Bucks DA: Marino Death 'Justifiable Homicide'
David Heckler found that "loss of tactical control" by police did not rise to the level of criminal wrongdoing.
Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler has declined to charge a Perkasie police officer in the June 9 death of Michael Marino, the Quakertown-area man who was shot and killed during an alteraction with police near a vacant Sellersville industrial property in which he had allegedly been squatting. Marino, 26, died after being shot once in the chest by Officer Seth Mumbauer following what Mumbauer described to investigators as a physical struggle on "uneven terrain." Police said Marino had been handcuffed and was resisting their attempts to take him to Grand View Hospital for medical attention. Perkasie Police Officer Steven Graff told investigators that after Marino had been handcuffed by Mumbauer, he "began to flip out" while Graff…
Nadia
2:08 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
I'm sure police do not like killing people; they've seen enough of wild and drugged addicts to know to defend themselves. Do you remember the recent Philly incident where a drug addict was so wild that he took like 6 bullets and still kept going at the cops...scary stuff. more ›