On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:51:01 -0600, Diverd4777 wrote
(in message ):

In article , Gray Shockley
writes:


Actually, it was pretty "cut and dried".

Cooper pulled a gun on a doctor down in the village.
Said doctor swore out a complaint.

Cooper also had - iirc - run off some people
from land that did not belong to him.

A couple of deputies went up on the mountain
(hill? whatever) trying to immitate noisy teenagers.

Cooper shot a deputy in the head. The
other deputy shot (and killed) Cooper.

Remember, Cooper was an alcoholic
and a drunk (those two do not
always go together.) It was one of
the things to listen for in his broadcasts.


I truly believe that all of his actions in the immediate past preceding
his
death were - whether he acknowledged it to himself or not - designed for
"suicide by cop".


I really don't think he particularly wanted to go on living.


No matter how you dice it or slice it, it was a tragedy and a pity.





Agree . . .
Had he gotten SOME kind of help, or acknowleged his problem ( Any one of
many)
he
( & the poor Deputy He Shot ) would still be alive..

Suicide by Cop

( Following A Cold Blooded Murder )

Very tragic event all around....


I never did found out if the
deputy died; do you know?


Thanks,
Gray

In article , Gray Shockley
writes:



I never did found out if the
deputy died; do you know?


Thanks,
Gray
-Luckily, it looks like Heroic medical intervention prevented the Deputy from
Dying.
Gun shot to the head ; doesn't get much worse. Major Brain damage & Years &
Years of rehab.
No word that I can find on his condition;
- except to say No One would want to trade places with him.

- Say a Prayer for him,



http://www.potowmack.org/196knox.html

Militia Figure Killed After Shooting, 11/06/01

PHOENIX (AP) - A wanted militia figure who vowed that he would never be taken
alive was killed by a law enforcement officer after he shot a sheriff's deputy
trying to arrest him, authorities said Tuesday. The deputies drew the man out
of his house Monday by posing as civilians parked near his house in Eagar,
about 165 miles northeast of Phoenix. William Milton Cooper, 58, had confronted
people who stopped near his home with a handgun in July and September, said
Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve Volden. The deputies were serving
an arrest warrant on those incidents.

Cooper turned and fled when the deputies identified themselves. He opened fire
with a handgun as two deputies closed in, wounding an officer in the head,
Volden said. The other officer shot Cooper. The wounded deputy remained
hospitalized Tuesday; his condition was not released.


& heres another websiter from one of coopers followers . .

http://ellisctaylor.homestead.com/williamcooper.html