Meet 25 y/o Jose Luis Garcia, a TN fugitive who was on parole for aggravated robbery with an active parole violation lodged against him. That's his old mug shot below...
At approximately 5.30 am on Monday, June 1st, 2015, a motorist called 911 after they passed by a a Chevrolet Avalanche truck in Coffee County, TN which had six (6) people inside, one (1) being a man with a gun who appeared to be arguing.
The Coffee County Sheriff's Department sent a patrol car to investigate. Upon arrival, Garcia allegedly threatened the Deputy with his handgun, resulting in a six (6) hour standoff / hostage situation which ended with Garcia fatally shooting himself in the head.
Actions have consequences. In this case, frankly, the world (and certainly the good taxpayers of the Volunteer State) is (are) better off with one less "aggravated robber" / carjacker / kidnapper / domestic violence perpetrator / violent armed criminal (it is), but there was a presumably unintended consequence of Garcia's final resolution: to wit a "three-for". Sadly, after he shot himself in the head the bullet continued through striking both his pregnant girl friend and a second female passenger in the process.
Per Coffee County Sheriff's Department spokesman Edward Knott: "The bullet allegedly traveled through him and struck two other people inside the automobile. Those were two females. They were taken to a hospital and they are being treated for their injuries." Per one of the passenger-victim's-mother, during the six (6) hour stand-off: "He [Garcia} was calling his mom, his sister, his family members and telling them it was her [his pregnant girlfriend's] fault. My heart goes out to his family. I don't know what I would do if it was me. I hope they understand this wasn't her fault. He had problems and he just hadn't addressed them."
Memo to the Folks: Domestic Violence (DV) cases present wrinkles for everyone in the system (the Defendant, the State and the Court), as they almost always involve emotional charged folks who's lives are either interdependent or interconnected, the potential for repeat or escalated violence is almost always high and there is more often then not the likelihood that a victim will, for whatever reasons, wish not to prosecute the perpetrator. For these reasons, in FL DV cases Defendant's suffer aggressive prosecution (more aggressive than many other offenses), the State feels obligated to "force" all victim's to "help themselves" (which serves the dual purpose of covering its own ass in the event of a subsequent violent altercation) and the Court engages in pure self-protection (no Judge wants to read her/his name in the paper as being responsible for "cutting loose" the repeat DV offender who re-injures, more seriously injures or kills a victim when the Court could have acted to prevent the same from occurring). These are the practical realities of DV cases that we all must live with and it is for these reasons that there is a mandatory 24 hold (a statutorily required cooling-off period) for anyone booked into a FL jail for any DV case and that DV victim's are afforded special protections, are required to be evaluated (if only by responding officers who have a DV "checklist") and are required to be provided information about alternatives to returning to "life" with the alleged perpetrator. When it comes to DV my advise is:
And on the subject of DV per Captain Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart):
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