r/interestingasfuck • u/SilkenSeraph • 1d ago

/r/all Ryan Waller, a 22-year-old man who, despite having a bullet in his eye, endured 4 hours of interrogation by cops who thought he was lying—only to receive medical help too late.

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u/littleempires 1d ago

This poor guy kept saying intruders shot him and his girlfriend with bows and arrows and the cops didn’t think in that moment “maybe something isn’t right”. He couldn’t find the word for gun because he got shot in the head. He even had a black eye from the bullet going into his skull, but they thought it was from his girlfriend fighting back.

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u/CryptidxChaos 1d ago

Hell, there was a black eye on one side and a VERY obvious black spot that looked too round to be anything else but a dark mole or birthmark by his nose/eye socket IIRC, but considering his appearance, behaviors, and his insistence that he was shot in the face, my first thought would've been to look more closely at him and his wounds.

This whole thing was just sad. He tried his best to explain that he was a victim, and died anyway.

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 1d ago

The only shining light in the whole story is he identified his attacker and got justice for himself and his girlfriend.

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u/SahuaginDeluge 1d ago

if he had a "black eye", then isn't he injured, and therefore a paramedic should examine him before anything else? though that could end up the same way if they are just as careless as the cops were.

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u/CryptidxChaos 1d ago

Exactly. That's part of why this is such a tragedy. He didn't receive the care he ought to have gotten and was instead neglected until he eventually died. Granted, the detectives interviewing him did eventually realize he had a straight up bullet hole in his face, but it was far too late by then.

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u/vegasAzCrush 1d ago

Maybe look at his drivers license photo

Regardless any injury get to hospital and others can put yellow tape up to kerp crine scene secure.

As a resident I want Police Unions to be forced to buy insurance but force higher dues and pay for the civil suit

This is on police. Police leadership. Police idiots and oversight

Put judge on leave as well. And that expert needs to perhaps pay too as my guess id hes a paid by police consuktant and all his past cases need to be reviewed as well.

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u/Tough-Effort7572 1d ago

He died because he walked around with a bullet lodged in his brain for two solid days. That last few hours wouldn't have changed anything. It would have saved him hours of agonizing pain and discomfort, though.

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u/eilrah26 1d ago

He didn't die?

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u/iwantfutanaricumonme 8h ago

He died eventually from a seizure because of his permanent brain damage.

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 1d ago

Dude the moment he said "We were in the same book at school" and said his girlfriend wasn't his girlfriend and couldn't remember her name. He didn't just have a black eye, you could literally see the hole in his face where one of the bullets went in, IN THE INTERROGATION FOOTAGE. The cops just didn't give a fuck.

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u/Ricky-Snickle 1d ago

To be fair, cops are really dumb, and terrible at their jobs.

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u/ThrowingShaed 1d ago

i guess i can sort of see them dealing with a lot of confused people. i would hope training would say medical first... but I guess this context makes it a bit more understandable.. sort of