HERE’S ONE FOR THE ” ONLY COPS SHOULD HAVE GUNS” CROWD!!!!!
HERE’S ONE FOR THE “ONLY COPS SHOULD HAVEGUNS” CROWD!!!!!
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(FL) Policeman killed after threatening estranged wife 03-18-02
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/2882065.htm
Posted on Mon, Mar. 18, 2002
Policeman killed after threat to estranged wife The Palm Beach Post
WEST PALM BEACH – An off-duty Riviera Beach police officer, unhinged by
marital troubles, was shot and killed early Sunday after threatening his
estranged wife and her companion with his police-issue firearm.
Robert Beck, a 34-year-old officer assigned to the city’s K-9 unit, was
shot several times with a .22 caliber rifle by Johnnie Rollins,
according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Rollins, 22, told sheriff’s deputies that he fired at Beck in self
defense. Beck’s police sidearm, a loaded Glock, was found near his body
inside Rollins’ apartment.
Deputies were summoned at 2:40 a.m. Sunday to Rollins’ home at 711
Banyan Dr. in suburban West Palm Beach. It was the third time in five
hours that officers had rushed to a 911 complaint about the officer.
Twice, Beck’s supervisors at the Riviera Beach Department were called to
intervene, deputies said. With his final divorce hearing set for March
28, Beck made a third, fatal attempt at a face-to-face encounter with
his wife, Josette Beck.
Deputies are treating the shooting as an act of self-defense, sheriff’s
office detective John Carney said.
