TURTLECREEK TWP. OHIO-- A Warren County sheriff's deputy was killed in an early Tuesday morning crash in Turtlecreek Township, the first line-of-duty death in the department's history.
Ohio State Highway Patrol confirmed the deadly chase and crash at 2 a.m at U.S. 42 and Utica Road.
A visibly-shaken Sheriff Larry Sims told reporters that Franklin police had started chasing the suspect about 20 minutes earlier in Franklin.
Middletown police confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the car was reported stolen from a Middletown bar earlier Tuesday morning.
The fleeing car forced a sheriff's deputy cruiser off the road near the intersection of Ohio 73 and U.S. 42.
Sims said Sgt. Brian Dulle was outside his cruiser putting out stop sticks near the intersection of U.S. 42 and Utica Road when the fleeing car struck the deputy, then rolled over and crashed.
Dulle, 36, of Lebanon, died at the scene. He has been a deputy since 1999 and is survived by his wife and three children, ages 10, 7 and 4.
Dulle's daughter, Maddie, has been battling cancer. The family has been raising money for cancer research, programs and services for the children and their families while at Children's Hospital.
Sims said Dulle was a "tremendous worker," saying that he saw Dulle as someone who could someday become one of the higher leaders within the sheriff's office.
The man driving the pursued car fled the scene on foot, but was arrested while walking along the road near the intersection of Drake Road and Ohio 122 about four hours later, a little more than a mile from the crash scene.
A veteran Bexar County sheriff's deputy was fatally shot during an apparent ambush while waiting at a traffic light in his marked patrol vehicle early Saturday, according to the San Antonio Express.
Forty-five-year-old Sgt. Kenneth Vann was waiting at an intersection just after 2 a.m. Saturday when a small white vehicle pulled up next to him on the right side and started shooting through the front passenger window. Witnesses called police, who discovered Vann dead in the driver's seat.
"He did not have a chance to do anything, hit the emergency button on his radio, or even to defend himself. That car pulled up and started blasting, just like that. So where we are right now is that it looks like an ambush," Bexar County Deputy Chief Dale Bennett told the paper.
San Antonio police and U.S. marshals were following up on leads and conducting interviews. Authorities said they know of no motive for the attack.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Manuel Longoria told the Express that Vann was responding to a call for an accidental shooting.
One witness told authorities that she "heard two, separate real quick bursts" of gunfire a few seconds apart, according to the paper. She then saw the deputy's car roll into the intersection after the shooting.
Vann's wife is also a sergeant in the sheriff's office. He also had two sons and a daughter.
He was the first deputy killed in the line of duty in Bexar County since 2003.
the drunk driver who killed Officer Will is an illegal.
HOUSTON – KHOU and khou.com - A Houston police officer was killed after being struck by a suspected drunk driver in north Houston early Sunday.
Authorities said Officer Kevin Will was interviewing the witness of a motorcycle accident on the 610 North Loop near Yale around 2:15 a.m. when the driver of a Volkswagon Beetle plowed through a police barricade.
Police said Will saw the car heading towards them, yelled at the man he was talking to to get out of the way and pushed him to jump over a short wall before the officer was hit. Will died at the scene.
Will, 38, is survived by his wife – who is six months pregnant – and two children, 6 and 10.
"Officer Will was a very, very respected officer, young, energetic, his co-workers cared about him and he got along with everybody," said HPD Chief Charles McClelland.
Will was sworn in with HPD in September 2009. Saturday was his one-year anniversary with the vehicular crimes division, police said.
Authorities said the driver of the Beetle, identified as 26-year-old Johoan Rodriguez, was transported to the hospital and treated for minor injuries.
Rodriguez, who police believe was drunk when the accident occurred, was charged with intoxication manslaughter of a peace officer, evading in a motor vehicle and possession of a controlled substance.
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police are being hit by vehicles all over the country. by stinking drunk drivers. State Troopers in Mass. are hit over and over. it's everywhere. hit directing traffic. hit while on side of road at a stop. hit putting out stop-sticks. hit while on work details. crippled, paralyzed, killed. we're mad here in Mass. everyone should be mad. drunk bitch in photo here just plowed down a State Trooper. :(
Massachusetts State Trooper Ellen Engelhardt would have been ecstatic this week to finally see her beloved Boston Bruins playing for the Stanley Cup again.
But Trooper Engelhardt lived in a Middleboro rehab facility for the severely brain damaged. She has been unable to walk, talk, feed herself or communicate since a then 18-year-old drunken driver, William P. Senne, plowed his father’s Volvo into her cruiser — its blue lights flashing — at nearly 100 miles per hour.
