At least now it's fishing related. <G> Buggs
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Bonner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 7:37 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] Rampage Suspect caught in Tony's back yard.... > We were up there fishing and came right through Gassville when all the stuff > was going down. > > > > > >From: Allan Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: <[email protected]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Subject: RE: [VFB] Rampage Suspect caught in Tony's back yard.... > >Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:55:27 -0500 > > > >The Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR) has the following article: > > > >Gassville police officer fatally shot > >By ARMANDO RIOS > >Bulletin Staff Writer > > > > > > > >A man suspected of killing a Gassville police officer died early Sunday > >morning at a Springfield, Mo., hospital where he had been flown following a > >shootout with Arkansas State Police and Baxter County Sheriff's office > >personnel in downtown Norfork. Also killed in the shootout was the > >18-year-old man's passenger. > > > >Arkansas State Police identified the dead officer as Jim Sell, 63. > > > >Jacob D. Robida, died at 3:38 a.m. Sunday at Cox-South Hospital in > >Springfield, hospital spokesman Randy Berger said. Robida was a suspect in > >a rampage in a Massachusetts gay bar Thursday, according to the Associated > >Press. > > > >Robida was wanted in the attack which left three men wounded, one > >critically. > > > >The dead woman has been identified as Jennifer Rena Bailey, 33, of > >Charleston, W.Va. "Apparently she's had a prior relationship with this guy > >and had been corresponding with him," West Virginia State Police Sgt. C.J. > >Ellyson said. > > > >"At approximately 2:33 p.m. Saturday the Gassville Police officer made a > >traffic stop on a green car with out-of-state license plates at the Brass > >Door, 621 E. Main St., here in Gassville," said Gassville Police > >Investigator Scott Thrasher. "It was unknown why the officer stopped the > >vehicle. He was shot approximately two times by what appeared to be a 9-mm > >handgun from one of the occupants of the vehicle. He died approximately 30 > >minutes later at Baxter Regional Medical Center. This is an open homicide > >investigation. There is another scene in the county." > > > >Assisting Gassville police at the scene were the Cotter Police Department, > >Baxter County Sheriff's Office and Arkansas State Police. > > > >In downtown Norfork, officers barricaded two blocks on State Highway 5 > >where the green auto hit several other parked vehicles. > > > >Sheriff John Montgomery said one of the suspects at the scene was > >critically injured and one died in Norfork. An investigator said a woman > >was dead in the auto. The coroner arrived shortly after to pick up her > >body. > > > >Sell went to the driver's side door of the auto he stopped at The Brass > >Door in Gassville, and was shot by the suspect later identified as Robida, > >of New Bedford, Mass. > > > >After the Gassville officer was shot, the auto headed to Mountain Home, > >took the Sheid-Hopper bypass and turned south on State Highway 201 driving > >toward Norfork, pursued by BCSO and ASP patrol cars. > > > >The Baxter County 911 operator received a call from The Brass Door Motel > >reporting Sell had been shot. > > > >Deputies with the BCSO responded to the scene. A description of the > >suspect's vehicle was given and broadcast to responding officers, > >Montgomery said. Just west of Mountain Home, a deputy met the suspect > >vehicle and turned around to follow it. The vehicle fled and the deputy > >gave chase. > > > >Officers with the BCSO and ASP pursued the suspect south on State Highway > >201 South. > > > >"Spike strips were deployed on Highway 341 which took out his front tires," > >Montgomery said. The vehicle was slowed down. > > > >Ruts made by the tire rims were visible in the pavement in Norfork where > >the vehicle continued after the tires fell off. > > > >"Then they came on down in here," Montgomery said as he stood behind the > >police tape at the scene. "When he wrecked, he started firing at our > >officer and a state police officer, and the officers returned fire." > > > >Montgomery said the man started shooting at the officers while still in the > >vehicle. Officers returned fire. > > > >Montgomery said a joint investigation into the circumstances of both > >shooting incidents is being conducted by the Arkansas State Police and > >Baxter County Sheriff's Office. > > > >More detailed information will be released as the circumstances of the > >incident are confirmed and verified, he said. > > > >A press conference is set for 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Sheriff's Office > >conference room. > > > >Updates will be posted as soon as more information becomes available. > > > >The Associated Press contributed to this report. > >-- > >Allan Fish > >Greenwood, IN > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.2/251 - Release Date: 2/4/2006 > >
