When seconds count, the police are only minutes away
Or they’ll tell you stop calling or they’ll arrest you:
A Central Florida woman whose 17-year-old daughter was killed in a murder-suicide apparently committed by her ex-boyfriend said the teen was told by police to stop calling for help or she’d be arrested.
Police said Clay Coffner shot his estranged girlfriend in the head outside her DeLand home Friday before turning the gun on himself.
Hall’s mother, Sherry, said her daughter was concerned about Coffner and informed police.
In fact, Hall said her daughter called police so much that on Jan. 15 they threatened her.
“The police officer said if you call us one more time on him, I’m going to arrest you both,” Sherry Hall said. “So, the day she died, she knew she couldn’t talk to police. So, she handled it herself.”
February 19th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
That would open the season on police officers in that community were it my child and there would be no bag limit. Of course, if it were my child the sonofabitch wouldn’t have had to kill himself and she would still be alive.
February 19th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
From reading several different news accounts. It would seem the police several times before went as far as they could but each time the family refused to press charges as “The boy was getting his life back together”.
I am not saying that telling her to quit calling or they would arrest her was a good idea but we only have the families word on that. There are a raft of police reports that (unless falsified) bear out the fact that the family and the victim never followed through on any charges.