Retired Gloucester Township police officer and FOP Lodge 206 President Brian Bates sees no need to modify protocol for processing prisoners in the wake of Friday morning's shooting inside the police station.
The Gloucester Township Police Department family let out a collective sigh of relief Friday morning upon learning all three officers shot by a prisoner inside the Chews Landing Road police station a few hours earlier were expected to make full recoveries. "It was an incident no one ever wants to be faced with. They went in with a strong hand and they fought the situation. You can be proud of all three of them. ... They came out on top. That's all you can ask for in those situations," Brian Bates, president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 206, said Friday evening. Sgt. James Garber, Sgt. Kevin Thyne and Ptl. Ruth Burns all sustained injuries when 39-year-old Willingboro resident Eddie Jones III attacked and disarmed Burns while he …
Eddie Jones III, of Willingboro, grabs a firearm from a police officer's holster, fires the gun and injures three cops before being fatally shot.
UPDATE 2:41 p.m. 12/30: Gloucester Township Police Sgt. James Garber will be released from Cooper University Hospital, where he was treated for a gunshot wound sustained in the police station shootout Friday morning, on Sunday afternoon. He will be welcomed at his home in Gloucester Township's Somerdale section by members of the Police Department, Boy Scout Troop 811, Warriors' Watch, and local fire and and EMS departments. ---------- Three police officers injured when they were shot inside Gloucester Township police headquarters early Friday morning are on the mend, according to authorities. The alleged shooter—Eddie Jones III, 39, of Willingboro—was killed in return fire at the scene, Gloucester Township Police Chief W. Harry Earle …
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Charles
3:50 pm on Monday, December 31, 2012
That's what we get for living close to Camden City. There aren't enough victims there, so the scum come out to the suburbs to forage. Our police need to adopt a more alert mindset when dealing with criminals. No more mr./ms. nice guy! more ›