Army Staff Sgt. Shot by Police on Anniversary of Friend's Suicide

Sheriff's Office won't release names of deputies who shot, killed 'suicidal' man in Harford 
The Baltimore Sun Bryna Zumer
March 4, 2016

"I think it's just telling that it's on the one-year anniversary of his friend who killed himself," Councilman Joe Woods said Friday about Bradley, who was believed to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office said Friday that the names of the three deputies who shot and killed Army Staff Sergeant Travis Boyd Bradley, who was assigned to Aberdeen Proving Ground, would not be released.

The Sheriff's Office, citing its past practice and procedure, said the names of the deputies, who are on routine administrative leave, would not be released because they were part of the tactical deployment in the standoff that turned deadly Wednesday afternoon and evening outside of Bradley's house on Althea Court in Bel Air South.

The Sheriff's Office took a similar position against releasing the names of deputies involved in a shooting incident following the Sept. 28, 2013 fatal shooting of 34-year-old Austin Francis Jones inside a Havre de Grace house where police say Jones was holding a woman hostage and had pointed an object, which looked like a firearm, out the window at police.
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Conn. bill creates criminal docket for vets

Conn. bill creates criminal docket for vets
The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Feb 22, 2009 17:04:50 EST

HARTFORD, Conn. — Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney wants Connecticut to become the latest state to set up special veterans’ courts to deal with troubled military veterans facing criminal charges.

Looney, D-New Haven, said the state’s court system could refer returning veterans to mental health specialists, similar to how the state’s family and drug courts operate.

“Our troubled veterans may not need to be locked up if their combat experience has let to psychological wounds,” Looney told The Hartford Courant. He has introduced a bill during this year’s legislative session that would create a special criminal docket for military veterans.

Veterans advocates report a rise in the number of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans across the country facing charges such a domestic violence, firearms violations, breach of peace and drunken driving.
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Marine in Fallujah sees daughter born in Hartford

Videoconference Lets Marine In Iraq See Newborn Daughter
By HILARY WALDMAN Courant Staff Writer
September 4, 2008
Brandon Hotard has waited 10 years to become a father. So when it finally happened at 9:39 a.m. Wednesday, he couldn't wait to see his new daughter — even if he was halfway across the world.
With the help of a satellite hookup and some pretty sophisticated computer equipment, Hotard, a corporal in the Marine Corps serving in Fallujah, Iraq, got his first look at Breanna Sophia Hotard four hours after she was born at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford.
Exhausted and in some pain after a Caesarean section, Hotard's wife, Mariela, smiled, waved the baby's tiny arm and whispered "Hi, Daddy" when Hotard's face appeared on a flat-screen computer monitor at the foot of her bed."I told you when I saw the sonogram she looked like you," Mariela told her husband in a long-distance conversation that was a bit awkward because of a three-second delay.
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Artwork Helps Alter Perceptions Of Mental Illness

Artwork Helps Alter Perceptions Of Mental Illness
By GAIL BRACCIDIFERRO | Special To The Courant
August 6, 2008
Dylan Croft and Robin Fleming are veterans of the theater. As longtime performers in the Second Step Players, a 50-member theater troupe that aims to bust myths, break down barriers and educate the public about people with psychiatric illnesses, they are seldom shy about acting in front of an audience.

But ask them to create a piece of visual art and they might not be as eager to express themselves.

"The audience gives you energy," Croft said about being on stage. "It can be very uplifting."

The process of getting into character for a stage production helps her overcome stage fright, Fleming said. Creating a piece of visual art is more difficult because it is such a personal exercise.
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"We have no regard for each other." Hit and run, people walk by

Video shows bystanders ignoring hit-and-run victim
Associated Press
Published: Thursday June 5, 2008


Police released chilling surveillance video of a hit-and-run accident in hopes of catching the unidientified driver who ran down a 78-year-old pedestrian, paralyzing him, and to show the callousness of bystanders who did nothing to help.

The gripping one-minute video shows the violent May 30 accident and bystanders' apparent lack of sympathy. No one rushes to Angel Arce Torres' aid, and no one bothers to stop traffic as Torres lays motionless in the street.

In the video, released by police Wednesday, Torres walks in the two-way street at 5:45 p.m. after buying milk at a local grocery. He is struck by a dark Honda that was chasing a tan Toyota. Both cars dart down a side street as Torres crumples to the pavement.

Several cars pass Torres as a few people stare from the sidewalk. Some approach Torres, but most stay put until a police cruiser responding to an unrelated call arrives on the scene.

Police suggested the video shows a city that has lost its moral compass.

"At the end of the day we've got to look at ourselves and understand that our moral values have now changed." Police Chief Daryl Roberts said. "We have no regard for each other."

Torres is paralyzed and remains in critical condition in Hartford Hospital.

His son, Angel Arce, begged the public for help.

"My father is fighting for his life," Arce said. "I would like the public right now to help us in identifying the car and the person that did this."

Robert Luna, who works at a nearby store, blamed witnesses for failing to help Torres. "It took too long to call police," he said Thursday. "Nobody did nothing."

Witness Bryant Hayre said he didn't feel comfortable helping Torres, who he said was bleeding and conscious.

"Whoever did this should be sent away for a long time," Hayre told The Hartford Courant. "It was as if he was a dog left in the street to die."
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"We have no regard for each other."
Police Chief Daryl Roberts could not have put it better. How can people just drive by this man in the street? How can people just watch him lay there and not even try to help? How can they just act as if it was no big deal that this man could die in front of their eyes and they did nothing? What have we sunk to?