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Posted: 1/1/2012 1:17:35 PM EDT

LONGMIRE, Wash. –– A forest service park ranger was fatally shot early Sunday morning inside Mt. Rainier National Park and several law enforcement agencies are frantically searching the area for the armed gunman who is still on the loose, officials said....

A mother of a 4 year old and 2 year old

more info at the link.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Park-ranger-shot-at-Mt-Rainier-136505028.html

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:18:34 PM EDT

[#1]

WTF? It starts already?

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:19:18 PM EDT

[#2]

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:21:05 PM EDT

[#3]

Prayers inbound for the family.

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:21:32 PM EDT

[#4]

Very, very sad. Prayers for her family.

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:21:59 PM EDT

[#5]

Fuck!! Very sad and this asshole will be made to look like he is the typical gun owner. Fuck this state and my sympathy to the family.

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:25:09 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
WTF? It starts already?

My thinking as well.

ETA:

Prayers for the family.

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:25:27 PM EDT

[#7]

RIP Ranger.

Damn didn't even make it 24 hours into the new year without an officer down.

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:26:39 PM EDT

[#8]

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:27:24 PM EDT

[#9]

Man,

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:28:09 PM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:30:14 PM EDT

[#11]

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:40:48 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
WTF? It starts already?

There was also a Puerto Rico officer killed this morning during a traffic stop.

RIP officers....

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:43:25 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Fuck!! Very sad and this asshole will be made to look like he is the typical gun owner. Fuck this state and my sympathy to the family.

My first thought was "methhead" and she disturbed his cook, but after reading the article it sounds like more of a traffic stop.

Sad.

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:44:04 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
WTF? It starts already?

rough weekend for LEO....fuck.....

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:45:28 PM EDT

[#15]

RIP officer.

Posted: 1/1/2012 1:46:54 PM EDT

[#16]

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:02:18 PM EDT

[#17]

If the article i read is correct the officer was alive and concious immediately following the shooting but due to the cops not having any sort of mobile cover/rescue vehicle available she bled out over the course of about 3-hours before they could get to her.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:03:42 PM EDT

[#18]

LONGMIRE, Wash. –– A forest service park ranger was fatally shot early Sunday morning inside Mt. Rainier National Park and several law enforcement agencies are frantically searching the area for the armed gunman....

Quality reporting right there.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:05:39 PM EDT

[#19]

That's fucked.

Hope they waste him.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:05:40 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
If the article i read is correct the officer was alive and concious immediately following the shooting but due to the cops not having any sort of mobile cover/rescue vehicle available she bled out over the course of about 3-hours before they could get to her.

I hope they stomp a fuckin mudhole into this dickwad when they catch him.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:08:59 PM EDT

[#21]

RIP

I hope the villain does the world a favor and commits suicide.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:09:13 PM EDT

[#22]

Reports of cars leaving the park with bullet holes. The story continues to unfold, its only four hour old news.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:09:24 PM EDT

[#23]

Damn, that's rough.

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Posted: 1/1/2012 2:10:19 PM EDT

[#24]

Shitty. Hope they get the bastard. RIP Ranger.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:10:37 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

RIP

I hope the villain does the world a favor and commits suicide.

I really wish that assholes like that would just shoot themselves first instead of taking people with them.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:10:55 PM EDT

[#26]

"She had set up a vehicle as a roadblock on a park road..."

WTF for?

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:13:29 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
"She had set up a vehicle as a roadblock on a park road..."

WTF for?

It's pretty windy up here right now, has been all night. There may be a tree down across the road.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:17:10 PM EDT

[#28]

That has got to be terrible for the people that were there, not being able to get to your buddy to help her without getting killed your self all because some cocksucker is shooting at anyone trying to help her. That's shit you see in Iraq/Afghanistan not fucking Washington State!

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:17:13 PM EDT

[#29]

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:18:16 PM EDT

[#30]

Rest in peace Park Ranger Anderson and Sergeant Castro-Berrocales.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:18:59 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
If the article i read is correct the officer was alive and concious immediately following the shooting but due to the cops not having any sort of mobile cover/rescue vehicle available she bled out over the course of about 3-hours before they could get to her.

