Archive for March, 2009
Posted by privateofficernews on March 31, 2009
NEWARK, Ohio Mar 31 2009 (AP) – Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool.
Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.
Twenty-eight-year Kile Wygle was hospitalized for minor injuries. Police say he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he told an officer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers.
Wygle told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph.
Wygle has pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 31, 2009
Maryville TN Mar 31 2009
An alleged shoplifter who hit three stores on Friday took Maryville police on a foot chase that ended at U.S. 129 Bypass near Foothills Mall.
When police chased down 33-year-old John Michael Crowley, Lafollette Drive, Maryville, he had a backpack with merchandise from the mall, according to a Maryville police report. Crowley was charged with three counts of theft of property from a building greater than $500, one count of evading arrest, and two attachments for contempt.
Police responded at 4:27 p.m. Friday to reports by loss prevention officers that a white male in a black jacket had just taken several items from stores at Foothills Mall. An officer on the Bypass saw the alleged shoplifter being chased by a loss prevention officer from Belk. Crowley allegedly looked over his shoulder as police called for him to stop and kept running. After a short foot chase, an officer caught Crowley on the side of the Bypass.
The merchandise in his backpack came from Sears and Belk at Foothills Mall, 197 Foothills Mall, and Hastings, 501 N. Foothills Plaza Drive. Crowley was being held without bond on the attachments for contempt pending 1:30 p.m. April 6 and 9 a.m. April 7 hearings in Blount County General Sessions Court.
Maryville police officers made arrests in two other shoplifting cases reported Friday:
— Dana Lawson, 39, and John Robert Lawson, 49, both of Dryden Lane, Maryville, were both arrested in an alleged shoplifting incident on Friday at Wal-Mart, 2410 U.S. 411 South, Maryville. Dana Lawson allegedly tried to conceal $29.85 in merchandise. John Lawson, her husband, allegedly assisted her.
A 17-year-old juvenile who was with them is also accused of helping with the theft and was taken into custody. Dana Lawson, who was booked under the name Dana Carol Laughterty, was charged with two counts of theft of property by shoplifting. John Lawson was charged with possession of a Schedule II substance and criminal conspiracy.
Both were released on $2,000 in bonds pending 9 a.m. March 31 hearings in Blount County General Sessions Court. The juvenile was charged with conspiracy to commit theft and taken to the Blount County Juvenile Detention Center.
— Doris Rebecca Murphy, 40, Howard Street, Maryville, was arrested by Maryville police officers on March 27 on the charge of theft of property by shoplifting. Murphy allegedly took a 24-pack of beer valued at $12.99 from Food City, 2135 E. Broadway Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Friday. She was spotted leaving the parking lot and police used the vehicle’s license plate registration information to find her at the Howard Street residence. She told police she took the beer. Several cans were missing, according to a Maryville police report.
She was released on a $1,000 bond pending a 9 a.m. April 7 hearing in Blount County General Sessions Court.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 31, 2009
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Springfield MO. Mar 31 2009
By: Brett Davis
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Police are investigating an incident in which a man allegedly fired a gun in the air downtown Saturday after being chased by a club security guard.
Lt. Scott Leven of the Springfield Police Department said that it started after a security officer observed a man breaking into cars in a near by parking lot and gave chase.
Leven said no one was hurt in the incident, which happened about 10:45 p.m. outside Club 220 — formerly the location of Traffic nightclub — in the 200 block of West Walnut Street.
After seeing a man tampering with a car at a nearby parking lot, a security officer from the club chased the suspect, who then pulled a gun and fired a round into the air according to what the security guard told police.
Police responded to the area but could not locate a suspect and the security officer could not provide a detailed description of the suspect Leven said.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 31, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. March 31 2009 (AP) — A Tennessee man who spent three decades on the run before turning himself in to face charges in a 1977 killing is very sick following a stroke and it’s unclear if his family can post a $150,000 bond set Monday, his attorney said.
