New Hampshire authorities said yesterday that they will not press charges against a former Marine who stepped into a deadly shooting and killed a 24-year-old high school dropout who had moments earlier fatally shot a police officer.
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Kenney pulled out a .45-caliber handgun and shot McKay four times. As McKay stumbled across the road, bleeding, Kenney ran his vehicle over the dying officer, Ayotte said.
Floyd, who had been driving by in a Chevrolet Tahoe with his son, also named Gregory P. Floyd, saw the entire scene, Ayotte said. A video camera in McKay’s cruiser also recorded the shooting, Ayotte said.
The elder Floyd drove his Tahoe into a spot between McKay and Kenney as a shield and told his son, who is in his late teens, to run to the officer’s cruiser and radio for help.
The elder Floyd picked up McKay’s gun from the ground and ordered Kenney to drop his weapon. Kenney refused, and Floyd saw Kenney appear to be reloading, Conte said. Floyd then shot and killed Kenney, Conte said.
(Journalism types – help me out with something, please. How is the information that Kenney was “a cousin of World Cup champion skier Bode Miller” relevant?)
Not charge him? He should get a medal and be considered a hero. That they even think about charging him is a indicator of whats wrong with society today!
“(Journalism types – help me out with something, please. How is the information that Kenney was “a cousin of World Cup champion skier Bode Miller” relevant?)
Posted by Kate at May 13, 2007 10:28 AM”
Simple Kate. The leftard media is trying to make Kenny out as some victim/hero because his mother’s brother’s 3rd cousin had sex with somebody, and he ,through the genes,couldn’t possibly do this! It was the evil VRWC system that forced him to do it. And the really great thing is,the MSM can then make Floyd out to be the great oppressor. See? It’s easy.
“(Journalism types – help me out with something, please. How is the information that Kenney was “a cousin of World Cup champion skier Bode Miller” relevant?)
Because they only printed half the story in order to focus on the evils of the good samaritan…
from AP (selected portion of full story only):
Ski champ Bode Miller’s cousin kills cop
By BEVERLEY WANG, Associated Press Writer
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“Cpl. McKay’s cruiser video confirmed for police investigating this case that in fact Mr. Kenney had discharged several shots at Cpl. McKay before running him over,” Ayotte said.
Soon after, Floyd arrived and confronted Kenney while his son, also named Gregory Floyd, called for help using the officer’s radio. Authorities have determined that his actions in shooting Kenney were justified.
An autopsy showed McKay died of four gunshot wounds. Autopsy results on Kenney were incomplete Saturday.
The 48-year-old McKay was a 12-year veteran of the Franconia Police Department and previously had worked in Haverhill. Survivors include a daughter, Ayotte said.
“It really tears at the fabric of the community and the fabric of the state,” said Gov. John Lynch, who visited the town of about 900 residents Saturday. People paid their respects at the local police station, bringing flowers.
Ayotte said McKay had “prior dealings” with Kenney, who was convicted of assaulting the officer and resisting arrest in 2003. Kenney’s uncle said the animosity between them was so great that if Kenney got pulled over by McKay, “he had the right to request a different officer.”
“That’s what I heard, that Liko requested a backup officer and that was when he was pepper-sprayed,” said Bode Miller’s father, Woody Miller.
The passenger in Kenney’s car told police Kenney said something like, “Get another officer” just before speeding off after the initial stop, Ayotte said.
“But he refused to produce a license and registration to Cpl. McKay, which is standard operating procedure, and then just took off. So this is a situation where he obviously disobeyed a police officer,” she said.
Woody Miller said his nephew claimed the officer once beat him during an arrest.
“They had a long relationship,” said Miller, who operates an international tennis camp in nearby Easton. “There’s been physical altercations between them before in the course of being arrested.”
Bill Kenney, another uncle, agreed. “They had it in for each other.”
Woody Miller said he last saw his nephew Friday morning, when Liko Kenney was on his way to work. He was running late, but he was in good spirits.
Miller said Kenney, who lived next door to him, didn’t have a steady job, but often took work cutting firewood and picking fiddlehead ferns, a wild green that grows in the region and is considered a delicacy.
Bode Miller, who had bailed his cousin out of jail once, was on his way home to Franconia, his father said. In 2005, Bode Miller was fined $250 for going 83 mph in a 40 mph zone in his hometown of Franconia. According to an article published on Sports Illustrated’s Web site, SI.com, Miller said he chose to contest the ticket “to try to get my fine reduced and to antagonize McKay.”
Lynch ordered all state flags be flown at half-staff in memory of the officer. Franconia’s Board of Selectmen released a statement saying that the town “mourns the tragedy that befell our community on the evening of May 11. … We ask that you all embrace in your thoughts and feelings the families affected by this tragic incident.”
