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    man, I heard about that earlier today. first thing I thought of was you. Glad to hear you're ok. Sorry to hear about your fellow officed. R.I.P.
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    Sorry to hear that man. Don't know wtf is wrong with people ....

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    Maricopa County Sheriff's deputy killed in shootout
    by Laurie Merrill - Jan. 8, 2012 10:42 PM
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    A veteran Maricopa County sheriff's deputy slain by a gunman early Sunday responding to a call at an Anthem strip-mall was just hours away from finishing his final night shift before switching to daytime duties.

    Flags hung at half-staff across the state all day Sunday to honor Deputy William Coleman, 50, a 20-year veteran officer with two young children, and the first Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputy slain in the line of duty since 1995.

    His killer, who "came out shooting" when approached in his van by deputies in a parking lot just before dawn, was killed in an exchange of gunfire with two other deputies.

    Investigators were trying to determine whether Coleman might have been slain by the same gunman who fatally shot a vacationing couple near Sedona two days earlier.

    Coleman, like the two killed near Sedona, was shot with a high-powered rifle, and the two homicide scenes are connected by Interstate 17, giving rise to theories that the two shootings may be the work of the same gunman. That could explain why the man decided to open fire on the deputies when disturbed on Sunday, said Deputy Jeffrey Sprong, a Sheriff's Office spokesman.

    "That (connection) is definitely something our investigators will look into," Sprong said Sunday. "It wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be the same guy."

    Yavapai County sheriff's detectives traveled to meet with Maricopa County investigators to compare ballistic evidence from the Sedona crime scene with evidence recovered in Anthem. The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said it expected to have results sometime today.

    Gov. Jan Brewer on Sunday ordered flags at half-staff at state buildings until sundown in honor of Coleman.

    "This is a day of sadness for the Arizona law enforcement community as we mourn the loss of (Coleman)," Brewer said in a statement. "This tragedy is one more example of the danger that our brave members of law enforcement confront on a daily basis. We owe them our gratitude."

    The Anthem incident began just after 4 a.m. when Coleman and two other deputies responded to a report of a burglary at Angel Pediatrics on West Anthem Way, a short distance from I-17, Sprong said.

    An apparently sleeping man and his pet pit bull were in a minivan parked outside when deputies arrived, Sprong said. The Sheriff's Office patrols Anthem, a master-planned community roughly 30 miles north of central Phoenix.

    "The suspect came out and started shooting at our deputies," said Sheriff Joe Arpaio, speaking early Sunday from John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital. Coleman was taken to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save him.

    One of the deputies, Arpaio said, "returned fire and killed the suspect."

    "Unfortunately, one of our deputies was killed in the line of duty today," the sheriff said. "It is extremely sad for everyone. He was an excellent deputy."

    Neither of the other deputies was injured.

    Arpaio said investigators were trying to figure out why the 40-year-old man opened fire.

    "We're trying to determine his identity, his background, to see if he has warrants or was involved in other criminal activity," he said. "I want to see who and what his background is, what caused him to come out shooting."

    Coleman wore a bulletproof vest, but deputies said they could not yet comment on how many times or where he was shot.

    They also did not identify the gunman or say whether he had stolen anything.

    Authorities were at a loss to explain why the gunman fired at the deputies.

    "Number 1, there's a war on against police," said Arpaio. "We live in a violent world."

    Coleman leaves behind a wife, two young children, ages 4 and 7, and older children who are no longer living at home, Arpaio said. Deputies stationed at Coleman's home in New River said the family would have no comment at this time.

    The gunman's dog was unharmed and was taken to the sheriff's animal shelter.

    Also Sunday, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office identified the two New Hampshire visitors slain at an overlook near Sedona as James Johnson and Carol Raynsford, both 63.

    As deputies continued searching for a motive in the fatal shooting Friday of Johnson, from Jaffrey, N.H., and Raynsford, from Nelson, N.H., they released more details about a white, half-ton truck they said was seen at the time of the double slaying.