James Brewer, a 58-year-old former machinist, surrendered earlier this month while recovering from a stroke that forced his hospitalization in Oklahoma, where police say he spent most of the years since leaving Tennessee in the late 1970s.
A judge set bond at a hearing in Hohenwald, about 60 miles south of Nashville. Brewer’s lawyer, Jerry Colley, said he’s not sure if Brewer’s family will be able to raise the money.
Lewis County Sheriff Dwayne Kilpatrick wants Brewer moved from the county jail in Hohenwald to a state prison hospital that is better equipped to care for inmates with special medical needs, Colley said. He added there’s a waiting list and Brewer, who gets his nourishment through a feeding tube, is still recovering from his latest stroke.
“It really makes it difficult for the sheriff,” Colley added.
Brewer disappeared along with his wife, Dorothy, just before he was to stand trial in 1978 for the April 1977 shooting death of Jimmy Carroll in Hohenwald. He’s now facing a first-degree murder charge that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life, authorities say.
Authorities have said Brewer was suspicious of Carroll because he thought Carroll was having a relationship with his wife. The original police report says Brewer confronted Carroll at a service station, shot him twice, then drove off and left him to die.
According to authorities, James and Dorothy Brewer lived for a short time after the killing in Nashville before heading to Texas, where Brewer began using another name and his wife, her maiden name.
The couple spent most of their lives since in the same home in Shawnee, about 30 miles outside Oklahoma City. He worked as a machinist at a factory until his first stroke about a year ago.
A second stroke this year may have been the motivation to surrender and finally reunite with family members still in Tennessee, said Colley, who also was Brewer’s attorney in 1977.
According to police, a relative had told authorities that Brewer might be ready to talk about the shooting. Authorities say Brewer, who was questioned in the Oklahoma hospital last month where he was recovering from his second stroke, did not confess though he turned himself in a few weeks later.
Brewer’s next hearing is set for April 27.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 31, 2009
Port Arthur TX Mar 31 2009
Brett Davis
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Port Arthur man has filed suit against Wal-Mart, claiming he was injured when store employees accused him of shoplifting and used force to detain him.
Michael Anthony Harris claims he was shopping at the Wal-Mart located at 4999 Twin City Highway in Port Arthur on March 13 and paid at a register in the back portion of the store.
Harris alleges he was leaving the store through its front entrance, when he was confronted by four Wal-Mart employees, including defendant David Treml.
The employees accused Harris of having items in his bags for which he did not pay, according to the complaint filed March 25 in Jefferson County District Court. Harris claims he immediately handed the bags to the employees.
“Plaintiff said, ‘Just take the bag and let me go,’” the suit states.
However, the employees would not let Harris leave the store until police arrived, the complaint says.
Harris alleges workers then threw him to the floor and placed him in handcuffs.
“Plaintiff’s arms were violently jerked as one of the employees secured Plaintiff with handcuffs,” the suit states. “Defendants had no legal authority or justification to detain plaintiff.”
According to the complaint, Harris asked the employees to release him from the handcuffs because of his pain, but the employees refused to do so until the police arrived several moments later.
When a police officer arrived, Harris claims the officer recognized the severity of his injury and immediately transported Harris to the hospital. Harris states he was told he had a dislocated shoulder.
Because of the incident, Harris claims he incurred medical costs and experienced physical pain and suffering, physical impairment, disfigurement, mental anguish and fear of a future disease or illness.
The plaintiff alleges Wal-Mart and Treml committed acts of negligencee, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault and vicarious liability.
Harris is seeking unspecified exemplary damages, pre-judgment interest at the maximum rate allowed by law, post-judgment interest at the legal rate, costs and other relief the court deems just.
He will be represented by Langston Scott Adams of Port Arthur.
The case has been assigned to Judge Milton Shuffield, 136th District Court.
Jefferson County District Court case number: D183-630.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 31, 2009
MILFORD, Conn. March 31 2009
By: Rick McCann
Private Officer News Network
Police in Southwestern Connecticut are investigating what they call a “massive theft” involving more than $1 million worth of cigarettes which were stolen from a warehouse over the weekend.
