Tommy Rollins Jr.
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.
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(Actually, my dad used to use a .22 with shot shells to shoot the carpenter bees drilling holes in the grape arbor. It wouldn't damage anything much bigger than that though.)
Hi-Point & marlin both make a semi-auto "rifle" there more along the line of a carbine really for firing small caliber pistol ammo for the control of pests. Combined with modern police body armor the trooper is lucky, but blunt force trauma to the shest right over the heart can in fact kill a person even if wearing armor.
Didn't Mauser make a 7mm and a 9mm military rifle?
Hi-Point & marlin both make a semi-auto "rifle" there more along the line of a carbine really for firing small caliber pistol ammo for the control of pests. Combined with modern police body armor the trooper is lucky, but blunt force trauma to the shest right over the heart can in fact kill a person even if wearing armor.
I hope he wore trauma plate insert as well.
Most probably hit his kevlar vest. Besides, a 9mm is a weak cartridge.
No kidding - a psyco who would shoot a state trooper like this has no business anywhere near an elementary school.
Considering his young age, there is also a good chance that he is unregistered and has never voted.
"It was a drive-by fruiting"
Democrat I bet.
Just to confuse things a little, I have a 9MM rimfire shotgun in the toybox.
To the MSM a .22 cal lever action is an assault rifle. A .22 cal bolt action with a 15 round clip would be some serious (series) firepower to the lefty gun grabbers.
I'd bet on a Hi-Point carbine. They're semi-auto, but that's close enough for most reporters. Ugly, but cheap, and reputed to go bang every time the trigger is pulled.
The perp was shooting from inside his car. Swinging the carbine around would take time and allow the policeman to draw his sidearm. Thus I'd be thinking of a regular 9mm pistol.
Tommy Rollins Jr.
Colt makes a 9mm 'M-16" lookalike, also in 7.62X39 and others IIRC.
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