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It’s a good thing they didn’t charge him what with the new SC rulings strengthening 2nd amendment rights…a constitutional court challenge couls bring down most of Massachusetts’ unconstitutional state firearms legislating.
I can get the connection in this story (Bode Miller also had run ins with McKay) but check this story by the CBC and tell me what the following paragraph has to do with an attack on a US patrol? The link http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/05/12/iraq.html
The paragraph
“Five U.S. soldiers have been charged in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Mahmoudiya girl and the killing of her entire family, and three have pleaded guilty in the March 12, 2006, attack that was initially blamed on insurgents.”
If it is to illustrate that there is a pattern of death and destruction, I could buy that, but in the list of events, chronologically it is off, and has no relevance, that I can discern, to missing and/or kidnapped soldiers. The same story also appeared on the ctv web site and has an AP link. Feel free to whack me over the head if you feel I’m wrong about this.
No, you’re not wrong. That’s drive-by journalism in all its glory.
Warning up front, not defending the tactic….why mention his cousin, simple it provides a touchpoint for people to relate to the story more. Oh I remember that skier…wiow his cousin did that wow thats terrible.
MAkes the story stand out from your run of the mill “cop is shot and run over” story (read with sarcasm)
No agenda to make him more sympathetic, all about hooking the reader. Journalists only care about the story, the link to the cousin makes it “more interesting”
And yes the guy deserves a medal but yes you run through the process….guy picks up cops gun and kills someone, you dont think the automatic response should be an investigation and in the absence of any other eveidence a charge….in this case the circumstances justify there nt being a charge…in spades….blind justice is the best justice. Glad to see the result, and the result was an outcome of the process…
Definitely a medal, and the killer deserved what he got.
“a 24 year old highschool dropout”? Is that some kind of crime?
Pundit – you’ve been here long enough to know the rules, so can it with the profanity.
Well at least they dont have to do some trial and have him dsclaired temorarily insane from eating too many big macs
…what continuously amazes me is how our two countries still function with air headed leftist thinking in everything from the judicial system to main stream media doing the SOS.
Stuck On Stupid.
I don’t think this story is as bad as the title implies. Any time deadly force is used, there should be an investigation. The result of this investigation is as it should be… the punk got what he deserved and the man who shot the punk is a hero.
Shawn: “Any time deadly force is used, there should be an investigation. The result of this investigation is as it should be… the punk got what he deserved and the man who shot the punk is a hero.”
In Canada this would be a rare case. Perhaps assisting a Peace Officer might get you off but you would likely end up in a court and spend all your assets in defending yourself. Then the “victim’s” kin would sue you for what’s left.
I’m being a bit facetious here but I have my doubts about a just ending for the intervenor.
Its important to understand that the heart of this story is about self-defence, not retribution. Floyd shot the murderer because he would lay down his gun. The murderer had already demonstrated he would use it to kill. Floyd simply followed through for his own protection, other wise he would have most certainly been shot too. The collateral benefit was retribution.
Gunney99: I agree. In Canada it would be far too believable for the hero to get charged, particularly if the punk survived long enough for the media to stick a microphone in his face and ask him to whine about how poorly he’d been treated. In Canada we are still too much affected by the “let the government do it” attitude (i.e. wait until the next police officer comes rather than defend yourself, your loved ones, the vulnerable, etc).
Skip explains with a lot of detail about an on-going feud. No matter.
Killing a police member is simply over the line.
Anyone who simply points a loaded weapon is is about to take a life. You are left with one option only.
Taking out a cop-killer while in the act and threatening to do more is a duty, if it can be done without taking other lives nearby. = TG
The uncle said Kenney ” had a rough life, a tough background, but it seemed like he was in the process of changing these past few weeks.”
Yeah right. Ain’t that always the case when you read a story like this?
“Ain’t that always the case when you read a story like this?”
Actually, the official phrase is “he was just turning his life around”.
The great deterent to any good act is “no good deed goes unpunished”. What a sad truth – maybe even an “incovenient truth”. But it all too often a “real” truth. Let that not stop do-gooders from acting.
Interesting story from a few years back about a home invasion on an elderly couple by some depraved punk who ended up dead at the hands of the 76 year old homeowner and his legal rifle.
The obvious was that the elderly man shot the armed bas***d who was breaking into his home.
The police were going to charge the old guy but public outcry prevailed and all charges pending were dropped as they should have been.
Sanity still comes through on occasion though not often enough.
Interesting enough, there were several stories about the former Marines of all ages, who did not hesitate to put themselves in the way of criminals and between the criminal and the victim – and won! Kudos to the Marines: ‘earned, never given’.