West Memphis incident apparently involved white supremacists

mgc1961

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Sat May-22-10 08:50 AM
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West Memphis incident apparently involved white supremacists

It's beginning to emerge that the two men who shot and killed two police officers and wounded two more before being killed themselves in West Memphis, Arkansas, on Thursday were probably white supremacists from a small operation in southern Ohio. Why they opened fire on the cops remains a mystery, but this could be an important developing story:

Two police officers were fatally shot and another two were wounded Thursday in two separate shootings allegedly by the same suspects in West Memphis, Arkansas, police said.

The two suspects, who were using an assault weapon, were themselves fatally shot, said Inspector Bert Shelton, who is assigned to city hall for the West Memphis Police Department.

The incident began around 11:36 a.m. (12:36 p.m. ET), when West Memphis patrolman Bill Evans made a traffic stop on a white minivan traveling eastbound on I-40 at Airport Road, said Bill Sadler, public information officer for the Arkansas State Police.

After the vehicle exited the Interstate onto an off-ramp near College Avenue, Sgt. Brandon Paudert arrived on the scene as backup, Sadler said.

"It is our belief that Officer Evans was shoved to the ground by one of the suspects in the minivan and gunfire was directed at both officers," Sadler said.

The suspects then fled, driving east in the minivan, leaving one man dead and the other fatally wounded.

Within minutes, officers from other agencies -- including the Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas Fish and Game Commission -- began to converge on the area, looking for the suspects, he said.

About 90 minutes later, a minivan believed to be the one that had been seen leaving the shooting site was spotted in a parking lot of a nearby Wal-Mart, Sadler said.

There, it was approached by Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby and Chief Enforcement Officer W.A. Wren, who were traveling in the same vehicle, he said.

Both men were wounded in a gunbattle initiated by the suspects, who were using a long rifle and a handgun, Sadler said.

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Angry Dragon

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Sat May-22-10 09:47 AM
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1. Sounds to me like right wing terrorists

Edited on Sat May-22-10 09:47 AM by Angry Dragon

The right wing should be investigated

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Sat May-22-10 10:34 AM
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2. Posters on this topic in LBN thought that these bad guys were running meth.

Drug running is a nasty business no matter who does it.

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bluedigger

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Sat May-22-10 10:42 AM
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3. Excellent coverage by Crooks and Liars!

Time to label these right-wing white supremacists for what they are - terrorists.

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mgc1961

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Sun May-23-10 07:42 AM
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4. Update:

Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby didn't even have a gun Thursday when the suspects in the slaying of two West Memphis police officers jumped out of their minivan and began spraying bullets at him and his deputy chief.

"They got out shooting with what they had," Busby said Saturday from his home in Marion, hours after his release from the Regional Medical Center at Memphis.
"We got back in the car," Busby said. "Then all hell broke loose."

The ensuing gunbattle in the Walmart parking lot with Jerry R. Kane, 45, of Forest, Ohio, and his 16-year-old son, Joe Kane, left the two suspects dead, while Busby was shot in the shoulder and Deputy Chief W.A. Wren was hit three times in the abdomen.

More at http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/may/23/all-hell-broke-loose-injured-sheriff-says/

CLEARWATER, Fla. � Less than 24 hours after the bloody West Memphis shooting that left four people dead, including two police officers, FBI agents knocked on the door of a pink Spanish-style house here near the Gulf of Mexico.

Donna Lee Wray, the 50-year-old, self-described common-law wife of alleged shooter Jerry R. Kane, answered the door.

"They didn't come in," Wray recalled defiantly.

But what the FBI agents told Wray offers the first details of how the most costly day in Memphis-area law enforcement began.

"Jerry had nothing to do with it," Wray said.

She said federal agents told her Kane's 16-year-old son, Joe, was the one who gunned down West Memphis Police Sgt. Brandon Paudert, 39, and Officer Bill Evans, 38, with an AK-47 assault rifle.

The Commercial Appeal could not verify that information independently. FBI officials declined to comment.

But federal agents here reportedly had the same question as many others have in Greater Memphis: What could have sparked the deadly shooting Thursday?

More at http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/may/23/tragic-details-emerge/

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