Recent Law Enforcement Deaths

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Under weird circumstances.... This isn't the first one.

Mississippi police mystery: Cop and suspect both shot dead in HQ room, but how?

Gunfire killed Detective Eric Smith, 40, and suspect Jeremy Powell, 23, on the third floor of police HQ in Jackson, Miss., but who shot whom, and how?

By Lee Moran / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Friday, April 5, 2013, 10:39 AM

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Detective Eric Smith (center) was found shot to death by colleagues on the third floor of the Jackson Police Department building. He was in the process of arresting 23-year-old Jeremy Powell, who was also shot dead. Police are trying to reconstruct just what happened in that room.

Mystery surrounds the deaths of a cop and a murder suspect who were both found riddled with bullets in a Mississippi police HQ interview room.
Detective Eric Smith, 40, was in the process of arresting 23-year-old Jeremy Powell on the third floor of the Jackson Police Department building late Thursday afternoon when a volley of gunshots rang out.


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Officers rushed to the room to find both men dead. Each had been shot several times.
Greg Jenson/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jackson, Miss. Assistant Chief Lee Vance (center left) comforts Chief Rebecca Coleman (center right) on Thursday after detective Eric Smith was shot and killed inside the Jackson Police Department. A suspect was also killed.

Initial investigations suggest Powell, who had been detained earlier in the afternoon for the alleged Monday killing of Christopher Alexander, shot Smith dead.
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But the exact details surrounding the deaths, and how Powell ended up also being killed, remain unclear.
Police chief Rebecca Coleman said: "Upon our arrival, we found the suspect is deceased and we have a police officer who is deceased. That's all the information we have at this time."
Greg Jenson/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Law enforcement officers wait at the entrance to the Jackson Police Department on Thursday after police say a murder suspect fatally shot Detective Eric Smith inside the headquarters. The suspect is also dead.

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"It's something … no law enforcement officer wants to face, or to deal with," Interim Clinton Police Chief Mike Warren told the Clarion Ledger.
Smith, who worked in the Robbery-Homicide Division, had been a cop since 1995.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim...#ixzz2PbLqKiir

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April 5, 2013 10:07 AM

Tom Clements Death: James Lohr, member of white supremacist gang, arrested in Colorado prison chief murder, authorities say

James Lohr
/ AP Photo/El Paso Sheriff



(CBS/AP) DENVER - A member of a white supremacist gang was arrested early Friday in connection to the killing of Colorado's prisons chief who was shot answering the door of his home last month, authorities said.


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James Lohr, 47, was taken into custody for questioning in the killing of Colorado Corrections Director Tom Clements, El Paso County sheriff's spokesman Jeff Kramer said. It's unclear if Lohr was charged.


Authorities believe that Lohr was in contact with gang associate Evan Ebel days before the slayings of Clements and pizza delivery man Nate Leon. Police said they believe Ebel killed Leon and Clements before he was killed in a shootout in Texas. The motive in the killings isn't clear.


Clements was shot to death on March 19 and Leon was killed two days earlier.


KRDO-TV reported that Lohr was arrested by Colorado Springs police after a short foot chase that started when police tried to stop a car.


Authorities issued an alert Wednesday asking other law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for Lohr and 31-year-old Thomas Guolee, who were identified as two known associates of the same gang linked to Ebel.


Lohr and Guolee were not called suspects in Clement's death, but their names surfaced during the investigation, Kramer said. He wouldn't elaborate. Both were wanted on warrants unrelated to the Clements investigation.


Guolee is a parolee who served time for intimidating a witness and giving a pawnbroker false information, among other charges, court records show. Lohr was being sought on warrants out of Las Animas County for a bail violation and a violation of a protection order, according to court records.


Lohr and Guolee are known associates of the 211 Crew, the same gang that was linked to Ebel, Kramer said.



On Thursday, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced a sweeping review of the state's prison and parole operations as more evidence piled up showing how Ebel slipped through the cracks in the criminal justice system to become a suspect in the killing of the state's prisons chief.


Ebel was released from prison four years early due to a clerical error and violated his parole terms five days before Clements was killed.


Officials said the state will now audit inmates' legal cases to ensure they are serving the correct amount of time. They will also ask the National Institute of Corrections to review the state's parole system, which is struggling under large caseloads.


Ebel was killed in a shootout with Texas authorities after the Colorado deaths. Investigators said the gun Ebel used in the shootout was also used to kill Clements when the prisons chief answered the front door of his home in Monument.


Ebel is the only suspect that investigators have named in Clements' death. They said they're looking into his connection to the gang he joined while in prison, and whether that was connected to the attack.


"Investigators are looking at a lot of different possibilities. We are not stepping out and saying it's a hit or it's not a hit. We're looking at all possible motives," Kramer said Wednesday.

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Not a death, but might have been...

Explosive Device Sent to Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County Office


Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, speaks with the media at his offices in downtown Phoenix, in this Aug. 31, 2012 photo. (Dave Seibert/The Arizona Republic/AP Photo)


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By PIERRE THOMAS (@PierreTABC)
April 12, 2013



Police and federal authorities are investigating what may have been a bomb sent to Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, one of the most well-known and controversial sheriffs in the country.
A postal worker in Flagstaff became suspicious of a package addressed to Arpaio, 80, Thursday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told ABC News that the package held a container and what appeared to be gun powder. Tests are underway to determine if the package was a working, viable explosive.
Arpaio's office said in a statement that a bomb team had been deployed, and the device was neutralized.

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Authorities already had "investigative leads," according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Flagstaff police, the FBI and U.S. Postal inspectors are investigating.
The potential explosive device follows shortly the killings of another law enforcement officer and prosecutors. Two prosecutors have been gunned down in Kaufman County, Texas, since January. Last month, Tom Clements, chief of the Colorado prison system, was killed in his home.
Arpaio, dubbed "America's Toughest Sheriff," was elected sheriff of Maricopa County in 1992 and since then has garnered national headlines with his views, to name few, on immigration, prisoners' rights and gun control.
Arpaio's latest controversy came weeks after the Newtown, Conn., mass shooting, when he deployed armed volunteers to patrol schools in the Phoenix metropolitan area.