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By Conor Shine (contact) 
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 | 2:02 p.m.
More details surrounding the 2011 officer-involved shooting of Stanley Gibson were revealed Thursday during a public hearing of the facts that led the district attorney to not file charges in the death. Gibson, a 43-year-old Gulf War veteran, was unarmed when Metro Police Officer Jesus Arevalo fired seven shots into the vehicle Gibson was driving in the early morning hours of Dec. 12, 2011. Thursday morning, Chief Deputy District Attorney Christopher Lalli questioned Metro Homicide Detective Cliff Mogg about the events that led to Gibson’s death as part of the first public fact-finding review into a police shooting. The review, ...
In other words, Arevalo wasn't paying attention and was negligent in the performance of his duty.
'Gibson was transported for evaluation to MountainView Hospital but was released within hours of arriving and instructed to check back in at the hospital two days later.'
I would imagine that the only reason that Gibson was not admitted and provided with care is that he was uninsured. MountainView Does not let folks go that are insured would be my bet.
Gibson deserved to be evaluated and provided treatment, not just turned back out onto the streets because he did not have medical insurance. I don't know of a better arguement for the Afforable Care Act in America.
Why was he not taken to UMC to be evaluated?
Ridiculous. This guy sounded like a mess. He was already putting society in danger with his erratic behavior. Wandering around in traffic? Driving the wrong direction? Spinning his tires and revving his engine when officers are trying to control him? How much god damn babying do you people want??? How was he going to contribute to society? He seemed like a complete liability and drain. I doubt all the "help" in the world wouldn't have made him any better. Then we all act so astonished when these psychos snap and kill innocent people. Please. Bleeding heart, idealistic liberals retarding natural selection yet again.
The one question I have never seen answered is why did Arevalo have an assault rifle pointed at Gibson? That weapon is only designed for killing, not subduing disoriented people.
When the "supervisor" on the scene realized that Gibson was not a threat to the officers why weren't they instructed to holster their pistols and put down any shotguns, other than those loaded with bean bags, and rifles to prevent what happened?
boftx...
A succinct and apt summation.
Unfortunately, not an isolated incident for Metro over the past few years. Tragic.
Why did his wife and extended family let him have the keys to the car after all of the prior incidents? They couldn't lock them up somewhere? This man was driving on the wrong side of the road all over town with his lights off prompting three separate people to call 911? I notice the extended family comes out of the woodwork as usual at the smell of money...but where the heck were they during all the drama when he was in and out of jail and the hospital? The wife was on her own trying to deal with this difficult problem.
There are two issues at the heart of this incident- unstable people off their meds without a mechanism in place to adequately ensure that once they are identified by existing means they are not released back into the public to cause everyone else problems prior to their issues being addressed. The other was a poorly coordinated response to the incident and a cascade of errors that resulted in the man's death.
The guy was a mental mess who should have never been allowed to drive. His family shoud have disabled the car or taken his car keys.
It sounds like this guy should have been committed. We have replaced psychiatric hospitals with a conglomeration of medicines...it isn't working. More and more you see people like this snap and take innocent victims with them.
Mr. Gibson shares some blame in this tragedy with the police.
A failure of Nevada's mental health system more than metro's. Maybe Nevada's lack of a mental health system is more accurate.