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Haunting testimony, many firsts (Update on officer shooting of ice cream lady)

April 11, 2008 17:54 by ryan

 

Young sons describe mom’s killing on tape, and details police kept quiet are revealed

 

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2008/apr/11/haunting-testimony-many-firsts/

Some things are changing, seems she may have had a knife, or multiple knives in the van.  Also seems the taser didnt work because it failed to connect with both prongs. 

The question still remains, did they have to shoot? 

• Two people decided to shoot Deshira Selimaj at the same time — Morrison with his firearm, and an officer who used a Taser.

• Deshira had knives in her ice cream truck, despite her husband’s insistence otherwise. The knives were in an empty Skittles bulk-sized candy box, one clearly identifiable as something along the lines of a kitchen knife, and the others somewhat obscured by other items.

• A Taser initially fired at Deshira by Officer Anthony Pecorella did not work because one Taser prong did not connect with the 42-year-old mother’s body.

• Officer Patrick Gilmore, the traffic cop who first pulled over Zyber Selimaj, told the jury that officers are trained to always fire two shots. In this case, however, only one gunshot was fired.

 


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