Say What?

In this story by Bridget DiCosmo in the Southeast Missourian, a Missouri woman uses a shotgun to shoot at a wrecker driver who had inadvertently pulled into her driveway and the two deputies who accompanied him. (They were responding to a report of a stolen ATV to recover.) Thankfully, no one was not hurt and the woman was arrested.

However, I had to do a double-take on the comments by Scott County chief deputy Tom Beardslee at the end of the story. Someone should have prepared his statement, too.

"The driver had never met Davis and could not explain why she would shoot at him, Beardslee said.

'This is just an indication of how a seemingly innocuous incident can escalate into a deadly encounter without warning, and for no apparent reason,' said Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter in a prepared statement.

Police say they believe Davis may have been intoxicated at the time. Police said she refused to take a breathalyzer test.

It's possible she had a car repossessed in the past, Beardslee said.

'People don't usually shoot at wrecker drivers for no reason,' he said."

Read the full story here.