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CMPD Chief: Homicide suspect shot dead after ambushing officers

January 12, 2018 by  
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    DaShawn Brown
    , Stephanie Tinoco
    , Mark Barber
    , Gina Esposito

    Updated: Jan 12, 2018 – 6:34 AM

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    CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A man wanted for allegedly killing his girlfriend Thursday afternoon on Carlyle Drive in west Charlotte was killed during a shootout outside Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department headquarters late Thursday night, police said.

    [RELATED: 2-month-old girl found safe after child's mother shot to death]

    CMPD Chief Kerr Putney told Channel 9 that Jonathan Bennett, 23, ambushed and shot at officers who were standing outside headquarters around 10:45 p.m., and officers returned fire.

    Bennett was hit and fell to the ground. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

    One female officer was taken to the hospital after being shot in the leg but is expected to be OK. Her name has not yet been released.

    ['Officer down': Dispatch audio after murder suspect opens fire on officers]

    “It’s obvious he knew we were looking for him,” Putney said. “Times like this make you appreciate people who voluntarily put their lives on the line to keep us safe.”

    Putney said the group of six or eight officers was being briefed on an unrelated investigation in the parking lot when Bennett pulled up and started shooting.

    [SLIDESHOW: Shots fired outside CMPD Headquarters]

    Police had been looking all day for Bennett, who police said shot and killed his girlfriend, Brittany White, the mother of his 2-month-old daughter.

    They said Bennett vanished with the child, who was later found safe and unharmed.

    Putney said he doesn’t know why Bennett came to attack officers.

    “He ambushed us, he shot at us, that’s about all we’re aware of at this time,” the chief said. “We don’t know about any conversation that preceded it.”

    Channel 9 crews were outside CMPD headquarters in uptown when the chaotic scene unfolded.

    Reporter DaShawn Brown said she was getting ready for her live shot around 10:45 p.m. from CMPD headquarters when she heard about 12 shots fired.

    WSOC-TV cameraman Corey Gensler tweeted that he was outside CMPD headquarters next to what appeared to be a Violent Criminal Apprehension Team officer and two female officers when a man walked up and a shootout ensued.

     

     

    Gensler continued to tweet that after about a dozen shots, the suspect was down and an officer was in the bushes and could be heard screaming.

    The officer was placed in the back of a patrol car and tended to before being taken to the hospital.



    Jonathan Bennett



    (Jonathan Bennett)

    Sources told Channel 9 that a female officer was shot in the leg and Brown said she saw officers hustle and she ducked for cover before surrounding a body.

    CMPD headquarters was surrounded by officers and East Trade Street was blocked off.





    Early Friday morning, Channel 9 watched as detectives continued to gather evidence and eventually towed the suspect’s white SUV from the parking lot.

    There are two parallel investigations taking place, Putney said. One into the shooting and the other an internal investigation into the officers’ response, both of which are standard procedure.

    Channel 9 crews routinely stake out CMPD headquarters for video of suspects being brought into custody, which is why they were there when Bennett pulled up and began shooting.

    Channel 9 employees, a reporter and two photographers, had to take cover but are safe and were not injured.


    2-month-old girl found safe after child’s mother shot to death

    With detectives on her doorstep and a team of officers lined up around her home, a grandmother told Channel 9 her grandson was wanted for murder.

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said a 2-month-old baby was found safe and unharmed after police officers investigating a homicide discovered the child was missing.

    Officers responded to a call of shots fired Thursday afternoon on Carlyle Drive.

    When they arrived, police found 24-year-old Brittany White shot and killed inside the home, and here baby missing.

    The investigation set off a massive search for baby Journei Bennett. Police were in the process of putting out an Amber Alert when the child was dropped off at a north Charlotte home.

    “His grandmother, you know, she’s nice as can be,” neighbor Jimmy Rape said. “I just hate to see her have to go through this again.”

    A source said Journei will be staying with family.

    A second child was found in the home and was unharmed.

    Police began searching for the suspect, 23-year-old Jonathan Bennett, who they considered armed and dangerous. They said he was last seen driving an older model white Ford Expedition with New York license plates HUP-3071.



    Police said Bennett could be driving this white Ford Expedition



    Bennett was shot and killed in a shootout with police outside CMPD headquarters in uptown late Thursday night.

    Neighbors Channel 9 spoke with were shocked.

    “I knew him for a couple years — four, five years,” said Rahshawn Johnson. “I didn’t see this coming though.”


    Suspect’s criminal history

    Channel 9 dug into Bennett’s criminal past and discovered he is no stranger to police.

    State records show Bennett is a convicted felon. He served time in prison in 2013 for breaking and entering and larceny.

    Records show Bennett was arrested twice in 2017. In March, he was arrested for assault on a female and misdemeanor larceny. Then, two and a half weeks later, he was arrested again for communicating threats.

    Channel 9 discovered that Bennett was arrested for similar charges in 2016. 

    Eyewitness News also found court records showing that a restraining order had been filed against Bennett in 2016 and that he filed one against a woman in April. 

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    The Bubble: Trump no crazier than other presidents

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    Donald Trump is getting his first medical exam since taking office Friday as questions swirl about the health and fitness of the oldest president elected to office. UVA presidential historian Barbara Perry explains why the country should care. (Jan. 11)
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    Each week, USA TODAY’s OnPolitics blog takes a look at how media from the left and the right reacted to a political news story, giving liberals and conservatives a peek into the other’s media bubble.

