Kimball man killed in police shooting

I can't believe that this would happen in a small town such as this. What happened to shoot to wound so you can apprehend the suspect??? Now we shoot to kill in a residential area where several others could have been caught in the cross fire???? Completely unreal! Will the Grand Jury Investigation be handled properly? Unfortunately every Officer in that town are lead to believe that once in trouble always in trouble and they judge everyone! How very sad for the family. I guess Kimball will be a famous "small" town now.

your an idiot, officers do not shoot to wound only if live is absolutely at risk. Maybe you shouldn't judge until your there and know all the facts!

You’re both jumping the gun. Wait and see what the state patrol investigation says, bearing in mind you will have a case of the police investigating the police. Perhaps the officers were fired on and returned fire to protect there own lives. Maybe the small town poorly trained gung-hoe inexperienced officers drew there weapons and fired before it was necessary, hard to say till we see all the facts. But with 28 years of law enforcement experience under my belt in Large metropolitan areas (Washington DC, El Paso TX) a lot of small town cops over react and actually escalates a situation the could have been defused by a better trained and more experienced officer. At this point I would have to go with UNREAL in saying every option should have been used to defuse the situation . Talk, negotiate, get back up, use your taser, let the suspect flee the area and follow before firing a weapon in a residential area where bystanders are in danger. In a small town of less than 3,000 the suspect has little chance of evading. I would have to say young over eager poorly trained and inexperienced officers escalated the situation and over reacted. This was a local man known to the officers not a unpredictable unknown suspect.

to duh!!! I grew up in Kimball and Sidney!!! Pretty sure I have the facts I need considering we all knew this person! There are other ways of handling things like this without opening fire. If this was your relative or friend "duh" would you still stand by what you are saying here right now??? My guess probably not. You live in Sidney where the cops there I have also known for a number of years nothing more needs to be said. I pray to God they never give you a gun cuz you sound like you would shoot everyone! Anyone with any training in law knows you diffuse the situation, use other options but you NEVER shoot to kill!!!! Maybe you need to drive the 35 miles from Sidney to Kimball and get the facts before you open your mouth!!!!

oh and "duh" maybe you should read your local Sidney KSID Radio news today where they talk about the Grand Jury into the shooting of the 16yr old in Crawford Nebraska. HMMM that cop isn't off the hook either!!!!! What a coincidence that the cops in Kimball and the cops in Crawford are so gun happy and in trouble for it???? Your facts are way messed up!!!!

Grand Jury indictment not dismissed against Crawford PD chief
CHADRON, Neb.(AP)- A judge has refused a motion to dismiss the grand jury indictment of the Crawford police chief in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy.
Scotts Bluff County District Judge Randall Lippstreu set Rick Thompson's arraignment for Sept. 23. A Dawes County grand jury
indicted him last year for second-degree assault in the shooting death of Jesse Britton.
Authorities have said Thompson shot Britton on Oct. 3 in a vacant Crawford bar after Britton didn't obey orders to lower a
gun. Thompson has been on unpaid leave since the shooting and has maintained that he acted in self defense.
Thompson had asked for dismissal of the charges, saying mistakes were made in the grand jury process.

I posted this for you duh so you could read for yourself

Here's another one for ya duh!!!!

read the Scottsbluff Star Herald today!!! you do know where Scottsbluff is right???? 45 miles North of KIMBALL!!!!!

TO OMG AND UNREAL:
If the police make the decision to shoot an armed subject then they shoot to kill. Doesn't that make sense? If someone you don't know points a gun at you will you aim for their leg or arms, or will you go for the easiest target, the torso.
Oh yeah, you don't have people point guns at you, you sit at a desk in front of a computer and second guess the decisions police officers unfortunately have to make. The next time you need help, don't call the police. It sounds like you will handle every situation perfectly. Or you can leave it up to professionals who are trained to deal with this everyday.

okay so let me ask this...if an officer there had died instead because the options were gone and they under reacted that would be okay then? productive protectors of your way of life killed? that would be better?

its easy for people to criticize the acts of others when they've never experienced it before. In the split second that somebody pulls a gun on you, the last thing your thinking of is "gee, maybe I should shoot him in the leg."
Ya'll need to quit being so naive.

