Posted on 05/30/2005 2:04:49 PM PDT by Skylab
Missouri State Trooper Shot Nine Times During Traffic Stop
The Associated Press
Published: May 30, 2005
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man who recently was fired from his job at an elementary school is accused of shooting a state highway patrol trooper nine times after a traffic stop.
Trooper Brandon Brashear, 27, of Grain Valley, remained hospitalized Monday in critical but stable condition.
Authorities said Brashear was shot by the suspect early Saturday as the trooper got out of his car. The suspect then chased him into the highway median, continuing to shoot him with a 9 mm assault rifle, police said.
Tommy R. Rollins Jr., 26, of Grandview, was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer and armed criminal action and was being held without bond. He told reporters Sunday that he didn't mean to shoot Brashear.
"It was just temporary insanity. I wasn't even thinking when I did it," he said. "The society's what caused me to do what I did. Just look at the society we live in."
Jackson County Prosecutor Michael Sanders said Rollins' blame was misplaced.
"Mr. Rollins can try to blame anyone he wants to blame, but the reality is, society wasn't out there pulling that trigger," Sanders said.
The prosecutor did not elaborate further on Rollins' job woes.
AP-ES-05-30-05 1539EDT
Sounds like maybe the elementary school made a good decision in separating this nut from the kiddos. This guy is so demented, he doesn't even realize "society made me do it" is a cliche.
Mr. Rollins, meet Mr. Sparky.
Nine shots with a 9mm and the trooper is stable? Dude's got all sorts of problems, hasn't he?
I hope they catch the gun that did this. Who made the gun? Why was this gun left unattended to be able to do this? Why, somebody ought to pass a law........
Friends don't let friends carry mouse guns.
Maybe Flip Wilson made him do it?
I hope that the officer had his vest on.
The perp gets me really mad. We finally get rid of the Clintoon Ass--Anti Efficient weapon law, and this guy shows again that it is not the trigger that pulls the finger.
And we actually let people like this near our children?!
Ummmmm I think somebody has their weapons nomenclature skewed. Unless this was a Beretta Storm or Kel-Tec sub2000......
"Assault Rifle" was obviously added by the AP to create the suggestion that Bush is responsible for this act by letting the Assault Weapons Ban sunset.
Look for every story with a firearm involved to contain the term "assault" in the future.
While the real story here is the continuing proliferation of unstable types that "guard" our children at government schools.
I guess if a person had lost his job and was being given a 200.00 ticket for failure to put on a seat belt, the loss of 200.00 could seem life threatening.
Assault rifle? 9mm? Naww. Musta been a 9mm assault pistol :)
So an idiot commits an assault with a rifle and it becomes an assault rifle. If he had perpetrated a rape with a banana would it become a rape banana? or just a ripe banana?
I bet he voted for Kerry!
"It was just temporary insanity. I wasn't even thinking when I did it," he said. "The society's what caused me to do what I did. Just look at the society we live in."
There's no doubt he was a Democrat!
Shows you how effective the 9mm round actually is-- assuming this asshat of a reporter actually got that data right in the first place. Never heard of a 9mm "assault rifle."
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