Honolulu police shoot, kill Schofield soldier
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jan 15, 2013
HONOLULU — A Schofield Barracks soldier was shot and killed by police early Tuesday after he repeatedly rammed multiple police cars with his truck in Waikiki. Several police officers were injured in the incident.
The 25th Infantry Division said in a statement it’s cooperating with the Honolulu Police Department as officers investigate. The unit won’t release the soldier’s name until his next of kin are notified.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Report details days before Spc. Brandon Barrett's death
Report details days before fatal Utah shootout
ADAM ASHTON
Staff writer
Published November 20, 2011
Soldiers who fought alongside Spc. Brandon Barrett for a year in Afghanistan had no clue where they could find him two months after they came home to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the summer of 2010.
They knew he had disappeared after he was disciplined for driving drunk just after they returned from their combat tour in June.
He told them that he had 450 rounds of ammunition for his semiautomatic rifle. They could find him by watching the news, he told them by text message.
Barrett, 28, was “about to show the world why they shouldn’t (expletive) with a soldier back from a deployment,” he told one platoonmate in a conversation over MySpace.
His ominous text messages set off alarms at Lewis-McChord. The base contacted Barrett’s family members in Tucson, Ariz., though not as soon as it should have. His platoonmates stayed in touch with him, urging him to cool down and come back to Washington. Officers warned law enforcement agencies near the base and issued a warrant seven days later.
But their efforts came far too late. Barrett died in a shootout with Salt Lake City police nine days after he sent those foreboding messages to his comrades at Lewis-McChord.
He was traveling around the Southwest, and he said he had no intent to return to his home base. He suited up in his combat gear the day of this death and appeared intent on getting himself killed, according to an Army investigation obtained by The News Tribune.
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ADAM ASHTON
Staff writer
Published November 20, 2011
Soldiers who fought alongside Spc. Brandon Barrett for a year in Afghanistan had no clue where they could find him two months after they came home to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the summer of 2010.
They knew he had disappeared after he was disciplined for driving drunk just after they returned from their combat tour in June.
He told them that he had 450 rounds of ammunition for his semiautomatic rifle. They could find him by watching the news, he told them by text message.
Barrett, 28, was “about to show the world why they shouldn’t (expletive) with a soldier back from a deployment,” he told one platoonmate in a conversation over MySpace.
His ominous text messages set off alarms at Lewis-McChord. The base contacted Barrett’s family members in Tucson, Ariz., though not as soon as it should have. His platoonmates stayed in touch with him, urging him to cool down and come back to Washington. Officers warned law enforcement agencies near the base and issued a warrant seven days later.
But their efforts came far too late. Barrett died in a shootout with Salt Lake City police nine days after he sent those foreboding messages to his comrades at Lewis-McChord.
He was traveling around the Southwest, and he said he had no intent to return to his home base. He suited up in his combat gear the day of this death and appeared intent on getting himself killed, according to an Army investigation obtained by The News Tribune.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Veteran of Vietnam and Gulf war shot by police
Delta man killed by police a war vet, says TV station
The Denver Post
Delta man killed by police a war vet
DELTA — The Delta County Coroner's Office identified a man killed in a shootout with police early Saturday as Larry A. Brown, 59, of Delta.
He was shot by two Delta police officers after he allegedly pulled a gun and fired it at them, authorities said.
The officers were not hit and returned fire. Brown died from multiple gunshot wounds, the coroner said.
KKCO-Channel 11 in Grand Junction reported that Brown was a Vietnam and Desert Storm veteran who was a Marine sniper and medic and had received the Bronze Star for bravery.
His family told the TV station he was being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder and sometimes walked the streets in camouflage, but they did not think he fired first at police.
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Delta man killed by police a war vet
The Denver Post
Delta man killed by police a war vet
DELTA — The Delta County Coroner's Office identified a man killed in a shootout with police early Saturday as Larry A. Brown, 59, of Delta.
He was shot by two Delta police officers after he allegedly pulled a gun and fired it at them, authorities said.
The officers were not hit and returned fire. Brown died from multiple gunshot wounds, the coroner said.
KKCO-Channel 11 in Grand Junction reported that Brown was a Vietnam and Desert Storm veteran who was a Marine sniper and medic and had received the Bronze Star for bravery.
His family told the TV station he was being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder and sometimes walked the streets in camouflage, but they did not think he fired first at police.
Read more: Delta man killed by police a war vet, says TV station - The Denver Post
Delta man killed by police a war vet
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Officer and two others killed in gun fight
Officer and two others killed in gun fight
Incident occurred at San Francisco Bay area salon full of
updated 4:49 a.m. ET, Sun., Sept. 7, 2008
MARTINEZ, Calif. - Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in this San Francisco Bay area community said Saturday.
Martinez police and Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies responded to the disturbance call at Elegant Hair Designs at 11:35 a.m., said Jimmy Lee, a sheriff's spokesman.
At the time the salon was full of customers, including a bridal party. No one inside the salon was shot.
After officers arrived, the gunman, who said he was looking for his ex-wife, fled to an apartment complex behind the salon, and shots were fired, Lee said.
Martinez police Sgt. Paul Starzyk was killed in the exchange, which occurred inside an apartment in the complex.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26582104/
Incident occurred at San Francisco Bay area salon full of
updated 4:49 a.m. ET, Sun., Sept. 7, 2008
MARTINEZ, Calif. - Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in this San Francisco Bay area community said Saturday.
