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David Gerald McNabb,former sheriff's deputy
shot & killed by police after he stabbed,
beat, & killed sister, mother & roomate

By Catherine Davis | January 1, 2019
Commentator, Chief Editor, L&SS

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​It's pretty much the same scenario, man has history of violent outburst and domestic violence. What's different about this tragic murder case is that the killer used to be a sheriff's deputy. I don't know about you, but I find that a bit shocking because it doesn't happen all that often. We'll take a look at just how often law enforcement employees have murdered their family members, in a few. For right now, let's focus on David Gerald McNabb the killer cop.

As I've mentioned David had a history of violence to the point that he had been arrested and was given probation. You'd think that would have been suffice discipline and the punishment fit the crime. But 'NO', clearly that man needed intervention. He needed to be stopped way back in 2012 right after his first arrest and jailing. Oh no, let's start even earlier in the year when he volunteered to resign as a sheriff deputy where he'd worked for 11 years. Curiously, this news article didn't mention any details as to why he resigned. Should I speculate by commenting here as to what I think his reason for leaving was? Maybe I should not. Those details will come out sooner or later. But, I betcha you are mulling over it right now  just like me!

Also, I wonder if either drugs or alcohol played a part in this man's violence and outrage. I'm not making any excuses for him, I am merely putting two-and-two together after recalling all the statistics associated with these kinds of crimes. 

Well, the police certainly did taxpayers a great deal of service and took a bad guy down; it's too bad he was one of their own at one time. He behaved in a way that makes me think he wanted to die-by-cop. Maybe he was mentally unstable and it had nothing to do with drugs or alcohol. Either way, he seemed as if he wanted out of his misery. However, he should have taken his life first and left those other innocent people alive.

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The Story:

A former sheriff's deputy was fatally shot by police officers after he beat and stabbed his sister, mother, and roommate to death at their home in California. Forty-three-year-old David Gerald McNabb was killed on Friday, December 28, by deputies who responded to the residence on reports of a "bloody scene." The victims were identified as his sister, 34-year-old Nicole McNabb, his mother, 64-year-old Melania McNabb, and his roommate, 63-year-old Carlos Echavarria. According to the Daily Mail, the incident unfolded on Friday night at McNabb's home in the gated community of Oakhill Estates in Orcutt, an unincorporated village of Santa Barbara County. Deputies reached the scene at around 8 pm after being notified by a person who walked into the home and found one of the victims covered in blood in the bathtub. On arrival at the residence, officers learned that the attacker was still inside. Sheriff's spokeswoman Kelly Hoover explained the deputies believed there were still multiple people wounded inside the home, saying, "It became a situation where they needed to go in and rescue the people who were inside the home."
The Ventura County Star reported that at this point the deputies, assigned to the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Team, issued an alert to neighbors, warning them to stay inside their homes, and then made contact with McNabb, who was armed with a rifle. In an attempt to rescue the victims, they entered the home and confronted the 43-year-old. He was first shot with less-lethal munitions, including a 40mm impact weapon and a beanbag shotgun round before the deputies resorted to using deadly force, said Hoover. McNabb was rushed to the hospital for treatment but was later pronounced dead on Saturday morning. A full search of the residence led deputies to find the bodies of all three victims. They were believed to have been stabbed and beaten to death.  The 43-year-old had a history of violence that had resulted in prior convictions. He was arrested in September 2012 by police in Oxnard and booked at the Ventura County Jail. Then, in May 2014, he was convicted of felony domestic violence and sentenced to jail. Court records indicate he was released from custody on probation in October 2016. The Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office — where McNabb worked as a custody deputy from July 2001 to March 2012 before voluntarily resigning from his post — announced it would continue to "investigate the motive and circumstances leading up to this horrific act of violence" and expressed their "heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of the victims who were so senselessly killed." Authorities insist the carnage was an isolated incident. "This appears to be a situation where it was isolated to this residence," Hoover said. "It's still very early, but at this time and this point it appears to be a very tragic situation."
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The attacker was found to have a history of violence and was imprisoned in the past but later released on probation

Posted by MEAWW on Monday, December 31, 2018

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