That was on June 26, 2003.
About a month ago, her condition not improving while she struggled just to breathe, Engelhardt’s daughter and brothers decided to bring in hospice care, said family spokesman Ric Teves, a state police sergeant.
Yesterday, Trooper Engelhardt died. She was 58.
“Trooper Engelhardt loved the Massachusetts State Police and the job loved her back,” said State Police Col. Marian J. McGovern, Engelhardt’s drill instructor when she became one of the first women on the force.
“People wanted to be in her company. She made them feel good. She did not have a heavy hand with tickets, though,” said McGovern. “We used to laugh about it.”
“This has been very tough on her daughter,” Teves said of Lora Tedeman, Engelhardt’s daughter and chief caregiver — and the mother of a 6-year-old son who never knew his grandmother.
Teves said Engelhardt’s father John, a Boston police officer, always told Engelhardt that if she really wanted to be a cop, she should become a trooper. “She got to do what she wanted to do.”
Engelhardt’s death comes amid an astonishing epidemic of state troopers struck by vehicles while on duty on Bay State roads: nearly half of the 45 staties hit in the past 18 months were victims of drunken drivers.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Officer Jefferson “Jeff” Taylor, who was struck by lightning on Monday, May 23, while on tornado disaster response duty in Joplin, passed away at a hospital here on Friday. He was 31 years old. He worked for Riverside, a suburb on the north side of Kansas City.
“Jeff Taylor volunteered to assist with the Joplin disaster recovery,” said Greg Mills, Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety for the City of Riverside. “He was a highly dedicated officer and a devoted public servant, and we will always remember his sacrifice.”
Officer Taylor is the first officer in the history of Riverside Police Department to die in the line of duty, and the first emergency disaster responder to pass away as a result of the tornado in Joplin on May 22.
Taylor was part of Riverside’s 12-member contingent of police officers, firefighters and public works staff members who responded to the Joplin tornado disaster. On the evening after the tornado, as a new line of storms moved through the Joplin area, Taylor had just returned to a command post when lightning struck the ground near where he was working.
edit to add: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Dickson County Sheriff's Deputy Keith Bellar has died Tuesday morning at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after being shot in the head. RIP Deputy Keith Bellar
The Tennessean
A man involved in an “ongoing domestic” situation shot a Dickson County Sheriff's Office deputy, then turned the gun on himself just after 7 a.m. this morning in downtown Dickson, according to Dickson Police Chief Ricky Chandler.
Chandler said the sheriff's office deputy saw the man intentionally cause a car accident on Walnut Street in between McKenzie Street and Bryant Avenue. The deputy approached the scene and the man got out of his car and started shooting at the deputy, according to officials.
The deputy was taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Chandler said that the deputy was in “really bad shape.”
Dickson resident Steve Fielder, who lives in the area and was one of the first people on the scene, said the officer never left his car.
According to Fielder, a former Dickson County ambulance service worker, the officer suffered a single gunshot wound to the forehead.
what a terrible start in life, i hope the baby is healthy. the baby's birthday will always be tinged with sadness.
RIP Deputy Sheriff Kurt Wyman, so young. :(
(Reuters) - A deputy sheriff in upstate New York was fatally shot while trying to calm a man attempting suicide, and his death prompted his wife to go into labor on Tuesday with their second child, authorities said.
Deputy Sheriff Kurt Wyman, 24, was killed after a nearly six-hour standoff that began on Monday night at the home of Christian Patterson in Augusta, about 60 miles east of Syracuse, authorities said.
Armed with a shotgun, Patterson was threatening to kill himself and his girlfriend, who managed to flee, they said.
When authorities tried to take Patterson into custody early on Tuesday, he shot and killed Wyman, they said.
Wyman's pregnant wife Lauren went into labor upon hearing the news of her husband's death, said Lieutenant James McCarthy of the Oneida County, New York, Sheriff's Department.
"Right now she's still in labor and being taken care of at the hospital," McCarthy said. "She has family at her side."
Lauren Wyman was more than nine months pregnant and already expected to go into labor imminently, he said.
Patterson was shot and wounded and being treated at a local hospital. Charges against him were pending, McCarthy said.
Wyman had been with the sheriff's office for almost four years and had spent a year stationed in Iraq in 2008 with a Marine Corps Reserve unit, McCarthy said.
The new ones are both so sad. I guess they are all sad, but it's truly fucked up when people can't fucking get along and drag good people down with them.
I stay away from dysfunction. Nothing good comes of it.