Investigators say Saturday’s theft in Milford was well planned.
The burglars disabled lighting and security systems, and then used a ladder to scale a concrete wall and enter through a roof hatch.
Police say the thieves who broke into Montano Cigarettes, Candy & Tobacco Inc. stole some 15,000 cartons of cigarettes and investigators say that it all went smooth for the crooks as they spent a lot of time getting into the warehouse and hauling off that amount of product.
Authorities say that there were surveillance cameras but right now it appears that they were able to catch only some of the action.
Business-owner Gary Montano says he thought his warehouse was “a complete fortress, impregnable.”
Police are not saying if they have any leads in this million dollar heist but said that they will be releasing details soon.
Montano sells cigarettes, candy, and other goods to convenience stores in the area.
Milford is a small community between New Haven Connecticut and New York City.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 31, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. Mar 31 2009 — Police are looking for a former Wal-Mart employee accused of embezzling money from the South Charleston store.
Wal-Mart staff notified South Charleston police on Wednesday that Joshua Michael Elswick, 18, of 4th Avenue used his position as a cashier at the Southridge Centre location to take $1,465 in cash from his register, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.
Store officials said money in the registers started to come up short while Elswick was working between Feb. 24 and March 15, the complaint said. The store set Elswick up on a register audit and found that Elswick’s register was short on those audit days, police said.
The store’s security officials checked the video surveillance footage of all the registers Elswick was working on and found that the man could be seen hiding money in his pants pockets and in his boots and socks, the complaint said. Police said after viewing the tapes that Elswick could be seen opening the register whether or not a purchase had been made and pretending to drop a customer’s change to hide money, according to the complaint.
Store officials said that Elswick also could be seen on the tape giving customers the appropriate change, then taking more money from the register and hiding it on his person, according to the complaint.
Authorities have issued a warrant for Elswick’s arrest. He faces charges of felony embezzlement.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 30, 2009
EL PASO, Texas March 30 2009 — Two Las Cruces men were arrested for allegedly stabbing a security guard for Studio 69, a nightclub in Downtown El Paso, El Paso police said.
Police said a fight broke out inside the club about 12:30 a.m. and 18-year-old Daniel Olivas and 21-year-old Jorge Gonzalez, both armed with knives, stabbed the guard as they passed him.
Other security guards were able to detain Olivas until police arrived, and officers located Gonzalez hiding under a car nearby.
Both Olivas and Gonzalez were arrested and booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on one count each of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said.
The security guard was taken to Thomason Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The incident happened a day after a shooting occurred outside the club. Police are still looking for the suspects in the shooting.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 30, 2009
HOUSTON TX Mar 30 2009
By: Rick McCann
Staff
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ A security officer is lucky to be alive after a series of frightening events in southwest Houston overnight.
A security officer on duty was sitting in his private vehicle when he saw a man breaking into a car on Beechnut at Cinnamon. When he went after him, another man started breaking into the security guard’s vehicle.
Investigators said that when the security officer tried to stop the second thief, detectives say three men then attacked him.
The security officer managed to pull his gun and shoot one of attackers and then another suspect wrestled the security officer’s gun away and tried to shoot him, but luckily, the gun jammed. The security officer continued to struggle with several of the men who finally fled the scene.
Houston police responded to the incident and arrested the other three men. The wounded man was treated at a local hospital. Police say the security officer received minor injuries.
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GLENVILLE NC Mar 30 2009 — A Schenectady woman has been charged with stealing $1,200 from Wal-Mart earlier this year while she worked as a cashier, police said.
Ruth S. Smith, 51, of Foster Avenue, allegedly stole the money from the store off Freeman’s Bridge Road between last month and this month — thefts police said were first detected by a store asset protection employee.
Smith was arrested Saturday by Officer Meredith L. Kaiser and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny.
