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Raylon will make up some kind of B.S. story to Art and all will be good.

... Too bad there is no military surviellance drone footage like in LaVoy Finnicum's case. ...

Priors for assault on a LEO.

Parole violation.

Multiple felonies.

The guy should have been going away for life as a 3 striker. Yeah, the Marshals are going to come get your ass at your Daddy's funeral, if you are stupid enough to attend. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

What the Marshals thought they saw to justify use of deadly force, we will probably never know.

Too bad there is no military surviellance drone footage like in LaVoy Finnicum's case.

Raylon will make up some kind of B.S. story to Art and all will be good.

Disgusting in all regards.

You know when the Gestapo and SS showed up to carry someone off, they generally knocked on the door and gave them a few minutes to compose themselves.

I found this. But I can't say why U.S. Marshalls got involved.

https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/...rce=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share

There may very well be "surveillance video". But, guarantee the general public will never see it unless it supports the Marshals decision to shoot.

I wouldn't believe everything the MSM says about this...

Last year the US Marshals fugitive task force were arresting a wanted felon here, and the story was MUCH like this one. Guy was shot. family and friends swore up and down they "Just shot him..." "He was unarmed,,,"

That went on in the paper for about 6 months until the Marshal's Service released video of the scum pointing a gun at the marshals.

I never believe the media reports right out of the box. No way no how.

Maybe it happened that way, maybe not... Sooner or later the truth usually comes out.

Jason Arnie Owens helped carry his father’s casket to the hearse, then turned to embrace a relative. He never made it to the cemetery.

As mourners gathered outside a northern West Virginia funeral home on Aug. 24, two plainclothes officers with a fugitive warrant swooped in from separate vehicles, called Owens' name and shot him dead, spattering his 18-year-old son's shirt with blood as horrified loved ones looked.

"There was no warning whatsoever,” family friend Cassandra Whitecotton said.

In the blink of an eye, stunned friends and family already mourning one member lost another. Now, they want answers — not just why Owens was shot but why the encounter happened the way it did.

Law enforcement officials aren't explaining much right now, citing an ongoing investigation. Owens, 37, was wanted on a fugitive warrant, but the U.S. Marshals Service hasn't said what it was for. The agency also said in a statement that he had a gun when members of a fugitive task force approached. Multiple witnesses contend that's not true.

Whitecotton and others who stood just feet away said Owens was unarmed, had been hugging his aunt, Evelyn O’Dell, and was fired on immediately after his name was called. Witnesses also dispute the U.S. Marshals' assertion that first aid was performed right away, before emergency medical services arrived.

"They yelled Jason’s name. They just said ‘Jason’ and then started firing,” Whitecotton said. “There was no identifications they were U.S. Marshals — anything. They did not render this man any aid at all. Never once they touched him to render any aid whatsoever.”

As relatives prepared for services Friday for Owens, a state police investigation of the shooting was underway. But patience in the community is wearing thin.

Relatives and supporters protested outside the Harrison County Courthouse last week, accusing law enforcement authorities of overreach in the death of Owens, who was white. A Facebook page called Justice for Jason Owens has swelled to about 800 members — more than half of the population of Nutter Fort, where Owens was killed.

Underlying the unanswered questions is whether some boundary of decency had been crossed in arresting a man in the midst of burying his father.

“If they’ve been searching for someone and they finally figure out where they are, they’re going to get them,” said Tracy L. Hahn, a Columbus, Ohio-based security consultant who retired after 32 years in law enforcement, including as deputy police chief at Ohio State University.

Hahn said she knows agencies that have gone to funerals but have waited until afterward to approach the person.

“There must be some extenuating circumstance that they felt the urgency to arrest him then instead of waiting, if there was some risk factor, an escape risk or something like that,” Hahn said.

Family members aren’t so sure. They say it only adds to their sense of disrespect that the agencies involved feel no obligation to address their questions.

“We want to know why you would do this in front of his family,” said Owens’ cousin, Mandy Swiger. “And what gives you the right to do that to an unarmed man?”

Acting U.S. Marshal Terry Moore said he couldn’t answer questions during the investigation and messages left with state police weren’t returned.

It’s not clear whether video exists from police bodycams, a police vehicle dashboard or the funeral home itself. Unlike major cities where detailed incident reports and video footage are released after fatal police shootings — sometimes within hours — that rarely happens in West Virginia.

West Virginia law exempts police from having to release video footage during an investigation. And the U.S. Marshals Service office said it did not write a detailed incident report about the shooting, referring to the news release that withheld Owens’ name and other details.

Everyone has heroes.

I wouldn't believe everything the MSM says about this...

Last year the US Marshals fugitive task force were arresting a wanted felon here, and the story was MUCH like this one. Guy was shot. family and friends swore up and down they "Just shot him..." "He was unarmed,,,"

That went on in the paper for about 6 months until the Marshal's Service released video of the scum pointing a gun at the marshals.

I never believe the media reports right out of the box. No way no how.

Maybe it happened that way, maybe not... Sooner or later the truth usually comes out.