1 Dead, 1 Injured After Car Runs Gate at Luke Air Force Base
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 5:18 AM
One man was killed, another injured when a car ran through the gate at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. The driver of the stolen vehicle tried to run down security forces before he was shot and killed. Investigators say they do not suspect terrorism.
FOX News reported:
A shooting and fatal car crash on Luke Air Force Base in Litchfield, Ariz., have left one person dead and another injured, KSAZ Phoenix reported.
At 11 p.m. Monday night two individuals ran a gate at the base with their car, said Capt. Gonzales, a spokesman at Luke Air Force Base.
A security forces officer reportedly confronted two men inside the car, previously reported stolen, said Officer Karen Gerardo, the public information officer at the Glendale Police Department.
When the officer got out of his car to try to make contact with the two men, the car drove directly at him. The officer shot at the car, which then crashed, said Gerardo.
One of the occupants of the vehicle was killed. His cause of death has not been determined.
The other person in the car was injured and transported to a hospital.
Investigators do not suspect terrorism, said Gerardo. They don’t believe the men were anything other than car thieves, said Gonzales.
More… KPHO reported on the crash: “According to Captain Jerry Gonzalez, the suspects, while trying to ditch police, drove to Luke Air Force Base and went through one of the security gates.”
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Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Even if these guys were worshippers of the demonic entity known as “allah”, the MSM will only report it after stories exposing them have made their way around the entire Internet. Only after they can’t ignore it any longer, does it become news to the them.
Andreas K. commented:
No tears from me. They attempted to murder the officer. Nice shooting.
Dell commented:
Let’s see….you steal a vehicle and try to escape. – Check.
The route you take includes blowing through a military checkpoint. – Check.
Even with all of the domestic terrorism going on, you don’t believe the guard’s weapons are loaded with live ammo. – Check.
Proceed to ram the checkpoint and attempt to kill the guard. – Check.
Take a bullet in the head for you total stupidity. – CHECKMATE!
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AnnS commented:
Don’t make much sense to drive a stolen car in an Air Force base. Sounds fishy to me. As always have to wait on our great conservative website to give us the real news. And a last name check, bombs in the trunk…….
And as always, Homeland Security is always raising the terrorist alert level, but when something happens it’s never terrorism and the old “lone wolf” theory works for em.
Oh well, clinging to my guns and religion works for me, I guess.
Yep, nice shooting; hope he/she doesn’t get tried for “war crimes”.
Darwin Akbar commented:
Must be a Tea Party activist!
Andrew commented:
Or those pesky Amish!
jainphx commented:
I’ve been through the check points at Luke many times, they are well guarded. Just why would you in a stolen car decide to go to an Air Force base when you know that the gates are guarded by armed guards? Does this make any sense at all? I guess weirder thinks have happened, but this is just strange, unless?
olm commented:
Either this is the Darwin Award winner for 2010 or a terror attempt.
I guess a name release would help.
AnnS commented:
PC first thoughts:
Muslims terrorists
Suicide bombing
trial run
rider commented:
NAMES-place of birth—or –are they muslims ( profile time) and were they carrying bomb making materials???
jomojava commented:
Perhaps they stole a Toyota and the accelerator stuck?
jainphx commented:
Rider— You know that Obowwowama wont allow profiling.
kate commented:
If it’s not “terror”, what is it, a car accident?
apodoca commented:
This sounds too much like what we used to hear happening in Iraq: soldier at a checkpoint, some guy (usually a terrorist) would try to mow through, soldier would shoot, the guy would get killed. Sounds like terrorist action. I can’t believe some mope running from the cops would be dumb enough to challenge military guards. The mope’s trying not to get killed. Going for a military gate is sure to get him killed. It’s terrorist action, IMO.
Andreas K. commented:
Rider, you’re quite right. German media usually leaves out names and background if the criminals are “cultural enrichers”, a.k.a. mohammedans. But they always name names, etc, if the criminal is biological German.
Valerie commented:
I would be willing to bet that every Federal and many of the State spokespeople have been trained to add the phrase “there is no indication that terrorism is involved” to every initial incident report. This would be a policy decision.
If it’s Federal, there should be pieces of paper that say so, perhaps in a general plan for incident response, specific plan for terrorism response, and a slide for a training presentation.
Of course, one way to get the information is to ask a question….
Elly commented:
Also been through Luke’s checkpoint several times. Unless the perp was new to the area I would think this would be the last escape route they’d try. Or maybe they had a Thelma and Louise complex. Like most “incidents” these days the first thing that comes to mind is, what was their last name?
AnnS commented:
OT: there is a new blog out by someone named Emily Walters on the IRS crasher
This afternoon, there was a Facebook page with Joseph’s name on it, and it gave the distinct impression of him being a TEA Party-type, citing Ron Paul and using the Gadsden Flag as the FB icon. It would appear he was nothing more than a right-wing extremist who had an axe to really grind with the IRS. Please notice I said, “it would appear.”
“Joe Stack was a government contractor that also worked for Homeland Security on a variety of projects.”
wanumba commented:
Used to pass Luke AFB on the way to work years ago – out the driveway, turned left on Northern Avenue and drove a 20 mile mostly desolate straight shot out of Phoenix. It’s probably built up a bit more now, but it was way out of town for a reason. There’s miles and miles and miles of desert a plenty ALL around to dump a stolen vehicle if that’s what was needed.
Not buying that lame “suggestion.”
wanumba commented:
hmm.”trying to ditch police” – meaning the police were in hot pursuit?
So, it’s possible they turned into the access to Luke thinking it was a road, then got cornered up against the base entrance.
Do have to factor in the major component of “Stupid” when dealing with car thieves … so it could indeed be simple late night idiocy that got caught by a wrong turn.
Buffalobob commented:
One was killed, “the system worked”. If only at 50%.
AuntieEm commented:
jomojava
February 23rd, 2010 | 9:26 am | #12
Perhaps they stole a Toyota and the accelerator stuck?
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That’s pretty funny!
I’ve got my money on them being terrorists.
Sojourner commented:
‘the men were believed to be connected somehow to another stolen vehicle that Maricopa Co. deputies had pulled over minutes earlier.. an unknown # of passengers were in the first vehicle and were arrested without incident..” azrepublic.
.. imagine these midnight dopers driving stolen cars through the desert weren’t the sharpest tools in the shed. ..now, 1 dumb doper’s one dead, dumb doper.. good job, Luke SP.
BigAlSouth commented:
Come on, people!
This is destined for another edition of “Dumb Crook News.”
It was “Stupidism”, not “Terrorism.”
But I could be wrong.
Nah.
jonyjoe101 commented:
It was either illegals or muslims, those 2 groups never get reported in the news. If it was white or african american they would be in the news report.
To much of a coincidence for it to be just a simple “grand theft auto”. But it was good that the car was shot at, it might let the enemy know what to expect if attempting to attack a military base.
AuntieMadder commented:
jonyjoe101
February 23rd, 2010 | 12:13 pm | #27
joneyjoe, I don’t know if it’s state law or what, but here in Texas names wouldn’t be reported until the family of the man who died was first informed of his death. That’s not to protect the criminal or his name but, instead, to protect his family members from learning of his death from the news reports. Seems fair to me as his mother could just as easily be a sweet, decent woman as a criminal.
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Ya’ know, as more and more men are recruited while in our prisons and then released, there will be many more acts of Islamic terrorism, or jihad, here in the states. Committed by white and black male citizens with names common in the US, those acts of terrorism will be more easily reported as criminal activity by the Feds and lamestream media.