    The "suspect truck" was described as a 1998-2002 Dodge or Chevy with an older, faded camper shell and red ribbons attached to the rearview mirror.

    "Use all cautions if the vehicle is located," said Dwight D'Evelyn, a spokesman for the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office. "Occupants (are) likely armed and dangerous."

    The bodies of the victims were found about 11:30 a.m. Friday in a red Subaru parked at the overlook near Page Springs Road on Arizona 89A. The engine was still running, D'Evelyn said.

    Sheriff's deputies said the pair were shot from outside the Subaru with a semiautomatic weapon. Deputies have recovered .223-caliber shell casings and other evidence.

    A $1,000 reward is being offered for any tip that results in an arrest.

    Anyone with information should contact Yavapai County Sheriff's Office at 928-771-3260 or web.sheriff@co .yavapai.az.us or Silent Witness at 800-932-3232.

    The Associated Press contributed to this article.



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    This one hit a little too close to home for me. At least the POS that shot her dead was found later, face down wearing pretty much summer garb and one tennis shoe. Nobody can figure out what the perp was thinking since it's a dead end with 20' of snow where he was going. The road leads to the top, and that's it. What was his stupid plan?!? Oh well, at least we don't have to be bothered with a trial. He was fleeing a shooting at a New Year party where several people were shot.

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    Park Ranger Margaret Anderson, a mother of two who was married to another ranger at the park, was shot about 10:30 a.m. Sunday after setting up a roadblock to stop a car that was fleeing another officer.



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    Let us now praise an exceptional man

    Maricopa County Deputy Sheriff William Coleman was an exceptional man.

    But he was not the exception.

    At his funeral today there will be hundreds of men and women in uniform who would do (and perhaps have done) exactly what Deputy Coleman was asked to do on the night he was killed.

    They sign up – all of them – to respond to calls like a burglar alarm going off, as deputies received last weekend from a medical facility near Anthem.

    They go to such places and, if necessary, confront suspicious individuals, as did Coleman and other deputies.

    If such an individual becomes violent they stop him, sometimes sacrificing their own lives.

    As Deputy Coleman did.

    The officers who fill the North Phoenix Baptist Church at Coleman's funeral today are willing to do what he did.

    Imagine that. When you watch news coverage of the funeral on television, or look at photographs of the service on the Internet or in tomorrow's newspaper, marvel at how many of these men and women there are.

    The procession of motorcycles and cars they drive will go on and on and on.

    Their uniforms will come in shades of blue and beige and brown. Their badges will bear the names of big cities and small towns. Some of their hats will have broad brims. Others won't. Some will wear boots. Others won't.

    They'll be joined by firefighters and paramedics and other first responders.

    Each of them is exceptional.

    None of them is the exception.

    Last year, after the death of another exceptional man, Glendale police Officer Bradley Jones, I spoke with Brian Livingston, executive director of the Arizona Police Association.

    Jones and others who represent first responders had been through a bruising series of hearing at the State Capitol in which Arizona lawmakers essentially said that our police and firefighters were ripping off taxpayers by way of their pension benefits and union activities.

    These same politicians were at Bradley's funeral. Some of them will no doubt be at Coleman's service.

    "We had the big pension fight at the Capitol, and I raised this issue (of hypocrisy) and was chastised by lawmakers," Livingston told me last year. "They told me they really do care. But now the reality is here. We see people who have been injured and will not get their cost-of-living increases, and it will put these families under stress. They say that they want the best and the brightest in this profession. And they get them in people like Officer Jones. Will that continue to happen if you keep going after their pensions and make them out as greedy?"

    At those legislative hearings, and through similar attacks for other politicians and special interests, critics have singled out a handful of bloated double-dippers as examples of a broken system.

    They don’t represent the vast majority of the men and woman who hit the streets every day and every night.

    Tim Hill of the Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona told me, “Many of the people who have pensions in the private sector get health insurance, where we have many members who are having to choose between health insurance, which could use up most of a pension, or paying their bills. Folks aren't aware that many of our members aren't Medicare eligible or Social Security eligible. There was a guy who testified last year, a disabled highway patrol officer. He was in that position, choosing between health insurance and taking care of his kids.”

