National Guardsman Dead After Standoff with State Trooper

Man with knife killed by Washington state trooper identified

KOMO News

Authorities have identified a man fatally shot by a Washington State Patrol trooper Saturday along Interstate 5 who allegedly had called 911 and requested "suicide by cop" before threatening the officer with a knife. (Photo: KOMO News)

LACEY, Wash. (AP) - Authorities have identified a man fatally shot by a Washington State Patrol trooper Saturday along Interstate 5 who allegedly had called 911 and requested "suicide by cop" before threatening the officer with a knife.

The Olympian reports 22-year-old National Guard reservist Michael Rude of Kent was shot by a trooper on the freeway in Lacey.

Thurston County Coroner Gary Warnock said Monday that an autopsy shows Rude died of gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen with internal bleeding.

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Crisis Intervention training expands after police officer and Fort Hood solider shot and killed

Bell County: Increase In Standoffs Catalyst For Proposed Crisis Team
Our Town Texas
By: Rachel Cox

BELL COUNTY (July 22, 2013)—An increase in police standoffs in Bell County is the catalyst for an effort to create a crisis intervention team that would deal with suspects with possible mental issues.

"We are looking at a possible grant working with MHMR to create a crisis intervention team here in the county which would entail a sergeant and four or five trained deputies that deal with mental cases," Bell County Sheriff Eddy Lange said Monday.

At least five standoffs this year have happened in Killeen, and on July 14, one ended with the shooting death of police Officer Robert "Bobby" Hornsby, 32.

Fort Hood Pfc. Dustin Billy Cole was shot and killed after he opened fire with an AK47 on Hornsby and Officer Juan E. Obregon, Jr., who was wounded.

The two SWAT team members had responded to a standoff involving Cole at a Killeen apartment complex.

"You have to learn how to control your fear but enhance your caution and this brings it all back to reality that we're all out there trying to do the best job we can and bad things can happen to officers, this is just one of those tragic situations and I knew the family personally and again my prayers just go out to the family; it's tough, it's tough for the whole community," Lange said.
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Soldier shot at his welcome home party trying to stop gunman

UPDATE Police arrest suspect

California Soldier Shot at His Homecoming Party

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. December 25, 2011

An Army soldier who survived a suicide bombing while serving in Afghanistan has been left paralyzed after being shot at his homecoming party in Southern California.

Christopher Sullivan, 22, was shot late Friday while trying to break up a fight between his brother and another man at a San Bernardino residence.

"My son didn't deserve this. He served his country," his mother, Suzanne Sullivan, told the San Bernardino Sun.

Suzanne Sullivan said her son suffered two gunshot wounds to his back, which shattered his spine.

Family members told the newspaper that the shooting late Friday left Sullivan paralyzed and in critical condition.

Police said Sullivan's brother and a partygoer got into an argument. When Sullivan moved to intervene, the man pulled a gun and opened fire.
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Survivor of Fort Hood shootings among Ride2Recovery riders

Wounded military pedal for purpose
Ride2Recovery Florida Challenge spins its way through Brevard
11:17 PM, Oct. 28, 2011
Written by
Lyn Dowling
For FLORIDA TODAY

Kennedy Space Center
CAPE CANAVERAL — It was a bit windy Friday morning along State Road A1A, and rain clouds threatened from the west. For the 200 men and women who mounted their bicycles for the next stage of the Ride2Recovery Florida Challenge, that didn’t even amount to a minor test.

They are soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and others who are recovering from war injuries and conditions related to their service. They cycle to rehabilitate and renew themselves, raising funds as they go for the Fitness Challenge Foundation, which works with the military and Veterans Administration. This ride began Oct. 24 at Mayport Naval Station, near Jacksonville, and is scheduled to end Sunday in Tampa.

“This is my fifth ride, and I do it because there’s a lot of camaraderie and it’s a great challenge," said Spec. 4 Matt Cooke, formerly a truck driver and now with the Army’s Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Hood, Texas.

"For example, one day you get in a covered vehicle and the next day you’re doing everything you can to prevent yourself from taking that covered vehicle."

Cooke, who recently re-enlisted and is a prior Marine, served two tours in Iraq, but he was not wounded by a foreign enemy.

He was shot four times by Nidal Hasan, who is charged with killing 13 people in 2009 at Fort Hood, and his job now is to assist other troops with the transition from a violent atmosphere.

"I was there to have my blood tested and I waiting for a ride when Maj. Hasan started shooting," Cooke said.

"I heard about the program last year and picked up the first four rides. It helps the healing process.

“You see amputees … and even a blind soldier, who are not sitting around waiting for something to happen. It’s better than staying in your room, staring at four walls and feeling sorry for yourself."
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Army Sgt. Ronald Evans Taylor, killed on U.S. soil leaves his family in shock

Soldier killed on U.S. soil leaves his family in shock
By Carrie Napoleon
Post-Tribune correspondent
October 18, 2011

Army Sgt. Ronald Evans Taylor, 28, was supposed to be coming home to his native Wheatfield soon.

Taylor, who was stationed at Fort Riley, Kan., had served two tours of duty in Iraq as a combat medic and X-ray technician since he enlisted in January 2007, and he was in the process of a medical discharge that his family said would have brought him home to Wheatfield in about a month.

That all changed when the soldier was murdered Friday night, about two blocks from his off-base home in Ogden, Kan.

“You don’t expect these things to happen. When he’s been overseas, to know he got killed here at home it’s real hard on my family,” said his younger brother Alex Taylor, of Farmington Hills, Mich., Monday.

Taylor said Riley County police are tracking down leads in the murder. Witnesses in the area reported hearing two shots before the soldier crashed his vehicle into a home at 7th and Walnut streets in Odgen. He was taken to Irwin Army Community Hospital on Fort Riley where he was pronounced dead.

“It looks like he was trying to get away from whoever was trying to hurt him and passed out in his car from his wounds,” Alex Taylor said.

Taylor said his brother, who graduated from Kankakee Valley High School in 2001, was a combat medic just outside of Baghdad.
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Fort Bliss Soldier In Police Custody After Another Soldier Was Shot

Update: Police ID Soldier Involved In Northeast El Paso Shooting
Soldier In Police Custody, Other Hospitalized

Lauren Rozyla/KFOX14 News Reporter
Posted: 5:53 am MDT October 7, 2011
EL PASO, Texas -- El Paso Police identify a soldier who allegedly fired a shot at another soldier in northeast El Paso Thursday night.

Police said they have charged Blake Bochnicek, 21, with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Police said that around 10:30 p.m. they were called out to the 6900 block of Jericho Tree off of Mesquite Hills Drive.

They said when they arrived, they found a group of people outside one of the homes in the neighborhood. There, authorities also found Michael James Jr., 21, shot in the torso by Bochnicek.
James Jr. was rushed to Beaumont Hospital.
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Fort Drum soldier shot at self-storage facility

NY Police Search for Soldier Involved in Shooting at Self-Storage Facility

Police are still looking for a man involved in a shooting Sunday at a self-storage facility in Watertown, N.Y.

The man has been identified as 25-year-old Leonard R. Whitefield. Police want to question him about a shooting at ABC Self-Storage on Water Street where an unnamed soldier from Fort Drum was shot in the leg.

The shooting occurred Sunday around 11 a.m. and involved two men and a woman, all three soldiers from Fort Drum, an army base located near the facility.
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NY Police Search for Soldier Involved in Shooting