How could anyone let a comrade bleed out... If its true I cannot comprehend the torment of the officers final moments, or the emotional scars of the responders who were unable to save her.

RIP Ma'am.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:27:23 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
That has got to be terrible for the people that were there, not being able to get to your buddy to help her without getting killed your self all because some cocksucker is shooting at anyone trying to help her. That's shit you see in Iraq/Afghanistan not fucking Washington State!

Should never happen. There is no rational reason to not have some type of rescue vehicle available.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:31:22 PM EDT

[#33]

prayers

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:35:41 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
That has got to be terrible for the people that were there, not being able to get to your buddy to help her without getting killed your self all because some cocksucker is shooting at anyone trying to help her. That's shit you see in Iraq/Afghanistan not fucking Washington State!

Should never happen. There is no rational reason to not have some type of rescue vehicle available.

Agreed, but funding has been cut on everything these days. It just fucking sucks the big one. Those park rangers are probably working with little to nothing these day.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:39:00 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:

That has got to be terrible for the people that were there, not being able to get to your buddy to help her without getting killed your self all because some cocksucker is shooting at anyone trying to help her. That's shit you see in Iraq/Afghanistan not fucking Washington State!

Should never happen. There is no rational reason to not have some type of rescue vehicle available.

I had to do a couple of internships when I was going to school and chose a National Park for one ( Pinnacles NM ), the manpower numbers and equipment used in parks that are not Yosemite, Yellowstone or a few other large parks is downright pathetic. Hell most parks are like that.

RIP Ranger.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:41:34 PM EDT

[#36]

Sounds pretty early, but do we know why a park ranger was setting up a road block on NYEve alone?

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:41:36 PM EDT

[#37]

Why not set up a hasty support by fire, and recover the officer? I don't know the exact location but I know the area, seems reasonable with what was available at hand in that terrain. By the time a rescue vehicle shows up in a remote location, it's likely too late.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:43:10 PM EDT

[#38]

Indeed a tragedy for all concerned, but why was she conducing a roadblock in a SP

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:45:46 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Rest in peace Park Ranger Anderson and Sergeant Castro-Berrocales.

Two down and we're not even through the first day of the year.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:46:53 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Quoted:
That has got to be terrible for the people that were there, not being able to get to your buddy to help her without getting killed your self all because some cocksucker is shooting at anyone trying to help her. That's shit you see in Iraq/Afghanistan not fucking Washington State!

Should never happen. There is no rational reason to not have some type of rescue vehicle available.

Agreed, but funding has been cut on everything these days. It just fucking sucks the big one. Those park rangers are probably working with little to nothing these day.

They should be able to get something via homeland security grants, DRMO or even corporate donation of an old brinks truck.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:47:01 PM EDT

[#41]

RIP

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:49:07 PM EDT

[#42]

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:50:00 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
Indeed a tragedy for all concerned, but why was she conducing a roadblock in a SP

Was wondering the same thing...

- georgestrings

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:50:55 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Why not set up a hasty support by fire, and recover the officer?

Though I agree this is a rational solution to the problem the public does not like the idea of cops useing supressive/supression fire and you burn through 18 rounds of .38 or 36 rounds of .40SW pretty fast doing that.

If we are going to expect the cops to perform that task competantly then we need to train and equip them to do it.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:53:03 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Indeed a tragedy for all concerned, but why was she conducing a roadblock in a SP

Was wondering the same thing...

- georgestrings

The suspect had already fled from one officer heading her way, so she blocked the road. Or at least thats what the email i got this afternoon said.

Posted: 1/1/2012 2:54:03 PM EDT

[#46]

conflicting report is conflicting...

A Mount Rainier National Park ranger was fatally shot Sunday following a routine traffic stop,

She had set up a vehicle as a roadblock on a park road just before the shooting, which happened at about 11 a.m. near the Longmire Ranger Station

As windy as it was last night, and still is today here, near the park, my initial thought was a roadblock due to a down tree or something, but now I'm not sure what happened here...