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Bad: Female Officer Killed, Fleeing Suspect Shot By Police

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Female Officer Killed, Fleeing Suspect Shot By Police - News Story - KIRO Seattle

SEQUIM, Wash. -- Police shot and killed a man Saturday night that they say was a suspect in the shooting death of a female police officer earlier in the day.

The Clallam County Sheriff's Department confirmed that Shawn Roe, a 36-year-old man from Sequim was killed by police as he left a convenience store near the Seven Cedars Casino sometime after 9 p.m.

Roe died when he allegedly pulled a gun on police and police opened fire.

Roe's killing happened as the Washington State Patrol and other police agencies were investigating the shooting death of a U.S. Forest Service officer on a road near this town in Clallam County.

Late in the day, the patrol identified the dead officer as Kris Fairbanks, a 51-year-old woman from Forks.

According the the Forest Service website, Fairbanks was a certified K-9 officer.

State Patrol Trooper Krista Hedstrom said that at about 2:40 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Faribanks observed a van on a forest road near Sequim.

The van did not have license plates. Fairbanks made contact with the occupant of the van and radioed back some information to her headquarters.

When the headquarters tried to call the officer back there was no response.

Clallam County Sheriffs deputies and the State Patrol responded to the scene where the officer made the stop and found her dead.

The area is known as Forest Road 2880 which is off Palo Alto Road.

Officer Fairbanks was the second female officer to be shot to death while on duty in less than a month in Western Washington. Skagit County Deputy Anne Jackson was shot and killed during a shooting rampage September 2 in the town of Alger.
 
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It's too bad the scumbag did not have to suffer a lot before he died...this excuse for a human being was wasting O2 for far too long...OMO...:hand1::banned:
 
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Don't mean to ruffle any feathers nor do I mean it as an insult to any, but...
I've often considered jobs such as U.S. Forest Service and state Parks & Wildlife as being one of the most dangerous there are, period.
The percentage of people that they see, approach and interact with that are armed is in general very high and the encounters usually occur in desolate places. Not a good recipe for a good outcome.
Even with less than optimum manpower available, I can't for the life of me understand why they usually patrol solo rather than with partners in those circumstances. Not good odds.



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#12 ·
+ 1.... im starting to wish we would cut off one hand of all violent offenders when we let them out of prison when their sentence is done.
it at least would slow them down some and give better odds to their next intended victim, after they get out.:mad:
 
#10 ·
I read the story yesterday, not realizing that Kris Fairbanks is the same Kris Fairbanks whose husband is from my small hometown (700 people) of Skagway, Alaska. Small world, and horrible to hear that she was killed in this way. My prayers to her family. It is my understanding she has a teenage daughter (from discussing this with my mother today), so she could use the prayers too.
 
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"In 2006 Mary White resigned as a teacher in Lacey after she brought a gun and bullets to school to protect her from her ex-husband.
She says looking back she regrets that decision, but says the deaths over the weekend prove her fears were justified.
"I feel she was vindicated in that respect," said Byrd, the Mason County chief deputy. "She was completely right. All of her fears were founded."


Too bad it took an event like this to show she was right in believing she needed to armed to maintain some form of safety (meaning an ability to fight back).


Patti White (mary's mother) filed a petition claiming Roe scratched her car with his keys, threatened to burn her house down, and said he was going to "shove her teeth down" her throat. She was so afraid for such a long time that her husband taught her how to handle a gun and, for a period, she carried a small firearm with her at all times, she said

When Mom feels she has to be armed as well it's time to take a close at the specific cause of these fears. Also too bad that won't ever happen when it needs to.
 
#18 ·
Yes, she was armed with a 9mm that Roe took after he killed her.

The gene pool is significantly cleaner in Washington. :yup:
 
#20 ·
Forest officers' beat can be deadly

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Forest officers' beat can be deadly
Weekend killing near Sequim points up perils
By PAUL SHUKOVSKY AND ROBERT McCLURE
P-I REPORTERS

When a Grays Harbor County man pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to cutting down precious old-growth cedar in the Olympic National Forest, it was the investigative work of fallen Forest Service cop Kristine Fairbanks that brought him to justice.


