Sheriff's Detective killed today...8/19

[WakkoSS]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/sfl...home-headlines

FORT LAUDERDALE – One Broward Sheriff's Office deputy was killed and another wounded while working with a kiddie porn task force trying to serve a search warrant Thursday morning. A suspect is in custody, police and Fire Rescue officials said.

Detective Todd Fatta was killed when a shot hit him in the heart-area, penetrating his bulletproof vest, Sheriff Ken Jenne said, his eyes tearing at a noon press conference.

Sgt. Angelo Cedeno, 36, was shot in the hand and shoulder and was undergoing surgery at North Broward Medical Center.

"Wish it didn't happen, but it did," Jenne said as he wiped at tears rolling down his face. "We forget sometimes how dangerous it is to them, to those around them."

The shot officers were rushed to nearby North Broward under a police escort. A section of Northeast 62nd Street and rush-hour Interstate 95 were shut down to traffic for the ambulances.

Stephen McInerny, division Fire Rescue chief for Fort Lauderdale, confirmed the death of 33-year-old Fatta, who was pronounced dead shortly after he was brought into the North Broward hospital.

Around 2 p.m., BSO spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright reported that Cedeno was listed in stable condition at the hospital.

The suspect, Kenneth Paul Wilk, 42, who is described as a gun enthusiast, is in custody but has not yet been charged with the murder of the deputy or the wounding of Cedeno, Jenne said. He was not injured.

The shootings occurred at a home at 1950 NE 57 St. at 8:50 a.m. during a raid by a special multi-force police task force. Ten to 15 officers were reported in the task force serving a search warrant as part of a kiddie porn investigation. The target reportedly was a suspected pedophile.

Officiers said Wilk was being investigation for "the sexual exploitation of children and related activities." It was part of an undercover investigation targeting child predators on America OnLine.

One neighbor said he heard six to eight shots fired. Another said she only heard five shots, got curious as to what was happening and walked around the corner to see police putting a hand-cuffed and leg-shackled man into a patrol car.

"He had an ugly smirk" on his face, said Arlene Marcus, "like he was proud of what he just did."

Sheriff Jenne said officers went to the house in force because they have had trouble there before.

Jenne said Wilk had been bragging lately that prior raids by police had not accomplished what they set out to do.

Wilk had said "We had not found all the porn," Jenne recalled.

Thursday morning officers knocked on the door. They tried to get Wilk to come outside to receive the warrant, but he refused, Jenne said. Shots were fired in the house by the suspect, who was armed with a high-powered weapon, Jenne said.

``Mr. Wilk had several weapons, several high-caliber weapons around the house,'' Jenne said.

One shot pierced Deputy Fatta's bullet-proof vest, ultimately killing him.

Other officers returned fire at Wilk. He was not injured, Jenne said. But the suspect gunman was quickly caught and taken into custody. No one else was in the house.

A new search warrant has been requested so police can go through the Wilk house room by room.

Police have been to the Wilk's home at least two times in the past two years. Last year, a child porn warrant was issued at the home in the residential neighborhood, at which point Wilk threatened officers and was arrested. Last month, another warrant was served and Wilk's roommate, registered sex offender Kelly Ray Jones, was arrested on charges of using the Internet to send illicit images of children to an undercover detective. He remains in federal custody.

Records indicate the home in the Colonial Ridge neighborhood just north of Holy Cross Hospital is valued around $300,000 and may be jointly owned by Wilk and Jones.

Before Thursday, the last Broward County deputy killed was 25-year-old Philip Billings, who was shot in April 2003 while working security at a Cadillac dealership in Pompano Beach.

Billings was wearing his uniform and a bulletproof vest while working the off-duty detail arranged through the sheriff's office.

The two suspects were later found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Boca raton.

[rastaz]

So bullet proof vests aren't really bullet proof

They should have wasted that POS

[sr-71]

bad news, but they are police officers ( don't get me wrong my cuz and my brother-in-law are police officers and so was my dad, but never mind i don't want to start the wrong type of thread, some cops are nothing but a$$holes while i'm sure the good ones end up in stories like what you just wrote

my opinion
carlos

[Steve Wood]

So what kind of thread did you intend, Carlos?

