Conclusion of manhunt allows healing to begin

Conclusion of manhunt allows healing to begin

By Nathan Key, nathankey@newstopic.net

Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:55 PM EDT


A day after the body of Skip Brinkley was found and Deputy Adam Klutz was memorialized in a moving funeral service, members of the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office started to get back to their daily operation as best they could.

For five days, members of the Sheriff's Office and countless agencies across western North Carolina as well as the State Bureau of Investigation and FBI conducted a massive search to find Brinkley, the 32-year-old military veteran suspected of fatally wounding Klutz Sept. 19 when the deputy responded to a 911 hangup call at 3940 Fox Winkler Road in Oak Hill.

That shooting set off a massive search for Brinkley that ended Wednesday when a member of a Hickory S.W.A.T. unit found his body in an upright position near a tree about a half mile from his residence on the 30-plus-acre farm he had in Oak Hill. The body was located on a densely wooded area of the property looking toward Brinkley's residence at the same time Deputy Klutz' funeral was taking place at Mountain Grove Baptist Church.

Brinkley apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The SBI continues to investigate the case.
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