Two Officers Killed in Upstate NY - In Two Days
03/03/2006 10:50 Filed in: Cops
Two guys doing their job have been killed in upstate
New York in the last two days. What the hell is going
on in this - and every other - state?
A 10 year NYSP trooper, Andrew Sperr, out of SP Horseheads, was shot and killed by two idiots who had just robbed a Chemung County bank - which the trooper apparently did not know about - when he stopped to check their suspicious vehicle by the side of the road. Trooper Sperr managed to return fire and shot both of them. They were arrested separately when they showed up at two Elmira hospitals whining about gunshot wounds.
The day before, Wednesday, March 1, New Hartford PD officer Joseph Corr was shot and killed while chasing yet another worthless bastard who had - you guessed it - robbed a jewelry store. A vehicle chase ended with the robbers crashing their car into a gas station, and in the ensuing foot pursuit of one of them, officer Corr was killed. Corr was all of 30 years old, with six years on the job.
In the only bit of good news in the whole story, the person who killed Corr was killed himself the next night in a battle with cops in Chester, Pa - but not before shooting a US Marshall, though not seriously.
Governor Pataki - from his hospital room in New York City, where he is recovering from two surguries - is coming out strongly for getting the death penalty law back on the books in connection with killing police officers. While I doubt it would deter so-called people like these from shooting at the cops, it would be nice to see them removed from the world afterwards, at least.
So it doesn't matter if you do this work on a 26 officer job out in Oneida County or in the South Bronx or East LA - it's all the same, every time you get out of the car or approach anyone you don't already know. Be careful out there. I was lucky to get through 27 years pretty much unscathed. It is a damn shame that so many good people aren't.
A 10 year NYSP trooper, Andrew Sperr, out of SP Horseheads, was shot and killed by two idiots who had just robbed a Chemung County bank - which the trooper apparently did not know about - when he stopped to check their suspicious vehicle by the side of the road. Trooper Sperr managed to return fire and shot both of them. They were arrested separately when they showed up at two Elmira hospitals whining about gunshot wounds.
The day before, Wednesday, March 1, New Hartford PD officer Joseph Corr was shot and killed while chasing yet another worthless bastard who had - you guessed it - robbed a jewelry store. A vehicle chase ended with the robbers crashing their car into a gas station, and in the ensuing foot pursuit of one of them, officer Corr was killed. Corr was all of 30 years old, with six years on the job.
In the only bit of good news in the whole story, the person who killed Corr was killed himself the next night in a battle with cops in Chester, Pa - but not before shooting a US Marshall, though not seriously.
Governor Pataki - from his hospital room in New York City, where he is recovering from two surguries - is coming out strongly for getting the death penalty law back on the books in connection with killing police officers. While I doubt it would deter so-called people like these from shooting at the cops, it would be nice to see them removed from the world afterwards, at least.
So it doesn't matter if you do this work on a 26 officer job out in Oneida County or in the South Bronx or East LA - it's all the same, every time you get out of the car or approach anyone you don't already know. Be careful out there. I was lucky to get through 27 years pretty much unscathed. It is a damn shame that so many good people aren't.
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