Multiple friends and acquaintances tell WZZM 13 that Walters was expelled from West Ottawa Middle School after he made a bomb threat against the school and apparently had a "hit list" of people at the school. This would have been in the late 1990s.
"They searched his locker and they found a hit list with a list of people to kill," says one person who did not want to be identified.
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Police officer Brian Knowler will visit the Brantford Public Library on
June 21 to talk about how PTSD affected his health, career and marriage.
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Gerald, 41, a husband and father, was an Army and Marine veteran who completed three tours of duty in Iraq. He had been serving the Baton Rouge Police Department for less than a year when he was fatally shot.A Louisiana State Trooper makes his way to a funeral services for police office
Kansas City, Kansas, police captain Robert David Melton has died following a shooting, July 19. KSHBKansas City, Kansas, police Capt. Robert Melton was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police said two people are in custody and they are not looking for any other suspects, NBC affiliate KSHB reported.
Melton, 46, was a 17-year law enforcement veteran, served in the Kansas National Guard and was known for consistently wearing a bullet-proof vest — something he regularly reminded his colleagues to do as well, officials said.
Police Chief Terry Zeigler said details of Melton's shooting would be made public at a news conference Wednesday morning.
The fatal chain of events began when a person called 911 at around 1:30 p.m. CT (2:30 p.m. ET) to say multiple people were firing at them from a car, reported NBC affiliate KSHB.
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Senior Cpl. Lorne Ahrens’ children had already gone to bed Thursday night when the Dallas police officer was wheeled into the emergency room at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
On Friday morning, the kids woke up to the news that their father was dead.
Cedar Hill Public Information Officer Lieutenant Colin Chenault places his hand on the shoulder of police chaplain Victor Jackson during a prayer service at the Cedar Hill Government Center in Cedar Hill, Texas Friday." Dallas Morning NewsThey were there to protect the protestors. Parents brought their kids because they thought it would be safe for them to march against what a few police officers do because other officers were there to make sure no one got out of control.
A mother tries to calm her daughter as Dallas Police respond to shots being fired at a Black Lives Matter rally in downtown Dallas. (Maria R. Olivas/Special Contributor)After all that is what police officers do but we do not notice that until we need them.
"For those who were gay, for those who were tortured and stigmatized throughout their lives, I am just praying that now they're in heaven and they're together and that they'll know they didn't die in vain. Hopefully, they will see all the people coming together to honor them and show them love." Kristine Rosendahl
“We actually felt like they were protecting us.” one demonstrator wrote.All of us have jobs to do. All of us do the best we can everyday no matter what we have to do. So do police officers. Most of the folks in Dallas understand that. Most of the folks all across the country understand that and appreciate their willingness to keep doing their jobs.
VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Authorities say a man called 911 in south Georgia to report a break-in, then ambushed and shot the officer who came to investigate. Both men were wounded in the ensuing gunfire, and both are expected to survive.People line up to hug police officers in Dallas
After an interfaith prayer service, crowds lined up to hug police officers in downtown Dallas. Five officers were killed in a sniper attack on Thursday.
Dallas police offer a somber salute as fallen officers are transported into vans in the early morning of July 8, 2016 after shots were fired at a Black Lives Matter rally in downtown Dallas on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Demonstrators were at a Black Lives Matter rally, protesting the killing of Alton Sterling by police in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in Minnesota, when gunshots rang out from a Dallas building overlooking the march route. Police officers were deliberately targeted, officials said.
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In a Dallas hospital's chapel after shooting, 'hope in a time of chaos'
Dallas Morning News
By Sabriya Rice
Business of Healthcare Reporter
Published: 08 July 2016
Sabriya Rice/StaffArlene Williams, in black dress, hugs an unidentified woman in the chapel of Baylor University Medical Center. The woman is the wife of a Dallas police officer who was working Thursday night.
As she likes to do on most days during her lunch break, Arlene Williams knelt to say her daily prayers on Friday, in a small chapel tucked away on the campus of Baylor University Medical Center.
Some days, she prays all alone. On others, Williams, a 59-year old African-American who works at the dentistry school located on the medical center campus, comforts others seeking solace from the chaos of life.
Friday was one of those days when life would intrude unexpectedly on the chapel’s calm. As Williams stood to leave, the sound of sobbing flooded the hallway. Then hospital staff escorted in a woman whom they described as the wife of a Dallas police officer.
