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Nov/Dec 2009
 
                     
  Cop Talk      
                     
  Analyzing A Cop-Killing
     
                     
       
 

Nathan Bell, right, eyewitness to the shooting, shows Mas where the deputies fell.

     
                     
 

Afew days before writing this, I stood at the site where two law enforcement officers had been shot and mortally wounded three weeks before. I’ll ask you up front to forgive me if a little anger seeps in to what you’re about to read.

In April of 2009, two uniformed deputies of the Okaloosa, Florida Sheriff’s Office made contact with one Joshua Cartwright, 28, in the dirt parking lot of the the Shoal River Sporting Clays gun club in Crestview. Deputies Warren “Skip” York and Burt Lopez were there to arrest him for domestic assault and battery on his wife Elizabeth earlier in the day. They knew from the complainant that the suspect was planning to be at the gun club that day, and obviously would have firearms with him, but Cartwright was not visibly armed when they made contact with him.

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