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
LENOIR COUNTY -- A Nash County deputy serving as a U.S. Marshal on Thursday was shot and killed while investigating a murder, authorities said.
Nash County Sheriff Dick Jenkins said that Investigator Warren “Sneak” Lewis, who was assigned to the Eastern North Carolina Fugitive Task Force, was shot and killed while attempting to serve a warrant for a homicide in Kinston.
An official with the Lenoir County Jail said that Lamont Byrd, Maretto Byrd, Kion Dail and Devine Slade as well as a juvenile are all facing charges in connection with Lewis' murder.
Officers executed a search warrant at 602 W Lenoir Ave. early in the afternoon on Thursday. At that time, officers seized numerous weapons, Kinston Public Safety Director Bill Johnson said.
At that time, the house was empty. A later tip led to officers returning to the house later in the evening.
"While at the residence, shots were fired, ... (and) Lewis was wounded by numerous shots which were fired through a door," Johnson said.
Lewis was wearing a protective vest at the time of the shooting, Johnson said.
Johnson said there were four officers involved during the evening operation, while there were more than 20 who conducted the raid on the house earlier in the day.
"The evening (operation) was not a raid," Johnson said. "The (earlier) operation was actually a tactical operation. It was not a tactical operation later in the evening ... where we believe suspects would be (there), so we didn't respond in that manner."
Johnson said that the officers' arrival at the location later in the evening was a part of an ongoing investigation.
"They did not go in the residence," Johnson said. "They were just in the area gathering information."
The shots were fired when the four-person team was leaving the area, Johnson said.
Lamont Byrd and Kion Dail now face two charges of murder each. Maretto Byrd and Devine Slade also face a murder charge.
Byrd has a documented violent history. The 18-year-old has had at least four charges of misdemeanor assault to go along with a felony larceny charge. Byrd also has a handful of breaking-and-entering and possessing stolen goods charges.
The full investigation into Lewis' murder is now being handled by the SBI.
Lewis was a Nash County Sheriff's deputy who was sworn in as a U.S. Marshal for the task force.
What's the first word that pops into your mind? Hmm?
Fucking pussy.
My blood pressure went up when I saw this. Jesus Christ.
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
A gunman who lay in wait and murdered three police officers responding to a domestic violence call at his house has been sentenced to death.
Richard Poplawski, wearing a bulletproof vest, met the officers at his doorway and shot two of them in the head - gunning down a third who later came to their aid.
His mother called out the police when an argument about his puppies urinating on the floor escalated out of control.
The killer only surrendered because he was bleeding from a leg wound inflicted by one of the officers during the horrific four-hour gun battle on his quiet Pittsburgh street.
Killer: Richard Poplawski, in white shirt, has been sentenced to death for murdering three police officers
Crime scene: A four-hour gun battle ensued after Richard Poplawski killed three police officers
A Pittsburgh jury convicted the 24-year-old on Saturday of three counts of first-degree murder, and 25 lesser crimes, for his actions on April 4, 2009.
The three slain officers were Eric Kelly, 41, Stephen Mayhle, 29, and Paul Sciullo II, 37.
Kelly had been on the force for 14 years, while Mayhle and Sciullo had been officers for two years each.
Another officer, Timothy McManaway, was shot in the hand and a fifth broke his leg on a fence.
A mass of rank-and-file officers congregated outside the courtroom during the gunman's sentencing on Tuesday.
'This was an opportunity for them to see the face of Richard Poplawski which, for us, was the face of evil,' said Assistant Chief Paul Donaldson.
The jury spent just 90 minutes deliberating whether to sentence Poplawski to death or life in prison.
They decided to send him to death row, where he will wait until the governor signs a warrant for him to die by lethal injection.
Marched into court: Richard Poplawski was convicted by a Pittsburgh jury of three counts of murder
Afterwards, sheriff's deputies guarded the slain officers' family members, who told the media through the district attorney's office that they did not wish to comment.
Despite that, Clarence Peays, Kelly's brother-in-law, spoke briefly with The Associated Press, saying he thought the swift verdict sent a message.
Thr 48-year-old said: 'It shows me that the evidence was overwhelming.It's going to take time to have closure, but with time it will heal.'
Trembled: Richard Poplawski's mother Margaret was seen shaking in the courthouse as her son was told he had been sentenced to death
Tribute: Parents of killed officer Paul Sciullo Jr walk past a police guard of honour at Richard Poplawski's sentencing
The jury rejected attorney for the penalty phase of the trial William Brennan's defence that he had no previous criminal record and had been raised in a dysfunctional home.
