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Greenville, South Carolina — On September 6, 2023, prior to the shooting, a 911 call was made to dispatch by a relative requesting a welfare check on 36-year-old Gary Whitten due to recent concerning behavior and his expressed intention of dying. A second call was made by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office to the relative to get the cell phone number for Whitten. The Sheriff’s Office informed the caller that deputies were at the location to perform a welfare check on Whitten and wanted to know if that would be triggering for him due to his threats. Back to January 17, 2024, deputies deputies were staged outside a mobile home in Landrum, where Whitten was hiding after killing his mother and longtime partner.
Deputies called for Whitten to surrender for about 26 minutes before he stepped outside. During negotiating attempts, Whitten stepped outside and extended his arms while holding a chrome object and pointed it at deputies, which turned out to be a shower head. Believing the object was a firearm, eight deputies fired at Whitten. At least 20 shots are fired in rapid succession over six seconds as Whitten falls to the ground on the front porch. Sheriff’s office medics then tried to perform life-saving efforts on Whitten, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. While an independent investigation by the State Law Enforcement Division is ongoing, the sheriff’s office internal affairs office found that the deputies were justified in using deadly force.
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One could say he went out in a shower of gunfire
Its fact that shower handles are the worst assault weapon of all. legislations has to be made asap!
THIS MY CITY LETS GOO
FTP
It was later determined that a Vortex CROSSFIRE II
6-24X50 AO was mounted on the shower head.
davoin shower handel
Is that a Mfm Cz scorpion? Fuckin classy
He was no threat… that handle had a low flow valve.
I get all the shower jokes, but man no one gonna comment on the 90's Silencers sound effects these guns are making in the video?
Like my grandpappy used to say, "Never bring a gun to a shower handlefight"
alternative title: officers retaliate accordingly to the threat of a sprinkle
That what happens when you bring a shower head to a gun fight!
I bet the "acorn incident"-cop is looking at this video and thinking to himself: "Hah, these guys are amateurs. They can't even tell the difference between a shower handle, and a M60 machine gun!"
A shower head.
We have people in jail for walking inside the Capitol Building taking pictures, then walking out. Then police shooting a guy holding a shower head, no charges filed. Alec Baldwin still remains free.
What have we learned? Do not brandish shower handles!
I guess life was too hard to handle….
Blud got turned into ground beef, he just wnated the officers to shower 💀
Things to not bring to gunfights:
-knives
-rocks
-branches
-axes
-acorns
-shower handles
Que polÃcia mal preparada que vergonha repudiou uma coisa assim
bro thought the police had water guns
It was the model Kramer and Newman bought on Seinfeld
Bringing a Shower Handle to a Gun Fight
Never in my life have I heard of such a thing
watch out for shower handle very deadly
liar's that was hair dryer
Oh wow, that was a massage shower head too!
He thought he could shower the cops with bullets but just got soaked in his own blood. Silly guy.
So when he hit the ground you shot him just to join in?
Hope nobody was in that trailer 🤦ðŸ½
"He's got a gun." He was sure. He ought to be fired but won't. Not in that state. How was he so sure it was a gun when in fact it was not? Put shower handles along with phones, backpacks, sandwiches, and burritos on the list of lethal weapons.
"He's got a shower handle!" Just doesn't sound as dramatic. LOL
Did he have a license for the shower handle?