Posted on 10/14/2022 6:15:22 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
The suspect in the Connecticut ambush that resulted in the deaths of two Bristol Police officers was friends on Facebook with one of the victims.
Nicholas Brutcher's list of friends on the social media platform includes fallen officer Alex Hamzy, who appeared to go by Alex Yzmah on Facebook.
Hamzy, 34, was killed in the line of duty Wednesday night.
Bristol Police Chief Brian Gould said in a news conference that Hamzy, who was raised in the city, graduated from Bristol Eastern High School in 2006.
According to police, a preliminary investigation said Hamzy, Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Iurato were responding to a 911 call reporting a possible domestic violence incident between Nicholas Brutcher and his brother Nathaniel.
Authorities believe the call was a deliberate act to lure law enforcement to the location.
The officers were immediately encountered by a suspect after arriving at the property and shots were fired.
Hamzy died at the scene, and Demonte, 35, was taken to Bristol Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Iurato, 26, was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Hartford for surgery for a gunshot wound.
Iurato was released from the hospital Thursday morning.
Brutcher was also shot and pronounced dead at the scene.
Nathaniel Brutcher was wounded and transported to St. Francis for treatment.
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Every cop I know spells his last name backwards in social so the dirtbags cant find then.
And, in this case, one of the dirtbags was on his list of friends.
Wondering if that was a coincidence or if this officer was targeted...
Wait, does this mean Facebook friends aren’t REAL friends?
And still another reason to avoid FascistBook.
Very true. But now I think the code has been broken and most people know it.
However, I’m not sure the shooting was personal. It was probably just another moment in the steady stream of unpunished, unrestricted violence and death that we now seem to accept as normal in the US.
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