{"id":33253,"date":"2015-02-10T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T20:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=33253"},"modified":"2015-02-10T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:51:42","slug":"korean-war-veteran-fatally-shot-following-police-welfare-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/korean-war-veteran-fatally-shot-following-police-welfare-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean War Veteran Fatally Shot Following Police &#8216;Welfare Check&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p>An elderly Gastonia, North Carolina, man who was recovering from heart surgery was fatally shot by police Saturday night after firemen forcibly entered the man&#8217;s home to conduct a welfare check,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/news\/local\/officials-gastonia-police-officer-involved-fatal-s\/nj6t8\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"korean-war-veteran-fatally-shot-following-police-welfare-check\" title=\"Korean War Veteran Fatally Shot Following Police 'Welfare Check'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> local media reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, identified as 74-year-old James Allen, was a Korean War veteran*. It appears that Allen had armed himself as police were coming through the door.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the timeline of events Saturday night:<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 p.m.:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Family of James Allen asked police to conduct a welfare check on Allen.<\/li>\n<li>Anson County officials contacted the Gastonia Police Department to conduct the check.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10:20 p.m.:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An officer went to Allen\u2019s home on Mary Avenue. There was no answer when he knocked on the door.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>11:08 p.m.:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anson County started a check of local hospitals. They could not find Allen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>11:30 p.m.:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Police called for County EMS and Gastonia Fire Department about a possible death inside Allen\u2019s home.<\/li>\n<li>Officer Lefevers announced his presence and entered the home.<\/li>\n<li>Allen approached him with a gun and Lefevers shot and killed him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While investigators are still examining the case, family members are outraged that law enforcement would use deadly force against a man who they said &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t hurt a fly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that he probably thought somebody was breaking in his house or robbing him of something,&#8221; said Mary Battle, Allen&#8217;s sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should have been a better way to handle this. Something else could have been done,\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019m so mad; I\u2019m hurt. I\u2019m hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Otis Thompson, one of Allen&#8217;s friends, echoed those thoughts, explaining that he would have grabbed a gun as well if he heard someone breaking into his home late at night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You kicked the man&#8217;s door in. He&#8217;s disoriented and he&#8217;s in his own house, privacy of his own home; my first reaction would be to grab a gun, too,&#8221; said Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, police officials are defending the officers&#8217; response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Announcements were made that police were on scene, he was challenged to lay the gun down. The gun was pointed at direction of officers and a shot was fired that fatally wounded him,&#8221; said Gaston Police Chief Robert Helton.<\/p>\n<p>Family members said that Allen had trouble hearing which may have added to the confusion.<\/p>\n<p>This is a tragedy that raises a number of questions: Did Allen at any point recognize the intruders as officers of the law? Did the officers do their best to announce themselves and make it obvious that they were there to check on him? Should the family have waited until the next day, during the daylight hours, to place a call for the welfare check?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most importantly, how does one avoid this situation in the future?<\/p>\n<p>*The affiliate that reported the story said Allen &#8220;fought in the Korean War.&#8221; \u00a0 Media outlets also reported that Allen was 74 years old. \u00a0As one GunsAmerica reader pointed out, the math doesn&#8217;t really add up. \u00a0The Korean war was fought between 1950-53, which would have made Allen awfully young to be in combat. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if the news affiliate misreported his combat experience or his age, but something is amiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly Gastonia, North Carolina, man who was recovering from heart surgery was fatally shot by police Saturday night after officers forcibly entered the man&#8217;s home to conduct a welfare check, local media reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":33254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,261,216,240],"tags":[132],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-police-state","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Korean War Veteran Fatally Shot Following Police &#039;Welfare Check&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An elderly North Carolina man was fatally shot by police Saturday night after officers forcibly entered the man&#039;s home to conduct a welfare check.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/korean-war-veteran-fatally-shot-following-police-welfare-check\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Korean War Veteran Fatally Shot Following Police &#039;Welfare Check&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An elderly Gastonia, North Carolina, man who was recovering from heart surgery was fatally shot by police Saturday night after officers forcibly entered the man&#039;s home to conduct a welfare check, local media reports.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/korean-war-veteran-fatally-shot-following-police-welfare-check\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-10T20:45:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-18T12:51:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/allen.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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