Smith was arraigned in front of Town Justice Paul E. Davenport and sent to the Schenectady County Jail in lieu of $1,200 bail and due back in court Tuesday, police said.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 30, 2009
Pittsburgh PA Mar 30 2009
A routine arrest at the Downtown Burlington Coat Factory erupted into a bloody confrontation between an off-duty city police officer working as a security guard and a suspected shoplifter yesterday afternoon that ended when the officer stabbed the suspect with a knife pulled from his utility belt.
“It became a tense situation until the officer became involved in a fight for his life,” said Sgt. James Vogel of Zone 2. “It’s one of the most serious situations our officers can face.”
Yesterday, Sgt. Vogel said the suspect, 59-year-old Anthony Smith, who has a lengthy criminal record, would likely face charges of aggravated assault in addition to robbery.
The officer was being treated for head injuries and a possible concussion at a hospital yesterday. Police would not say where he was being treated and would not release his name, saying only that he is in his mid-40s and a 16-year veteran with the Pittsburgh Police Bureau.
Police said the officer, who was working a private security detail in the store, caught Mr. Smith trying to shoplift three pairs of Timberland boots. The officer then escorted Mr. Smith down to a security office in the basement floor, where he looked up Mr. Smith’s criminal record on a computer and discovered there was a warrant out for his arrest.
He went to arrest Mr. Smith and had one of his wrists in cuffs when Mr. Smith turned around and began bludgeoning the officer with the cuffs, using them “like brass knuckles,” Sgt. Vogel said.
Mr. Smith backed him into a desk and hit him several times before grabbing for the officer’s gun, unsnapping the holster.
The officer then frantically pulled a knife from his belt and stabbed Mr. Smith in the stomach. Mr. Smith continued to fight the officer until he was pushed over and Tasered by another police officer who had arrived for backup.
Mr. Smith was transported to UPMC Mercy, where he underwent surgery yesterday for the stab wound. He was listed in stable condition.
Sgt. Vogel said the knife, which had about a two-inch fixed blade, belonged to the officer and was not standard issue. With the suspect reaching for his gun, the officer was running out of options and used the knife “as a weapon of last resort,” Sgt. Vogel said.
“Police are forced to make split-second decisions … it’s not subject to second-guessing by me or anyone else,” he said. “He made a decision that he felt was necessary to save his life.”
There was no indication the officer acted improperly, he said, and added that most arrest subjects do not fight back.
“This is one of a 3 percent chance,” he said. “Ninety-seven percent of the people we arrest will be compliant.”
City homicide detectives are investigating the case because of the severity of the incident and because a city police officer was involved, Sgt. Vogel said.
The officer, who was hit so hard that it left the handcuffs bloody, was due to be released from the hospital last night and may be put on administrative leave pending an investigation. Sgt. Vogel said the officer was “extremely agitated” but conscious and alert, though he was beginning to show signs of a concussion.
Court records indicate that Mr. Smith has pleaded guilty to theft charges a dozen times since 1988. Last year, he served several months in jail for retail theft from 2006. Two weeks ago, he was arrested and charged again with retail theft by Ross police.
“Shoplifting from people in an already downturned economy is just bad karma,” Sgt. Vogel said. “In this situation, it almost cost one of my officers his life.”
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 30, 2009
CHARLOTTE, N.C. March 30 2009 — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chief said an officer was speeding and likely did not have his lights and siren running when he plowed into the side of a sedan in north Charlotte, killing the driver.
Chief Rodney Monroe said Officer Martray J. Proctor, 24, was driving in excess of 90 mph in a 45 mph zone on his way to assist another officer in a traffic stop at about 10:15 p.m. Sunday when the crash happened.
Monroe said he does not believe Proctor had his lights and siren on, so there is no dash camera video from the crash. The dash camera is automatically turned on when the lights and siren are activated.
The chief said that according to state law, any time an officer goes over the speed limit, he or she must run the lights and siren.
Proctor remains in Carolinas Medical Center with a broken leg.