Martinez police and Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies responded to the disturbance call at Elegant Hair Designs at 11:35 a.m., said Jimmy Lee, a sheriff's spokesman.
At the time the salon was full of customers, including a bridal party. No one inside the salon was shot.
After officers arrived, the gunman, who said he was looking for his ex-wife, fled to an apartment complex behind the salon, and shots were fired, Lee said.
Martinez police Sgt. Paul Starzyk was killed in the exchange, which occurred inside an apartment in the complex.
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Friday, October 5, 2007
Police, PTSD and Survivor's Guilt
Why did I walk away? Coping with survivor's guilt
You and your partner respond to a domestic. When you enter the house, you’re flooded with a wave of high-volume complaints from an agitated wife and belligerent husband. You try to quiet them down so you can initially make sense of the situation but it’s not working.
The wife seems to be responding to you a little, so you decide to separate the couple, giving your partner responsibility for the husband. As you and the wife make your way to another room, you suddenly hear sounds of a struggle and your partner’s panicked voice saying, “No! Don’t do it!”
You react immediately and charge to the other room, but before you can get there, you hear rounds fired. Seconds later you’ve shot and killed the armed husband, but it’s too late. Your partner is lying on the floor with wounds to his chest and head. You radio for help and frantically try to stop the bleeding, but you can’t. It’s too much. The wounds are too big.
“Why did I leave the room? If I had been there, I would have seen him reaching for the gun. Why didn’t I pat the guy down? I knew he didn’t seem right. Why didn’t I react quicker when I heard the scuffle? How come I can’t stop this bleeding? Why was it him who got killed? He has young kids. This is MY fault. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!”
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When people put knowing put their lives on the line, they are called heroes. Emergency responders, law enforcement, Coast Guard, National Guard, Army, Marines, Navy, AirForce. When it comes to trauma, we seem to have more sympathy for "normal" people but have a harder time understanding when it is one of them. Even they have a harder time coming to terms with it.
Is it because we think they are supposed to be able to deal with anything without being touched by it? Is it because we know we need them and they should not be able to be wounded by trauma? Is it because they think they should be stronger, braver, than the rest of us? Someday they will all understand it has nothing to do with courage because they already had it in them when they wanted to do what they decided to do, and that is to take care of the rest of us.
Kathie Costos
You and your partner respond to a domestic. When you enter the house, you’re flooded with a wave of high-volume complaints from an agitated wife and belligerent husband. You try to quiet them down so you can initially make sense of the situation but it’s not working.
The wife seems to be responding to you a little, so you decide to separate the couple, giving your partner responsibility for the husband. As you and the wife make your way to another room, you suddenly hear sounds of a struggle and your partner’s panicked voice saying, “No! Don’t do it!”
You react immediately and charge to the other room, but before you can get there, you hear rounds fired. Seconds later you’ve shot and killed the armed husband, but it’s too late. Your partner is lying on the floor with wounds to his chest and head. You radio for help and frantically try to stop the bleeding, but you can’t. It’s too much. The wounds are too big.
“Why did I leave the room? If I had been there, I would have seen him reaching for the gun. Why didn’t I pat the guy down? I knew he didn’t seem right. Why didn’t I react quicker when I heard the scuffle? How come I can’t stop this bleeding? Why was it him who got killed? He has young kids. This is MY fault. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!”
click post title for the rest
When people put knowing put their lives on the line, they are called heroes. Emergency responders, law enforcement, Coast Guard, National Guard, Army, Marines, Navy, AirForce. When it comes to trauma, we seem to have more sympathy for "normal" people but have a harder time understanding when it is one of them. Even they have a harder time coming to terms with it.
Is it because we think they are supposed to be able to deal with anything without being touched by it? Is it because we know we need them and they should not be able to be wounded by trauma? Is it because they think they should be stronger, braver, than the rest of us? Someday they will all understand it has nothing to do with courage because they already had it in them when they wanted to do what they decided to do, and that is to take care of the rest of us.
Kathie Costos
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Vietnam Vet's avalanche flashback
Stress disorder suspected in attack
Family of Olympian's father says he suffered from war flashbacks; Fresno police defend pursuit.
By Denny Boyles and Marc Benjamin / The Fresno Bee
09/26/07 04:31:57
Experts in post-traumatic stress disorder said Tuesday it's possible the condition could have contributed to Cliff Finch's actions during a police chase and shootout Monday.
Finch, 58, father of Olympic snowboarder Andy Finch, remains in critical condition at Community Regional Medical Center after being shot multiple times. Tuesday, Finch's family offered more details about the days leading up to the shootout and the steps they tried to take to get him help.
"He's been as stable as a rock," Craig Finch said of his brother. "But when he broke, we knew it. We knew it was not Cliff."
Police said that regardless of Cliff Finch's state of mind, they responded the only way they could to an armed suspect who refused to stop and then fired at officers.
"Throughout this whole case, we were put in situations where we were left with little or no options," said Fresno police spokesman Jeff Cardinale. "Cliff Finch ran from officers, refused to surrender and shot first."
Craig Finch said he believes his brother did not know what he was doing when he ran from police and shot at them.
Cliff Finch has been charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer. Tuesday, Police Chief Jerry Dyer announced that officers had recovered a second loaded weapon from Finch's truck, along with a box of .223 caliber ammunition.
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