Manchester PD shooting

[Shane45 807]

Anyone catch the news that Manchester PD had to open fire on Sunday. PD responded to call at which point they were confronted by a man that doused himself with gasoline and threatened to torch himself. They talked him into putting down the lighter but then he drew down with what later turned out to be a fake pistol. They fired killing the suspect. Sounds like the classic suicide by cop scenario......

[Tom-NJ2AS 31]

Read something this morning that the family said there was no gasoline, and a couple of the other accounts didnt jive. Will be interesting to see what happens here. In the end, he raised a weapon, or what they thought was a weapon.

[Krdshrk 3,877]

I'm just hoping it wasn't an Airsoft gun... My other hobbies has so much bad press already....

[tony357 386]

I'm just hoping it wasn't an Airsoft gun... My other hobbies has so much bad press already....

 

keep your orange tips on..

[Damjan 73]

This was also on News 12 NJ,

They showed the garage and interviewed his nephew.

 

 

Manchester police shoot, kill man, prosecutor says

 

By KEITH RUSCITTI and CHELSEA MICHELS

STAFF WRITERS

 

The family of a man shot and killed by a police officer are disputing investigators' version of events that resulted in the death.

 

On Sunday, Richard Nordstrom, 43, who lived at 3219 Wilbur Avenue was killed after Manchester police responded to a 911 call about a domestic violence dispute at the residence.

 

Ironically, Andrew Nordstrom the nephew of Richard and the person who made the call to police, said authorities went over the line in handling the situation.

 

"As far as I'm concerned it was murder,'' said Andrew, 22, who also lives at the home and who claims to have been standing about 15 feet away when the shots were fired.

 

According to a press release from the Ocean County Prosecutor, at about 2 p.m. on Sunday local police responded and were directed by relatives to an unattached garage and workshop located to the rear of the property where Nordstrom had fled.

 

Officers saw him in the storage area pouring gasoline on and around himself, and he was holding a lighter.

 

Nordstrom was ordered by the officers to drop the lighter, to which he complied.

 

However, according to police, he then brandished a firearm and pointed it at the officer who then fired at Nordstrom, striking him several times.

 

The firearm was subsequently determined to be an imitation, according to the Prosecutors Office.

 

Nordstrom was pronounced dead at the scene via telemetry by Dr. Gilman of Monmouth Medical Center at 2:24 p.m.

 

"We don't keep gasoline in the shed,'' said Andrew in an interview on Monday night.

 

"And if my uncle was pouring gas on him, like the police said, "where are the stains on the floor? Gasoline leaves stains"'','' he said pointing while pointing to the dry, concrete floor in the area where Richard Nordstrom was shot.

 

Andrew Nordstrom said he called police because of a physical confrontation he had with Richard. He admitted his uncle was drunk at the time and was hoping police could calm him down. An opened bottle of vodka was still located on a table inside the shed on Monday evening.

 

The Prosecutors Office also said Manchester police have responded to the residence on numerous occasions relating to domestic issues.

 

Andrew said "it's been months'' since police were at the home regarding a domestic issue and that had to do with violating a restraining order involving his ex-wife.

 

"They confiscated all of his guns the last time they were here,'' said Andrew.

 

Edward Nordstrom, the father of the victim, was also a witness to the events.

 

He said officers chased Richard into the shed where he apparently locked himself in.

 

"I went to get the key,'' said Edward, 72. "But when I came out they broke through the window area of the door.''

 

Moments later, the gunshots were fired, according to the Nordstroms.

 

"It was literally seconds after the cop went through the door that he fired the shots,'' said Andrew Nordstrom. "There were four shots. One missed.''

 

The Nordstroms run a fencing business. The detached garage and tool shed is where supplies are kept. Behind the structure are rolled up fences and supplies.

 

Ocean County Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford announced on Monday that her major crime detectives are conducting the investigation into the incident.

 

"As is protocol in all police involved shootings that occur within our jurisdiction, the Prosecutor's Major Crime Unit headed by Captain Thomas Hayes will conduct the investigation and report their findings to the Ocean County Prosecutor as well as the NJ Division of Criminal Justice,'' the Prosecutors Office said in a statement.

 

Authorities haven't identified the officer involved in the shooting.

 

Investigators were at the residence until nearly midnight on Sunday, according to the family.

[tony357 386]

HMMM........ why would they break into a shed he fled to rather than talk him out ? thats just dangerous either way...