http://www.brassdoor.net/
Posted on 02/04/2006 3:44:22 PM PST by raccoonradio
CNN just reported that Jacob Robida, accused in the Mass. gay bar attack, has been captured in Arkansas after a shootout. I think they said a patrolman was killed in the attack. (Link is to article from today's Boston Herald) Details soon
CNN: AP: Arkansas state police say a man wanted in connection with an attack at a gay bar in Massachusetts has been apprehended after a shootout with police.
The suspect should have been brought to justice on the spot..
Keep him in Arkansas, they'll deal with the cop killer correctly.
bttt
AP reports he has been arrested and hospitalized. "During the attempt to arrest him, Robida was injured" and it also reports that a policeman and a woman accompanying Robida were both killed in the shootout. A press conference coming up later.
No "official" confirmation from New Bedford (MA) police, but this is what CNN is reporting from AP.
Maybe there were too many witnesses.
The cops have ways of getting rid of garbage like this.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gay_bar_shooting
NORFORK, Ark. - A teenager accused of going on a rampage at a Massachusetts gay bar with a hatchet and a gun was in a Missouri hospital Saturday after two shootings in northern Arkansas that resulted in the death of a police officer and a woman accompanying the wounded teen, state police said.
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Jacob D. Robida, 18, was transported to a hospital at Springfield, Mo., after an exchange of gunfire with police in Norfork, according to state police spokesman Bill Sadler.
That a police officer lost his life apprehending this animal is a real tragedy.
A yahoo map check says that Norfork is about 160 mi. north of Little Rock, nr. border w/ Missouri
yes; can a moderator change headline to include "policeman,
woman reported killed" somehow?
Does Arkansas have a death penalty?
Yes
"...it also reports that a policeman and a woman accompanying Robida were both killed in the shootout"
Oh, by the way... Next CNN will put these details in footnotes.
Yes Ark has death penalty. (Mass. of course has not, not even if a policeman is killed, despite Mitt Romney's attempt to
get that passed)
http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/capital/map/ar.html
Just ping the mods.
Uh, no.
Present the headline as it was in the source article.
Still electrocution? Well he qualifies in more than one way. What's wrong with these teenage males? I sometimes wonder if you could stop them , would they still be killers in their 20's or 30's?
It is a sad case, That this guy will more than likely live longer than his victims,I am upset that he was not arrested before now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060204/ap_on_re_us/gay_bar_shooting
13 minutes ago
NORFORK, Ark. - A teenager accused of going on a rampage at a Massachusetts gay bar with a hatchet and a gun was in a Missouri hospital Saturday after two shootings in northern Arkansas that resulted in the death of a police officer and a woman accompanying the wounded teen, state police said.
Jacob D. Robida, 18, was transported to a hospital at Springfield, Mo., after an exchange of gunfire with police in Norfork, according to state police spokesman Bill Sadler.
Sadler identified the slain officer as Jim Sell, a member of the Gassville police force. Sadler said he did not know the name of the woman who died in the gunfire at Norfork.
Robida was wanted in the attack Thursday at Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford, Mass., that left three men wounded, one critically.
Police have labeled the attack a hate crime and said Robida would be charged with attempted murder, assault and civil rights violations.
Arkansas has the death penalty, but didn't the state also release those two school shooters who killed five people, after only jailing them for a few years? Not very "tough on crime" at all.
>>Arkansas forbids the execution of the mentally retarded.
Remember Bubba had a controversy about a death row inmate who was allegedly retarded?
From a 2000 FR post by Always Right:
"President Clinton took time off from his campaign in 1992 to be in Arkansas for the execution of Rickey Ray Rector. He was so brain damaged that he asked the guard to set aside his piece of pecan pie so he could eat it after his execution, according to the NY Times."
Local news, Baxter Bulletin:
http://www.baxterbulletinonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060204/NEWS01/60204001/1002/rss
Gassville police officer fatally shot
According to officers at the scene, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, a Gassville Police Officer stopped a green car in the Brass Door parking lot, 621 E. Main St. in Gassville. The automobile had out of state license plates, and the officer was fatally shot with what appeared to be a 9mm handgun, by one of the two occupants. The officer’s name has not been released.
"It is an ongoing homicide investigation", according to Investigator Scott Thrasher of the Gassville Police Department.
The agencies involved are Gassville Police Department, Cotter Police Department, the Baxter County Sheriffs office, and the Arkansas State Police.
Updates will be posted as soon as more information is available.
>>Still electrocution? Well he qualifies in more than one way.
Yup. As I said, no death penalty in Mass. Boston-based talk host Howie Carr plays a clip from the song "God Bless
Texas" whenever the Lone Star State executes someone. He also
compares the death penalty to the barbershop: Mass. should have "two (electric) chairs...NO WAITING". Bring back ol'
Sparky.
http://www.brassdoor.net/
I doubt if Arkansas is going to give him back to Mass.
I am not a death penalty opponent, but everytime I read that, I want to start bawling.
update from Fox News: "A police officer from the northern Arkansas town of Gassville was shot as he attempted to apprehend Jacob D. Robida, according to state police spokesman Bill Sadler.
The teen sped away and exchanged gunfire with police in nearby Norfolk, where the 18-year-old was wounded and a female passenger was killed, Sadler said."
That story about the prisoner makes me sick to my stomach.
I'm glad this scumbag has finally been apprehended and I'm sorry a police officer had to lose his life to this scumbag. Anyone know who the female was that was with the scumbag?
>>Anyone know who the female was that was with the scumbag?
Maybe one of the "friends" seen on his MySpace account.
http://www.myspace.com/jakejekyll
One posting:
>>for Jakes friends .... I was just informed that he was caught in arkansaw ,(sic) there was a shoot out he was shot ( injured ) he shot a women and a cop ... I was just informed by the news its self ... I just figured you'd like to hear it from a friend first !
as for you other people hatin on him ... I dont want your emails telling me good i'm glad he was shot u'll just get blocked ... f--- you people ...
much love homie ... sorry for everything ... I dont kno (sic) why you did this but I'm sorry it got this far and we couldnt help you !
America's Most Wanted's website says there will be a feature about him on tonight's show (9 pm ET, Fox). That site hasn't been updated yet with the news that Robida has been caught.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572019/posts
Yes he is in critical condition and Ch 25/Boston talked to Bristol County DA Paul Walsh who said Robida "may not make it".
If this had happened in a non-gay bar would the media be saying, "an attack at a straight bar" I think not. Why is the sexual orientation such a big deal?
Right...exactly. And by the way (oh, I HATE to be so non-PC)
I find it interesting that you can't say "colored" but a
"person of color" is OK. I'm a person of color--white. I'm
also a Native American. Born in Lynn, MA, part of America,
thus a Native American :)
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