Brennan tried to suggest Poplawski was warped by having grandfather Charles Scott, who died earlier this year, as his 'sole male role model' after his parents divorced when he was a toddler.
Murdered: Police officers Paul Sciullo (left) and Stephen Mayhle (right) were gunned down by Poplawski
Witnesses testified his grandfather drank cases of beer daily and was a racist who threatened people with guns.
He was said to have raped one of his sisters-in-law and cruelly treated his daughter, Poplawski's mother.
Margaret Poplawski then developed a history of psychological problems, which the relatives attributed to her father, and had tried to kill herself several times.
But Allegheny County Deputy District Attorney Mark Tranquilli blunted the testimony by saying most of Scott's violent behaviour happened before Poplawski was born.
Reports at the time of the incident, when he peppered officers with fire from his 12-gauge shotgun, .357 Magnum and AK-47 assault rifle, said more than 100 rounds were fired by elite police teams and Poplawski.
Friends revealed he had only recently been laid off from his job at a glass factory, and had previously been kicked out of a Marines boot camp after throwing a food tray at a drill sergeant.
Poplawski will be sentenced for the remainder of his charges, including nine counts each of attempted murder and assault on a law officer, on September 6.
Even though he has been sentenced to death, public defender Lisa Middleman said Poplawski would appeal, which could delay the execution for a number of years.
i am waiting for a photo of deceased Deputy John Mecklenburg. RIP
Jul 03, 2011
Florida
A Hernando County deputy died Sunday after crashing during a chase to catch a reckless driver.
The deputy, John Mecklenburg, 35, has been with Hernando County for more than two years. He died after being critically injured and flown to St. Joseph Hospital in Tampa.
The suspect who sparked the chase, Michael James Anthony, 35, of Silver Springs near Ocala, was arrested in Pinellas County.
The patrol and the Hernando Sheriff's Office provided this account of the chase:
It began around 4:30 a.m. when Brooksville police spotted a driver going the wrong way on U.S. 41. Police tried to stop the suspect, but he sped away in a 1991 Honda Accord.
Hernando County deputies joined the chase.
The deputies used their cruisers to try to force the suspect to stop, but failed and the suspect kept speeding on U.S. 41.
At the intersection with Ayers Road, a deputy lost control of his car and struck a pickup truck and a power pole. Authorities identified the deputy as Sgt. Brandon Ross, who sustained minor injuries.
But another deputy, Mecklenburg, continued the pursuit, and it went south into Pasco County.
Just south of the intersection with Painter Place, Mecklenburg lost control of his car, and it struck a tree. The car briefly caught fire, but the blaze was extinguished by other units. Mecklenburg was flown to St. Joseph's.
The suspect continued to flee through Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, and other motorists called 911 to report the reckless driving.
Finally, after 5 a.m., a Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted the suspect's car with three flat tires off the shoulder of Fourth Street N, south of Interstate 275, in Pinellas County.
As the trooper approached, the suspect walked from the tree line along the roadway and surrendered.
Anthony was taken to Bayfront Medical Center with unspecified injuries. The patrol said he would later be booked into the Pinellas County Jail on multiple charges.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Authorities in Memphis are investigating after a police officer and another person were shot to death at a hotel in the middle of the city's entertainment district.
Police say a suspect is in custody and was hospitalized due to injuries sustained during his arrest.
Police Director Toney Armstrong says Officer Timothy Warren, a patrol officer, died at Regional Medical Center after the shooting.
Warren was among several officers responding to a call at the Doubletree Hotel around 7 p.m. Sunday. A civilian victim, who hasn't been positively identified, was also shot and pronounced dead at the scene in what officials say started as a domestic dispute.
WMC-TV reported that police had responded earlier in the night to a disturbance call involving the same suspect, but let him go.
BEAUMONT — Beaumont police say they will seek a capital murder charge against a man suspected of intentionally aiming his fleeing sport utility vehicle at the patrol car of an officer who was struck and killed.
Officer Bryan Mitchell Hebert, 36, died at a hospital late Friday night after being struck by a driver involved in a high-speed chase.
Hebert, a 10-year veteran of the department, died at 11:15 p.m. at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital. Police said Hebert died following complications of injuries sustained while being hit by a car on the 4000 block of Dowlen Road around 10:30 p.m.
Earlier that night, police responded to a call of family violence on the 5900 block of Chisholm Trail, where an elderly person said she had been assaulted by a family member. Officers were then led on a high-speed chase with a 2008 maroon Dodge Nitro, Chief Frank Coffin said at a 4 a.m. press conference.