    This week, pundits from the left and right debated President Trump’s mental health in the wake of Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House and the author’s claim that “100%” of people around Trump question his fitness for office. In addition, a Yale University psychiatry professor told a group of lawmakers that Trump “was going to unravel.” 

    Last week: Michael Wolff’s book a ‘gift’ to Trump, liberals say

    The left: Trump’s mental health can no longer be ignored 

    Should the 25th Amendment be invoked to remove Trump because he is unfit for office? Salon‘s Chauncey DeVega asked

    “Political disagreements aside, the public evidence in support of such an action is overwhelming,” DeVega said, answering his own question. “Trump’s speech and other behavior indicate a man who is detached from reality and living in a universe of his own delusions.”

    DeVega calls Trump ”a serial liar who has convinced himself that his untruths can bend empirical reality to his will.” But DeVega’s main reasons in support of removing the president from office are centered more on Trump’s policies and statements — which DeVega calls undemocratic and fascistic — than actual evidence of mental incapacity. 

    More: Battles over Trump’s mental health and ‘fitness’ for office sidetrack his policy agenda

    The right: Armchair psychology is dangerous 

    After the 1964 election, failed Republican candidate Barry Goldwater won a lawsuit against a magazine that published a survey of psychiatrists who said he was mentally unfit for office. This led to the “Goldwater rule,” which says psychiatrists should not conduct long-distance diagnoses. 

    “This is a good rule that guards against a lot of bad,” said Washington Examiner commentary writer Becket Adams. 

    Armchair diagnoses are sloppy, unprofessional and “have the potential to do real harm to the mentally disturbed,” Adams wrote. 

    Moreover, we believe that medical expertise shouldn’t be used as a weapon against political opponents. That’s a dangerous road we don’t want to take. Trump’s not-normal presidency is no excuse for the normalization of this sort of behavior.

    More: Stop trying to diagnose our ‘very stable genius’ president. He might be right.

    The left: Trump is not cognitively up to the job 

    There is a lot of juicy gossip in Wolff’s book, but primarily it is a “portrait of a man coming undone by the very forces he has unleashed,” said Vox founder Ezra Klein

    The picture painted of Trump in Wolff’s book is the same picture painted of Trump by Trump’s own tweets, speeches, comments, and actions, as well as the constant on- and off-the-record statements of his staff. It is similar to what I, and many other reporters who have covered this White House, have heard from top staff. Trump is not cognitively up to the job of the presidency.

    “So what happens when a man who isn’t fit to be president and a campaign that never expected to staff and manage a presidency unexpectedly wins the White House?” Klein asks. “Chaos.”

    More: Trump, mocking questions on his mental state, tweets he is a ‘stable genius’

    The right: Trump’s policies aren’t crazier than other presidents’

    Trump’s opponents could stop him in the election, they couldn’t stop his agenda in Congress and so far the hopes they’ve pinned on Mueller’s investigation haven’t borne fruit, wrote CNBC columnist Jake Novak.

    “So enter phase four in the anti-Trump movement’s efforts to remove, delegitimize, or at least weaken the duly elected president of the United States: They’re making the case that he’s crazy,” Novak said. 

    Novak conceded that Trump’s “public behavior is totally out of sync with what we’ve seen from every president before him.” But he said, “the hard fact is that President Trump’s policies, executive orders, and the bills he’s supported are no less sane than any of his predecessors’ actual body of work.” 

    More: Battles over Trump’s mental health and ‘fitness’ for office sidetrack his policy agenda

    Left bubble: Is Trump unfit? It’s a political question 

    There are several Republican figures who come across in Fire and Fury as thinking they can control and manipulate Trump precisely because he is not a “stable genius,” and they themselves suffer from “delusions” and “self-deceptions,” wrote Amy Davidson Sorkin in The New Yorker

    As for Trump himself, “there is no question that he is unpredictable and undisciplined; he has bragged about that,” she wrote. “But insanity is distinct from either idiocy or indifference. If the people around Trump are covering for him in that respect, they should put what they know before the public; if they don’t, they might reflect on whether they have become captive to the idea that they themselves are essential, stable geniuses — and on how much of the nation’s safety they are wagering on that notion.” 

    In reality, the question of whether Trump has the right mind to be President must be seen for what it is: a political question. Voters are the ones asked, ultimately, to make the risk assessment. Those who oppose him, in highlighting his really dangerous volatility, might ask when his supporters will see that he is stupid and unfit — and that they, in contrast, are clever and competent — and just stop this crazy Presidency? The answer, for all practical purposes, is when someone comes up with a candidate who can beat Trump.

    More: Trump’s ‘stable genius’ reality check: America, this isn’t a drill

    The right: Trump proved he isn’t cuckoo 

    By making people wonder if Trump is mentally unstable, Wolff did the president a favor, said Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger. 

    If you are Trump, ”and like any normal person don’t want the world to think you’re cuckoo, what do you do? You prove they are wrong,” Henninger reasoned. And Trump did exactly that with his speech to the American Farm Bureau on Monday and his public negotiation on immigration Tuesday, Henninger said. 

    The Trump immigration negotiation session with Congress is the sort of public presidential face the world should see more of. In fact, that meeting’s productive content is a template for broadening the president’s Twitter account, an underutilized asset.

    The morning after the immigration summit, a grudging consensus formed that Mr. Trump had confounded critics of his basic competence. A parallel consensus snorted that this positive moment won’t last.

    More: Trump aides: No need for a psychiatric exam, president is ‘sharp as a tack’