More Cop Shootings: A police officer in Nashville was shot early Tuesday while trying to serve an arrest warrant. Juan Buitrago and Andy Humbles of the Tennessean report that Officer Terrance McBride and his partner were let into a motel room where the suspect was staying by a woman who left as the shooting started. McBride was shot in the shoulder while checking the bathroom, both officers returned fire and exited the room. After a standoff, the suspect was found dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Two central Georgia police officers were shot while attempting to execute a search warrant early Monday morning. Fox News reports that Officers William Patterson and James Wynn were part of a eight member drug task force that arrived at the suspect's home and entered after knocking and announcing. Both officers were injured during a shootout inside the home that left the suspect, Rainer Tyler Smith, dead.
Ohio Murderer's Death Sentence Upheld: The Ohio Supreme Court voted 6-1 to uphold the death sentence for Steven Cepec, convicted of the brutal 2010 strangling murder of a 72-year-old man during a robbery. The Associated Pres reports that Cepec's attorneys failed to convince the court of several error claims including that his statements to police should have been excluded from trial. Facts outlined in the court's decision indicate that on May 28, 2010, Cepec was released from prison to a drug rehab program, which he abandoned the next day. On June 3, he visited his girlfriend's father's barn. Hours later police responded to a 911 call to the father's house. When they spotted Cepec in the garage, he ran into the woods where he was caught and arrested. Inside the house police discovered the father's beaten and strangled body. An autopsy revealed that the victim had been beaten severely with a claw hammer before being strangled with an electric cord. The keys to the victim's car and pickup were found on the backseat floor of the police car where Cepec was held following his arrest. The victim's blood was found on Cepec's clothes. Another non-violent drug offender who deserved a second (or third or fourth) chance.
Ohio Murderer's Death Sentence Upheld: The Ohio Supreme Court voted 6-1 to uphold the death sentence for Steven Cepec, convicted of the brutal 2010 strangling murder of a 72-year-old man during a robbery. The Associated Pres reports that Cepec's attorneys failed to convince the court of several error claims including that his statements to police should have been excluded from trial. Facts outlined in the court's decision indicate that on May 28, 2010, Cepec was released from prison to a drug rehab program, which he abandoned the next day. On June 3, he visited his girlfriend's father's barn. Hours later police responded to a 911 call to the father's house. When they spotted Cepec in the garage, he ran into the woods where he was caught and arrested. Inside the house police discovered the father's beaten and strangled body. An autopsy revealed that the victim had been beaten severely with a claw hammer before being strangled with an electric cord. The keys to the victim's car and pickup were found on the backseat floor of the police car where Cepec was held following his arrest. The victim's blood was found on Cepec's clothes. Another non-violent drug offender who deserved a second (or third or fourth) chance.
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