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Kaimi Rose Lum
A police barricade at the intersection of Samoset Road and Route 6, minutes after Eastham resident David Hill was fatally shot in a confrontation with police. |
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Eastham shooter killed by police
Kaimi Rose Lum
EASTHAM — After allegedly firing his semi-automatic handgun at the Eastham Police Station Tuesday night, Eastham resident David Hill, 23, was fatally shot by police in a confrontation at Samoset Road and Herring Brook Road.
Hill was wearing a bullet-proof vest and his .40 caliber gun was loaded and cocked when police recovered him, according to a press statement. Also on his person were 34 additional rounds of ammunition. One Truro policeman and a policeman from Orleans were involved in the confrontation. Both have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, according to statements from Assistant District Attorney Michael Trudeau, who said that is standard procedure for police officers involved in shootings.
Hill died as a result of his wounds at Cape Cod Hospital at 12:43 a.m. Wednesday morning.
It was a little after 8 p.m. Tuesday night when gunshots were fired at the Eastham Police Station. It is not confirmed how many shots were fired but initial reports by the police estimated at least four bullets hit the front of the building, which faces Route 6 just north of the Samoset Road intersection. One shattered the glass of a ground-level window to the right of the door to the police station lobby.
According to the Cape & Islands District Attorney’s Office, police obtained information about Hill from his relatives in Maine subsequent to the shooting. Hill’s mother reportedly said that she had been in contact with her son Tuesday night. Police learned that Hill had said he wanted to kill police, take hostages and then kill himself, according to a press statement.
Hill was a resident of Sue’s Walk, where he lived with his father, Gerard Hill, owner of the Eastham Box Lunch franchise. Hill had attended Nauset Regional High School but dropped out during his junior year and was working as an employee of the Box Lunch.
He had been arrested on July 17 for assault and battery of a police officer, resisting arrest and failure to stop for a police officer.
The shooting remains under investigation by state police.
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Oct 19th, 2006