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Widow: Cop shot husband in self-defense
Widow of man killed by Orange deputy says he was depressed and angry, calls his death suicide-by-cop.Date published: 12/4/2004
Doug Elliott had a few beers Thursday morning and headed to Orange for an appointment with his therapist. His wife recalls him laughing and joking, and his almost annoying singing along with the car radio. In the next hour, though, his mood changed. The smiles and laughter were replaced by sadness, anger and hurt. He stabbed himself with an ice pick, she said, and when that didn't relieve his pain, he charged the deputy sheriff that had come to help him. "I don't know what Doug said to the cop," Kimberly Elliott said in a telephone interview yesterday. "I know Doug rushed him, and I saw the deputy go for his gun." Kim Elliott ran back into the doctor's office and was there when she heard the gunfire. When she went back outside, her husband had been shot three times and was dead in the parking lot. She found his body face down on a red van. "The deputy was gasping for air and the medical staff in the building came out and did everything they could to save him," she said. "I could see the pain in his face and the tears in his eyes. "I don't blame the officer," she continued. "He did what he had to do." She called her husband's death suicide-by-police--a phenomenon in which a person creates a situation in which an officer is forced to kill them. "Doug wanted out," she said. "He was done." According to the Virginia State Police, Orange County Deputy Thomas "Moose" Mallory confronted the 32-year-old Elliott Thursday when he responded to an 11:20 a.m. call about a problem outside the offices of Orange Family Physicians on U.S. 15. State police, who are investigating the shooting, say Mallory was wounded with an "ice pick-type weapon" before fatally wounding the Locust Grove man. Sources in the Orange County Sheriff's Office said Mallory was stabbed in the head and shoulder. He was treated at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville Thursday and released. He is expected back at work Monday.
Date published: 12/4/2004
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