Police Shoot At One-Legged Man 18 Times Before Killing Him
Friday, August 29, 2008 – updated: 6:29 pm EDT August 29, 2008
MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Police shot at a one-legged man 18 times over the weekend and killed him. The man was a suspect in the possible murder of his wife.Police say Michael Hild fired twice at Melbourne police before officers shot back. The officers were authorized to shoot until the threat was over. In this case, 18 bullets were fired.Police were after Hild after he crashed into a car in Melbourne and drove off. A witness followed him until police arrived. After a short foot chase, police say Hild opened fire.Hild was known to carry a gun in a prosthetic leg. He lost his leg in a previous shoot out with police. Authorities say was on the run from Dayton, Ohio where police suspect he killed his wife, Angela. She was reported missing last week. Police in Ohio found her car Wednesday, but there was no sign of her.After he was killed police determined Hild had stolen a Michigan license plate off of a car in Kentucky.Investigators across the country are now trying to map out Hild's trip from Ohio to Florida using surveillance video in Orange County from a pharmacy robbery, which Hild is suspected of committing, and the stolen plates in Kentucky.
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