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MI: Incredible crime spree ends in suicide by cop

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:13 pm
by seamusTX
In Michigan earlier this month a man with a lengthy criminal history went on a one-man crime spree that included kidnapping, rape, arson, crashing into three police cars, and theft of a motor vehicle. Ultimately he was shot by a police officer in a violent encounter.

The victim of the kidnapping and rape sought help at a house where a teenager hid her, while the criminal tried to set the house on fire.

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Oh, and his mother said he was misunderstood.

If this was a movie, I would say it was unbelievable.

- Jim

Re: MI: Incredible crime spree ends in suicide by cop

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:14 pm
by ELB
I guess I am jaded, but I found the most remarkable thing about that story was not all the mayhem (was quite a string of events, tho) but that he posted to FB that he was about the get shot just before he got shot. How...warped.

Re: MI: Incredible crime spree ends in suicide by cop

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:21 pm
by seamusTX
I don't "do" Facebook, but it seems like quite an obsession with some people.

I read an unrelated story a few days ago where a teenage girl drove the breadth of the state of Indiana to have a physical fight with a girl who had been harassing her on Facebook.

-Jim

Re: MI: Incredible crime spree ends in suicide by cop

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:24 pm
by ELB
I also recall a couple years ago when some guy tweeted that his home had been invaded by thugs...WHILE it was being invaded. He was in his bedroom with pistol in one hand and Blackberry in the other. He somehow managed to call the cops between tweets...