The sheriff of a rural Missouri county where a deputy fatally shot a woman is urging residents to “think rationally and not just with emotion,” writing that deputies’ home addresses are being circulated online and one deputy and his child have been threatened.
Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond issued an open letter Thursday on social media, calling for calm after the weekend death of 25-year-old Hannah Fizer following a traffic stop. Fizer was unarmed.
He described her death as “tragic” but said “the onslaught of shock, commercial media coverage, social media outcry, and raw emotion is beginning to devolve into a dangerous situation for our community.”
