9 p.m. on Bellefonte Drive in northeast Charlotte, Monroe said.
According to police, Janisha Fonville was carrying a knife and confronted the officers after they entered the home.
They told her to put down the knife, but she didn’t comply, Monroe said.
Instead, she lunged toward officer Anthony Holzhauer, who shot at her twice, striking the woman, the chief said.
Fonville later died at the hospital.
But this may become more of a story, since the reported officer may be the same who shot and killed a fleeing suspect in 2012.
From WBTV in July 2012:
15 comments:
Come at a cop with a knife you are going to get shot. No time to tazer and this ain't mortal combat where you can disarm the sword swinging ninja.
One less hoodrat to worry about.
Not mortal combat, but this is Obamas America where we need to coddle thugs, embrace Islam and have the teeming masses believe the false narrative of "hands up, don't shoot"
If I had a daughter she'd look like Janisha
how did the situation in fla. with about 900 teens rushing a movie theater go by with hardly any notice?
Wonder why this isn't more prevalent in white neighborhoods....
You SHOULD NOT take a knife to a gunfight. You will lose!!
Sounds like we need a Shot-Spotter in this neighborhood.
Sound like Rodney should give the guy a raise.
But there is old Rodney throwing the officer under the bus saying "we need to analyze" in other words he's shooting at too many people.
Damn you don't get to pick what calls you go on the last time I heard.
It's a good shoot. The officer works in Metro Division , the worst area in the city. Honestly I am surprised that there aren't more officer involved shootings in Metro. It shows the restraint and professionalism of the officers there more than anything else!!
IA can suck it !!😝
2 points. 1. I don't care if he has 3 weeks in between shootings or 3 years, a good shoot is a good shoot. 2. If anyone needs to be blamed, how about his command staff for leaving the officer in the division after the first shooting. Everyone knows Metro is the wild west. Deadly force encounters happen everywhere, but it was bad decision making to leave him there after the first one.
In the 80s & 90s, cmpd (or Charlotte Police Dept) would move an officer after a fatal officer involved shooting. This was done for officer safety reasons. You wouldn't want to give avenging family members easy access to the officer involved in the shooting. This evidently changed in this century. Sounds like a reasonable policy.
One of the basic tenets of our current com stat model is that you allocate more police resources, time, etc on emerging crime trends. You have a burglary problem in a certain neighborhood , you shift resources , patrols, etc till the problem goes away. Metro Division historically has led the city in violent crime for years. Their violent crime rate dwarfs the other 12 patrol districts by almost 50%!
Yet on a macro-level, Metro division is woefully understaffed and ignored by the upper command staff ( read executive staff....majors, deputy chiefs, chief). If this department was really serious about preventing violent crime, Metro division would have more officers and at a minimum be staffed at close to 100% of their allotted officers at all times. No more 3rd shift running on 3 or 4 officers. Executive staff ignores their own advice at their officers peril.
CP really appreciates the input.
I'm not sure the comments directed at the deceased and the deceased's family are helpful.
And so I've removed them from the comments.
You micharactized the 2012 incident. At the point of the scuffle and the shooting, Laney was no longer a "fleeing suspect"
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