The suspect led police northbound on Dowlen Road, where Hebert was standing outside a parked patrol car in the turning lane near the corner of Ivanhoe Lane. Coffin said the suspect then hit the patrol car, which hit Hebert.
Hebert was attempting to throw spikes on the road to stop the Dodge, said Rod Carroll, spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
Witnesses said the suspect's act appeared to be deliberate, according to Coffin. Police do not yet know whether drugs or alcohol were involved.
Both Hebert and the suspect were taken to the hospital, where Hebert later died. The 30-year-old suspect remains at the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
Coffin said the district attorney's office would review the case and that police expect to file capital murder charges.
Hebert, who is unmarried and does not have children, was on a promotional list and was soon to be made a sergeant, Coffin said. He is a graduate of Port Neches-Groves High School.
"It's really senseless," the chief said. "He did a good job for us; he'll be missed."
Services for Hebert are pending, said police spokeswoman Carol Riley.
Indiana
A Terre Haute Police Officer is dead after a shootout with a suspect Monday afternoon.
The Terre Haute Police Department was assisting the U.S. Marshal's Task Force in serving an arrest warrant for a probation violation at a residence in the 1800 block of North 8th Street. State Police Sgt. Joe Watts says officers knocked on the door and several people came out except for the suspect.
"The suspect remained inside. Officers entered the residence and within just a few seconds, shots rang out against the officers from the suspect or the alleged shooter," Sgt. Watts says.
Officer Brent Long and his K-9 partner were both shot during the exchange. Officer Long and the suspect were both killed but it's unknown if the suspect was killed by police or from a self-inflicted wound. An autopsy will be performed to determine an exact cause of death.
Sgt. Watts says the K-9 was taken to a local veterinary clinic and is reportedly in good condition.
(CNN) -- Law enforcement fatality figures nationwide have climbed during the first half of 2011, according to a preliminary report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
Ninety-eight officers were killed in the line of duty in the first six months of this year, the organization said in a news release Wednesday. The number represents a 14% spike in officer fatalities compared to the same time frame in 2010.
Steve Groeniger, senior director of communications for the fund, said the spike was significant given that 2010 was a particularly hard year for officers.
"The real takeaway for us here is that in addition to fatalities across the board being up 14% ... what really rises to the top is gunfire fatalities," Groeniger said.
Firearm fatalities have reached a 20-year high, replacing traffic accidents as the primary cause of law enforcement deaths, the report said. Forty officers were killed in firearms-related incidents in the first half of 2011, compared to 30 officers in all of 2010.
Thirty-five officers were killed in traffic-related fatalities. In all, traffic and firearms deaths accounted for 77% of all law enforcement fatalities in the first half of this year, the report says.
Florida and Texas have the most officer fatalities in the nation. For the period covered by the report, 10 officers had died in each state. By Wednesday, each state's death toll had gone up to 11. Groeniger said Florida and Texas tend to rank high on the list each year.
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Police from at least 10 jurisdictions are assisting in the search for a Riverdale teen wanted in the fatal shooting of a Clayton County deputy.
Clayton County Police Department Clayton Police said Jonathan Bun, seen here in a previous wanted poster where he was accused of an armed robbery, is wanted in the fatal shooting of a Clayton deputy.
The veteran cop and married father was shot Wednesday afternoon after he pulled over a 17-year-old wanted for aggravated assault. Jonathan Bun, described as being 5 feet tall and weighing 110 pounds, was last seen on Walker Road, said Clayton Sheriff Kem Kimbrough.
The victim, a 25-year law enforcement veteran, was pronounced dead at Southern Regional Hospital, officials said.
The shooting occurred not far from where Bun lived with his parents and two younger sisters.
The family moved into the Church Street apartments in Riverdale about a year ago, said Garrett Anderson, who resides in the same complex. The suspect didn't join them until about two months later, he said.
Anderson said he had not seen Jonathan Bun in about two weeks.
"There was some sort of fight with his mother," he said. "He left and hadn't been back since."
A person who answered the phone at the family's residence said they had no comment.
Meanwhile, a road block set up at East Fayetteville Road between Walker Road and Highway 314 is teeming with law enforcement while police choppers circle over the densely wooded area.
Bun was wanted for an incident that occurred Jan. 27 at Los Amigos Gifts & Things on Old Dixie Road in Forest Park. According to Clayton police, Bun followed an employee into the store's office and produced a handgun, demanding money from the register. He escaped with $200 in a compact, four-door white vehicle. Police described him as "armed and dangerous."
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