Fellow Police Officer. 42yearold father shot dead during what was supposed to be a routine search of a suspects apartment. This is what it looked like outside of the medical center. A somber and stunned fellow officers gathered to pray for smith tonight. The shooting unfolding this afternoon in dublin, not far from the dublin b. A. R. T. Station. We begin with terry mcsweeney, who is live at the apartments in dublin, with what went wrong. Terry . Reporter the b. A. R. T. Police department has been around since 1972. Not once has an officer been killed in the line of duty, until today. Investigators from the Sheriffs Office, the fbi and dublin pd left here in a caravan. The overall investigation far from over. The Investigation Continues into the night. The Sheriffs Office mobile crime lab, fbi, and Dublin Police, all trying to figure out what went wrong out here. A Spokesman Says it happened about 2 00 when a number of b. A. R. T. Police officers moved in to do a probation search of an
Of an apartment as part of a probation search. A man convicted of the crime was on probation and suspected of additional crimes. Officers went in and when they went in, they had no way of knowing the suspect was not hole. And that is when tragedy struck. Listen to this. During the search here at the apartments, one of the bart officers was shot and it appears that he was shot accidently by one of the other bart officers on the scene. So at this point, there is no outstanding suspect. Reporter again, Sergeant Nelson says the officer shot and killed had 20 Years Experience with bart, and the officer who shot him, ten years on the force. Nelson also says it is not unusual for bart officers to execute a probation search and it is not unusual at all during a probation search looking for someone who had allegedly committed a felony to have their guns drawn. Why that gun went off . So many questions a answer. How can the gun go off when the suspect was not home. We do not have a name of the o
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