US Marshals: "On August 21, 1992, the compromised surveillance of fugitive Randy Weaver on a remote Idaho mountain caused pain and heartache to some of the agency’s best-trained deputy US Marshals. One of those deputies, William Francis Degan, died that day:" - Kotaku In Action 2

US Marshals: "On August 21, 1992, the compromised surveillance of fugitive Randy Weaver on a remote Idaho mountain caused pain and heartache to some of the agency’s best-trained deputy US Marshals. One of those deputies, William Francis Degan, died that day:" (archive.ph)

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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 27 points 2 years ago +27 / -0

The article is quite a whopper, calling this fellow a "family man". Yeah, a family man who killed another man's 14-year-old boy.

I looked into this story a bit, and I found the claim that Sammy Weaver had been shooting at the marshals after they executed his dog. Is there any actual evidence for this? Seems unlikely to me, he's 14 and he was shot in the back. On the other hand, as low as my opinion of government officials it, it seems not very likely that they would shoot at a 14-year-old for no reason (if only because they would suffer reputational damage, as they did).

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