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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | December 8, 2024 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Daniel Escalera and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Escalera was shot dead by police last Sunday when he went crazy and attacked an Illinois nursing home:

A chainsaw-wielding man was shot and killed by police Sunday morning in the west suburbs, officials said.
The officer-involved shooting happened in the 900 block of North 5th Avenue at the River Glen of St. Charles senior living facility, St. Charles police said.
A shirtless man was reportedly attempting to cut down a tree outside around 8:45 a.m. of the building before he then entered the senior living facility, police said. The suspect then began to confront senior home residents with his chainsaw, according to responding officers.
Police deployed a taser after attempts to de-escalate the situation failed, officials said. The man then allegedly continued his attack on tenants and officers.
At that point, an officer shot the suspect with his service weapon, St. Charles police said.
The chainsaw-wielding man was taken to a hospital in Geneva, where he was later pronounced dead.

Readers will probably not be surprised to learn that this wasn’t the chainsaw-wielding Escalera’s first encounter with law enforcement:

The record spans almost 25 years and includes numerous arrests for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol; becoming an habitual DUI traffic violator and resisting law enforcement; cocaine and methamphetamine possession; public intoxication and endangerment; and domestic battery, as reported by a local Indiana paper, when he was accused of stabbing his then-wife and SWAT had to be called in.
As for why he showed up at the senior living facility on Sunday with a chainsaw and started attacking trees and elderly residents? It was his MO: Back in September 2022 in rural Indiana, Escalera tangled in a spontaneous road rage incident, beating a motorcyclist with his own helmet.
Escalera was convicted and jailed. And it appears he was supposed to be in jail Sunday for violating probation in one of the many other cases against him.

Let’s talk about that 2019 case:

Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Horacio Escalera got drunk and stabbed his wife with a small pocket knife during a domestic fight, according to Lafayette police.
Officers were called at 7:20 p.m. Monday to Escalera’s home in the 100 block of South 31st Street with a report of a domestic battery incident, according to police bulletins.
Escalera fought with his wife in the presence of a minor and stabbed his wife in the leg with a small pocket knife, police said. The wound was minor.
When police arrived, Escalera refused to cooperate, so the Lafayette police SWAT team was activated while other officers got a warrant.
The SWAT team made the arrest; however, one of the officers suffered minor injuries while trying to handcuff Escalera, according to police.
Police booked Escalera into the jail on suspicion of battery with a deadly weapon, domestic battery in the presence of a minor and resisting law enforcement with bodily injury.

Permit me to suggest that when (a) someone with an extensive criminal history (b) stabs his wife and (c) you have to call the SWAT team to arrest him, then (d) maybe he should go to prison for a long time. Despite this, however, Escalera was back on the streets by 2022, when he attacked a motorcyclist in a road rage incident and yet — and yet — this still wasn’t enough to keep him locked up a while. By June 2024, Escalera was once more terrorizing the general public, and was arrested on a slew of charges including meth possession, obstruction of justice, resisting arrest, etc.

The criminal justice system is clearly broken, or Daniel Escalera would still be serving time on that 2019 rap. Instead, the courts kept turning him loose until finally the dude gets torqued up on meth, grabs a chainsaw and shows up at a nursing home threatening senior citizens. The cop who shot him deserves a medal for saving taxpayers money.



 

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