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David Morgan of Highlands Ranch, Colo., holds an American flag as a
procession of law enforcement vehicles accompany a hearse carrying the
body of a sheriff's deputy shot and killed while responding to a
domestic disturbance Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, in Highlands Ranch, Colo.
By COLLEEN SLEVIN and ELLIOT SPAGAT
DENVER (AP) — A man fired more than 100 rounds at sheriff's deputies
in Colorado early Sunday, killing one and injuring four others, before
being fatally shot himself in what authorities called an ambush. Two
civilians were also injured.
Douglas
County Sheriff Tony Spurlock (left) said deputies came under fire almost
immediately after entering a suburban Denver apartment and trying to
talk with the suspect, who was holed up inside a bedroom.
"I do
know that all of them were shot very, very quickly. They all went down
almost within seconds of each other, so it was more of an ambush-type of
attack on our officers," Spurlock said. "He knew we were coming and we
obviously let him know that we were there."
The wounded deputies
tried to pull the fallen officer, identified as Zackari Parrish, out of
the line of further gunfire but were unable to because of their own
injuries and only managed to "crawl to safety," Spurlock said.
The
incident occurred around 5:15 a.m. at Copper Canyon Apartments, a
landscaped apartment complex in Highland Ranch, 16 miles (28 kilometers)
south of Denver. Authorities had left the home about four hours earlier
to address a noise complaint but returned in response to reports of a
disturbance at the home.
There were two men inside the home when
deputies arrived and someone let them inside, Spurlock said. The
disturbance was initially reported to be domestic but turned out to be
noise-related, he said.
"The suspect was just making a ton of noise and annoying everyone around him," Spurlock said.
Resident Steven Silknitter, 50, told The Denver Post that he heard 15 to 20 shots.
"It
was back and forth — unbelievable," said Silknitter, who lived in the
Denver suburb of Aurora during a 2012 movie theater shooting that left
12 dead. "Where do you move to?" he said, shaking his head in
exasperation. "It's everywhere."
The suspect was well-known to
authorities in the Denver area but had no criminal record, said
Spurlock, who declined to name him until his identity was confirmed.
The
sheriff did not release any details about the weapons and ammunition
used except to say the suspect had a rifle. He also did not know if law
enforcement had any prior knowledge of firearms being in the home but
the possibility always weighs on deputies' minds.
"We respond to every call anticipating that everyone has a gun. This is Colorado. Everybody has a gun," Spurlock said.
Parrish,
the slain officer (right), was 29 and a married father of two young children.
He came to the department seven months ago after working as an officer
for the nearby Castle Rock Police Department. Spurlock called him a
"good kid" who was eager to work.
"His wife told me today that he loved this job more than he had loved any job he ever had," the sheriff said.
The
three deputies and one police officer injured were listed in stable
condition. Authorities identified them as deputies Michael Doyle, 28;
Taylor Davis, 30; Jeffrey Pelle, 32; and Castle Rock police officer Tom
O'Donnell, 41.
The two civilian injuries were not life-threatening. Pelle
is the son of Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle. The sheriff said his
son underwent surgery from injuries suffered in the attack and was
recovering.
President Donald Trump expressed sorrow, writing on
Twitter, "My deepest condolences to the victims of the terrible shooting
in Douglas County @dcsheriff, and their families. We love our police
and law enforcement - God Bless them all!"
Sad news to share, another ChuckleHead loses it here in my home state. As we wish one another a Happy New Year, I am sorry to say for some, it's not the best ending of 2017 and a horrible way to start 2018, God Speed to all involved in this Tragedy...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (front)
stands on the conning tower of a submarine during his inspection of the
Korean People's Army (KPA) Naval Unit 167 in this undated photo released
by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang.
Second
missile test stand for North Korea's submarine-launched ballistic
missile development is "almost operational," says think-tank 38 North.
Recent
satellite imagery appears to show the new test platform for the
missiles, which it called "a strong indicator that Pyongyang is
advancing."
An
expert said the nuclear-armed state is working at a feverish pace and
could launch a submarine with SLBM capability as early as next year.
There are signs that North Korea's
submarine missile program is expanding as it prepares its second test,
adding to the risk that the nuclear-armed country could one day threaten
the U.S. or its Asian allies with yet another powerful weapon in its
arsenal. Experts suggest North Korea having
fully submersible submarines firing a nuclear ballistic missile pose a
dangerous scenario because they could offer the hermit regime a better
chance of survival and might be harder to detect. It comes on the heels
of North Korea on Tuesday launching a new Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile,
a road-mobile weapon the state-owned KCNA media claimed could carry a
"super-large heavy warhead, which is capable of striking the whole
mainland of the U.S." The North Koreans appear
to be getting more aggressive on submarine-launched ballistic missile
(SLBM) development and now have several shipyards active in the
offshore-weapons program. The North is not believed to have the
capability today to launch multiple ballistic missiles from a submarine.
However, experts say the totalitarian state is working at a feverish
pace and could have this submersible as early as next year. "If North Korea can deploy not
only developmentally a submarine-launched ballistic missile that is
effective and deploy it on ballistic missile submarines, it certainly
complicates defense against missile attacks," defense analyst Joseph S.
Bermudez Jr., co-founder and CEO of Colorado-based imagery analysis firm
KPA Associates LLC, told CNBC in an interview Friday.
