Headshot
Not for the squeamish, but here’s video of a bank robber with a hostage having his brains introduced to the light of day by a police sniper.
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March 8th, 2012 at 10:42 am
You mean a police Marksman… I am yet to meet a police sniper. Two completely different mission objectives…
March 8th, 2012 at 11:08 am
…back, and to the left….
March 8th, 2012 at 11:33 am
We can assume with some certainty that the sniper in question was not Lon Horiuchi.
March 8th, 2012 at 11:34 am
The first shots were into a Jersey barrier. The bank robbery was seemingly confused by the first shots and continued to stand in the doorway. The round impacted where desired.
This incident was also on the “60 Minutes” segment in 2001 which featured Thunder Ranch and Rodriguez. Steve is now retired from APD and teaches at Thunder Ranch. He is an outstanding instructor and a fine man.
March 8th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
I attended a police marksman course a few years ago where Steve was one of the two instructors (the other was John Plaster) and he is a fine man and a great instructor. He told this story (among others) and showed the video. He did indeed put two shots into a barrier. He was in a second story window with a spotter and failed to account for the scope height and managed to shoot the wall twice before the final shot. The robber was wearing a wig and you can see that fly off as the round strikes.
Steve had a few more such encounters as well as battles with APD administration but he kept his sense of humor and is a pure delight to work with. I’d take instruction from him any day.
March 8th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
I took some sort of terminal ballistics class taught by Dr. Lee and a couple of police marksmen. The comments are correct: police are not snipers.
Almost all of their engagements are under 100 feet.
Also, 308 does interesting things to human skulls. Dr Lee told a tale of his search for a brain after a fellow committed suicide with a deer rifle in 308. Lee said(in his heavily accented voice), “We look for brain. Head empty, where brain? Oooh, here brain! Behind couch.” According to him, the almost undestroyed brain had lifted from the pan an placed itself behind couch after shooter had targeted his sinus cavity in a vertical manner. His story was accompanied with many slides.
March 8th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Jim, not being Rracist I refuse to be amused by dialect jokes. Refuse, do you hear me. (Slaps self, beats head on desk)NOT FUNNY!11
Scene from Puppet Masters. And how you get axe in head?
March 8th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
Six: That is becoming a common police fail when a marksman puts himself on a rooftop. It could have been worse … hostages have been shot because of this mistake.
Ballistic distance is the base of the triangle, not the hypotenuse ( straight line distance ). The spotter needs to either know the downward angle and do the math ( the base = height/tan[angle downwards] ), or cheat and measure the distance from the ground below the marksman’s position to the target..
March 8th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
That’s gonna leave a mark!
March 9th, 2012 at 7:37 am
Jim,
had a deputy friend relate a similar story about a guy with a 30-30. Supposedly he pulled the bullet first, before putting the muzzle under his chin, IIRC. Coroner picked up the brain and tossed it back into the pan before zipping up the bag. About forty years ago.
March 9th, 2012 at 8:29 am
No second story shot he was behind a wall of an adjacent building. I live about a mile away and drive by the place all the time. It is now a Compass bank and we just delivered the roofing materials to it last fall. I was telling the roofing contractor about this while they were doing the install. The lead man on the project will love this. TY
March 9th, 2012 at 8:39 am
world’s fastest toupee!