# 107 year old killed by SWAT team **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/107-year-old-killed-by-swat-team/668323 "2013-09-08T13:00:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/107-year-old-killed-by-swat-team/668323/41 "2013-09-09T22:22:18Z")
Wasn’t his house. He was living with someone else in the other person’s house. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/107-year-old-killed-by-swat-team/668323/42 "2013-09-09T22:23:29Z")
They just reported on the local news that his caretaker claims visits from his granddaughter would upset him. Hard to know now why that escalated into a stand off with a SWAT team. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/107-year-old-killed-by-swat-team/668323/43 "2013-09-09T22:59:05Z")
First[picture](http://www.katv.com/story/23382468/details-emerge-in-shooting-death-of-107-year-old-pine-bluff-man) I’ve seen of the guy. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/107-year-old-killed-by-swat-team/668323/44 "2013-09-10T06:11:01Z")
Such a shame. This must of been going on for awhile and thats why he bought a gun a few weeks ago. It doesn’t explain his firing at the cops. But I guess at 107 he just got confused and disoriented. > **[Close friend blames family for 107-year-old man's wild behavior](https://katv.com/archive/close-friend-blames-family-for-107-year-old-mans-wild-behavior)** > > The Pine Bluff Police Department said Monday it's turning the investigation, into an officer-involved shooting that left a 107-year-old man dead, over to the prosecuting attorney's office. > [@](#): > > Monday Channel Seven talked to the person who made the 911 call Saturday in fear of a 107-year-old man with a gun, she tells me his own family caused the situation to turn dangerous. > > “We took him in our home for Thanksgiving, he’s just been family, and it’s just broken my heart,” said Laurie Barlow of Lonoke. > > Barlow said Saturday was supposed to be an exciting day. Her family just finished renovating a house for Monroe Isadore, 107, to move into a new environment he was ready for. > > Then, Barlow said he daughter showed up. > > “He got scared, said she was abusing him,” Barlow added. “She was not supposed to come by Saturday. She found out where we had him going, she wasn’t supposed to know, and she showed up there.” > > Barlow said the fear of Isadore’s own family pushed him to grab a hand gun he bought about a month earlier, and point it at several of them. When police entered the home later, he fired multiple shots at them, before they returned fire killing Isadore. ---
**Author:** ![DataX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/107-year-old-killed-by-swat-team/668323/45 "2013-09-10T06:51:48Z")
I am guessing when the police hear gunshots - they assume he is shooting at them. How “accurate” those shots are - I don’t know. If he couldn’t see through the door - he could only be guessing about where they were. And if I know anything from TV SWAT - they were behind shields and probably in very little danger. How is he even supposed to negotiate after tear gas and grenades - if he is hard of hearing and half blind? I can’t get my dad who is more than 20 years younger to answer simple questions in less than 10 minutes. He is so old - it is possible his granddaughter had dementia. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/107-year-old-killed-by-swat-team/668323/46 "2013-09-10T10:17:32Z")
They tried the negotiating first. After tear gas and flashbangs, you’re supposed to be putting the gun down and your hands up. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/107-year-old-killed-by-swat-team/668323/47 "2013-09-10T11:28:26Z")
> [@DataX](#): > > I am guessing when the police hear gunshots - they assume he is shooting at them. How “accurate” those shots are - I don’t know. Yes a much better tactic would be to wait until someone gets hit before returning fire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/107-year-old-killed-by-swat-team/668323.md?page=2)