Posted on 07/06/2009 10:03:31 PM PDT by xjcsa
GAFFNEY | Authorities have identified a man killed by North Carolina police as the killer they think shot five people to death over six days last week in this mostly rural Cherokee County community.
Law enforcement officials identified the suspect Monday night as 41-year-old Patrick Tracy Burris. They said he was a felon with a lengthy record who was paroled in April after serving more than eight years for felony breaking and entering and larceny.
Authorities said bullets in the gun found on Burris after he was killed by police early Monday near Gastonia, N.C., matched those used to kill residents in and around Gaffney, some 40 miles away.
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Sorry, but I don’t believe in “bullet matching,” as the press calls it. Handgun bullets are too randomly marked and deformed to be useful for identifying a particular gun in solving a crime. These people have seen too many movies and bad ‘70s dramas. Liberals want us to believe this, though, because it is one of their reasons for gun licensing.
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