Cop shoots at snake, Kills boy instead


	Cop shoots at snake, Kills boy instead

tonya-yvonne

8-6-2007 10:17 AM

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noble, oklahoma, austin haley, jack tracy, snake, cop

tonya-yvonne says:

is it just me or does anyone here the dukes of hazzard music playing in their head when they read this. could cops realy be as back woods dumd as Rosco????

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<P>Austin Haley was fishing with his grandfather, Jack Tracy, when Tracy said he 
heard a shot and saw something hit the water just a few feet in front of the 
boat dock where he was standing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/06/boy.killed.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us">
<P>Moments later, a second shot hit Austin in the head.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/06/boy.killed.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us"><P>Tracy thought someone must be trying to kill him and his grandson, so he put the child on the back of a 4-wheeler and drove to his daughter's house about 200 yards away.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/06/boy.killed.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us">Tracy has little doubt. "I'm not saying the cop shot him on purpose," he said. 
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him in a car seat and he got killed on the way to town, they'd charge me with 
murder ... and what this cop did is a lot worse than that."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/06/boy.killed.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us">A Noble <A href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/police">police</A> officer</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/06/boy.killed.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us">apparently fired the deadly shot while trying to kill the snake on Friday, City 
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