Posted on 02/14/2002 7:37:46 AM PST by NC_Libertarian
ROANOKE - An agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was charged with murder yesterday after the shooting death of a Roanoke man in a restaurant parking lot, city police said.
Roanoke police allege that Timothy G. Workman, 31, a special agent with the McAllen, Texas, office of the DEA, fatally shot the man with a revolver during an argument and fight yesterday at 2:17 a.m. outside O'Charley's restaurant.
Keith E. Bailey, 41, died where he fell, shot in the chest.
Police said both men had been in the restaurant before their confrontation in the parking lot. Police spokeswoman Shelly Alley declined to say what the two men were allegedly arguing about, saying only "a verbal exchange led to a physical scuffle" and that the two men did not know each other.
Workman was off duty at the time, an official said.
Roanoke prosecutor Donald Caldwell said he was "not going to make any comment until after Mr. Workman's arraignment. This has the potential to be a little bit nasty because of the person involved and his history in law enforcement."
Workman, of Mission, Texas, is scheduled to appear today in Roanoke General District Court.
A spokesman for the DEA in Washington said Workman was in Roanoke on temporary duty "for investigative purposes" but declined to elaborate. The victim, Bailey, was convicted of distributing cocaine in 1990, but authorities refused to say whether his history played any role in the shooting.
Workman, now being held in the Roanoke jail, has been suspended from duty with pay, according to the DEA.
"Whenever a life is taken by any DEA special agent, a thorough review is undertaken at the highest levels of the Department of Justice," said R.C. Gamble, special agent in charge of the DEA's Washington division. "We will work in conjunction with the Roanoke city police department and the commonwealth's attorney's office to accurately determine the facts of this case."
Roanoke investigators talked to witnesses inside and outside the restaurant before charging Workman with murder, Alley said. He also was charged with using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Workman, now being held in the Roanoke jail, has been suspended from duty with pay
These fascists are above the law. He might get 180 days paid suspension out of this.
If convicted and sentenced to jail time send him in on that all-important 'first day' with a message written in lipstick on the back of a white t-shirt...
I'm sure that we all want for him to get off to the right start...
Well then, this was obviously a justified shooting.
LOL!
Yeah, I know...
And I'm not actually in favor of the state 'constructively sentencing' people to homosexual abuse...
But I'd like to see him marched through the general population on his way to solitary. (So that he can 'feel the love' in the room...)
Wow. I think that's pretty cool.
I saw a two hour special that the history channel had on these. Very interesting stuff.
Were most gunboats patrolling the Mekong? Was your base a ship in the open ocean?
Anybody happen to notice that it seems Workman did NOT use his DEA-issued semiauto service pistol, but was rather using a personal weapon or *throwaway piece....*
-archy-/-
Tuesday's incident isn't the first time a DEA agent has been involved in a shooting in Virginia....
One of the agents was convicted of unlawful shooting into an occupied vehicle but did not get any prison time. He was forced to resign, and the incident, along with a DEA shooting in El Paso, Texas, led to the head of the DEA issuing a directive prohibiting armed agents from drinking excessively on- and off-duty.
There you go kiddies, you can cop a small buzz while you're out busting people, but please, don't get wasted.
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