Proctor’s patrol car hit a sedan pulling onto Old Statesville Road from Henderson Cir
cle, between Sunset and Lakeview roads, killing driver 20-year-old Shatona Evette Robinson.
Three passengers in the car were also taken to CMC. Two were treated and released and one remains in fair condition.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s reconstruction team is still investigating the crash.
At a news conference today police said that charges against the officer may happen but that the case will be forwarded to the grand jury to decide that.
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PORT ST. LUCIE FL Mar 30 2009 — A 21-year-old Port St. Lucie man found out hiding in a bathroom to avoid arrest doesn’t work.
Wilfrido Juan Pujols, of the 100 block of Southwest Peacock Boulevard, is accused of wheeling a $264 Blu-ray DVD player outside a Walmart without paying for it, according to an arrest affidavit from the Port St. Lucie Police Department.
A manager and police watching a security camera allegedly saw Pujols putting the DVD player into a shopping cart and placing a yellow merchandise return sticker on top of the item, the affidavit said.
He then walked outside the Walmart on Northwest St. Lucie Boulevard, the report states. When police and the manager tried to stop Pujols, he “immediately let the cart go and ran down the parking lot.”
According to the report, Pujols was seen entering a Great Clips store and entered the restroom.
Pujols was apprehended there and taken to the St. Lucie County Jail on charges of retail theft and resisting arrest without violence. He was later released on $1,000 bond
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 30, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn Mar 30 2009 – Authorities say that they have arrested a Metro school bus driver supervisor in a very unusual sex act involving children.
Investigators arrested Bob Epley, 56, who faces charges of hiring children to take part in sex acts with him at a friend’s apartment on Elm Hill Pike. He is accused of paying at least three children — ages 9, 14 and 15 — to put him in a strangle hold with their legs.
Police did not say if there was any other sexual contact with the children but they are still investigating to determine how many children may have been involved.
Police also said that Epley video taped the encounters at the Ashland Hills apartment complex in Donelson.
Investigators also did not say how they first learned of Epley’s involvement with the children.
School officials said Epley verbally resigned Monday morning. He remained in jail Monday, in lieu of $75,000 bond
In a separate case, on Saturday, a Metro school teacher was arrested for sexual encounters with at least two boys.
Police say if you have any information about Epley or any metro school teacher who might be involved in inappropriate contact with children to notify them.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 30, 2009
SALEM NH MAR 30 2009 – The husband of a Lawrence, Mass., city councilor tried to shake down a woman for $200 after he found her cellular phone at Walmart, according to police.
Nelson Silva, 30, husband of District B city councilor Grisel Silva who is also a constable providing security for Lawrence’s schools, was arrested Saturday night in a police sting.
Capt. Shawn J. Patten said officers went to Walmart, 344 North Broadway, at 9:30 p.m. after a woman called to say a man found her cell phone but was demanding $200 for its return.
Patten said the woman realized she lost the phone at the store and used a friend’s cell phone to text a message to it asking anyone who found it to contact her friend. Te man who found it, identified by police as Silva, demanded $200 in cash for its return, Patten said.
Silva ordered the woman to text him a photograph of the cash to prove she had it.
Police put a sting into motion, first setting up a meeting in another parking lot where officers in unmarked cars were positioned. When Silva arrived, the phone was exchanged for an envelope containing only $21 in cash, Patten said.
After the exchange, Silva drove off but was immediately pulled over by marked cruisers and arrested.
He is charged with theft of lost or mislaid property and released on a summons. He will be arraigned in Salem District Court on a later date.
Silva could be facing additional charges as the investigation continues, police said.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 30, 2009
WINDSOR, N.C. Mar 30 2009— A Bertie County school worker is accused of attacking a student and sending him to the hospital.
Johnny Cale was arrested Thursday, and charged with assault and misdemeanor child abuse.
Police tell 13News, Cale choked a student, and caused him to pass out.
The alleged incident happened at Uplift Academy in Windsor. The student was taken to the hospital.
