HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-16-18 Public Comment - J. Earley - Police Response to IncidentFrom:Joanna Earley
To:Agenda; tsullivan@dailychronicle.com; nehli@dailychronicle.com; edietrich@dailychronicle.com;wbermes@dailychronicle.com
Date:Monday, April 16, 2018 1:19:57 PM
Good afternoon,The reason for my email is because just a week ago my oldest son had a shotgun that was
calked and loaded pointed at him. I am by no means reporting a crime however I am writing toyou in hopes to get a better understanding on why no charges were filed against the party that
did the crime. I had recently talked to a officer in Bozeman and was told that because my sonwas not in a domestic relationship or related to the person that there will be no charges filled.
So your telling me that if they were related or in a relationship she would be charged with apartner or family member assault. What is the difference? A gun is a gun and has no
speculation on if they are related or not. They were roommates and regardless she should havebeen charged with assault with a deadly weapon. She was only told not too do it again. Now
with everything that has come with guns and all the Innocent loosing their lives behind gunswhy is it OK for this to go unnoticed. There is allot of what ifs in my head and I and my child
are relived that nothing did happen. What I have a problem with is the fact that no chargeswere filled and this person still has the weapon and got away with it. So what happens if she
really pulls the trigger on someone else? The real question will be why didn't we do somethingabout it when it happened the first time. This is not close to what has happened in our schools
but it is a very good example of what did take place. The FBI and local pd knew about theindividuals and did nothing to prevent it from happening. Not saying that the person will go
after someone else just stating that this person should be charged with a felony of assault witha deadly weapon. To me this person knows she can get away with it and will do it again just
because of that. Is that the way our world is cause if so things need to be changed and lawsneed to be rewritten. SOMETHING HAS GOT TO BE DONE ON THIS MATTER. I WILL
KEEP PUSHING THIS UNTIL SOMETHING IS DONE. I COULD HAVE LOST MY SONBEHIND STUPIDITY AND IT WILL NOT GO UNNOTICED! WHAT IF IT WAS YOUR
CHILD THAT THIS HAPPENED TO WOULD YOU IGNORE IT BECAUSE I MYSELFCAN NOT. Thank you for your time and hopefully this will get handled in the way it should
have been in the beginning