Police Officer Dies After Shot In Head..

[Indycar]

By Geoff Chambers and Evelyn Yamine, September 09, 2010 12:47AM

 

* Stray bullets fired during suburban raid

* Police officer suffers head and neck injury

* Dies in hospital

 

 

THE police officer shot in the head during a drug raid in NSW last night has lost his fight for life.

 

The Daily Telegraph reports William Crews, 26, a highway patrol officer attached to the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad, died in hospital earlier this morning, it has been confirmed.

 

The officer was taking part in a search warrant relating to the sale of prohibited drugs when a number of shots were fired from an apartment block in Cairds Ave, Bankstown, just after 9pm.

 

The 26-year-old received gunshot wounds to the head and neck and suffered cardiac arrest at the scene, before being rushed to Liverpool Hospital in a critical condition.

 

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, police wearing bulletproof vests patrolled the streets, telling residents to stay indoors as they tried to secure the unit block.

 

The shooting sparked a major police operation, with heavily armed officers swarming to the area, blocking off nearby streets as a police helicopter flew up ahead.

 

During the operation, which included members of the dog squad and police riot squad, eight people were arrested and were assisting police with inquiries this morning.

 

The arrests involved a siege situation with police negotiators called in to make sure everyone got out of the unit safely.

 

By 12.30am, the officers had finished a sweep of the area and Assistant Commissioner Frank Menelli said a critical incident team is now investigating after a "number of shots were discharged", critically injuring the officer.

 

"There will be story of bravery to come out of this. I believe there were police and ambulance officers who treated him at the scene and got him out of there," Mr Menelli said.

 

He could not say if police returned fire.

 

A witness who lives in Meredith St told The Daily Telegraph that police told her the shooting happened "after a drug raid went wrong".

Source: news.com.au

Edited September 9, 2010 by Indycar

[cybergenesis]

Well police officers die, they accept the risk.

[brick]

Sad for anyone to die that way. I am wondering though, who shot him, was it the bad guys or a nervous cop.

[sc0pe]

Well police officers die, they accept the risk.

 

what a sad little man you are. grow up fool.

[cybergenesis]

what a sad little man you are. grow up fool.

 

Dude you sound like a teenager.

 

Do not mourn this cop, he died enforcing drug prohibition. Far more civilians have died and been brutalized by the tyranny of prohibition than any police casaulties suffered.

 

No tears shed from me.

[Oz]

Such a senseless waste in the pathetic political, corporate war on drugs. My condolences go out to the family of the police officer and his friends.

To the Governments and all those against drug law reform for a better society. Know this! This poor persons blood is on your hands.

[resinate]

Dude you sound like a teenager.

 

Do not mourn this cop, he died enforcing drug prohibition. Far more civilians have died and been brutalized by the tyranny of prohibition than any police casaulties suffered.

 

No tears shed from me.

 

He died enforcing the drug prohibition laws yes, but he did't create the law. His job as a police officer was to enforce the law. He was only doing his job.

 

Condolences to his family and friends

 

r8

[Reverend]

Condolences to his family. It is his job whether we like it or not, he didn't make the law.

[The Green Dragon]

No person of 28 should have to die. if cannabis were legal this situation woudnt have happened yet i fear it will be used as evidence to condemn cannabis.

[Allotropy]

Police don't make laws, they just enforce them. - Sometimes in appropriately, doesn't sound like this was the case at all. Condolonces to the police officers family. Edited September 9, 2010 by Allotropy