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A landlord-tenant dispute in Bedford-Stuyvesant that left the tenant dead is further complicated by the fact the the landlord is an Internal Affairs police officer. Some reports say while Lt. Shamik Walton was collecting rent, he and tenant Byron Hearst scuffled and Walton's gun went off, whereas other reports say that Walton shot Hearst as they argued over back rent that Hearst owed. Hearst lived in an apartment at 645 Macon Street with his pregnant girlfriend, who said that Walton only said he was an accountant, not a police officer. The police are investigating various accounts of yesterday's shooting, from how many shots were fired to whether it could have been self-defense (Hearst had been in the Navy).
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The Post article you linked to is by far the most illuminating. I thought the passive voice of the WNBC account ("the officer's gun discharged") and the NY1 version ("a bullet from the lieutenant's gun killed the man.") was completely bizarre. The fact that the victim was shot three times makes the above wording even more ridiculous. If the landlord wasn't a cop, do you think they'd be writing "a man was killed when his landlord's gun discharged three times during a dispute"? Technically correct, but the clumsiest tip-toeing around the facts I've ever seen.
it's so odd how the cop shot the guy and then drove to a precinct to file a report.
Yeah, multiple shots would make it seem less likely that the gun accidentally discharged. What I'm curious about is whether or not there will be revelatinos of Hearst reaching for the gun.
"As Hearst ran to his apartment, Walton shot him twice more, the witness told cops." Apparently he attacked him while he was running away. The fact that the cop drew his gun to begin with belies any notion that the gun "went off" unintentionally.
I spoke to a friend on the force and he said if it was 1 bullet, there'd be no charges, but 3-we can't do anything about that.
He said IAB will handle it neutrally and fairly-they're very good at that.