The perp.
Posted on 05/28/2015 12:55:56 PM PDT by fishtank
RIO RANCHO, N.M. – A suburban Albuquerque police officer was shot and killed (May 25, 2015) during a traffic stop, the first time a Rio Rancho officer was fatally shot in the line of duty in the department's 34-year history.
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The perp.
Fallen hero.
Very Sad.
The perp should have been in jail. His rap sheet certainly warrants it but the sympathetic judges didn’t see it that way.
By the way I live right by the Intel plant :)
Yes. It’s sickening.
Not to mention ‘bishop’ Sheehan grifted the death penalty away from NM a few years ago....
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
No chum for the race-baiters today...
Obama and the RATS don’t talk about the War On Cops.
He is a repeat offender.....
The headline is screwy. Rio Rancho is a suburb of Albuquerque, but the police officer was not a suburban Albuquerque officer, he was a Rio Rancho police officer.
I live 150 yards from the scene of the shooting, and can see the spot from my driveway.
The more details that emerge about how this happened, the more I wonder why the officer didn't have his weapon drawn.
The story, as of now, is that the perp was riding as a passenger in a stolen SUV. His girlfriend was driving. The perp was either forcing the girlfriend to drive him around while he was looking for places to rob, or she was complicit. Her story is that he was forcing her to do so at gunpoint.
The girlfriend stated that she noticed the officer, and swerved to draw his attention in the hopes he would pull them over and she would be able to get out of the situation (emphasis, this is her statement).
The story is not 100% clear from here. They were pulled over in front of a business in a parking lot off the main road they were on (Arby's on Southern Blvd), and at some point during this initial stop, she claims the boyfriend put the car in drive and told her to floor it.
Now here is where it gets weird. Either it was at this point (I don't think so, due to where the officer collapsed and all the emergency vehicles converged) where the perp then shot the girlfriend in the foot and kicked her out of the car, or it was at the secondary stop. Officer Brennan was able to get the vehicle pulled over again after they got on the side road and out of the parking lot (Pinetree Road, about 120 yards or so east of the initial stop).
The officer, noticing the woman on the ground with an injury to her foot, then approached the vehicle with the perp still inside (no mention if the officer approached from the driver's side or passenger). Apparently Officer Brennan then was shot three times in the torso, walked back to the woman who was still on the ground, asked "What was his name" and collapsed.
The perp then left the scene in the stolen SUV, leaving the woman behind.
Given what happened, why did he approach without his weapon drawn, or even approach at all without backup there? I don't understand it.
A trip down the trap door guarantees he won’t ever repeat again.
I’ve seen his last name written two different ways (Brenner and Benner) in multiple local stories (one article has it spelled both ways). I thought the actual spelling was Brenner, but it appears to be Benner in most of the articles.
Allowing murderers to live is just wrong. The corrupt liberals and progressives always make things worse for decent people.
RIP, officer Brenner.
Just speculating on what you’ve given - he may have thought he was dealing with a drunk. Sounds like the “attempted flight” was short.
Possible, but the injured (shot) girlfriend lying on the ground should have been a big red flag. Unless she didn't feel the shot, or though she just injured her foot when she was pushed out.
Also, it's Officer Benner, not sure where I got Brennan in my initial post - I was thinking it was Brenner, but somehow put Brennan. Several of the local articles seem to have it both ways, but most do have it as Benner.
Drunk and domestic dispute - GF jumps out, BF runs, but not far, etc. Not to say that isn’t a serious issue, just saying that he may have jumped to the wrong conclusion. Odds that it’s a person willing to shoot a cop are pretty small, compared with odds it’s a drunk and/or domestic.
Story with a lot more details:
http://krqe.com/2015/05/27/new-details-emerge-in-deadly-rio-rancho-shooting/
He’s creepy looking.
He doesn’t look black to me.
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