{"id":23978,"date":"2011-10-25T07:22:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23978"},"modified":"2011-11-04T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:43:37","slug":"23978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23978","title":{"rendered":"Deterred?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don’t really know what happened behind the Cub store near Lake and Hiawatha last week, in an incident in which one Darren Evanovich allegedly robbed a woman in the parking lot, pistol-whipped her, was chased by a Good Samaritan, allegedly drew a pistol on the samaritan, and was in turn shot dead. \u00a0I published the details that were available in the media last week<\/a>; not much else seems to have come up, other than the fact that the Minneapolis Police declined to arrest the man – generally a good sign – and the Hennepin County Attorney’s office is evaluating whether or not to prosecute.<\/p>\n

This didn’t stop Channel Five’s Tim Sherno from running a – I’m going to pick my words carefully – bizarre piece<\/a> interviewing the sisters of the victim in the shooting.<\/p>\n

Evanovich’s sisters say they know what their brother was doing was wrong, but they say the police should have handled the response because they\u2019re trained to deal with crimes in progress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I heard the audio from this piece – which is, sadly, not online at the moment. \u00a0And I almost drove off the road.<\/p>\n

What do you think police “training” tells a cop to do, Evanovich sisters, when he sees a guy with a gun<\/em>?<\/p>\n

They are trained to order him to drop it and, if he doesn’t, shoot him<\/em>\u00a0without a lot of further ado!<\/p>\n

Johnita Beal says the witness should have dialed 911, “Police could have been easily contacted, easily, and my brother would have been behind bars, or something like that, but no, he’s gone now.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is true.<\/p>\n

And he’d have gotten away, since the police simply can’t be everywhere, and he’d have gone on to pistol-whip (allegedly) some other woman sooner than later.<\/p>\n

But what about your brother, Madames Beal and Evanovich? \u00a0Leaving aside the robbery that started the incident – your brother is dead because he allegedly drew a gun on a guy who was chasing him for robbing and beating an old woman<\/em>. Your brother could easily have killed the other man. \u00a0That – if the story checks out – is why it’s called “self-defense”.<\/p>\n

Have you thought about that?<\/p>\n

I’m sorry for your loss. \u00a0A brother is a terrible thing to lose. \u00a0But he might have made some different choices, under the circumstances – we see this, right?<\/p>\n

And all the rest of you would-be robbers out there – if this story pans out, and the case is ruled justifiable (I’m crossing my fingers), does it give you any pause about, oh, I dunno, attacking and robbing people, and waving guns in the faces of people who lift a finger to stop you?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Rick Kupchella’s “Bring Me The News” spoke with Evanovich’s mother<\/a>, who is claiming he <\/em>was “the victim”.<\/p>\n

Two stories doesn’t make a trend – it’s possible <\/em>that two simultaneous, produced, sympathetic stories just happened <\/em>to appear at almost the same time.<\/p>\n

I don’t believe it, but it’s possible.<\/p>\n

If you see any other media coverage, let me know. \u00a0Two is a coincidence. \u00a0Three’s a campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We don’t really know what happened behind the Cub store near Lake and Hiawatha last week, in an incident in which one Darren Evanovich allegedly robbed a woman in the parking lot, pistol-whipped her, was chased by a Good Samaritan, allegedly drew a pistol on the samaritan, and was in turn shot dead. \u00a0I published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-23978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","tag-evanovich-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23978"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23980,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23978\/revisions\/23980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}