According to police, Cale no longer works at Uplift Academy.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 29, 2009
Carthage, N.C. Mar 29 2009
wral.com — A gunman walked into a Moore
County nursing home Sunday morning, fatally shooting eight people and injuring three others, including a police officer, Carthage Police Chief Chris McKenzie said.
The shooting happened around 10 a.m. at Pinelake Health and Rehab Center, 801 Pinehurst Ave., a 110-bed rehabilitation, nursing and Alzheimer’s care facility in Carthage.
McKenzie did not offer a motive for the crime or say what the suspect’s relationship to the facility might be. He said seven of the deceased were patients and one was an employee of the facility.
“The shooter entered the facility heavily armed and began shooting at people in wheelchairs,” Sen. Harris Blake, R-Moore told WRAL News.
While meeting with families Sunday at First Baptist Church, 108 McNeill St. in Carthage, Blake said he knew two patients at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center. Neither person was injured, he said.
The police officer, who was the first to arrive at the scene, was shot in the leg, McKenzie said. The officer shot the gunman who was transported to the Moore Regional Hospital for treatment.
“It’s a horrible event in any size town, particularly though when you deal with a small town such as Carthage. It’s hard. This is my town, this is my small town. I was born and raised here. So yeah, I take it to heart a little bit. All you can do is move forward,” McKenzie said.
Multiple law enforcement agencies, including Carthage Police Department, Moore County Sheriff’s Office and State Bureau Investigation, are investigating.
Numerous calls to the nursing home were not answered.
Sky 5 video of the scene shows nearly a dozen law enforcement vehicles and yellow tape roping off what appears to be the front of the building.
Pinelake, which opened in 1993, recently got a five-star rating, the highest possible, from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the federal insurance programs.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 29, 2009
CARTHAGE, N.C. March 29 2009 – A gunman opened fire at a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning, killing at least six people and wounding several others, police said.
The gunman was also injured before he was apprehended by police after the 10 a.m. shooting at Pinelake Health and Rehab in the town of Carthage, Police Chief Chris McKenzie told several television stations. A police officer was also hurt.
“It’s a horrible event in any size town, particularly, though, when you deal with a small town such as Carthage,” McKenzie said. “It’s hard. This is my home, my small town. I was born and raised here so, yeah, I take it to heart a little bit. All you can do is move forward.”
Gretchen Kelly, spokeswoman at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in nearby Pinehurst, said six people were brought to the hospital from the nursing home. Kelly said two of the injured died at the hospital, but it wasn’t clear if those two were among the six initially reported dead by police.
Kelly said two other patients had been discharged, while two were still being treated. She wouldn’t release further details on the injuries or conditions of those hospitalized.
McKenzie said the gunman wasn’t a patient at the nursing home, located about 60 miles southwest of Raleigh, but didn’t offer any further details on what the gunman’s motive might have been.
Late Sunday afternoon, authorities appeared to be conducting a search of the nursing home’s parking lot, which they had blocked off with yellow police tape. Among the items they found was a camouflaged-colored rifle or shotgun, which was leaning against the side of a Jeep Cherokee.
The road leading to the home was filled with parked cars, both of police and relatives of those living at Pinelake. Howard McMillian, of Lakeview, said he raced to the scene as soon as he heard about the shooting. His 56-year-old sister lives at the nursing home, and McMillian said his brother had gotten a call from officials saying she was unharmed.
“I know she’s real nervous,” McMillian said. “I just want to make sure she’s OK.”
A nursing home Web site said the facility that opened in 1993 has 110 beds, including 20 for those with Alzheimer’s disease.
Calls to the nursing home by The Associated Press rang unanswered Sunday, and McKenzie and several state law enforcement agencies didn’t immediately return messages or declined to comment. Police planned a news conference for later Sunday afternoon.
Carthage is a small town of roughly 1,800 people in the North Carolina Sandhills, an area popular among retirees and home to several noted golf courses, including the famed Pinehurst resort and its No. 2 course that regularly hosts the U.S. Open.
