My nephew shot and killed by Warminster Pa Police

[Trina]

My nephew Sean was shot and killed by the Warminster Pa police dept. They came to my sisters house to serve a warrant for my sister,for obstruction of prosecution. They beat her up threw her around.They asked if there was anyone else in her house she replied yes my son and my dog.My nephew locked his bedroom door and wrote his mom a letter. He felt that the outcome wasn't gonna be good.They "claimed he had a gun".And he climbed out a bedroom window.(3x6)Tiny.He was stuck in the window.There were 4 officers in the backyard.They fired 55 shots at him striking him 6 times.There were no shots to his legs or arms or hands.They took his life.While my sister sat in a patrol car and had to listen to the sounds that took his life.Now that this has been done,that wasn't enough taking her kids life,they continue to harrass her.Using the township fire truck hook n ladder to spy on her in her own backyard.The police and fire stations are directly behind her house.The sheriff came to post a sheriff sale sign but the Warminster Police also came with their guns drawn and hid behind her bushes.My nephew was a troubled young man but he was never a dangerous person.He got into trouble as a boy in school but the police felt him a nuisance.That does not give them a right to kill him.Flashback one year,my sister writes to all politicians in the state of Pa,including the govenor.She was demanding that she be helped with the trouble she was having with the police and she also named names(12).Every letter went unanswered!! It isn't a coincidence that these 4 officers that were responsible for his death were named in these letters a year before.So now my sister has lost her Son,Her home,her job(was fired due to bad publicity). But I can't let her lose HOPE! Till the day we get justice for Sean P Sullivan.

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Police fired 55 shots

By LAURIE MASON
The Intelligencer

The gun police say Sean Sullivan pointed at them moments before they fired 55 shots at him, six of which struck and ultimately killed him, wasn't real, but it sure looked it.

In fact, prosecutors said Tuesday, the 21-year-old Warminster man was brandishing a pellet gun that was a dead ringer for a Walther PPK, the same gun James Bond used in the 007 spy movies.

Faced with what they believed to be a real weapon, the officers were justified in using deadly force against Sullivan, said David Zellis, Bucks County's first assistant district attorney.

Zellis, releasing the results of a four-day investigation into the shooting, placed full blame for the incident on Sullivan, who forced a standoff with officers trying to serve his mother an arrest warrant.

“It was Sean Sullivan who said he had a gun and threatened police. The officers repeatedly offered him a peaceful way out,'' Zellis said.

He said Sullivan, who had a long arrest history, “squared off” with the cops who tried to stop him from leaving his back yard and kept running even after he was first shot. Zellis said the officers then shot Sullivan as he tried to scale a fence to prevent him from getting to another yard, where there were more police officers and neighbors.

“It was Sean Sullivan who made all these decisions. They could not allow him to leave that yard with that gun,” Zellis said.

The shooting occurred around 6:30 a.m. at the Chestnut Road home Sullivan shared with his mother, Carol Sullivan, 46.

Officers went there to serve Carol Sullivan with an arrest warrant accusing her of giving false information to authorities while bailing Sean out of jail after he was arrested by Abington police two weeks before for credit card fraud.

After a brief struggle, police say, Carol Sullivan was taken into custody, but Sean barricaded himself in his bedroom and told police he had a gun.

At least 10 officers from Warminster and nearby Warrington surrounded the home. Sullivan then climbed out a window and ran toward the cops, pulling the gun from his waistband, Zellis said.

The county SWAT team did not arrive until after the shooting.

The prosecutors said the officers told Sullivan to put up his hands, but he kept pointing the gun and threatening them. After he was hit by the first shot, he continued to come toward them then ran for the fence, Zellis said. The officers fired 55 shots, six of which hit Sullivan in the shoulder, chest, leg and back, according to a coroner's report.


“They believed that such force was necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury to themselves and others,” Zellis said.

The officers who fired the fatal shots were not named. The incident was the first time that cops from either township have fatally shot a suspect.

Warminster Police Chief Mike Murphy said the officers involved in the shooting have been cleared by a psychologist to return to work. But, he said, they will not forget the violent incident.

“The officers involved in this shooting will remember that day for the rest of their lives,” Murphy said. “Every one of those officers felt threatened to a point where they had to use deadly force, and they have to live with that. They did what they had to do to protect the community.”

Carol Sullivan will not face charges stemming from the standoff, Zellis said.

She was arrested on the day of the shooting on charges from the bail incident, however, and could be found in violation of her agreement with a program that allows first-time offenders to clear their criminal records. She was allowed in the program last year after she was charged with possessing marijuana.

Carol Sullivan could not be reached for comment Tuesday. The Intelligencer was unsuccessful in tracking down other family members for comment.

It was unclear why Sullivan had the pellet gun, which can be purchased in many sporting goods stores. To emphasize how real the black metal weapon looks, Zellis placed it on a table next to a real handgun during a press conference in his Doylestown office.

The weapons were almost identical. But on the pellet gun, in very fine print, a warning was etched: “Not a toy. Misuse may cause serious injury or death.”

[trina]

Just because the police supplied you with this information don't mean its correct.Of course the prosecutor will come out and say that it was justified! We don't even know that he brandished any weapon.Eye witness accounts say he had NO gun. And after a "brief struggle"she was arrested what a joke she was beat, stepped on and thrown to the ground.Then taken to a car to listen to them shoot him to death. And never was read her miranda rights.At all that day and sat in a cell for 10 hours.Why would he jump out his back window which he got stuck in according to witness accounts,then wave a gun at 4 officers in the yard and run straight towards the police station!!!

[guest]

your not a bright person are you trina?

[Trina]

Oh thats original.