Posted on 04/13/2002 7:39:19 PM PDT by SLB
SOMERSET, Ky.- A county sheriff was shot and killed Saturday during a political rally, state police said.
Pulaski County Sheriff Sam Catron was shot about 7:15 p.m. at a political rally and fish fry, state police trooper Craig Sutton said. A suspect was in custody but no other information was immediately available, Sutton said.
Somerset is about 80 miles south of Lexington.
Posted on Sun, Apr. 14, 2002 Pulaski Sheriff Catron is slain LAWMAN SHOT AT FISH FRY; SUSPECT IN CUSTODY HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT
LONDON - Pulaski County Sheriff Sam Catron was shot to death last night at a fish fry and political rally in the county, Kentucky State Police said.
The shooting occurred about 7:15 p.m., and Catron was pronounced dead at the scene, said Trooper Craig Sutton, public affairs officer for the post in London.
He said a male suspect was "picked up a short distance away" and was being questioned. A news conference at the London post was held late last night. No one else was injured in the shooting, Sutton said.
Former County Attorney Fred Neikirk said Catron, who had been sheriff since 1985, was widely respected in the area. "Everyone in the county was a friend of his," Neikirk said. "I can't imagine someone murdering the sheriff just because he didn't like him."
Catron was a candidate for re-election in the May primary, according to state election records. His last primary election, in 1998, was notable for its turnovers, including a coin toss that Catron won. Catron was eventually selected as the Republican candidate, defeating Kenneth W. Stringer, after a judge ordered another vote.
Catron's slaying is not the only recent violence involving a Kentucky sheriff's candidate. State police are investigating the murder of Paul Browning Jr. of Harlan County, whose body was found in a truck March 22. Browning, a former sheriff, had served a prison sentence for plotting to kill two Harlan County officials.
This is dated. Family Farm Preservation operated in Shawano County, Wisconsin, about 35-40 miles west of me. A number of people were convicted in the fake money order case, including Thomas Stockheimer, a long-time Posse member. He and the rest are serving lengthy federal sentences.
They're one nasty bunch.
Posse Comitatus. Added 9/19/01. August Kreis, maintainer of the Posse Comitatus Web site, issued a new statement to replace his initial statement hoping the World Trade Centers would burn to the ground. In his September 17 statement, Kreis stated: "If our borders would have been better controlled, or better yet closed, we would have extremely limited or stopped the influx of non-white, non-Christian immigrants into this nation." Kreis stated that if the U.S. wants to end terrorism, it must expel all Jews and non-whites from "OUR Promised Land, this New JerUSAlem," as well as ending support to Israel, closing the U.S. borders, and minding its own business. Kreis also warned that, "there has been much talk lately of exchanging Freedom for security by this treasonous federal beast system." Kreis declares that he "will NOT blindly be led down the road to their jew World Order totalitarian government."
In January 2001, with Aryan Nations still operational but its future still in question, Butler named as the group's Acting Staff Leader and Youth Activities Coordinator 21-year-old Shawn Winkler, who already held permits for three marches for the upcoming year, in Sandpoint, Rathdrum and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. A new telephone hotline was also announced, along with a new webmaster, Pastor August Kreis III, who has also run a Web site for another Identity group, the Posse Comitatus. Based in Pennsylvania, Kreis serves as Ambassador to the seven states in Aryan Nations' northeast region. Butler also defiantly declared that the organization was reverting to its original name, Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations a decision whose legality, or seriousness, is uncertain.
In a letter reporting these changes to followers, Butler wrote: "The loss of Home, Church, personal possessions and automobiles didn't hurt so much as the loss of those who claimed to be friends and comrades in the struggle to awake our people to the terrible fate they and their posterity face....The Legal profession, courts, big business and media are united in the proposition that the White homogeneous population of North Idaho be mongrelized."
In September 2001, the group’s ongoing leadership issue appeared to be resolved when it announced that Butler had chosen Ohio’s Ray Redfeairn as his successor. The selection suggests that the group will remain militant and possibly volatile: Redfeairn has a substantial record of criminal activity, beginning long before his 1997 conviction on weapons charges. In 1979, he shot a police officer several times during a traffic stop, then pleaded guilty by reason of insanity (psychologists described him as a paranoid schizophrenic during the trial) and spent four years in a mental hospital. In 1985, he pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated murder for the shooting and to charges of aggravated robbery for an incident that occurred prior to the shooting. He was released from prison in 1991. The former Klansman has also been convicted for aggravated menacing, disorderly conduct, and at least three times for alcohol-related driving violations. He has also been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill his mother, although she later retracted the charges.
Along with the promotion of Redfeairn, Butler shuffled the titles of two other top lieutenants, naming August Kreis “Director of Information” and Shawn Winkler “Director of Aryan Nation Youth Corps” [sic]. And while Butler will remain the “rock and spiritual leader of Aryan Nations,” according to the group, it also announced plans to establish an “office and church grounds” in Ulysses, Pennsylvania, where Kreis rents several acres of land.
At least in my state (Wisconsin), suspects are not identified until they've been formally charged, sometimes not IDed until they've had their initial appearance in court. The ID will probably come later today or tomorrow.
Surprisingly, there were segments on John Walsh's program about attempts to catch the killers of a young sheriff in OK and a black police chief in NC. No doubt there will be an update on Sheriff Catron and Anderson in the next broadcast.
Better phrasing of your remark might be "Nuts are all over the world, claiming that their religion backs them up."
Were they trying to save the one on the Sheriff's plate? I won't be surprised when the enviro-whackos storm a McDonald's to release all of the fish filets.
If I didn't laugh, I'd cry.
It is also strange that the leftist Holocaust pimp, Morris Dees was in Lexington last weekend. No doubt accusing as "hate mongers", every conservative group in sight that won't buy his pandering.
SOMERSET, Kentucky - Thirty-eight years after his police chief father was gunned down in the line of duty, county Sheriff Sam Catron was shot to death as he walked away from a weekend political rally.
Catron was hit in the back Saturday by a single bullet from a high-powered rifle and killed as he left a rally in Shopville, a tiny community about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of Lexington.
Early Sunday, Danny S. Shelley, 31, who police say tried to flee the scene by motorcycle but crashed, was charged with capital murder in the sheriff's death.
They take local politics WAAAY too seriously in Kentucky!
Good point, they are using religion for their own means, and either it's the voices in their heads, their pets, or who knows what that's telling them it's okay to commit whatever in the name of religion.
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