The man sought in connection with the shootings identified himself as Eswardo Ramclaim, police told a Tampa TV station. However, sheriff's deputies believe that Ramclaim is an alias.
Posted on 09/29/2006 7:03:10 AM PDT by BillCompton
Burn in hell, scumbag!
Not to mention the invaluable live-target practice for the fallen's fellow officers.
Good shoot.
Beers all around.
Sheriff Beary from Orange County (my county) is with those officers today. If the liberal media question this killing he will shove it down their chutes big time.
Oh yeah....everyone of this guys relatives will be on tv ...crying ...saying he was a good boy and they killed him for no reason. The libs will say it was a racist hate crime and the family of this man will get millions from the lawsuits. The cops who killed this guy will be in jail for life....
Yup, he's assuming room temperature in preparation for his dirt nap!
Good riddance!
Did they have to kill him? Couldn't they have shot the gun out of his hand or called in a negotiator?/s
I'm sure we will hear that today! I say Rest in Pieces! scum bag! :o)
Whiskey for the men, beer for the dogs.
(With apologies, but I don't think they used horses in the manhunt. ;) )
Prayers for the deputy's family, and those who loved him.
CONGRATULATIONS FLORIDA LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES! A JOB WELL DONE! THANK YOU FOR PUTTING YOUR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERY DAY FOR US AND MAY THE FAMILIES FIND SOME COMFORT THAT JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE. I ALSO GRIEVE WITH YOU OVER THE LOSS OF YOUR OFFICER AND K-9 OFFICER. THEY WERE SO VERY BRAVE.
another thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710640/posts
But it won't get them very far in Polk County. Most folks here won't have any sympathy at all for this scumbag, and won't hesitate to convince the lefties that they need to just STFU.
... and don't forget how the chief kept referring to him as a "BLACK MAN WITH DREADLOCKS".
the PC po-lice will be on them soon, I fear.
DITTO!
""He was shot multiple times. I don't believe he felt a thing," he said."
Died of lead poisoning. The only thing he felt was his eyelashes slowwwwwwwwwwly closing.
Kill a cop and you die...lovin' in it!
The man sought in connection with the shootings identified himself as Eswardo Ramclaim, police told a Tampa TV station. However, sheriff's deputies believe that Ramclaim is an alias.
LAKELAND, Fla. -- SWAT team members on Friday fatally shot a man suspected of killing a Polk County sheriff's deputy, ending an intensive manhunt that had gripped the area, officials said.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the SWAT members shot the man numerous times after finding him in thick brush just before 10 a.m., only 100 yards away from where Deputy Vernon Matthew Williams was killed in a burst of gunfire a day earlier.
The suspect refused to show both of his hands when officers commanded him to, Judd said.
"He was in under thick brush where it had grown up over fallen trees and this tree was massive, probably 12, 15 or 20 inches in diameter," Judd said. "He had gotten underneath that and dug out an area and still had growth around him. There he was hiding."
One of the deputies said he was standing on top of him before he ever saw him, Judd said.
The suspect appeared to have the .45-caliber weapon that belonged to Williams, Judd said. He still did not know the man's name.
Judd said he saw the man's body in the brush and matched it to the photo of the suspect that had been released Thursday.
"I trust God to be the judge and jury better than anyone on earth," Judd said.
He said Williams' family had been told of the suspect's death. Officers had used night-vision scopes, tracking dogs, helicopters and door-to-door searches to try to locate the man, who fled from Williams after another deputy had stopped him for speeding.
Before the suspect was killed, Judd said the man was from Miami and officials were confident he was involved in drug dealing because they had talked to several of his associates, some of whom live in Polk County.
One of those associates had been with the suspect to the pistol range before, Judd said. Authorities haven't determined the suspect's real name because he used several aliases, including Alex or Andrew Cloxton, and Angelo Freeland.
The gunman's face was identified by Deputy Douglas Speirs, who made the initial traffic stop and was shot in the leg moments after Williams was killed. Williams, 39, probably died instantly and "was shot multiple times. I don't believe he felt a thing," Judd said.
"A lot of people would say, 'Why me?' Matt Williams would say, 'Why not me?"' Judd said. "He's representative of all the law enforcement officers who put themselves on the line in this state and across the nation."
Speirs, also 39, was treated for a gunshot wound to the leg and released Thursday evening, Judd said. Williams' police dog, Diogi, was also killed.
Amen.
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