SeaCat
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So sorry that I've been gone but real life intervened. (Did anyone notice?)
From the local newspaper today.
St. Lucie investigating shooting
By Paul Quinlan
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
A St. Lucie County man awoke at 4:30 a.m. with a headache suffered what doctors later told him was a gunshot to the head, sheriff's deputies said.
Before he was moved to a West Palm Beach trauma center, Michael Eugene Moylan, 45, told investigators this morning that he awoke thinking he had suffered an aneurism and asked his wife whether she had elbowed him in his sleep, deputies said. "Doctors confirmed that he, in fact, had a bullet in his head," said St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara.
The bullet had entered behind his right ear, Mascara said. His wife, April, told investigators later this afternoon that she accidently shot her husband, deputies said. No arrests have been made, although deputies are with April Moylan at St. Mary's Medical Center, where her husband is being treated. The husband and wife had given several conflicting explanations of what happened, deputies said.
Previously, April Moylan had said that she did not know why her husband's head hurt. She drove him to Port St. Lucie Medical Center after she noticed blood on the bedding. A search of the home this afternoon turned up bloody rags and a small caliber revolver, deputies said.
Deputies intercepted April this morning around 7 a.m. as she returned to the house at 7219 Mystic Way in St. Lucie County's upscale PGA Village. She left the hospital, after doctors began tending to her husband, deputies said.
At her home, she told investigators she did not know what had happened to her husband, investigators said. She said she had returned home to see whether a bullet had come through the walls from outside the house and struck him, Mascara said.
Deputies' cursory look through the house turned up nothing out-of-the-ordinary, the sheriff said. Around 2:15 p.m. deputies obtained a warrant and conducted a more thorough search, finding the rags and revolver. Moylan had told an investigator that he and his wife were convicted felons and that there were no guns in the house, the sheriff said.
I don't even want to think about his home life if he had to ask if his wife had elbowed him in the head.
On another note I was getting home today from some shopping when I heard a strange noise from out front. Soon after I heard the screeching of tires quickly followed by the sound of a siren starting up in the distance. Out of curiosity I wandered over to the road ad looked. There I saw a Mercedes parked alongside the median. On the other side of the median was a bike on it's side. Oh shit.
I took off while telling my wife to grab my jump kit. I found the rider sitting nect to his bike. As a cruiser came up with tires smoking I asked him if he was okay. He complained that his leg hurt as he pulled off his helmet. It took me about a minute to determine that he had a closed compound fracture of his lower leg. I told him to hold still and checked the rest of his body as the cop hopped out. I was working on the guy as more sirens approached.
A motorcycle cop pulled up and started walking towards the Mercedes as the first cop helped me check over the rider. The cop questioned the rider as he worked.
Meanwhile the driver of the Mercedes climbed out of her car, checked it over and stomped over to wher we were working on the rider. She started screaming at the rider asking how dare he get in her way. (HUH?) The cops stepped in an moved her away even as they started interviewing her.
When they asked the rider for his I.D. he dug out his wallet and passed it over. The officer flipped it open to be confronted by a badge. The rider was a retired Moto Officer from the County Sheriffs Department.
Witnesses showed up and confirmed the riders story. The Mercedes had pulled into his lane and hit him. She hadn't bothered to look from the sounds of it.
They got the rider into the ambulance and his bike on a flatbed. The driver was informed she was going to be cited. She became indignant. The biker was in the fault, how dare he ride where she wanted to drive in her nice new Mercedes? As the officer was writing the tickets, (Failure to use care in changing lanes, driving to endanger.) she took off in her car. The officers took off after her. One Mercedes, two cruisers and one Motor Cop in a slow speed chase.
While I crossed the street I could only shake my head.
Cat
From the local newspaper today.
St. Lucie investigating shooting
By Paul Quinlan
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
A St. Lucie County man awoke at 4:30 a.m. with a headache suffered what doctors later told him was a gunshot to the head, sheriff's deputies said.
Before he was moved to a West Palm Beach trauma center, Michael Eugene Moylan, 45, told investigators this morning that he awoke thinking he had suffered an aneurism and asked his wife whether she had elbowed him in his sleep, deputies said. "Doctors confirmed that he, in fact, had a bullet in his head," said St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara.
The bullet had entered behind his right ear, Mascara said. His wife, April, told investigators later this afternoon that she accidently shot her husband, deputies said. No arrests have been made, although deputies are with April Moylan at St. Mary's Medical Center, where her husband is being treated. The husband and wife had given several conflicting explanations of what happened, deputies said.
Previously, April Moylan had said that she did not know why her husband's head hurt. She drove him to Port St. Lucie Medical Center after she noticed blood on the bedding. A search of the home this afternoon turned up bloody rags and a small caliber revolver, deputies said.
Deputies intercepted April this morning around 7 a.m. as she returned to the house at 7219 Mystic Way in St. Lucie County's upscale PGA Village. She left the hospital, after doctors began tending to her husband, deputies said.
At her home, she told investigators she did not know what had happened to her husband, investigators said. She said she had returned home to see whether a bullet had come through the walls from outside the house and struck him, Mascara said.
Deputies' cursory look through the house turned up nothing out-of-the-ordinary, the sheriff said. Around 2:15 p.m. deputies obtained a warrant and conducted a more thorough search, finding the rags and revolver. Moylan had told an investigator that he and his wife were convicted felons and that there were no guns in the house, the sheriff said.
I don't even want to think about his home life if he had to ask if his wife had elbowed him in the head.
On another note I was getting home today from some shopping when I heard a strange noise from out front. Soon after I heard the screeching of tires quickly followed by the sound of a siren starting up in the distance. Out of curiosity I wandered over to the road ad looked. There I saw a Mercedes parked alongside the median. On the other side of the median was a bike on it's side. Oh shit.
I took off while telling my wife to grab my jump kit. I found the rider sitting nect to his bike. As a cruiser came up with tires smoking I asked him if he was okay. He complained that his leg hurt as he pulled off his helmet. It took me about a minute to determine that he had a closed compound fracture of his lower leg. I told him to hold still and checked the rest of his body as the cop hopped out. I was working on the guy as more sirens approached.
A motorcycle cop pulled up and started walking towards the Mercedes as the first cop helped me check over the rider. The cop questioned the rider as he worked.
Meanwhile the driver of the Mercedes climbed out of her car, checked it over and stomped over to wher we were working on the rider. She started screaming at the rider asking how dare he get in her way. (HUH?) The cops stepped in an moved her away even as they started interviewing her.
When they asked the rider for his I.D. he dug out his wallet and passed it over. The officer flipped it open to be confronted by a badge. The rider was a retired Moto Officer from the County Sheriffs Department.
Witnesses showed up and confirmed the riders story. The Mercedes had pulled into his lane and hit him. She hadn't bothered to look from the sounds of it.
They got the rider into the ambulance and his bike on a flatbed. The driver was informed she was going to be cited. She became indignant. The biker was in the fault, how dare he ride where she wanted to drive in her nice new Mercedes? As the officer was writing the tickets, (Failure to use care in changing lanes, driving to endanger.) she took off in her car. The officers took off after her. One Mercedes, two cruisers and one Motor Cop in a slow speed chase.
While I crossed the street I could only shake my head.
Cat
