Governer Perry's Cousin Killed by Sheirff's deputies

Info is too vague at the moment to have an opinion. I'm sure the media will be all over it though.

 

Or not.

 

Slightly updated:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/6647680.html

[rquoter]Cousin of Texas governor killed by deputies
By APRIL CASTRO Associated Press Writer © 2009 The Associated Press
Oct. 1, 2009, 4:58PM

AUSTIN, Texas — A cousin of Texas Gov. Rick Perry was shot and killed over the weekend in his backyard during an exchange of gunfire with sheriff's deputies, officials said Thursday.

Perry said Thursday that the death was tragic but stressed he hardly knew his cousin, 74-year-old Larry Don Wheeler, even though he was listed as a member of Perry's 2006 re-election steering committee.

"I'm not sure I would pick him out of a lineup," the governor said of Wheeler, who he said was a distant cousin on his grandmother's side.

Wheeler was sitting on his backyard deck after dinner Saturday night at his home at a Montague County country club when two sheriff's deputies showed up in response to a disturbance call, said David Gossom, an attorney for the family.

"We received a call ... of a man with a shotgun," Montague County Sheriff Paul Cunningham said. "Several citizens in the area were concerned."

Wheeler's backyard is near a golf course. Montague County is about 90 miles northwest of Fort Worth.

What happened next is unclear and under investigation. After an exchange of gunfire, Wheeler was dead and a deputy was shot in the hand. Gossom said bullet holes riddled the back seat cushion of the chair where Wheeler was sitting and the floor of his deck.

An autopsy is pending, said Montague County District Attorney Jack McGaughey. The Texas Rangers are investigating at Cunningham's request, as is McGaughey.

Wheeler's wife, Jo Wheeler, was just inside the door and did not know the deputies were present, Gossom said.

"She'd been sitting out there with him for a while and had gone in the house," Gossom said. "All she knows is she'd been talking to her husband, they had dinner, he'd gone outside to sit for a while, and the next thing she hears is boom boom boom and he was shot."

Wheeler, a retired social worker, also is survived by two grown children and two stepchildren, Gossom said.

The two deputies involved are back on duty. Deputy Curtis Hamlin returned to light duty Thursday, but still needs surgery to have shotgun pellets removed from his hand, Cunningham said. Chief Deputy J.T. Mitchell came back Wednesday after a mandatory 72-hour administrative leave.

"You always want to give police officers the benefit of the doubt because they're doing a hard job," Gossom said. "But I'm having a difficult time — after having been out to the scene and talked to a few witnesses — to figure out why in the world this should have happened."[/rquoter]

 

If he is anything like the governor then good riddance.

 

wow ... classy

 

How lovely

 

Seriously....come on now

 

What a hypocrite you are.

 

Wow....just......wow....

 

What a jackass.

 

I think Walker and Trivette are gonna pay you a little visit.

 

Did nobody see this? I can't believe no one is objecting to what a non-classy statement this is!

 

So many lounge posters having their periods at the same time this month.

 

and the A-hole of the day award goes to.......


Dave_78.

 

I will quote this to continue trend...

 

I don't know anybody involved but I just thought I'd quote this too.

 

If he is anything like the governor then good riddance.

 

If he is anything like the governor then good riddance.

 

I'm thinking maybe he meant if he and the governor are alike - i.e. Perry firing a shotgun off of the Governor's Mansion porch; then it's time for some Kay Bailey.

Maybe.