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Officer: 'You're gonna get shot'
A video shows Christopher Cornwell warning Lary Labensky to get out of a car.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
DAYTON — "Get out of the car! Get out," Dayton police Officer Christopher Cornwell told Lary Labensky early Tuesday, May 6, as he tried to drive away in a stolen car. "You're gonna get shot."
Video from Dayton police and Montgomery County sheriff's cruisers released Wednesday affirms what Dayton police Chief Richard Biehl told reporters Tuesday afternoon: that Cornwell ordered Labensky several times to surrender before Cornwell fired multiple shots and killed Labensky, 44.
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Even though police found no weapon in the car, police union President Randy Beane said Labensky endangered officers when he put the car in reverse.
"(Labensky) did have a weapon," Beane said, "He had a 2,000-pound weapon."
Deputies and police chased Labensky, of 2000 Foxhall Court, Kettering, for about 10 minutes early Tuesday in Harrison Twp. because they suspected he had robbed the BP station at 3898 Salem Ave. and the Rite Aid drugstore at 3875 Salem Ave. on Monday.
On Tuesday, sheriff's deputies arrested Robert Sites, 24, in the robberies. He is in the Montgomery County Jail on an aggravated robbery warrant.
Deputies are not aware of any connection between Labensky and Sites.
Authorities would not have chased Labensky if the car he was driving hadn't matched the description of the one used in the robberies, sheriff's Major Greg Laravie said.
