Posted on 08/18/2012 3:01:59 PM PDT by marktwain
Bernell Benn said he was simply in line at a Rite Aid pharmacy Thursday afternoon to pick up his medicine.
He was chatting on the phone with his mother when he noticed that a man had cut in front of him. What happened next at the store in the 3600 block of Tidewater Drive is in dispute. Benn, in a jailhouse interview, said he was defending himself when he fatally shot that man in a gunfight.
"I came to the store just to get my medicine," said Benn, who was crying as he was led into the interview at Norfolk City Jail.
But police say evidence warranted his arrest. Police charged Benn, 41, of the 8100 block of Ridgefield Drive, with second-degree murder and felonious use of a firearm in the killing of Ramon P. Colorado Jr.
Colorado, 42, was a former Norfolk deputy sheriff and auxiliary deputy in Chesapeake who was known for his online persona "Norfolk Dirt."
After he noticed another man had gotten in line in front him, Benn said he told the other man, "Excuse me, sir. I'm in line."
After the man became hostile, Benn said, "I moved out of the way and let him have the spot."
Benn said he continued talking to his mother when he was hit by pepper spray and heard the other man say, "I got more for you, bro."
(Excerpt) Read more at hamptonroads.com ...
Benn has a concealed handgun permit and has no criminal convictions, according to a 2009 renewal of his permit. Colorado had a concealed handgun permit in Norfolk, but a judge revoked it in September 2008 because of a voluntary commitment in Chesapeake, according to court records. Details about what prompted a Chesapeake judge to issue the commitment order were unavailable, and the District Court clerk’s office said they are sealed.
Colorado was a Norfolk deputy sheriff from April 1994 to May 1996, when he was terminated, said Paula Miller, a Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman. He later worked as an auxiliary deputy in Chesapeake. He was promoted to auxiliary sergeant in Chesapeake in 1998 and stayed with the office until 2008, according to a sheriff’s spokesman and court records.
Colorado was known in online communities under his Twitter and Facebook handle “Norfolk Dirt.”
And he was just arrested this spring for harrassing a woman.
I’d set bail for Mr. Benn at $1.00...
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I certainly hope the jury/grand jury gets to see ALL
of the evidence...especially ALL of the video that
almost certainly does exist as most stores have multiple
surveillance cameras. It’s quite obvious that the general
public will probably not have access to all of the evidence.
No, I was asking what your point was as you didnt seem to have one.
You’re just jealous because nobody wants to talk to you.
If you spray me down with pepper spray, I will kill you dead. I call self defense.
That's all you need to know. It's clear who is going to get screwed here.
He was fired from one of his police jobs for harassing a woman on his website if I remember correctly.
I’ll see if I can find the article again.
People who double post should be pepper sprayed, tazed, and the forced to watch Helen Thomas interviews all day long.
Colorado was a Norfolk deputy sheriff from April 1994 to May 1996, when he was terminated, said Paula Miller, a Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman. He later worked as an auxiliary deputy in Chesapeake. He was promoted to auxiliary sergeant in Chesapeake in 1998 and stayed with the office until 2008, according to a sheriff’s spokesman and court records.
Colorado was known in online communities under his Twitter and Facebook handle “Norfolk Dirt.”
Norfolk police arrested him on April 28 on an allegation that he was harassing a woman who coordinated an anti-sexual-assault rally called SlutWalk Norfolk. Colorado made a video of himself talking to women who participated in the march; the video, posted on YouTube, shows a Norfolk police officer telling him he is under arrest.
The woman who filed the complaint, Jacqueline Roderick, a student at Eastern Virginia Medical School, printed copies of Facebook and Twitter postings by Colorado, who made vulgar sexual references to her and called her “sweety” and “slut queen,” according to court records. She obtained an emergency protective order.
He went to Norfolk District Court for a hearing June 28. Judge James Mathews allowed the charge to be dropped but only under the condition that Colorado post an apology hourly on his Norfolk Dirt Facebook page from 8 p.m. to midnight that day and from noon to 8 p.m. on June 29, according to court records.
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/08/police-riteaid-shooting-followed-fight-over-line-cutting
Are you Michael (Ban it if You don't like it) Bloomburg?
Ya, cell phones are annoying as hell. But PLEASE don't encourage the freak'n government get into the mix.
UNfortunately, the gummint is already in the mix forbidding the deployment of cell phone jammers.
Call it what you will. The law calls it something else.
As annoying as the constant loud-mouth cell phone assholes are, I agree that jammers should be prohibited.
You can't as in individual decide to shut down public air space because you don't like it.
The owners of a restaurant need to have the balls to deal with obnoxious cell phone yackers one on one. This is not a deal where we need the government involved. People can handle this one them selves.
No, LOL!
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