[lightman]

Rest in peace, brother, rest in peace.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Dammit!

RIP, NYS Trooper Joseph Longobardo...

They'll find the subhuman POS, and exact punishment. Count on it, sir.

[Fairview]

I don't understand--perhaps someone with more medical knowledge than I have can explain this tragedy to me. I can understand how a man shot in the leg could, perhaps, bleed to death immediately, but how would a leg wound kill three days later, in this day and age? What could have happened?

Sometimes when things are awful we seek explanations, as if that will make it better.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Why do we have to, "Read more at guardian.co.uk ..."

Why not a New York rag, or Detroit, or Chicago??
Why the hell do we have to read of this from the UK??

Sorry for the interruption, I'm tired as hell of the
damn US media not covering the news that means something
to us here in the US.

[patton]

May god be with him, and with his family.

[CremeSaver]

So sorry to hear this. Rest in peace Trooper Longobardo, and may God bless you.

[xcamel]

I know both of them, (from my home town) and another trooper who was recently hurt in an accident as a result of investigating a stupid gas drive-off.

This has been a very bad month.

Peace be with you, Joe, and a speedy recovery to Donnie and Tony.

[verum ago]

God rest his soul and give no respite to his murderer. NY police: run the scum to earth and show only as much mercy as he did his victims. This one gets no earthly trial.

[mewzilla]

More from this link at WKBW in Buffalo...

State Trooper Dies After Shot in Search for Phillips

We'll keep both men and their families in our prayers.

[xcamel]

Local coverage (a tad late)

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=190959

Admin: this should be news, not chat.

[a_dem_no_more]

I worked with Joe when he was a Trooper in Troop K. Joe was a dedicated, caring, compassionate and squared away indvidual. Joe was a Marine and an Air National Guard Reservist who served in Afghanistan. This is the fourth Trooper this year we have buried. For those of you who dont know, there have been people up in that area helping this human piece of filth know as "Bucky" evade capture and have even made t-shirts and served "Bucky Burgers" at local resturants. I hope of those people, have a great night of sleep tonight, because there are many of us who knew Joe and Don Baker who wont. Terri and Little Louis, Your Husband and Daddy died a Hero and we will never forget him or you....RIP Joe.

[driftless2]

I wonder what the death toll by escaped convicts amounts to? I saw a stat one time that measured it in the thousands of innocent Americans murdered by prison escapees or parolees. For all those anti-death penalty opponents think about that number the next time you scream about the possibility of innocent people on death row getting executed. Think about the ones who should have been executed getting out and killing again.