Details emerge in Police Shooting of Kerry Von Reese Cook
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 10:19PM
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Charlottesville police released new details Tuesday
about what they say happened when an officer shot a man after a
struggle at an apartment in Friendship Court. City Police Chief Timothy
J. Longo said the woman who called police to her apartment Saturday
night later told authorities that Kerry Von Reese Cook had entered her
home uninvited and started cursing and damaging property. The woman,
who was not identified, said she left the apartment to call police and
waited for their arrival, Longo said. City officers William Sclafani
and Jeremy Carper entered the apartment and found Cook, 31, in a
bedroom closet, Longo reported. The officers ordered him to surrender,
but he resisted and a violent confrontation ensued, Longo said. "The
struggle begins at that point and literally goes throughout the
apartment," he said. Both officers applied "escalating levels of
force," he said, declining to specify what tactics they used to
restrain Cook before he was shot. Sclafani shot Cook once in the
abdomen with a .45-caliber round, and Longo said he had no reason to
believe the shooting was accidental. [more ]
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