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Originally Posted by DolphinChicaDDD
The whole thing was terrible. I had just been driving around to pick up lunch for the office, and saw the police chase. 10 minutes later, I'm up in my office eating lunch with my coworkers and watching all the helicopters and we saw the two collide. My office is a few blocks away, but it was still difficult to see. It did look like the blue one t boned the other helicopter. Not much at work got done after that...a few coworkers talked to the police, but yeah, it was pretty scary to see. And right before they hit, we were all talking about how many helicopters were up there and how it didn't look safe at all.
They had mentioned on the news that the police we thinking of charging the guy who started the chase with the deaths of the news people...that I'm not sure how I feel about.
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Okay I thought it was bad just watching what they showed on the news, but to be as close as you were. I just can't even imagine.
As for the man, they can charge because he was in the process of committing multiple felonies and if something occurs as a result of what he is doing he can be charged. So if instead when he ran the red light he caused a crash that killed two people, he could be charged with Vehicular manslaughter or higher because he was committing a felony at the time. Does that make sense?
It's almost the same as the people charged with the cop being killed. A cop was killed Friday night (Friday sucked in Phoenix) by a man who with his girlfriend went to a check cashing place with a bad check. The man shot and killed the officer but the girlfriend was charged with 1st degree murder as well, because AZ allows her to charged because she was committing a felony when the shooting occured.
I say this to give another example of how they can and will charge this man.
I actually feel bad for the county ADA. People are going to want "blood" (so to speak), so they are essentially put in a rock in a hard place. If they don't charge the guy, the community will be outraged.
But I also have to think that he deserves to be charged. If he had not stolen a car and committed a felony, those helicopters wouldn't have been up there following him. I very much believe their collision is his fault. I get that not everyone is going to feel the same way I feel though.