4 shots fired

[Swimmer]

This why it always irks me to hear the word "routine" used when describing something that has to do with police work. Routine traffic stop, no, ask the family of the Manchester, N.H. cop, routine night on the desk inside the Eastham police station, no, enough said.

[Karl F]

[Karl F]

Earlier this morning, Gerard Hill, the suspect's father and owner of the Eastham Box Lunch franchise, said he wasn't comfortable commenting about the incident of his son's treatment by police at this time.

A Lower Cape Realtor who knows Gerard Hill told a Cape Cod Times reporter this morning that the elder Hill has been peaved that the Eastham police have been unable to solve several robberies at his sandwich shop over the summer.

A Box Lunch employee, who asked not to be named, said she called the younger Hill last night and asked him if he'd heard about the police station shooting. "Yah...that's crazy," Hill allegedly responded according to the employee.

David Hill worked at the Box Lunch. The woman indicated that David Hill was at work yesterday and that he "seemed normal."

[Karl F]

The shots fired at the police department narrowly missed hitting a group of civilians that was meeting at the station, said Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe during a press conference that ended at 11:30 a.m. today.

After the shooting at the police station, Hill apparently called his mother in Maine and told her that he wanted to take someone hostage, then kill police and himself, O'Keefe said.

Hill's mother contacted her brother, who is a police officer in an undisclosed Massachusetts police department, then called the Eastham police, O'Keefe said.

After several phone calls between Eastham police and Hill's mother and uncle, Hill's whereabouts was determined and two police officers, one from Truro and one from Orleans were dispatched to the scene, O'Keefe said.

O'Keefe refused to elaborate on what took place at the scene once the officers arrived and Hill was shot.

Hill was found with a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun that had 34 rounds in it and was cocked, O'Keefe said. Hill was wearing a bullet proof vest at the time of the shooting.

[capesams]

I know one of the cop's who nail the guy..two cops came across the guy in the woods..bang your dead...one cop had a ar-15[I beleive] the other a hand gun..who would go after someone with a hand gun in the woods........... something really wrong with their choice of weapons.they best catch up with the times.

[Flaptail]

Huh, and all the while I figured it was just someone fed up with the Eastham PD's speed limit enforcement.....oh well.

[Hooper]

Originally Posted by capesams

I know one of the cop's who nail the guy..two cops came across the guy in the woods..bang your dead...one cop had a ar-15[I beleive] the other a hand gun..who would go after someone with a hand gun in the woods........... something really wrong with their choice of weapons.they best catch up with the times.

Steve-

Some Cape department's administrations are living in denial. They think a patrol rifle like an AR 15 and a shotgun are unneccessary and overkill. It was probably all he had available at the time and as I have been told by guy who were ther, he was an outer perimeter security element. The bad guy was supposedly inside a home, not outside in the woods.

Thank God that one of them had an AR or it is very possible that we on Cape Cod, like Manchester, NH, would be planning a funeral. My department, fortunately, went and bought AR 15's for every cruiser and the supervisor's vehicle after the North Hollywood bank robbery. But, I work for a progressive place....