Police In North Carolina Fatally Shoot Suspect Who Tried Running Over Officers [VIDEO]
GASTONIA, NC – Gastonia Police recently provided context to video footage spread online that was captured via a doorbell camera which depicts a fatal officer-involved shooting involving a 21-year-old suspect using their vehicle as a weapon.
Gastonia Police public information officer Rick Goodale stated officers were dispatched to a home located along North Edgemont Avenue off Highway 74 at approximately 12:30 p.m. on July 20th after receiving a 911 call about a man who’d kidnapped two children.
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When officers arrived at the home, the two children in question were reportedly inside of the residence safe and unharmed, with officers having “some sort of encounter” with a man identified as 21-year-old Jason Lipscomb on the street nearby the residence.
Lipscomb had reportedly started his vehicle as officers were attempting to make contact, with the suspect first backing up and hitting one officer with his vehicle and then running over another.
Officers opened fire on Lipscomb, with the suspect eventually crashing into some parked vehicles nearby. Authorities confirmed that the suspect died from his injuries.
Video footage captured by a nearby doorbell camera showcased the chaotic moments, with Gastonia Police providing critical freezeframes of the incident to emphasize the moments where Lipscomb weaponized his vehicle before being fired upon.
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Per standard protocol relating to officer-involved shootings, all of the officers involved in the incident have been placed on administrative leave. Furthermore, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation into the incident along with the assistance of the Gastonia Police Department’s internal affairs unit.
Like clockwork, friends and family of the deceased suspect are asserting that Lipscomb was unjustly shot by police during the incident. Robert Hamlett, the decedent’s stepfather, claimed, “He wasn’t perfect. He’s just like any other 21-year-old. But he didn’t deserve to die like that.”
The deceased suspect’s stepfather characterized Lipscomb’s actions as “trying to elude the police, he was trying to run,” and framed the attack on police as an officer simply falling who “got up because he was embarrassed and about four or five of them opened fire on my boy.”
Hamlett further attributed some blame to the mother of the kidnapping victim, downplaying the kidnapping as Lipscomb merely picking up the daughter he shared with the victim’s mother from a daycare center that was apparently telling Lipscomb he wasn’t allowed to take the young girl.
“He brought the kids here in a mutual place so he can get his daughter. Nothing happened. Just give him his daughter and they didn’t do it. The mom called the police and everything else and said he was kidnapping. But they all live together.”
Apparently, Hamlett believed his stepson was justified in running from and assaulting police “because he feared being away from his daughter,” and swore that he’s “not going to let it go. We are going to do this. Lawyer up y’all. Y’all better lawyer up.”
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