Video of South Jordan Police Officer Jared Nichols Shooting Wade Pennington to Death

Friday, November 12th, 2010

This is a year old dashcam video from a police car capturing an incident in which a Utah man by the name of Wade Pennington was shot and killed by a South Jordan police officer Jared Nichols. Family of Wade Pennington filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Police and the agencies involved to get the case resolved and bring truth to light.

The calendar showed May of 2009 when 41 year old Wade Pennington was shot to death. Jared Nichols – the South Jordan police officer who fired the gun that ended the life of Wade Pennington was cleared by the West Jordan police department and the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office but the family is suing the police because their story does not match that of the dash cam video.

Even though actual shooting and death of Wade Pennington cannot be seen in the video – because the camera was pointing in a different direction, recorded audio captured what was being said and when the shots were fired.

The incident started when the SUV driven by Wade Pennington was spotted by South Jordan Sgt. Allen Crist near businesses with high occurrence of burglaries. Sgt. Crist went after the potentially suspicious vehicle, only to have his suspicion confirmed when the vehicle runs over the curb and takes off.

Wade Pennington’s criminal record is quite large, but the police officers insist that they didn’t know it was him who was driving an SUV. Afterall, it was not registered under his name, but under the name of his fiancee.

The police pursuit leads into a cul-de-sac but Wade Pennington manages to get away. High speed pursuit exceeding 80 miles per hour continued through red lights, over a fire hydrant and into another cul-de-sac, but Wade Pennington managed to get away again.

Third time’s a charm and as SUV driven by Wade Pennington gets forced into another cul-de-sac, it gets rammed by the police cruiser driven by Jared Nichols and another cruiser driven by Sgt. Perez. Wade Pennington no longer pursues an escape attempt and remains stopped.

Officer Perez gets out of the cruiser and appeals to the man behind the wheel of an SUV to give in. Officer Jared Nichols gets out of his cruiser next and proceeds to open fire at Wade Pennington, mere seconds after getting the SUV to stop.

Jared Nichols can be heard in the video shouting, “Freeze or I’ll shoot you. Freeze!” Two gunfire shots follow and the officer calls for the suspect to Freeze one more time. One of the shots fired by officer Jared Nichols was fatal and ended the life of Wade Pennington. Even though the officer was cleared, the family of the deceased is suing the police for $1 Million and demands answers.

Based on the video above, do you think the police officer Jared Nichols had the right to shoot to kill or was the death of Wade Pennington an overkill?

 

Leaked Police Tape of Tim McLean Beheading by Vince Weiguang Li

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Above is the leaked police tape that was recorded after the police was called on the scene of gruesome stabbing and beheading of Tim McLean by Vince Weiguang Li aboard Greuhound bus en route to Winnipeg, Manitoba. The leaked tape includes verbal description of gruesome acts performed by Vince Weiguang Li that some viewers may find offensive or disturbing. Play at your own risk.

There’s nothing like boarding a Greyhound bus from Edmonton to Winnipeg (those are cities in Canada), put on the headphones with some of your favorite music and fall asleep as you’re carried by an overpriced transport service to your destination, only to be woken up to savage stabbing and beheading. This is what happened to 22 year old Tim McLean who was returning to his home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba after a carnival work in Edmonton, Alberta. Needless to say, Tim McLean never reached his destination. The bus ride was interrupted few kilometers from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba after another fellow passenger – 40 year old Vince Weiguang Li pulled out a butcher knife and stared to stab sleeping Tim McLean without any provocation of previous confrontation.

For more information, click on stabbing and decapitation of Tim McLean on board Greyhound bus.

The leaked police tape contains a recording of radio transmissions among RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officers after they’d responded to the murder call on a Greyhound bus. The communication among the police describes the happenings aboard the bus after all passengers fled and Vince Weiguang Li was locked in with then probably dead corpse of Tim McLean.

The cops are not too happy about their “operational communication” being leaked, but obviously someone among their own ranks helped it on the internet and now it’s too late to do anything about it. The tape is leaked, deal with it.

FULL TRANSCRIPT OF LEAKED POLICE TAPE

- Alpha Eight, Zulu. Yeah, be advised they’re using the car in the ditch right beside the (bus) as a command post here. I got Delta One and Alpha Four’s just getting geared up.
- Copy that. We’re probably about five minutes away. Five to ten.
- Copy that. Badger appears to be a six-foot tall Asian male with short dark hair, black T-shirt armed with a knife right now.
- It appears he has two knives now.
- We’ve just confirmed that westbound traffic is now detoured.
- Forty Alpha Eight, Badger is armed with a knife and a pair of scissors and he is defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak.
- He’s still inside the bus?
- Yeah. Right up front, right by the door.
- Copy that. Door open or closed?
- Door’s closed and locked with the key.
- Copy that. We’re just going around the bypass now. Other units are following behind us.
- Okay, be advised, he’s got a pair of scissors with him; the knife is towards the front of the bus I believe.
- Zulu Alpha Sixteen
- Standby for Zulu, he’s on the phone.
- Zulu from Alpha Eight, he’s at the rear of the bus hacking up the body.
- Zulu Delta One, Zulu Delta One, at your leisure could you give me a shout?
- Delta One, Zulu go.
- Okay, Badger’s at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it.