When that case occurred I questioned the facts of what occurred, because no one even tried to talk the sex offender into surrendering, it immediately erupted into a gunfight. See Past Story HERE. Now officials, in essence, say, the spouse by failing to tell officers that he had a gun, caused the incident to erupt into a gunfight. See full story below:
Prosecutors in Limon cop killing: Abused wife wanted man dead
KIOWA — The wife of a man who killed a Limon police officer trying to arrest him last year didn't tell officers her armed husband was hiding in a bedroom because she had hoped they would kill him and end years of his physical abuse, prosecutors alleged Monday.
Dennis Hasty committed suicide after killing officer Jay Sheridan in March 2011.
Jackie Hasty is accused of reckless manslaughter and of being an accessory to the shooting.
In letters that prosecutors say Jackie Hasty wrote to her daughter and two grandsons after her husband, Dennis, killed Sheridan, she said she had considered ways of killing her husband herself and that she knew he had the same thoughts about her.
"There were so many ... beatings that it wasn't funny," Hasty wrote in a letter read by Assistant District Attorney Brian Sugioka. "But I got my way in the end. He is gone."
Prosecutors said the woman intentionally put police in danger.
"Essentially, your honor, the defendant chose to lead these officers into a trap," Sugioka told 18th Judicial District Court Judge Jeffrey Holmes during a preliminary hearing on the evidence.
Holmes ruled the case had sufficient evidence to head to trial and scheduled Hasty's formal arraignment for March 12.
Police were at the Hastys' trailer home to serve a warrant for Dennis Hasty's failure to register as a sex offender in Tennessee, where he had been convicted of incest.
When police knocked, Jackie Hasty stuck her head out the door and asked the officers to give her a minute to get dressed, Limon police Sgt. Russell Lengel testified.
Hasty later told investigators that Dennis, seeing the officers, put a gun to her head and said he'd kill her if she told police he was there.
When Jackie Hasty returned to the door, she told police she hadn't seen her husband in a week, Lengel said. She agreed to let them search the house but did not tell officers that her husband was inside and armed.
Police found Dennis Hasty in a back bedroom, his hands in his lap and covered with a towel. They ordered him several times to put his hands in the air, Lengel said.
Sheridan pulled a Taser and moved toward Hasty, knocking Lengel over. Gunfire erupted, and Sheridan, a six-year veteran of the force and the father of a young daughter, said he had been shot, Lengel said.
Dennis Hasty later shot himself to death as police attempted to negotiate his surrender.
Prosecutors said Jackie Hasty knew her husband had vowed not to return to prison and that after the shooting, she admitted she hoped police would kill him.
Defense attorneys argued Jackie Hasty was terrorized by her husband and had been beaten 20 or 30 times — once enough to hospitalize her. He had beaten her after she reported him to police, they said. Once, they said, he threatened to kill her children and her dogs. ..Source.. by Sara Burnett, The Denver Post
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