Lastly, I strongly urge Sheriff Gillespie to carefully reconsider the Metro Tower’s entire game plan to trash Erik Scott’s character and good name. Yes, under the current sorry excuse for a Clark County coroner’s inquest process, he might succeed in getting a “justifiable” or “excusable” ruling from the inquest jury and prevent the district attorney from filing charges against his shooters.
But, in doing so, he also will unleash a personal hell. I’m sure he’ll recall that incident on May 14, 2009, around 8:00 p.m. Girlfriend at his house. Wife comes home. Shots fired. A 911 call made. Cops arrive. Everybody briefed. Metro Code of Silence imposed. The 911 call and all associated records disappear, leaving an interesting gap in the log’s numbering sequence. An excellent Las Vegas Review-Journal (RJ) reporter gets the details and writes a damning story...which never appears in the newspaper.
This time, though, the Las Vegas big-money power brokers, who threatened to pull all Strip advertising from the RJ in May 1999, have no leverage over Erik Scott’s family and hundreds of friends and supporters across the nation. There’s no RJ reporter to have fired and run out of town. This time, it’s not just a local story, either.
I have no interest in destroying the sheriff’s career or reputation. Gillespie simply needs to show Ross Goodman and Erik’s family the Costco surveillance video data (unaltered original version, please), release the 911-call audio, and forget about building a coroner’s inquest case on falsehoods and half-truths about Erik Scott. My son’s past marriages, his medical records, and hear-say tales about him have absolutely nothing to do with Erik being shot to death by Metro police officers on July 10th. Stick to the facts, Sheriff Gillespie, and this nightmare will go away.
William B. Scott
wow the stuff hes worried about must be a horror show for dad to be that worried