Am I reading this story right? He was involved in theft, cheque fraud, and shot a police officer in the stomach and it's the "receiving drugs in the mail" you thought was the significant part in his sentencing???
No, you didn't read it right.
Police got wind of him using checks stolen out of the mail to cash and forward the money to a distributor out-of-state. Checks stolen, cashed, money ordered to the connect, drugs go in the mail.
They got wind of his mail scheme to bring in weed. Obtained a warrant for his arrest, showed up to his front door and started banging on it. Billy didn't like the sound of the knocks, so he grabbed his closest rifle and answered the door. Opened the door to a team of police in combat gear ready to do their thing. (I don't know why they didn't just kick his door in, either. I know he's got an official history of drug trafficking and I'm prettyyyyyyy sure he got hit with a straw purchase of a firearm charge a little while back... that might have something to do with it, but I'd think that's all the more reason to take a suspect by surprise so I really don't know..)
Here's where things get hazy. Police say he raised the assault weapon, aimed it at the sheriff's and then lowered it, slammed the door shut and disappeared back into the house without getting fired at. Seconds later, police see him at an upstairs window and allege that he aimed a second gun, a handgun, out the window at the officers, at which point every badge on the street opened fire and hit Billy 6 times in the stomach,
never letting him get a shot off.
It wasn't a shootout, it was a standoff that ended with a guy getting lit the fuck up.
Billy said he never aimed a weapon at anybody. He said the rifle was in his hands when he opened. Said he panicked when he saw who was at the door, wrestled to get it shut and deadbolted again and ran upstairs. He said he was freaking out upstairs trying to figure out what to do, and then he went to the window so that he could
talk with the cops about him coming out. He didn't want to open that door only to be immediately hit with all of the county's firepower at their disposal, and he knew that's what was going to happen after they saw him with his AK. He said when he went to open the window the glass exploded and he hit the ground. He said there was no second firearm in his hands at that point.
The significant part? He would've avoided all this shit if he just spent his money in the neighborhood instead of having shit sent to him from out-of-state. I don't give a fuck about the shooting, lol. I'm more concerned with the consequences of his actions, not really the actions themselves.
