Nocona, Texas – An officer responding to a domestic disturbance at a North Texas residence, shot and killed off-duty sheriff’s deputy Larry Hostetter, 41, shortly after midnight.
Montague County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed overnight in Nocona. Texas Rangers investigating. @CBSDFW pic.twitter.com/mVAtCGI2G4
— Arezow Doost (@CBS11Arezow) February 9, 2015
Police were tight-lipped about the incident other than to say that the Texas Rangers are leading the investigation.
In a news conference Monday morning, Sheriff Paul Cunningham said Hostetter was a good person, had been a law enforcement officer since 2000 and that being a sheriff’s deputy was everything to him, according to NBC 5.
Cunningham added that Hostetter, of Fredericksburg, was married and had three children.
“We just want to give our condolences and sympathies to everybody involved,” Cunningham said.
This is not the first time in recent weeks where we have seen that thin blue line injuring its own.
At the end of January, we reported on a Yonkers police officer who shot a suicidal officer from another precinct, claiming he feared for his safety.
Earlier in the January we also reported on an undercover Albuquerque police officer who was shot by another officer during a drug bust over $60 worth of meth. The media called it a “tragic accident” while, in reality, it was another example of police shooting someone who poses no threat to them.
In another tragic incident, John Ballard Gorman was shot and killed by fellow officer during a training exercise in Tunica, MS last month. The officer who shot Gorman failed to switch out his weapon for a training weapon and fired a real round into his fellow officer, killing him.
While 116 citizens have been killed at the hands of law enforcement thus far this year, the only shooting deaths of officers this year have all been attributed to fellow officers. Over the weekend in Dallas an officer was killed in a murder-suicide but the shooter has not been identified.
The recent chorus from cops, that blue lives matter seems to ring hollow, as it isn’t officers that are being gunned down in the streets on a daily basis by citizens.
Judging from the incidents that have transpired so far this year, it seems the greatest deadly threat to blue lives, is other blue lives.
Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, freethinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs. Jay’s work has previously been published on BenSwann.com and WeAreChange.org. You can follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis, on Facebook at Sir Metropolis and now on tsu.
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Rusty Bucket:
February 9, 2015 at 7:11 PM
Cops killing cops. I’m ok with that at least these dead cops wont beat, rob, harass, kidnap, or murder anymore citizens.
Phasoon Baccam:
February 9, 2015 at 7:21 PM
Yep agree
They just put in the media for 15 min of fame
Whoopido! !
Now that a positive story
Joshua Rolsten:
February 9, 2015 at 7:42 PM
You’re a dumb fuck. What if I said that about you motherfucker? Go to fucking Hell bitch.
Rusty Bucket:
February 9, 2015 at 7:54 PM
Well that was a real intelligent argument Joshua Rolsten. Are you a cop? Is that why you got so angry? Say what you want bro you have that right. I doubt though that I’m going to get as upset as you did.
Rusty Bucket:
February 9, 2015 at 7:57 PM
Joshua Rolsten lol
Wild J. Mywildersyde:
February 9, 2015 at 7:44 PM
Hahaha, all the more reason they don’t need firearms. They’re a danger even to themselves having one. Gee, how would you like to go to work and possibly get shot by a fellow officer who doesn’t even trust your ass with a gun either? Move to disarm the police. They’re too fucking crazy. They make the thugs look safer to be around.
Jordan Boschman:
February 9, 2015 at 7:51 PM
There has been at least one officer shot and killed this year (likely) not by another officer. http://abc30.com/news/friends-of-murdered-exeter-police-officer-speak-out/509492/
Duncan Andrew Small:
February 9, 2015 at 7:59 PM
This just in, President Obama has been shot by the police. They claim that they feared for their safety, and for the safety of the public, and no charges will been filed.
Sheldon H. Bank:
February 9, 2015 at 7:16 PM
Their all I smucks…These fools are good at killing their own as well the the civilians their suppose to protect.