“I hope they learn that we all need to support our police officers, the fire department…”
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“Those two bailiffs were heroes”, he said, “along with all the other officers that were in that courtroom”.
Bailey said the shooter was a prisoner who took a gun from one of two bailiffs escorting him to a courtroom in the St. Joseph courthouse, and then began shooting as he tried to escape from custody.
“It’s a sad day”, Sheriff Paul Bailey said of the bailiffs.
Undated courtesy photos of Joseph Zangaro (left) and Ronald Kienzle (right) were killed at the Berrien County courthouse July 11, 2016.
A jail inmate trying to escape from a western MI courthouse wrested a gun from an officer, killed two bailiffs and injured two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said. Eventually, Gordon was accused of crimes, including sexual assault and kidnapping, police said.
Rick Snyder says state police have secured the scene after shots were fired at a southwestern MI courthouse. Gordon made it to a third floor hallway where he shot the woman.
Bailey said deputy James Atterberry Jr., 41, was shot in the arm. An emotional Sheriff Paul Bailey said he had known both Zangaro, 61, and Kienzle, 63, for more than 30 years. “It’s a risky world as police officers, and the times when you lose a life in the line of duty are extremely tragic”. “We’ll be working with our chief judge about our protocols at the courthouse”.
Relatives have also identified the fourth and final shooting victim as Kenya Ellis.
He was transported from state prison to U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids to face the October 2000 indictment.
“Probably 90 percent of the people who are here don’t want to be”, he said of people with business in the courthouse. The second deputy, armed with a gun, would trail at a safe distance.
Rosema said he plans to have a meeting with court administrators to look at what happened and to look at the local processes to see if anything can be changed to make security better.
That’s when he was apparently killed by other bailiffs. She said that she still loves him, and that Tuesday would have been their 10-year wedding anniversary.
The officers were shot in a part of the courthouse that is not accessible to the public, Bailey said.
Elliott was in the courthouse Monday morning and spoke with the two bailiffs, even sharing a joke with one of them.
The sheriff said the courthouse runs regular drills with deputies to be prepared in any situation.
SEATTLE – The FBI said Tuesday it is no longer investigating the mystery of the skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper, almost 45 years after he vanished out of the back of a Boeing 727 into a freezing Northwest rain wearing a business suit, a parachute and a pack filled with $200,000 in cash.
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“He always had a story to tell, and people had stories to tell about him”, Fetke said. “We can’t prove these allegations true in court”.
