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Subscribe to RSSA Missouri man facing foreclosure opened fire on officers attempting to serve him with eviction papers and was then shot himself, NBC station KSDK in St. Louis reported.
St. Ann, Mo., Police Chief Bob Schrader, who has known the man for 30 years, said the 51-year-old man was distraught about losing the home he grew up in.
According to KSDK, Schrader knocked on the door and the man answered holding a gun. Schrader tried to reason with him but the man was just too upset.
Read the original report at ksdk.com
After police fired tear gas into the house, the man fired shots out of a window and then moved to the front of the house.
Robin Hartley, who lives nearby, said she felt the man's frustration, but firing at police just went too far.
"I have empathy for him because that was the home he grew up in and everybody is going through hard times now, but to shoot, you know, somebody just doing their job," Hartley told KSDK. "He had plenty of notice, that's insane."
The man was shot in the arm but was not in serious condition.
His name will not be released until he is charged, KSDK reported.
Msnbc.com's Louis Casiano contributed to this report from KSDK.
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He's gone from a bad situation of losing his home to a worse situation of now being a felon. He WILL get housing, but not the type he envisioned.
What confuses me about the article is that it notes he was being foreclosed on, yet the sign on the front door notes it was condemned. Which is it?
XD -"He WILL get housing......" LOL!!!!
I just can't imagine someone being so distraught that they would be okay with taking a life. There had to have been some issues with the guy before the foreclosure occurred. No one just wakes up one day and says "you know, my life sucks. I think I will take a few random people down with me" unless they had previous mental issues.
Well as long as they managed to evict the guy so the bank can take posession of his home, I guess everything is just fine. /s
What an interesting people we have become......
If he has lived there all his life....That house should have been payed for long ago.......
What if it turns out that the bank didn't have the deed and had provided one of those phony notarized signatures to convince the court that they did have the deed when in fact they didn't? Then, I would say the man was justified in firing at the police, and the police, the bank, and the court that issued the eviction order should all be charged with home invasion and attempted murder.