She was trembling with emotion. Her glasses were pushed upward to hold back her blond hair, thus revealing her eyes, which were puffy from crying and lack of sleep.
“Does she need a prayer?” Williams asked without hesitation. Within moments, the woman was crying in Williams’ arms.
The two had not previously met. And it’s unclear which officer the woman, whose full name was not provided, was with. However, the shared moment between these strangers offered a glimmer of hope after a night of fear.
Outside the chapel walls, there was division and distress as the city and nation face the aftermath of the shooting that left five officers dead and seven injured downtown. Inside, there was only connection and solace.
“You can still love,” Williams said to the woman. “Dry her tears, God. Don’t let hate in during these trying times,” she prayed.
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He just liked to help people, his father said.
Patrick Zamarripa (left), one of five officers killed in a shooting incident in Dallas, Texas. (Family photo)It had been 12 hours since he’d lost his son to one of the country’s worst mass police shootings, and he still couldn’t understand why.
Johnson served as an Army reservist until April 2015, defense officials said. He was trained and served in the Army Reserve as a carpentry and masonry specialist, they said. Johnson deployed to Afghanistan from November 2013 to July 2014, according to his service record. He had the rank of a private first class.
Police say the slain trooper, the father of two children, was a native of Jackson, Michigan, and Marine veteran who had served on the force in Jackson and Newport News, Virginia.
Chad Dermyer stands beside his bride Michelle Dermyer in November 2000. The Marine veteran was fatally shot Thursday, March 31, 2016, at a bus terminal in Virginia. FACEBOOKRICHMOND, Va. — A 34-year-old Illinois man fatally shot a Virginia state trooper at a busy bus terminal before the gunman was killed by other troopers, authorities said Friday.
Clardy joined the state police in 2005. He was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He leaves behind a wife and six children.
A Massachusetts State Police trooper who was injured in a car crash on the Massachusetts Turnpike has died.(Paul Kapteyn/Worcester Telegram & Gazette via AP)
John Robert Kotfila, Jr., 30, was a deputy at the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. He had just left a hospital where he had been working on an investigation when his vehicle collided with the vehicle of a driver who was heading the wrong way on the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway.Deputy John Kotfila, Jr. (center) pictured with his father John Kotfila, Sr.and his brother Michael Kotfila.(Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)
The shooting ended a young life already marked by tragedy. In 2004, when she was in high school, her father, Air National Guardsman David Guindon, killed himself the day after he returned from a grueling six-month tour in Iraq.
New England native Ashley Guindon first joined the Prince William County Police Department in Virginia in 2015 but left abruptly for personal reasons. She returned less than a year later.PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT PHOTOOfficer Ashley Guindon of the Prince William County (Virginia) Police Department.
On Sunday morning, Merrimack police escorted Guindon’s mother, Sharon, to Manchester-Boston Regional Airport so she could fly to Virginia.
Determined and intellectually gifted, Guindon graduated in 2005 from Merrimack High School and went to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. She spent six years in the US Marine Corps Reserve and was drawn to forensic science, a fascination that led her to work in a funeral home while she was still in college.
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Guindon was a former Marine Corps reservist and had a master's degree in forensic science, according to Hudson. Guindon served in the Marine Corps Reserves from May 2007 to February 2015 as a field radio operator, said Capt. Andrew Chrestman, a spokesman for U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve. She ultimately reached the rank of corporal and was awarded the National Defense Service Medal and the Selected Marine Corps Reserve Medal.
Ronald Williams Hamilton faces two murder charges.
Hamilton is an active duty Army staff sergeant assigned to the Joint Staff Support Center at the Pentagon, said Cindy Your of the Defense Information Systems Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Ashley Guindon was sworn in as an officer on Friday.CNN)A police department in a Washington suburb is mourning an officer who was killed during her first day on the job.
Gliniewicz retired as a first sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve and his awards as a police officer included a medal of valor. He also was involved in a youth law enforcement training program for about a decade.Hundreds of mourners gathered in Illinois on Monday for the funeral of police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, who was shot last week while pursuing three suspects who are still on the loose.
"In my 45 years in law enforcement, I can't recall another incident so cold-blooded and cowardly." RON HICKMAN, HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFFPolice described the suspect as a dark-complexioned male who is believed to be between 20 and 25 years old, and stands about 5-foot-10 to 6-feet tall. He was wearing a white T-shirt and red shorts and driving a red or maroon pickup-style truck with an extended cab. Police said an intensive search for the suspect remained ongoing Saturday morning.
