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19-year-old chased by police killed by train
Birmingham News via AL.com ^
| 1/15/2006
| AP
Posted on 01/15/2006 12:26:37 PM PST by SamFromLivingston
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — A man chased by police in a Hoover robbery was struck and killed by a train in Birmingham as two companions were arrested.
Police said 19-year-old Travon Brackett of Birmingham was killed Friday night when he rolled under the train trying to escape officers.
His companions, both 16-year-olds, were charged with first-degree robbery. They were held in the Jefferson County Jail, with bonds set at $80,000 each.
Hoover Police Capt. A.C. Roper says a chase along Interstate 65 and ultimately involving Homewood, Birmingham and UAB police began with an armed robbery in the parking lot outside the Parisian store at the Riverchase Galleria about 8:45 p.m. Friday.
A woman's purse was taken at gunpoint and later recovered from the suspects at the end of the chase.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: darwinaward; hollywoodactor
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To: SamFromLivingston
To: SamFromLivingston
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:27:42 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
("Without God all things are permissible." -- Dostoevsky)
To: SamFromLivingston
he rolled under the train trying to escape officers. Bad choice.
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:28:05 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: SamFromLivingston
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:28:20 PM PST
by
brivette
To: Choose Ye This Day
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:28:59 PM PST
by
garyhope
(Happy, healthy, prosperous New Year to all good Freepers and our brave military.)
To: SamFromLivingston
Where are the young Muslim yutes that should be burning the last of the Renaults in this country?
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:29:06 PM PST
by
Porterville
(Keep your communism off my paycheck)
To: SamFromLivingston
Question: Does the felony murder rule apply in circumstances of apparent (accidental) suicide, as in this case?
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:30:20 PM PST
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: SamFromLivingston
very satisfying....too bad the other 2 didn't decide to escape the same way.
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:36:22 PM PST
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert Heinlein)
To: SamFromLivingston
The results of bad parenting or no parenting.
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:37:42 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: SamFromLivingston
...rolled under the train trying to escape officers.
&&&
Here's your Darwin Award, son.
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:40:43 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Do not trust Democrats with national security!)
To: SamFromLivingston
I guess that train did't know about MLK and everyone was free to do what ever one pleases.
Poetic justice after behaving on the wrong side of the 'track'.
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:45:26 PM PST
by
IntheHillsGolden
(You pass through places ...and places pass through you.........)
To: zipp_city
"I guess that train did't know about MLK and everyone was free to do what ever one pleases" ...............HuH?
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:46:49 PM PST
by
IntheHillsGolden
(You pass through places ...and places pass through you.........)
To: SamFromLivingston
Click the Pic
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:46:55 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: A CA Guy
at least HE won't be parenting!!!
To: SamFromLivingston
Worst of all, in today's edition of the very liberal Birmingham News, they reported it as a simple "stolen purse" making it seem like the police chased this young man to his death over a purse.
IT WAS AN ARMED ROBBERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
01/15/2006 12:55:15 PM PST
by
Full Court
(Keepers at home, do you think it's optional?)
To: Choose Ye This Day
Darn, you beat me to it!
:-)
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posted on
01/15/2006 1:00:58 PM PST
by
gogogodzilla
(Raaargh! Raaargh! Crush, Stomp!)
To: Porterville
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posted on
01/15/2006 1:02:24 PM PST
by
LukeL
To: SamFromLivingston
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