MEMORIAL SERVICE
A memorial service with full police honors for Kristine Fairbanks is scheduled for
1 p.m. Monday at Civic Field in Port Angeles, at East Fourth Street and South Race Street. The public is invited. Condolences may be sent to the family in care of the Pacific Ranger District, 437 Tillicum Lane, Forks, WA 98331.

Fairbanks -- who was shot and killed in the line of duty Saturday -- was one of 63 U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement officers patrolling federal forests in Washington and Oregon. It's a solitary job, requiring officers to head solo into the wilderness to protect the woods and the people passing through it.

Asked about the law enforcement challenges facing Forest Service officers such as Fairbanks, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Barb Severson said: "There is no typical day. And there is no difference between the city officer and the Forest Service officer" in terms of training or duties. "We attend academies. We learn the laws and the defensive tactics.

"Our beat is different. When you think about (police) beats in the city, those people have to know a few square miles. We have to know a few hundred square miles."

Severson said that while Forest Service officers have close working relationships with local deputies and Washington State Patrol officers, the job calls for a high degree of independence.

"We don't get the hot call," said Severson. "We don't get dispatched to the spousal beating. We are out there and we find something."

It could be a marijuana crop. That's not uncommon in national forests, mostly east of the mountains, said Severson.

It could be drugs such as crack or crank in a campground. Or it could be someone illegally picking salal or beargrass for subsequent sale to florists.

There have been fights in the forest over fertile turf for the collection of floral greens or mushrooms. "Years ago, in southern Oregon, there were mushroom wars," said Severson. "Different groups would try to monopolize an area."

And, as reflected by Fairbanks' final court case, Severson said, "timber thefts are a very big issue in the Olympic Peninsula. It's the quality of the wood out there. The wood they are stealing is gorgeous. Some is for cedar shake and some is high-value music wood" that is crafted into musical instruments.

"Kris would come upon and find trees" that had been illegally harvested, said Severson.

The job took Fairbanks and her canine partner, Hero, into extremely steep and physically demanding terrain, Fairbanks said in a 2002 interview with the Seattle P-I.

Fairbanks said she spent about half her time policing theft of various plants, including salal, ferns, beargrass, moss and timber. She patrolled on a daily basis. A red flag: "You see a vehicle parked and there's no permit in the window."

In those cases, she would often wait until someone returned to the car. It was usually a group of men, often illegal immigrants, who invariably outnumbered Fairbanks -- with no police backup nearby.

"I'm just looking," the pickers usually told her. To which she replied, "You need a looking permit."

Her standard practice was to seize the illegally picked plants. She also issued the pickers citations, even though she was sympathetic, saying they were eking out a living and feared obtaining the necessary permits because it might tip off the Border Patrol to their existence. Fairbanks said she took them to jail only if they could not produce identification.

A ticket she wrote in May 2001 was typical:

"Approximately 2:15 p.m., I contacted Mr. Thanez Roldan and 3 other subjects on Forest 30 road (sic) of Olympic National Forest with a pickup truck bed of salal. ... None of the subjects had a valid permit. Mr. Ibanez Roldan was argumentative during the contact and kept insisting that I give him a break."

Fairbanks is the fourth Forest Service officer shot and killed in the line of duty in the last 90 years. She was slain in a routine traffic stop of a suspicious vehicle. Her killer, believed to be 36-year-old Shawn Roe, died in a shootout with Clallam County sheriff's deputies.

Forest Service Law Enforcement Deputy Director John Carpenter said Tuesday from his Washington, D.C., area office that when word came last weekend of Fairbanks' death "we were all shocked."

"It is devastating. In the last 20 years, we've had four officers killed," he said. "This is the second by gunfire. We had one killed in a helicopter crash and one killed in an automobile."

Severson seconded Carpenter's reaction. "We all rely on each other out there -- always working solo. She was a good friend and hard worker. We are all working our way through it. She was well loved and she will be missed."
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