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Omaha Steve

(99,659 posts)
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 07:15 PM Aug 2015

Ex-con accused of killing police officer turns self in

Source: AP

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An ex-con accused of fatally shooting a police officer who interrupted a drug deal turned himself in Monday, ending an intensive two-day manhunt, a spokesman for a U.S. attorney said.

Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, was with his family when he arrived at a federal building in Memphis, said Louis Goggans, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office.

Wilbourn was a passenger in a 2002 Mercedes Benz that was parked illegally in a southeast Memphis neighborhood on Saturday night, police said. Officer Sean Bolton approached the car, Wilbourn got out of the Mercedes and the two men got into a struggle, police said.

Wilbourn took out a gun and fired, striking Bolton multiple times, and then he and the driver ran away as a civilian used Bolton's radio to notify police about the shooting, authorities said.

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This undated photo released by the Memphis Police Department shows Tremaine Wilbourn. According to authorities, Wilbourn is a suspect in the fatal shooting of Memphis Police Officer Sean Bolton during a traffic stop, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn. (Memphis Police Department via AP)

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/37aa780aa53540608b40b6c69cdfcac9/manhunt-continues-suspect-officers-fatal-shooting

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Ex-con accused of killing police officer turns self in (Original Post) Omaha Steve Aug 2015 OP
If he hadn't had a gun... scscholar Aug 2015 #1
Or .. DashOneBravo Aug 2015 #2
A felon with an illegal gun - there should be a law against it. nt hack89 Aug 2015 #4
He didn't have to shoot the gun. Throd Aug 2015 #5
He was on supervised release. How supervised 840high Aug 2015 #3
A PO can't watch someone 24/7. christx30 Aug 2015 #7
Agree. 840high Aug 2015 #8
If guns weren't so available and easy to get Politicalboi Aug 2015 #9
Yeah, christx30 Aug 2015 #10
Looking forward to the complete history of the firearm used in this crime alcibiades_mystery Aug 2015 #6
 

scscholar

(2,902 posts)
1. If he hadn't had a gun...
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 07:21 PM
Aug 2015

this wouldn't have happened. I've read quite a few comments to this story, and people keep missing the underlying cause.

Throd

(7,208 posts)
5. He didn't have to shoot the gun.
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 08:24 PM
Aug 2015

He made a choice. One that killed a person and will imprison him for life.

christx30

(6,241 posts)
7. A PO can't watch someone 24/7.
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 08:31 PM
Aug 2015

At some point, a person has to sit down and decide what course his life will take. He was given a chance, and he blew it.
Now he'll spend the rest of his life in a place where he'll be supervised 24/7.
Whether he gets the needle, is shanked by another inmate over a pack of smokes, or dies of old age, he'll have no one to blame for the way his life turned out but him. But he'll blame everyone else.

More gun laws wouldn't have helped. As a felon, it was illegal for him to even touch a gun. It didn't stop him from getting it. What would have stopped it is for this guy to have made better decisions.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
9. If guns weren't so available and easy to get
Tue Aug 4, 2015, 06:03 PM
Aug 2015

He never would of had one. Let's just blame it on the laws instead of how many guns can be bought and made in this country.

christx30

(6,241 posts)
10. Yeah,
Tue Aug 4, 2015, 06:30 PM
Aug 2015

and if unicorns existed, he could have gotten a job taking care of them I stead of getting involved with drugs.
It all comes back to his crappy, stupid-as-hell choices.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
6. Looking forward to the complete history of the firearm used in this crime
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 08:29 PM
Aug 2015

From manufacture to the first legitimate owner, all the way down through Mr. Wilbourne's possession.

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