Posted on 04/01/2016 5:47:24 AM PDT by IChing
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Why?
Why did the shooter open fire as soon as state Trooper Chad P. Dermyer approached him at Richmond's Greyhound bus station?
Why did he keep shooting and fighting till the end, as state police superintendent Col. Steven Flaherty described Thursday night?
Why was he in Richmond?
An official source identified the shooter as 34-year-old James Brown III of Aurora, Illinois.
CBS 6 found a James Brown III., an African-American with a long criminal history in Aurora, whose date of birth matches up with the information from our source.
Brown is well known to police there.
We talked to his aunt in Aurora, Edith Brown, who had helped raise Brown and had allowed him to stay with her until December, when she says she told him he had to leave.
She said, "He always liked the criminal side."
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She was upset about what happened, but not surprised.
"He had a lot of anger about the police in the past," she said. "He pretty much thought he wanted to be infamous . . . in terms of having a showdown. He always praised those people who got into shootouts with police."
Court records show James Brown III had been charged with murder, intent to kill, aggravated battery with a firearm, failure to obey police, resisting a corrections officer, aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, aggravated battery of an unborn child, numerous drug charges, intimidation, domestic battery, felony possession of a weapon, among many driving charges.
We were unable to obtain a booking photo, and it's unclear how many charges he was ultimately convicted of and imprisoned for over the years.
Edith Brown talked with us by phone as police were on their way to her home to talk about what happened.
She said her nephew vowed that his prison days were over.
"He said he would never go back to prison again," she said. "He would fight it out with them."
James Brown III was declared dead soon after arriving at VCU Medical Center.
Funny how most of the media is NOT EVEN MENTIONING the murderer’s race.
Why give suspicious individuals “prior warning” of being approached by law enforcement?
It sounds like the exact nature and details of how it all happened aren’t being presented clearly and accurately, though.
Sounds more like an actual drug trafficking interdiction operation was being conduted at the bus station, rather than a mere training exercise, and that troopers or a trooper brought in on it as a way for them to gain field experience in mass-transit interdiction after, say, they’d spent their previous time on the force doing strictly highway patrol.
We have to stop paying people (of ALL races) to breed!
A Chicago suburb has a long record?
Wrong, we should pay whites to breed within the bounds of matrimony.
Journalism isn’t what it used to be....
Why did the VA patrol run an exercise in a bus station? Did Greyhound know they were doing this? And how can it be part of an exercise to approach people at a GREYHOUND BUS STATION for looking ‘suspicious’? EVERYONE who uses Greyhound looks suspicious!
I’m sorry but either it’s ridiculously stupid to run an exercise in public like this or they’re calling this an exercise to cover up whatever they were really there to do.
See comment #42. Sounds more like an actual interdiction field op with some training involved than an “exercise.”
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