NSLS Blogs

 Home » Blogs » Annotations

Annotations

January 17, 2007

Your books or your life!

I just had to share this nugget of news that just came in on American Libraries Direct…

Library Guard Shoots at Fleeing Patron

Library Guard Shoots at Fleeing Patron
An on-duty security guard at the Anderson County (S.C.) Library January 6 shot at a woman who set off the library’s alarm as she fled the facility late in the afternoon. James Turner fired the single gunshot as the woman, who had ignored his repeated commands to stop, drove her sedan directly at him, forcing him to jump aside.

The bullet damaged the driver’s side door, but whether the unidentified woman was hurt is not known. No one noted the vehicle’s license-plate number, and the library discovered that the security cameras lacked videotape that day due to officials complying with an unrelated subpoena from the county sheriff’s office.

Although it is not known why the woman fled the building in the first place, Turner speculated in the January 9 Anderson Independent Mail that she was running from something more serious than getting caught with a stolen book, and that she told him to stop chasing her. “When the car started to move, I pulled my weapon,” he explained. “She started forward slowly and then she hit me [in the knee]. That’s when I fired my weapon. And she gunned it.” … More

posted by Anna at 4:20 pm |

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website