By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A 34-year-old man who hopped a White House fence because he wanted to pass a message to President Obama was killed Tuesday by deputy sheriff after allegedly swinging a knife at a courthouse in Pennsylvania.
Philly.com reports that Curtis Smith was accused of trying to slash a deputy sheriff with a knife when another deputy sheriff shot Smith at the Criminal Justice Center in Chester County near Philadelphia.
Smith, who was charged with unlawful entry in the White House fence jumping incident, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
County District Attorney Tom Hogan said he attack was “random, not personal, and a cousin described the incident as “death by cop.”
“He definitely was distraught. Curtis had been crying out for help, but everyone had been ignoring him,” Walton told the Daily News. “The jumping the White House fence was an attempted suicide.”
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