    This isn’t something to argue about at a law enforcement officer's funeral. But neither should it be forgotten after the officer is buried and we go on with our lives.

    It should come up each time politicians try to make it more difficult for first responders, for the men and women who will fill the church today, lead the funeral procession, then hit the streets again tonight.

    The William Coleman Memorial Fund has been established at Desert Schools Federal Credit Union For those wishing to contribute, the account number is 6000123586.

    Coleman was a loving husband and father. A good friend. A brave and unflinching deputy. At his service today he will be mourned and praised and honored by hundreds of fellow law enforcement officers. Exceptional people.

    Just like him.

    (Column for Jan. 13, 2012 Arizona Republic)
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    Didn't see a thread of military... so figured i'd post here.

    These young men were in the same squadron as my best friend. They're actually the ones who relieved him of his duties in his past deployment. Within 2 weeks, they made the ultimate sacrifice

    NAIROBI — Four U.S. soldiers returning from a reconnaissance mission have been killed in an air crash near a U.S. military base in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, U.S. officials said.

    The four were killed when their U-28 aircraft crashed on Saturday, a statement released by the Department of Defense late Monday said.
    "The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of four airmen who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom ... The cause of the accident is under investigation," the statement said.
    Operation Enduring Freedom includes the war in Afghanistan, but also covers U.S. operations in a number of other locations including the Horn of Africa.
    Hostile fire not suspected
    The four killed in the crash were: Capt. Ryan P. Hall, 30, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, with the 319th Special Operations Squadron; Capt. Nicholas S. Whitlock, 29, of Newnan, Georgia, with the 34th Special Operations Squadron; 1st Lt. Justin J. Wilkens, 26, of Bend, Oregon, with the 34th Special Operations Squadron; and Senior Airman Julian S. Scholten, 26, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, with the 25th Intelligence Squadron.
    Hall was a U-28 pilot with more than 1,300 combat flight hours. He was assigned to the 319th Special Operations Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla.
    Specialist Ryan Whitney of the 1st Special Operations Wing said that initial indications are that the plane did not crash because of hostile fire.
    The plane was conducting an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission, he said. A statement from U.S. Africa Command called it a "routine" flight

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    Florida Cop Killer Shot 68 Times

    A Florida gunman, who shot and killed an officer and his police dog, was shot at 110 times and hit 68 times when SWAT team members found him the following day hiding in the woods under a tree trunk and he refused to show his hands. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the fugitive would have been shot more, but the SWAT team ran out of bullets.
    Angilo Freeland (pictured), 27, a suspected drug dealer, fled from police after he was pulled over in a routine traffic stop by Deputy Douglas Speirs. The deputy called for back-up and Deputy Vernon Matthew Williams answered the call with his police dog.

    As they followed the suspect into the woods there was a "burst of gunfire" and Deputy Williams and his dog were killed and Speirs was wounded in the leg. An autopsy report revealed that Williams, 39, was shot eight times. He was shot once a close range behind his right year and again in his right temple.

    After a massive manhunt for the fugitive through the night, a SWAT team surrounded Freeland in a thickly wooded area hiding under a fallen tree. When he failed to show the officers both hands and they spotted a handgun in one of his hands, they opened fire. Freeland's autopsy showed that he was shot 68 times. An investigation of the scene revealed that police fired 110 rounds.

    "That's all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters.
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    One thing's for sure, a casket is a lot cheaper than a trial. Good riddance.

    The thing that bothers me is the shot behind the ear, the POS gives the K9 officer a coup de gras final execution shot? That's going way beyond shooting his way out of a traffic stop or eminent arrest. The human waste had to take extra time for that last parting shot.

    I doubt the part about running out of bullets; no SWAT team member(s) is going in unarmed even is the suspect is hamburger. I think that was a little sarcasm throw in there.
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