CEO Killed at Gay Cruising Spot

@Really The deceased had a wife and four kids but was sneaking around in a park looking for gay sex. At best, you're dealing with a strained psyche that might have snapped under the sudden fear that decades worth of lies were about to come crashing down. On our local news, a friend of his described how driven he was, stating he was going to make director by age X, VP by age Y, CEO by age Z, etc., and meeting all of those targets. He placed a huge value on his career success, and I don't find it hard to believe that he could lose control when facing the fact that he might lose his career and his family in one fell swoop. Meanwhile, the officer has no criminal history either. The theory that he decides on a routine dispatch to murder someone is a stretch in need of some evidence to support it before the claim is made. Sure, like any other shooting, this needs to be investigated, but there's no facts available yet that remotely point to murder.

Joseph, maybe you should read the follow up articles before you comment. This is a 48 year old man with no previous criminal activity at all. It's not hard to beleive that he ran from the policeman out of fear. It is difficult to beleive that he yelled I'm gonna kill ya and then grabs the gun. The story doesn't add up the way the cop is telling it. The only stonewall I see is the New Jersey police and you.

@Really - If events transpired the way the police officer said they did, the poor person who died was not an innocent victim. Put yourself in the officer's shoes - someone lunges for your gun and tries to wrestle it out of your hand. The cop would be defending himself in this situation, not brutally murdering someone peacefully protesting for change, like the foolish Iranian analogy you paint. This article doesn't mention it, but the police officer involved is currently undergoing trauma counseling - he doesn't sound any more like a brutal killer than the dead man does. It's all a tragic, unfortunate series of events... but unless evidence that anyone is lying emerges, it's not Stonewall II.

This is called " HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF " or " ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST " Need I say more ,,Welcome to the Home of the Free and the Brave !

@Me with the comment "genes still have a chance to be passed on while this person's genes are not" you must be a bit slow, as this article clearly mentions that the guy had 4 kids. Dumb@ss. @Greg Taylor: you make stupid comments for the attention, so here, we've read it. To all the rest who think he had it coming for public sex, you should really check yourselves. Culling of humans, perceived pests or not, is not acceptable.

Look at the picture of this poor guy. Far from the knife weilding, terrorist threatening to kill that this armed cop would want you to beleive. He's a CEO of a company who screwed up. He shouldn't have been there and he wanted to get away so he probably did run in panic because there is a guy pulling a gun on him in the woods. He may have known it was a cop, he may have thought it was someone trying to hurt him. Guess what, it was someone trying to hurt him. The cop with the gun had a responsibility to be in control of that situation by not killing an unarmed man who didn't hurt anyone. He pulled his gun. This guy was the victem and this should be treated as a crime. Not a civil case. I don't care how conservitive and prude you are. If you feel this cop is in the right, move to Iran where it's prefectly acceptable to assassinate gay people or any one else that doesn't fit their mold.

You are so concerned about how offensive this activity is. I guy was murdered for pulling his cock out. If he pulled it out. So if you chose to pull your penis out at the same park to take a wizz, would this policeman have the right to kill you? It's indescent, your pulling you cock out, children may see it but at worst, it should be a misdemeanor. The policemen was off the rails in pulling a gun out in this situation and should be charged with 1st degree murder. Who cares if the city is sued. The policemen nees to pay for murdering someone without provocation. He was undercover in a place known for this activity and he not only goes back in to thewoods by himself but shoots an innocent man without witnesses.

Riley of Provo UT--We can't prove that the officer shot in self-defense? The article says nothing about the victim being armed, only that he tried to disarm the officer. I find it hard to believe that the officer would have felt that his life was threatened unless the vic was twice his size. So, normal-sized, unarmed man against armed, trained police officer--doesn't sound like a pairing that would require the death of the vic.

@Greg Taylor, the only race baiting you are aware of is from Blacks to white? That must because its the only kind to which you are sensitive. A black male was recently killed in another state by an officer who claimed he mistook his gun for his tazer! The racist rhetoric exposed in the Tea party Express...You must have a myopia most people don't have. YOU are right. YOU are the hater(s). Thisa story is so far fetched. Ynless the man was so afreaid of exposure that he acted in a fight or flight response this story is a lie. I hoipe the truth is also outed as the closeted CEO now is.

This doesn't even seem to be the main cruise area? Someone here mentioned the 'Squirt' site, but there they say the cruise area is far away on the Belleville side (adjacent town) in this very large park.