In a 38 North blog post Friday,
he revealed that "commercial satellite imagery from Nov. 11, 16 and 24
show that North Korea's second submersible ballistic missile test stand
barge — a platform that allows for underwater missile launches outside
of submarines — located at the Nampo Navy Shipyard is being prepared to
enter service." 38 North, a project of
the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies, said the "second missile test stand barge [is]
almost operational." Bermudez wrote, "Once in service, this barge will
help facilitate a broader SLBM testing regime and potentially establish a
SLBM capability within the West Sea fleet [of North Korea's navy]." Bermudez, a 38 North
contractor, explained that the test stand barge and platform are used to
simulate the weapons that would be inside the submarine because it's
considered too dangerous and costly to do such early testing inside a
real submarine. He also said that the North Koreans know the U.S.
military is watching its SLBM and submarine development so they have
been doing things to mitigate the satellite surveillance capabilities,
including resorting to concealment in some cases. Still, Bermudez called
the Nampo shipyard activities on the regime's west coast "a strong
indicator that Pyongyang is advancing" in its SLBM program. And he said
the North Koreans will need a series of tests from the submersible barge
before deploying ballistic missiles on submarines. Last year, North Korea conducted a test of its SLBM technology near its port city of Sinpo
and reportedly flew one missile at least 500 kilometers (or about 300
miles), according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. Sinpo, located on
the country's northeast coast, also is where the North reportedly has
renovated large buildings that might be involved in the construction of a
new SLBM-capable submarine.
The Sinpo-class
experimental submarine that the North Koreans have today is believed to
be up to about 2,000 tons and have a nautical range of about 2,800
kilometers (about 1,500 miles). Yet it features just a single launch
tube and Bermudez said "no one considers that an operational
capability." According to Bermudez,
Pyongyang is apparently building a submarine that will feature multiple
tubes for ballistic missiles and greater capability at sea. He estimated
the new submarine "could be launched any time next year and going
forward." To be clear, though, he
said just because the submarine may launch doesn't necessarily mean it's
fully operational. The expert explained how it typically takes a year
or two after the submarine is launched that it "truly becomes
operational" because it will go through a range of sea trials and
necessary crew training. Even so, having the submarine-launched ballistic missiles with nuclear capability is potentially a nightmare scenario for South Korea and Japan. That's because the submarines could potentially avoid detection by some of the most advanced defense systems.
For example, missiles
fired by North Korean submarines off the east coast of Japan could
potentially dodge detection from Japan's Patriot anti-missile system by
launching from behind radar. At present, the detection is focused on
missiles coming from land-based missiles in North Korea. Similarly, the current
THAAD anti-missile system deployed by the U.S. in South Korea is focused
on identifying missile threats from the North. As a result, a submarine missile from the North Korean navy could be launched behind radar and perhaps evade existing defense systems. "Up to now we've only had
to worry about them coming from north to south or from west to east in
the case of Japan and the United States," said Bermudez. "If they deploy
a ballistic missile submarine with operational missiles, it can come
from almost any direction around the peninsula." Experts say U.S. bases in
the Western Pacific, including Guam, also are potentially at risk if
North Korea deploys submarines with SLBM weapons. At this point, though,
it's not believed that the North Korean submarines have a range to
reach the United States mainland. That said, if the North's
submarines could reach closer to the U.S. West Coast they would not
need an intercontinental ballistic missile to threaten major American
cities, says Loren Thompson, a defense industry consultant and chief
operating officer of the Lexington Institute, a Virginia-based
public-policy think tank. "The biggest problem the
U.S. faces in dealing with a North Korean nuclear launch is that you
can't stop it if you don't know where it's coming from," Thompson said.
"That is why the North Koreans are building mobile missile launchers on
land and why they're trying to develop the ability to launch from under
the seas." At the end of the day,
Thompson said what the North Koreans want is something the United States
has in its nuclear arsenal — "a survivable retaliatory capability. If
it's at sea, they might be very well obtain it." But he said technological
hurdles in developing a submarine with multiple ballistic missiles is
rather challenging. That may be one reason North Korean hackers last
year reportedly stole blueprints from Daewoo Shipbuilding, a large South Korean maker of submarines. "You can't just launch
the missile," Thompson said. "The exhaust will destroy the submarine.
You have to push it into the air with gas, like compressed oxygen, and
then ignite it once it's in the air. That is just more more complicated
than launching from a land base."
North Korea's largest
submarines at present include the so-called Romeo-class submersibles
that are based on an old design from the Soviet Union. The 1,800-ton
vessels are considered relatively easy to detect using anti-submarine
warfare technology available to the U.S. and its Asian allies. In fact, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
has been featured in state-run media taking tours and riding on board
the green-painted Romeo-class submarines operated by the North's navy.
Some estimates are the North has around 20 of the Romeo-class
submarines. The North Koreans also
are known to have some 50 smaller submarines that are harder to detect
and can sink ships with torpedoes. One of those submarines was believed
to be responsible for sinking the South Korean Cheonan navy ship in 2010, resulting in the deaths of 46 sailors. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/01/north-korea-expanding-submarine-weapons-tests-adding-to-nuke-threat.html
Sending a big Shout out to Crooks and Liars for borrowing their video
So, maybe you are wondering Why I would spend some time posting this? The reason is Simple, we are being thrown in the corner with more of what Fox offers humanity and that is FEAR, I often wonder why they do not ever show the broader picture of what is really at hand before going off the deep end, the answer is just as easy as you thought FEAR draws a bigger audience of ChuckleHeads not willing to look past the curtain, so here I offer you more than what is being rammed up your Ass...
