Missouri Man Killed After Firing at Police in Drug Raid

I think the cops would need at least a week to do a proper " snow-job " on this incident . Then snowball the Judge . It happens everyday . The D.A. office needs " confiscated " money to , you know , keep the office folk`s happy , maintain a healthy budget . The more they steal from the public , the easier it is for themselves and their career . Put yourself in their boots [ hooves ] .        

I am a resident of the neighborhood in Warrensburg, Mo, where the police shot a (suspected) drug dealer on thursday night, April 18, 2013.  I am also aware that some people think the police overreacted in the situation, and that the deceased man was not a drug dealer.  Garbage! 

We have endured a long, threatening period of having to watch the drug activities in our neighborhood.  And the only people who would step up to the plate and do the work necessary to protect the people and property in the area were the police.  

We tried everything -- all of the suggestions recommended by the so-called experts in such situations.  We contacted politicians from local, city and county governments, the Attorney General's office in Jefferson City, the Circuit Courts, our representative in the US Congress, and just about anyone in the media that we could think of contacting, form Warrensburg to Kansas City.  NO-BODY  would do anything.  It was everybody's unwillingness to help us in any way that kept this neighborhood in danger and drugs.  

I personally slept the entire last spring and summer sleeping on the couch with my own weapon at the ready, expecting to become involved in a firefight, some night.  We were getting cars slow-driving by the house with their lights out.  We were getting the usual hate glares and threats from the various perps.  

People need to understand that nobody in government or in the media will ever come to the aid of any neighborhood in this state -- or probably the nation -- until deaths occur.  Then, everybody wants to get into the stories and use the aftermath to their own political or economic benefits.  Then everyone is willing to grandstand from their particular podium of self grandisement.  

The dead drug dealer was not the first casualty resulting from the illegal activities in this neighborhood.  Last summer, at least one of their customers died from ingesting the poisons they sell.  This particular perp was sometimes known to send a child out to the curb to make a "carhop" style delivery of drugs.  This sort of activity and decadent traffic ruins the values of the neighborhood and makes the place unsafe for all residents.  

Last year, there were at least a dozen houses that were trafficking in illegal drugs and other contraband, on a round the clock basis. Largely, because of the activities of the police department -- and nobody else -- almost all of them are now out of business.  There are still a few "party houses" in the area, but it's a whole lot better than it was several months ago.  

We'll see what the summer brings. 

(A Nearby Resident) 

And yes the neighbor knows nothing about you!

just to set the record straight this family was not living there last summer what happened then does not pretain to this family appleton was a man who loved his family friends and just about anyone he came across he would give his shirt off his back lately he has not had been in the best of health but still loved his family more and more everyday and how dare any of you talk bad about a man who worked his ass of just as much as you and me for his family i have known this family for my whole life and one thing i know now is that a father husband friend son and brother is gone the traffic you want to talk about was family and friends checking on him daily i am one of those family members that sometime i would go there several times a day personally because i knew the severity of his health this loving man now leaves two beautiful young ladies and a loving wife who now has to figure out how to live life without her partner and keeping raising these kids how would u feel if you lost someone the way they have and have people run there mouths the way some of you have lets find out facts before you post your opinions on a man and family you know nothing about

with love to the appleton girls hang in there justice will be served soon one day

I, many years ago, lived in Warrensburg.  I am so sorry to hear of the wife's loss and can not really imagine her grief, nor the sadness of the daughters. Strange how different the anti drug lady's version was from the others. A person's life was lost, is sounds to me, on the strength of gossip. I fear the police will have learned nothing and will excuse and justify what a horror they have caused.

I have been an anti drug war warrior (read this carefully)  for many years in spite of having no interest in the various illegal drugs for my own use. My concern is the Police state and militarization  of the local police that have evolved.  This incident fits the template of an ever growing number of  situations where innocent people were killed on hearsay and innuendo.

In honor of all the injustice, please consider whether the war on Drugs has not caused many more problems than it has solved. It is time to re-think this travesty.

Again,my condolences to the family.  This is a terrible tragedy that we must not allow to ever happen again.

I was in the house when it was raided. It was tragic. At first when I heard the glass breaking the the gun the police kicking the door down. I thought my dad had had a horrible accident. He had recently recovered from a collapsed lung and other difficulties. Then i heard the gun shots that sounds like bombs going off in my living room. I got up out of bed and ran to my door, no sooner did i get there when 3 or 4 SWAT teem members kicked my door down and threw me on the ground. Screaming and yelling at me to not move. In the back ground i hear my mother screaming my name(she does not remember this, i believe it was shock). The police the entered my house that horrible night have no idea what it is like. They were all walking around talking and smiling while my dad is DEAD in the living room. They did not try to save him. They shot him so many times that there was no point. My father was not a bad man, he did not deserve this to happen. Nobody in my family did. I was the last one out of the house, as im walking out i see my puppy a tiny ass Chihuahua, lying dead on the floor, there were spots where they had shot him and them kicked him up aginst the dryer which was right next to my door to my room. That night not only my dad died. I died on the inside. Nobody really know how someone feels when a bad thing happens like this. Its more pain than i bellieve i can take sometimes. But i continue to live for my mother and 13 year old sister, who was also in the house that night. So for you mr>nosey neighbor. Get a grip, my dad did not sell drugs. He did smoke every once in a while but we never sold drugs. My dad was not a drug dealer.