Ignorance amazes me wrote:

its easy for people to criticize the acts of others when they've never experienced it before. In the split second that somebody pulls a gun on you, the last thing your thinking of is "gee, maybe I should shoot him in the leg."
Ya'll need to quit being so naive.

Well said...thats what I was getting at from the beginning.

Unreal, you are unreal.
As a past badge carrying officer for 20 years, there is no such thing as shoot to wound so you can capture! If you are going to shoot, shoot to kill! Always has been that way, always will!

I think you all need to get your facts straight!!! to the badged officer... glad you don't work here!!!! to duh!!! all I can say to you is your name suits you!!! If the cop would have shot this kid in the brachial artery of the armed arm..... he would have dropped to the ground!!!! and by the way!!! keep updated on the investigation the kids gun wasn't loaded and it was dropped to the point that it showed it was not loaded ALL the ammo for his gun was found in the basement of the residence!!!! gee imagine that huh? a bunch of gun toting activists we have here aren't you???? Maybe you all will get educated someday soon!!!

Seeing how none of you know when to stop arguing!!! maybe you should stop and read how many of your fine Nebraska cops are on trial right now for shooting and killing people. Crawford, Kimball wow small state to have so much in common with cops and guns huh???
Argue with yourselves I am pretty sure the rest of the world has better things to do than come on here and argue about something so tragic all the way around!
whatever does know facts because the gun being empty was no secret. so good luck in your arguments!!!!
I will just sit and wait to see if this cop has the same fate as your Crawford cop that shot the 16 yr old!!!!

If you have lived in Kimball and delt with Johnny Law, then you might have a different outlook on them besides backing them. Call them, for what? Chances are they arent in the mood to do their job anyways. No thanks, I will handle what I need to myself.

Good grief, lots of ignorance going on here.

First, officers are not trained to "shoot to wound" OR "shoot to kill." They are trained to shoot to "stop the threat" which involves shots to center mass and/or the head. Period. Only in very rare circumstances--usually involving suicidal subject and snipers--will someone "shoot to wound."

Second, everyone seems to be jumping to conclusions--even "Get facts." Wow, let's just conduct the grand jury right here! Wonder why the Crawford investigation was tainted? Because of the same small-town rumor mills that are at play in this incident already.

Let NSP and the grand jury do their jobs, and do them right. No personal agendas. No rumor mills.

GFY wrote:

If you have lived in Kimball and delt with Johnny Law, then you might have a different outlook on them besides backing them. Call them, for what? Chances are they arent in the mood to do their job anyways. No thanks, I will handle what I need to myself.

Well, I have lived in Kimball, 18 years! So the gun was not loaded. Big deal! A gun pointed at you gives you only one impression, it is loaded and that is how you handle it. Yes, I still support the Kimball Police, and unless things change dratically, always will!

Buffalo Boy wrote:

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Well, I have lived in Kimball, 18 years! So the gun was not loaded. Big deal! A gun pointed at you gives you only one impression, it is loaded and that is how you handle it. Yes, I still support the Kimball Police, and unless things change dratically, always will!

WEll whoopde f'n do you lived in Kimball for 18 years. You must be some kind of outstanding citizen or be from some high class, well to do family that has money in town. Has always been that way in Kimball, if ya got the name or the money, you dont get messed with. Birds of a feather flock together. So support them, it will only get you no where.

you lived in Kimball for 18 years???? then you must be one of those twisted people that is ashamed to admit where your from cuz you say now you are from Rapid City??? and to the guy from Denver.... um the Crawford Jury was NOT tainted at all!!!! another 16 yr old innocent kid shot cuz the cops we have think their badges give them the right to do whatever they want!!!!!! I am right now prosecuting a cop for committing purjury on the stand??? what does that tell ya??? all cops are honest and upstanding???? GUESS AGAIN!!!!! Kimball has and always will be a who ya know town if you have money and the right last name and I think we all know the names I am talking about you can and will get away with murder literally!!!!! NOTHING has changed in that town and it never will!!!!!! I Dispatched there for years I know exactly how they operate in that town!!!!!