Reports of 5 officers shot in Florence Co SC

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Just said one officer has died.
 
Wahoo95 said:
Based on the pics it look like someone had a rifle and they had pistols
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Terrible odds.

AR10ShooterinNC said:
5+ on 1, and the cops couldn't get him, sounds like a very bad training.
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No details yet, but if Wahoos post above ends up being true, a rifle and a little distance will beat 5 pistols any day
 
My cousin who is a Sergeant with the Florence County Sheriffs Office has an AR in his patrol car. Iā€™m unsure if shift supervisors are the only ones who have them, or if everyone has some sort of long gun.

The situation may have escalated so quickly, that by the time they needed the rifles, they were away from their vehicles. Again we have zero details about the situation from which we can draw conclusions

But hey thatā€™s never stopped us before so have at it
 
11B CIB said:
My cousin who is a Sergeant with the Florence County Sheriffs Office has an AR in his patrol car. Iā€™m unsure if shift supervisors are the only ones who have them, or if everyone has some sort of long gun.

The situation may have escalated so quickly, that by the time they needed the rifles, they were away from their vehicles. Again we have zero details about the situation from which we can draw conclusions

But hey thatā€™s never stopped us before so have at it
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Upscale neighborhood in the South? Active shooter? LEOs shot? FBI investigating the Kavman?

I'm trying to tie this together. Gimme a minute...
 
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Sheriff and Florence PD speaking now on the local news...apparently serving a warrant, saying 7 ended up shot, 1 dead.
 
This is about 1/2 mile from my sisterā€™s house. It was apparently the result of a nasty divorce there were kids in the house but the are ok. The wife is a lawyer she may have been shot too, but that was rumors she has heard from other neighbors.
 
Interesting. My pops just told me about this... he lives across the street..
 
DCGallim said:
Sounds like someone needs to go back and watch Clint in ā€œFor A Few Dollars Moreā€.
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That old man cheated with his add on bumpstock on his Colt
 
This sucks. I'm no expert, but what i've seen of Florence, it seems like a rough place. Granted, my experience there is very limited.
 
sixtysevensg said:
This sucks. I'm no expert, but what i've seen of Florence, it seems like a rough place. Granted, my experience there is very limited.
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Where I live, Florence is just the mall and where Chic-fil-a and Krispy Kreme comes from.

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GreatGazoo said:
Follow-up article this morning: https://www.foxnews.com/us/disbarred-lawyer-74-suspected-of-gunning-down-south-carolina-cop-police
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some snippets I took from this:

"Fred Hopkins was an avid gun lover, who posted often about being a competitive marksman and taking his children shooting with him on his social media accounts. "

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'I just love the smell of gunpowder in the mornin's,' he wrote in the post to commemorate his 70th birthday. The post also says he had been 'shooting competitively since 1984 and lovin' it.'

Other posts, from 2016, show images of rifles and say he was the 'South Carolina 3-Gun Silhouette Champion for 2011.' "


Yeah. I smell some BS afoot. Brace for yourselves for some anti-gun retoric that has been on hiatus.
 
Police investigating last nightā€™s fatal shooting of an officer in South Carolina have identified the suspected gunman as 74-year-old Frederick Hopkins ā€“ and say they were initially drawn to the home in Florence to serve a warrant for a 27-year-old accused of sexually assaulting a minor.
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Something is fishy here. I think @Ikarus1 may be right, given that this also took place at night.

As far as their use of military equipment, I am pretty sure the country's founders intended for The People to be on equal footing force wise with Govco, for good reason.
 
My coworker's daughter served with the deceased officer in the Air Force.
 
Cowboy said:
Police brought in an armored personnel carrier to recover the wounded.

I guess it's nice to have when needed.
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Probably even better not to have wounded. In other words, their tactics sucked. Seems to be a reoccurring pattern in SC law enforcement. When your Sheriff said 'we didn't know how much firepower he had in that house'..... I feel the anti-gun tsunami coming.
 
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Let's wait for the facts to come out about the 74 year old disbarred lawyer, Vietnam vet before we jump to conclusions.

Authorities have not described what weapons were involved, but Hopkins apparently owned several guns. A 2014 post on his Facebook page said he celebrated his 70th birthday at a shooting range by repeatedly firing his M-14 rifle, set up exactly like the one he used in Vietnam.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...-license-over-fees/ar-BBNV2QG?ocid=spartandhp

Again, the media doesn't know that M-14s are NFA items and what he probably had was an M1-A. But it's not black and scary like those fully semi-automatic ARs that the military uses and that civilians can buy without a trace.
 
As stupid as it sounds, I heard on another forum (by a creditable source) that they had called the house and spoke with the 74 year old shooter and told him they had a warrant and were coming to arrest the 27 year old on molestation charges. IF that was the case, how dumb can they be??? Calling to say they were coming????
 
Bailey Boat said:
As stupid as it sounds, I heard on another forum (by a creditable source) that they had called the house and spoke with the 74 year old shooter and told him they had a warrant and were coming to arrest the 27 year old on molestation charges. IF that was the case, how dumb can they be??? Calling to say they were coming????
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I guess that's not a no knock warrant then.
 
Bailey Boat said:
As stupid as it sounds, I heard on another forum (by a creditable source) that they had called the house and spoke with the 74 year old shooter and told him they had a warrant and were coming to arrest the 27 year old on molestation charges. IF that was the case, how dumb can they be??? Calling to say they were coming????
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I learned from here that's what they are supposed to do.:rolleyes:
 
noway2 said:
Something is fishy here. I think @Ikarus1 may be right, given that this also took place at night.

As far as their use of military equipment, I am pretty sure the country's founders intended for The People to be on equal footing force wise with Govco, for good reason.
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It wasn't a no knock warrant and 4 o'clock in the afternoon isn't at night.
The shooter was a dis-barred lawyer, shooters wife is also a lawyer. They are known to be foster parents on the paid for by SS foster parents system. They were trying to arrest their son for molesting the foster kids. The only thing fishy is these folks on the paid rotation for taking in fosters and having their child molesting adult son living there too.
It's a good thing they had that piece of military equipment available, otherwise several other officers probably would have bled out laying there because without it they could not get them out. And we would be having several funerals on Monday instead of just one.
The officer killed, Terrance Calloway, was a 30yr decorated veteran on the force, who was not in the warrant serving team, but rather died trying to rescue his fellow officers. RIP.
 
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