homeland security teams called to a domestic that results in shooting in Philly??????

[carlrodd]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Barricade-West-Philadelphia-Man-Shoots-Girlfriend.html

A woman was trying break up with her boyfriend Wednesday when she was shot several times in the chest, according to Philadelphia police.

The two were inside a car at a golf course in West Philadelphia around lunchtime.

The couple started arguing and the boyfriend, 54, pulled out a gun, shot the woman, 24, and then dumped her body on the side of the street, said police. When they got there, the woman was able to give them some information before she was rushed to the hospital where she died a short time later.

The suspect locked himself inside a house on the unit block of Salford Street in West Philadelphia.

SWAT team members, homeland security and police were outside the home for several hours Wednesday afternoon until the suspect, Edward Williams, shot himself in the face.

He was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday night.


did i miss something? since when does homeland security have any sort of jurisdiction in routine criminal matters in an American city? and when did the agency become so militarized with what the local news termed "teams"?

 

[Big Daddy Grim]

I didn't think they were could be a right time right place when the call for assistance went out not sure though.

 

[Hungry Seagull]

Philadelpha is not a nice town. I think it was the MOVE boys that got burned by the city block one time in the late 80's

To this day, Philly is a tough town and deserves a tough response.

Larger cities like Philly are able to call in resources much "Richer" than some of these small southern towns that I reside in these days. However, Federal all the way down to the Cletus and Roscoe can and will assist each other on LEO Problems.

With a more thought, Perhaps the lady that was shot could have been part of the DHS, who knows? Anyway, it does not matter to even spectulate.

 

[Duke of Doubt]

Hungry Seagull: "With a more thought, Perhaps the lady that was shot could have been part of the DHS, who knows?"

You're likely on the right line, but the wrong track. I'm speculatin' that she or the boyfriend was on a watch list.

Local law enforcement and others were up in arms in recent months when the feds descended. Turns out there was a major counterfeiting ring operating right here in rural Maine, but while investigating that little matter they worked other "localized" federal matters too, in particular searching for hundreds of millions worth of art stolen in 1990 Boston, as well as following up leads on a certain missing OC figure; they of course were on hand to assist in jurisdictionally local matters, too, if asked, which they weren't.

 

[Jim K]

What exactly is a "homeland security team"? I have not heard of such a thing; is this simply a way of lumping, say, FBI and ATF, or has our president come up with a secret American SS to make sure the peasantry toes the line?

Jim

 

[cauberallies]

Jim Keenan, The department of homeland security is indeed its own entity.

 

[CapnMac]

Now, the reporter may have been edited, too--many of the States have formed Homeland Security departments. Our fourth estate, being an over-educated group on average may not have noticed this. Or they may have had an editor needing column inches for nail salons, and editied what might have looked like verbose construction ("Pennsylvania Homeland Securty").

 

[paintballdude902]

did you miss the memo? i think i may have lost your fax number sorry

but yeah anything involving guns and relationships now falls under homeland security something about dr.Phil being a member of al qaeda

 

[flying_gage]

Could be a locally comprised "task force" falling under jurisdiction of a Homeland officer. Just a thought?

 

[skeet king]

He shot himself in the face trying to kill himself? AND HE FAILED!

LOL epic failure

 

[ThrottleJockey]

"Homeland Security" actually has jurisdiction over anything and everything. The "patriot act" effectively banned freedom and liberty. Calling something "patriotic" doesn't make it so.

 

[Sixtigers]

...and with that, I'm IBTL!

 

[Jeff White]

I guess no one here has ever heard of such a things as a mutual aid agreement. It's simply an agreement between various agencies to assist each other with equipment and personnel. Police departments, fire departments, ambulance districts, hospitals....just about everyone involved in any kind of public safety uses them. Quite probably DHS had some unique asset the Philly PD needed.

Now that we've established that different agencies can aid each other through something called a mutual aid agreement and it not be a conspiracy for the federal government to take over.....This one is closed as outside of the fact that he different police agencies have firearms...it's not gun related....