Musings from Brian J. Noggle: Suspect Taken Quietly; No Congratulatory Demonstrations

Suspect Taken Quietly; No Congratulatory Demonstrations

Family sets up murder suspect's surrender:

Kevin Johnson, the suspect sought in the shooting death of a Kirkwood police sergeant, was arrested without incident in north St. Louis County on Friday afternoon, police said.

Johnson, 19, was the subject of an intense manhunt after Tuesday's shooting of police Sgt. William McEntee. McEntee was responding to a call in Kirkwood's Meacham Park neighborhood just before 8 p.m. when he was shot several times.

Johnson surrendered at the Ventura Village Apartments on Jacobi Drive and Nemnich Road, police said.

Northwoods Police Chief Greg Moore said Friday night a detective in his department received a call from one of Johnson's family members just after 5 p.m. Friday.

Moore said Johnson "wanted to turn himself in without any fanfare and without being harmed."

The detective who received the call and another officer drove to pick up the family member, then headed to Ventura Village Apartments, Moore said.

When they arrived, the relative directed them to an apartment near the back of the complex. Moore said another relative greeted them at the door.

Johnson was sitting on a couch in the apartment with his hands in front of him, Moore said.

Moore described Johnson's demeanor as "humble and cooperative" as he was taken into custody.

Well, in an alternate universe, the one painted by racial agitators, the cops don't need an excuse to kill a young black man, and when one is suspected of shooting a middle-aged white police man, the police will surround his hideout and kill him and some nearby blacks in a hail of retaliatory gunfire.

That didn't happen in this situation; as a matter of fact, the aphrension of the suspect was smooth and without conflict. Perhaps we don't live in the racial agitators' alternate universe after all, but this possibility hasn't inspired any marches.

- posted by Brian J. @ 8:11 PM