Posted on 05/15/2007 3:55:01 AM PDT by billorites
The passer-by who confronted and killed the gunman in last Friday's police shooting was an expert marksman who used to alarm his neighbors by firing guns on his own property, court records show.
"I am an ex-Marine and an expert shot. I don't miss what I shoot at," Gregory Floyd, 49, told police officers who searched his home in 1997.
Authorities have decided not to charge Floyd in Friday's shooting, ruling he was justified when he fired at Liko Kenney, 24, just moments after watching Kenney shoot and kill Franconia Police Cpl. Bruce McKay.
Kenney's uncle, Bill, said he is not angry at Floyd.
"I thank him," Bill Kenney said yesterday. "He did an amazing thing."
A "loner" by reputation, Floyd has declined to speak with reporters since the shootings. A woman who answered the phone at his house Sunday said, "This is a private, unlisted, unpublished number. Please don't call again."
Residents in the rural White Mountains town of Easton, home to about 280 people, said they tend to keep away from Floyd, just as he keeps away from them. His property on the southern edge of town is said to be guarded by Rottweilers.
"He's the type of person I'd be very leery of," said Bob Every, the town's former police chief.
Court records show Floyd has had several run-ins with the law over the years. His record includes a 1998 conviction for attempting to knee a police trooper in the groin and a 1997 indictment, later dismissed, for being a felon in possession of weapons.
Authorities searched Floyd's cabin exactly 10 years ago this week after neighbors told then-chief Every they thought Floyd was discharging "fully automatic weapons" on his property, according to documents on file in Littleton District Court.
Floyd at one point apologized for shooting a gun, telling neighbors he was "shooting to scare off bears so his son could sleep," the documents say.
A search of his house turned up six guns, including a Glock 9mm pistol, an Ithaca 12-gauge shotgun and a Rugar Black Hawk handgun, but no automatics.
Floyd and his wife, Michelle, had moved to the area from Townsend, Mass., about six months before that. A record check in that state showed that while there had been arrests for assault with a dangerous weapon, the charges were dismissed.
One day after the May 1997 search, Floyd was charged with criminally threatening a contracted meter reader from the New Hampshire Electric Coop. Floyd allegedly instructed his son, "Go inside and get the pouch." His son, according to the report, said, "Mom is awake. I could not get the gun."
Investigating troopers claimed Floyd told them he could have given them a "third eye."
"I know you wear vests, so I could have put it right between the eyes," he said, according to the papers. "I was sitting on my Ruger."
The case was twice continued that summer. One time was because the troopers would be attending the funeral of two state troopers killed in Colebrook on Aug. 19, 1997.
Minutes before the trial was to have started in October, the case was dropped. There was a heavy police presence in the court that day.
Also in June 1997, Floyd was charged with, and later indicted for, being a felon in possession of weapons, after a records search in Georgia turned up a 1981 felony conviction for selling marijuana.
Those charges were dismissed after Floyd's attorney, Gerry Boyle, successfully argued that the Georgia conviction would not have constituted a felony in New Hampshire in 1981.
He was also charged with simple assault for attempting to knee a trooper in the groin and was given a suspended one- to three-year sentence in the New Hampshire State Prison, according to an order issued on May 28, 1998. He was placed on probation for three years, with the stipulation that he not possess any firearms.
In motions seeking the return of the firearms in August 1998, court papers noted that the guns belonged to Floyd's wife. She reportedly intended to sell some of them and have the others secured in a locked safe in Manchester.
Also a backgrounder on the perp available Here.
Scott and Lorna are trying real hard to make Floyd look like a bad guy.
Here we go...
There’s no such thing as an “ex-Marine.”
Wonder what his Freeper nick is.
BTW, this article was published in the Manchester Union Leader. Messed up the attribution.
Yep, tripping all over themselves trying to make this guy look "evil".....
This isn't common for an Ex-Marine from that era.
Decided not to charge him? They should be paying him bounty and pinning a medal on him!
Whaddya call Murtha? (Besides the expletives!)
They’re a bunch of American hating scumbags prepping the ground for the fall of the US as a world power.
When the islamic terrorists come to saw off their heads they will, of course, blame everybody on the right.
God knows the "Screwnion Bleeder" tried to make the psycho in colebrook look like some kind of unfortunate who "fell through the cracks"
The Trooper that gave his life to save others up there was a friend, and fellow ultralight pilot.
“There’s no such thing as an “ex-Marine.””
BS!
More mature WW II and Korean War Marines routinely and proudly referred to themselves, and other Marines as EX-MARINES!!!!!
Only the internet and its new breed of bigmouths making unfounded claims on this and that of history and traditions have actually changed much of the “salty talk” (naval terminology)characteristic of Marines. There’s more...nuff fer now.
