Drunken Perhaps-Pellet-Gun Waver Goes Down From A Volley

"A former Queens auxiliary police officer whose battles with alcohol sent his life into a downward spiral was shot by cops yesterday on the same streets he used to patrol.

Police fired 32 bullets at Armando Dominguez, 49, after he drunkenly waved a realistic-looking pellet gun at eight officers who kept ordering him to drop it, a police source said."

Wow. It wasn't even a real pellet gun. Just looked like a real pellet gun.

"Moments before he was shot, Armando Dominguez ignored the guns pointed at him and picked up a dropped police radio so he could pretend to be a cop calling in a drug bust, a police source said."

Dropped radio? I guess when 8 cops are milling about trying to decide if the pellet gun is a real pellet gun or a fake pellet gun, one or two just has to drop a thing along the way.

"He's often drinking and gets a little bugged out," said neighbor Jose Rosario, 32. "He's wrong, you're not supposed to have [a gun], even if it's a BB gun."

So true. Only SPECIAL people are allowed to have even BB guns, and drunken old Armando wasn't special enough at the time so down the lad went.

"Five police officers, two sergeants and one lieutenant all opened fire on Dominguez, a police source said. The lieutenant suffered a graze wound amid the gunfire. Police did not reveal how many shots hit Dominguez."

Close your eyes and use the old imgination now. It's pandemonium. There's a man, who's not a SPECIAL man by any stretch, and he's "waving" around a perhaps pellet gun. Easy to tell after standing there long enough to drop a radio and have him play with it. But the cops are petrified. All 8 of them. When Armando doesn't drop the maybe pellet gun, they begin blasting away. As a born and bred NY'er I can tell you that this means windows, lampposts, parked cars, doorways, fire hydrants, parking meters, anything in and around the surrounding area gets drilled. This is why people instinctively run when they see police. The crossfire is a bitch. They've all but surrounded Armando when the shooting begins, and only random chance accounts for but one of them getting hit. "Grazed." Pardon, the LT was grazed. A "graze wound" at that. All 8 of them opened fire, the perp remains alive, and aside from the usual parking meters and fire hydrants etc, etc, full of holes, it turned out to be a rather uneventful day for the locals in Queens, NY. Just thank the heavens Armando didn't get off a pellet or two before going down. One of those can poke your eye out.