Pinelake Health and Rehab was last inspected in May, and the review resulted in an overall five-star — or “much above average” — rating from federal Medicaid officials.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 29, 2009
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Trooper Mike Haynes
Montana Highway Patrol
Montana
End of Watch: Friday, March 27, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: 28
Tour of Duty: 2 years, 6 months
Badge Number: 159
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Vehicular assault
Date of Incident: Monday, March 23, 2009
Weapon Used: Automobile; Alcohol involved
Suspect Info: Killed in collision
Trooper Mike Haynes succumbed to injuries sustained five days earlier when a car being operated by an intoxicated driver struck his patrol car head-on on US 93 near Kalispell.
The drunk driver was driving the wrong way on the highway when the collision occurred at approximately 2:40 am. The intoxicated driver was also killed in the collision.
Trooper Haynes had served with the Montana Highway Patrol for 2 1/2 years. He is survived by his wife, two young children, and parents.
Agency Contact Information
Montana Highway Patrol
2550 Prospect Avenue
P.O. Box 201419
Helena, MT 59620
Phone: (406) 444-3780
Please contact the Montana Highway Patrol for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information.
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Posted by privateofficernews on March 29, 2009
KINGSPORT TN March 29 2009 — A 2-year-old child lay almost limp in J.J. Williams’ arms. She wasn’t breathing well and had a burning fever. With kids of his own and previous EMT training, instinct took over.
“One of the first things that went through my mind, besides trying to save this little girl, was ‘I’ve got children and what if this was me. I’ve got to do everything I can to make sure she makes it,’” Williams said.
He’s a security officer with the Kingsport Town Center (formerly Fort Henry Mall).
On March 9, Williams was on routine foot patrol inside the mall when he received a call from office personnel that a small child was crying and screaming, and the mother was reporting her daughter was having trouble breathing.
“When I got to them, she was holding her daughter in her arms, and I observed that she was semiconscious — a little bit awake but disoriented,” said the officer.
“I took (the girl) from the mother because she was very upset, and then I started to try and get her to respond to me while I informed the other officer to contact 911 to have emergency personnel come to the mall.
“I went ahead and relocated her outside because a crowd was starting to form, and when I exited the building I noticed that she went completely limp and went unconscious on me. I checked and she still had a pulse, but she had quit breathing.”
Williams had previous training in CPR and other resuscitation techniques during his time as a volunteer firefighter, skills he said came back almost instantly as he tried to keep the little girl breathing and awake until an ambulance arrived.
“I cleared her airway and then gave her two small breaths. At that point, she came back and was crying,” Williams said. “There are certain ways to administer CPR to an adult and a child, so I had to make sure I was doing the right procedure because they are way different.”
The girl, whose family lives in Kingsport, stopped breathing again and Williams had to administer two more small breaths, which got the toddler breathing again.
Williams said he managed to keep the girl awake until the ambulance crew arrived just minutes later, and then she was handed off and taken to an area hospital for treatment.
That’s when Williams said the adrenaline started to subside and he began thinking of his two girls at home.
“Your first responsibility is to provide safety and help to the public. But even when you are doing that, you can’t help but think of what you would do if it was your child lying there,” he said.
“I think if it were not for that training, I don’t know what would have happened. I might have frozen up. You just never know. But with the training they provide for us here at the mall, it all came back quickly.
“This was the first time I had done the breathing technique on a child. With a child, you flip them over (with their face opposite you) and you pat their back to make sure they are not choking. I’ve got kids, and it’s a scary thing when you have to try and help them, but you do what you are trained to do.”
The family of the child could not be reached for comment, but they told mall management that the 2-year-old has recovered from what her mother said was a small seizure brought on by a high fever.
Mall Manager Kevin Harmon said Williams has earned the title of “hero” because of his unselfish act and his quick thinking.
“He is to be heavily commended for helping this little girl. Because of his specialized training, and just knowing the kind of person J.J. is, he deserves all the credit that can be heaped upon him,” said Harmon.
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