The above is just another myth perpetuated by new age (pc in many ways)marines .
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This article is typical of how Marines are treated by the msm.
Note that the typical buzzwords are there, i.e., “loner,” etc.
“A Senile Baby Blue”
True gun control :)
Wrong. The existence of people like Ritter, Murtha, Garwood, Lonetree, Oswald, Carville, Dellums, Kovic, Glenn, Dennehy, the subject of this article, et al proves that.
“The Bastards!”
Cop-killers get roadside memorials in NH... how progressive.
Yes, real nebulous on his crimes. Just sounds to me like Floyd is the type of guy who does not bend over to kiss anybody's ass. Big gov. and the JBTs don't like that.
What ever happened to the news about the officer? Was he a father? Husband? Son?(obviously) Heck, they would have paid more attention to the victim if he were a golden retriever. I guess personalization only applies if it supports your motive.
You are missing the point entirely.
NH cops have absolutely no current problems with Floyd, so AHole reporters go way back to dredge up something.
My guess is that he next time Floyd gets caught for 40 in a 25, he gets a handshake and a smile, not a citation.
The authors are spineless sheeple that have been infected with lib dementia.
The authors are spineless sheeple that have been infected with lib dementia.
I recently worked on a proposal for the USMC, which we lost. The leads and half the people working the proposal were all nloadMs, we started every morning with a video exhortation from Gunny (R. L., himself). I don't think any of them considered themselves "ex-Marines".
Outstanding point A.A.! When I think of those names in the list you provided I get sick to my stomach!
“Semper Fi !”
Believe what you like—beliefs and opinions do seem to make it so for those of the great herd-mentality.
I am not impressed w/ex-SSgt RL............
Semper Fidelis
(not s/fi, same meaning as the ‘sorry bout dat,’ of the hippies.’
Slacker!
I had a worse experience when I was kidnapped (ok, sent TDY) to a Newport News weapons subcontractor who had a morning pep rally every morning lead by the local Microsoft sales rep. GAWD, MS seemed like more of a cult than the Moonies.
“embarrassing”
Yep—you used the right word!
Ref
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/gunnyg/jackwebb.html
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/gunnyg/jackwebb.html
My Dad died over 16 yrs ago and He is still a Marine.
oh Kenn'E'y... sorry... Carry on!
“I am an ex-Marine and an expert shot. I don’t miss what I shoot at,”
This is why we former Marines have an affinity to wheel guns for conceal carry. We don’t feel that we will ever be confronted with more than six assailants so why bother carrying the extra ammo. : )
Well just damn! Doesn't everyone have such a stock in their home?
Well just damn! Doesn't everyone have such a stock in their home?
Boy, don’t try to help anyone using a gun — the papers will reveal every bad thing you have ever done.
I know more bad stuff about this guy than I know about the typical criminal. Usually we read about how great the criminals were when they weren’t terrorizing honest, law-abiding citizens.
He is a real man. We fear real men now? Is that what pussies we have become?
The perp? Basically a good kid who made a bad choice. The dead cop? A dead cop.
The good guy? A gun-collecting loner that people avoid, an "ex-Marine marksman" who (it is said) keeps Rottweilers (they're like pit bulls, doncha know), in constant trouble with the law (as shown by a records check and we'll tell you exactly what we found plus some speculation and gossip thrown in for good measure), who is rumored to have once paid his Visa bill late.
Well, that's a good start.
Slacker!
That's what the search 'turned up' if you get my drift. The details given about this gentleman indicate that he wisely does not trust the government.
If he truly was firing an automatic weapon on the day in question (well within his rights, regardless of some infringing 'law') he likely would not stash it anywhere that was easy to find by the Barney Fife patrol.
There are some FReepers who would have him jailed for this fact alone.
This story as written is a disgrace these two “reporters should” go into a different profession , something like Dish Washing so as not to wear out their Intelligence to fast.
What a disgrace.
The Former Marine deserves a Medal.
No wonder the Newspaper companies are going the way of the Dinasour.
Long Live the Internet.
If Brooks and Colghoun went to Journalism school They should get their money back.
This story as written is a disgrace these two “reporters should” go into a different profession , something like Dish Washing so as not to wear out their Intelligence to fast.
What a disgrace.
The Former Marine deserves a Medal.
No wonder the Newspaper companies are going the way of the Dinasour.
Long Live the Internet.
If Brooks and Colghoun went to Journalism school They should get their money back.
Just goes to show what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do.
This is why we former Marines have an affinity to wheel guns for conceal carry. We don’t feel that we will ever be confronted with more than six assailants so why bother carrying the extra ammo. : )
I'd nominate that for "post of the day! ;-P
BTW - That's from a former Army Captain!
Thanks, I try hard... : )
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