Gun Owner Shot By Police After Dropping His Weapon

By Dan Zimmerman

“What we know right now is the two subjects who were shot were both armed.” That’s part of a carefully worded statement from Independence (Missouri) Police Department spokesman John Syme. He was talking — as little as humanly possible — about an incident last week in which both an innocent man and a suspect who had threatening a group of people in a store were shot by police.

When Mike Becker received the frantic call on Tuesday that a gunman was threatening his family at the nearby Dollar General, he said he immediately took off with a handgun.

The Independence man ran to the store shortly before 6 p.m. and saw the gunman pounding on the glass door. Inside, his wife, 4-year-old adopted daughter and about 30 others huddled together, terrified, toward the back of the store. His wife hid the girl behind bags of dog food.

Becker got to the store before police arrived. When they rolled up on the scene, all they saw was a man with a gun…Becker.

When police arrived minutes later, witnesses said, Becker dropped his handgun, raised his hands — and then an officer with a rifle shot him in the hip.

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Source:: Concealed Nation