The woman, Talisa Coombs, told Delaney she’d just gotten into what she alleged was a physical altercation with her granddaughter’s mother, Maria Pike, and called 911. Independence police’s response to that 911 call ended with the shooting death of Pike, 34, and her two month old daughter, Destinii Hope — who were identified Tuesday by authorities from the Police Involved Investigative Team, or PIIT, a team of eastern Jackson County detectives called in to investigate police shootings and use-of-force incidents.
The officer who fired his weapon was “a long-tenured veteran of law enforcement,” Dustman said. That officer and another two who were at the scene are on administrative leave.
My town has an absurd amount of firefighters and first responders. I broke my leg last year and 30 people, both firefighters and paramedics, showed up and poured into my house. It took 3 of them to get my leg stabilized haul me into the ambulance. The rest ended up just standing around in my yard doing nothing lol. When we passed the fire department/ paramedic place, there were like 10 other people hanging around the ambulances and fire trucks in their uniforms just shooting the shit.