[Nasty Wendy]

something doesn't add up here.....15 officers present and none of them laid waste to this guy who fired on two officers

[WakkoSS]

I haven't gotten the inside story yet...definitely strange they didn't waste him.

[sr-71]

Originally posted by Steve Wood
So what kind of thread did you intend, Carlos?

not sure i just don't know what a killing of a police officer has anything to do with what usually post here but i respect wakkoss i just did'nt want to say so why post this here? but wakkos has every right to post his opinion, and as sad a tragic story it is i felt it was out of place but i realize this room is for any topic( do you get what i'm trying to say?) my personal view of police is just like everything else there are some good one's and some bad ones, and like nasty said 15 police officers and none of them shot to kill? my brother-in-law is a miami p.o. and as he said there would have been two dead bodies the cop and the shooter. i hope my explanation makes sence, and i'm not for police bashing ( but i'm sure more people have been hassled and bashed by police) my cousin is a miami-dade police officer and i pray to god that he keeps a watchful eye on him, but the line of work he's in those things could happen at anytime. I respect wakkoss and his opinoin i just did'nt see what that had to do with anything in here


my opinion

carlos

carlos

[WakkoSS]

[rant]Exactly what is my "opinion"? Because I'm sad that a police officer was killed? I don't know what you do for a living and I really don't care...but I bet it doesn't involve hoping you don't get killed. I've seen two of my fellow BSO deputies killed in 16 months and I sure hope I never become the next one. If you don't have anything constructive to say about this topic, please start your own. [/rant]


Check out www.odmp.org for the Officer Down Memorial Page.

[sr-71]

they got killed becuse thats thier line of work, and no i don't wish for anybody to get killed at work but when you apply for a job in law-enforcement you know those things could happen, i served six years in the army i knew what i was getting into, police know the risk they take when they put on a uniform, and if you are a cop i wish no harm to come to you or your buddies but i could happen, and by the way as far as me not haveing anything constructive to say then start your own, please, so now you post something and don't respect the views of others? I did'nt want to start a conflict here and i for one don't like seeing anyone die at work.

my opinion
carlos

[WakkoSS]

So because you joined the Army, knew the risks and got killed, it shouldn't be sad? This thread isn't about OPINIONS of police officers. It's about ONE in particular that lost to the odds and was killed. PERIOD. END OF STORY. If you want to create a thread for people to voice opinions, do say. In the mean time, leave THIS thread alone please!

[sr-71]

dude i don't know wtf is your problem but i will stop writeing in this thread i see you may be mad and your trying to start something that just ain't there and it is a sad story but i've already stated that and i will leave this thread alone but it's because i want to out of respect for your fallen partner,
i hope this has provided you a chance to vent, i will not post anything else as long as i'm not called out.


carlos

[ncgreg231]

my $.02 - suspect was left alive so that he could be processed by the court system, and once in prison, will receive his TRUE punishment

[WakkoSS]

Originally posted by ncgreg231
my $.02 - suspect was left alive so that he could be processed by the court system, and once in prison, will receive his TRUE punishment

Especially from his cellmate...

[Nasty Wendy]

Originally posted by ncgreg231
my $.02 - suspect was left alive so that he could be processed by the court system, and once in prison, will receive his TRUE punishment

Well they still could have unloaded into his knees shoulders and elbows.......and ankles......and then broke all his ribs with their billy clubs.

[Steve Wood]

Carlos, your comments were regarding your feelings about police officers in general as best as I can understand them.

They had nothing to do with the death of the officer in question as you did not know him and therefore cannot judge what kind of person he was.

Yes, being a law enforcement officer can be a dangerous job, but that does not justify blowing it off with a "So what? It's a dangerous job!" Thank god we have some that are willing to take the risk to keep guys like you and me safe from such as those that did the killing.

And, as you noted, this is the Waiting Room, this is for off topic discussion. If you don't like a thread, start your own but don't blow off the content because it does not meet your criteria.

Here's a tip, when you have to make a statement prefaced by don't take this the wrong way, maybe you should just pass.