Shooting of Jackson police officer James Bonneau and Blackman Township PSO Darin McIntosh
Posted by Aaron - 06/05/10 at 02:05:09 am
Blackman Township Public Safety Officer Darin McIntosh salutes along with other officers as the casket of fallen Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau is placed in a hearse at the conclusion of his funeral at St. Michael Lutheran Church in Canton Township. McIntosh was injured in the shooting that killed Bonneau. (Citizen Patriot | Jeremiah Wilson)
The death of police officer James Bonneau devastated Jackson.
Bonneau, 26, was assisting Blackman Township public safety officer Darin McIntosh with a call on Mitchell Street when Elvin Potts fired at both officers. Bonneau was killed, McIntosh shot in the leg and taken to the hospital in critical condition. The Blackman township officer shot Potts in the head, killing him at the scene.
The news dominated The Citizen Patriot for days. Bonneau’s funeral was in his hometown of Canton and hundreds of police officers for around the country, including McIntosh, attended.
For complete coverage of Bonneau’s death and funeral and McIntosh’s recovery, click here.
(On some stories, I share a byline with fellow public safety reporter Danielle Quisenberry)
Wounded Blackman Township officer eager to return to duty, May 6, 2010.
As soon as his right leg can handle it, Officer Darin McIntosh will be back on the job.
“I’m coming back,” the Blackman Township public safety officer said Wednesday, “and I will be back earlier than you thought.”
McIntosh was shot in the right thigh March 9 by Elvin Potts, who also shot and killed Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau. McIntosh returned fire, killing Potts.
Hundreds of officers from around the state pay respects to Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau, March 13, 2010.
CANTON — As hundreds of officers stood at attention in long rows outside the funeral of Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau, the badges on their left shoulders showed how far the law enforcement family stretches.
Jackson. Albion. Delta County. Van Buren County. Morenci. Trenton.
Police officers, firefighters, paramedics and academy recruits from as far away as the Upper Peninsula and Chicago filled the sanctuary, the balcony and the lobby of St. Michaels Lutheran Church in Canton Township on Friday morning.
“We’re here to show support for our brothers in arms, to support the family of the Jackson Police Department,” said Sault Ste. Marie Police Department Capt. Judd Price. “It’s never too far.”
A somber salute: More than 1,000 attend funeral for slain Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau, March 13, 2010.
Jackson Police Officer Larry Jacobson did Friday what Officer James Bonneau could not do Tuesday.
He signed off for the slain policeman.
“Officer Jim Bonneau, badge No. 042,” Jacobson said, re-creating the radio conversation every officer has with dispatch at the end of a work day.
“His shift is over, and he is going home. We have watch. Officer Jim Bonneau will be secure.”
It was an especially emotional moment during a funeral that brought tears to the eyes of many police officers who gathered at St. Michael Lutheran Church in Canton Township to remember Bonneau, 26.
Injured Blackman Township Public Safety Officer Darin McIntosh was determined to attend Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau’s funeral, March 12, 2010.
CANTON — Moments before the sanctuary filled with more than a thousand men and women in uniform, Blackman Township Public Safety Officer Darin McIntosh offered a solitary tribute to his fellow officer James Bonneau.
After a Jackson Police Department Honor Guard rolled Bonneau’s flag-draped casket down the center aisle of St. Michael Lutheran Church on Friday morning in Canton Township, McIntosh, sitting in a wheelchair at the back of the church, brought his hand to his brow in a salute.
“It meant a lot to him to be here,” Blackman Township Public Safety Director Mike Jester said.
Jackson Police officers gather on Mitchell Street where Officer James Bonneau was shot and killed.(CITIZEN PATRIOT • NICK DENTAMARO)
Police say calls for domestic disturbances are fraught with danger, March 13, 2010.
Police officers often work alone. They pull over speeders, follow up on missing persons’ reports and investigate crime typically by themselves.
A domestic disturbance or assault is a different story. Most local departments send officers to those calls in pairs.
“There’s a lot of emotion in them,” said Blackman Township Public Safety Director Mike Jester. “Officers know that it is a dangerous situation. It’s something that’s always in the back of their mind.”
Jackson Police Chief Matt Heins says phone call about slain police officer changed his life; hundreds head to graveside service after funeral, March 12, 2010. (with audio recording of Heins’ eulogy)
Jackson Police Chief Matt Heins said it was a call no chief wants to get.
Heins told an overflowing crowd of police officers from around the country, and friends and family of slain Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau the magnitude of that phone call he received Tuesday morning when he learned one of his officers had been shot.
“That phone call changed my life, the officers’ lives and certainly the lives of Jim’s family forever,” Heins said.
Wounded Blackman Township officer hit hard by shooting death of Jackson cop, March 11, 2010.
When Darin McIntosh came out of surgery Tuesday morning, he immediately asked about his fellow police officer.
“He was devastated,” said his mother, Jeanine McIntosh.
The 22-year-old Blackman Township Department of Public Safety officer took a bullet in the leg during the Mitchell Street shooting earlier Tuesday that killed Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau, 26.
Video: Reaction to Officer James Bonneau’s death, March 10, 2010.
| Reaction to Officer James Bonneau’s death |
Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau remembered by family, friends, colleagues as genuine, good-natured, March 10, 2010.
Overwhelmed by grief and often unable to check her emotions, Rachael Maloney at first did not want to speak about Jackson Police Officer James “Jim” Bonneau. She later changed her mind, saying she wanted others to get to see the man she and his father called loyal, genuine and good-hearted. “I got to,” said Maloney, Bonneau’s girlfriend. “I was very lucky.”
Jackson Police Officer James Bonneau remembered by family, friends, colleagues as genuine, good-natured The Jackson police officer killed in a shooting early Tuesday on Mitchell Street was identified as James Bonneau. A Blackman Township Department of Public Safety officer also was wounded in the shooting. Jackson police officer killed in Tuesday shooting is 16th area officer to die in the line of duty Jackson police officer killed, Blackman Township public safety officer wounded in shooting early Tuesday; suspect also killed Bonneau died at Allegiance Health. He was 26.
Video: From the shooting scene, March 9, 2010.
| Shooting scene on Mitchell Street |
Jackson police officer killed, Blackman Township public safety officer wounded in shooting early Tuesday; suspect also killed, March 9, 2010.
A Jackson police officer was killed and a Blackman Township Department of Public Safety officer was wounded in a shooting early Tuesday morning on Mitchell Street.
The officers shot and killed the suspect, Jackson County Undersheriff Tom Finco said.
The Blackman Township officer was shot in the leg, an injury Finco did not believe was life threatening. The officer was taken to Allegiance Health.
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