Police fatally shoot knife-wielding man in South Florida

[TheeBadOne]

SUNRISE, Fla. - Police fatally shot a man who was stabbing his wife on the balcony outside their apartment and refused to drop the knife, officials said.

Neighbors heard Donna Satahoo screaming for help and saw her husband, Newton Satahoo, 48, stabbing her.

"There was blood everywhere," said neighbor Cynthia Holliday. "He had something over him, the devil in him, or something."

Holliday said the husband grabbed his wife and used her as a shield when police arrived. Police did not confirm whether she was used as a shield.

Two officers ordered Satahoo to drop his knife at least twice. When he didn't, they opened fire and killed him, Holliday said.

Police spokesman Robert Voss said Donna Satahoo was treated for several cuts on her head and neck at Broward General Medical Center.

The couple's 10-year-old son was home during the attack.

The officers, who were not identified, were placed on administrative leave during an investigation of the shooting.

Voss said it may be the first fatal police shooting in Sunrise, a southwest suburb of Fort Lauderdale. No Sunrise police officer has killed a suspect since at least the late 1970s, he said, and the city was incorporated in 1961.

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If you were a neighbor, what if anything would you have done?

 

[BluesBear]

As a human being, I feel compelled to try and protect innocent people from harm.

If I could have safely assisted her I would have done so by using whatever tools I had at my disposal at the time.

If I felt he was going to do further harm to her or anyone else I would have felt obligated to stop him.

But that's just me.
Bear's first law of life is "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."

 

[TallPine]

If you were a neighbor, what if anything would you have done?

It depends on the opportunities, but some variant of a "Homeland Defense Rifle" would have been involved.

 

[TarpleyG]

This is the town that I live in but on the "bad" side. Just as a side note, this is the first time in a while that Sunrise PD has had to shoot and kill someone.

edit: just read that last tidbit in the end of the article...

GT

 

[R127]

sounds like the cops did a good job to me... I wonder why none of the neighbors shot him? I wonder what the cops would have done to the neighbor in that case?

I have a history of getting involved in things I could just as easily turn a blind eye to and just walk away. Yeah, it gets you in trouble, both with the law and with the outlaws, so to speak. Of course, if you're anything I would recognize as a man doing so does prevent you from carrying around that ghost for years, decades afterwards, the doubt and shame of wondering why you didn't do anything you could. I don't know about the victim in this case, it may well be I'd disaprove of her for any number of reasons, then again, maybe not. That isn't the most important part, though, it's the principle of the matter. We need more good men, with a sense of honor and responsibility in this country, and we need to stop busting their balls every time they do society a service.

 

[ceetee]

A Quick Update

Experts Agree That The Shooting Was Justified

If you follow the link, you'll see that all the evidence points to a good shoot.

The wife, however, denies that there was a knife involved; says her husband was beating her, but not stabbing her. She says the cops should have talked the guy down instead of shooting him.

Anybody besides me smell a lawsuit in the air?

 

[BluesBear]

My partner and I answered a domestic violence call back in the days before it was called domestic violence. We just called them wife-beaters back then.

The wife looked horrid. Big black eye, swollen lip, bruised cheek, bruses on her arms, etc. She had been worked over pretty good. Husband hadn't been drinking, he was just mean.

She's crying and screaming she wants the SOB locked up and the key thrown away. We do our best to oblige the lady.

We have him cuffed and my partner is walking him out the front door when I see a flash out of the corner of my eye.
It's the wife running toward my partner with a BIG butcher knife over her head, swinging away like Norman Bates, screaming at us that she wasn't going to let us "take away her man".

Hells bells they hadn't trained us for anything like this. I guess my instinct just kicked in.

In addition to ber big black eye, swollen lip, bruised cheek and bruses on her arms she now had a broken nose.

We left her sitting there on the living room floor, knifeless, bleeding on her shirt. She bailed out her husband the very next morning.

I just can't understand some people's thinking. :banghead: