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Gunman in deadly Colorado deputy shooting identified as Iraq War vet with grudge against sheriff
Fox ^ | 12.31.2017 | By Greg Norman, Robert Gearty | Fox News

Posted on 12/31/2017 7:22:43 PM PST by narses

The rifle-toting man who gunned down a Colorado deputy in a New Year’s Eve “ambush-style” attack had ranted about the sheriff and a local police officer in recent online posts discovered after the assault. Matthew Riehl, 37, fired more than 100 rounds as he was holed up in a bedroom in his apartment in Highlands Ranch, before he too was found dead at the scene. The Douglas County Sheriff's office identified Riehl as the gunman Sunday evening.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; matthewriehl; oifveterans; police; shooting; unhingedvet; veteran
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1 posted on 12/31/2017 7:22:43 PM PST by narses
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To: narses

He said he was running against Spurlock as a libertarian.


2 posted on 12/31/2017 7:23:14 PM PST by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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To: narses

He wanted one of their Dodges too.


3 posted on 12/31/2017 7:25:41 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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And we still know nothing about the Las Vegas killer.


4 posted on 12/31/2017 7:27:22 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: narses

“Authorities had been to Riehl’s home earlier in response to a complaint of a “verbal disturbance” involving two men”...gay? I’d normally think “pals” but these days, who knows?


5 posted on 12/31/2017 7:28:28 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: LYDIAONTARIO

Libertarian doper queer is a safe bet.


6 posted on 12/31/2017 7:29:21 PM PST by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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To: narses
Matthew Riehl, 37, fired more than 100 rounds as he was holed up in a bedroom in his apartment in Highlands Ranch, before he too was found dead at the scene.

He did not like the local cops. An ambush implies he was loaded for bear, called the cops, and set up his own OK coral departure inside the apartment.

7 posted on 12/31/2017 7:30:31 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: narses

Bad guys can NEVER be gay, minority, or muslim.


8 posted on 12/31/2017 7:32:27 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: LYDIAONTARIO

Point well taken..


9 posted on 12/31/2017 7:33:45 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RandallFlagg

Maybe their checking for Ttump collusion.


10 posted on 12/31/2017 7:39:08 PM PST by oldbrowser (There is a striking similarity between Islamist, BLM, Antifa, Nazis, anarchists, and the democrats.)
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To: Paladin2

Appears he was a lawyer at some point.


11 posted on 12/31/2017 7:39:36 PM PST by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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To: narses

Teasle: He was just another drifter who broke the law!

Trautman: Vagrancy wasn’t it? That’s gonna look real good on his grave stone in Arlington: Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA.

Teasle: Now don’t give me any of that crap Trautman. Do you think Rambo was the only guy who had a tough time in Vietnam? He killed a police officer for Christ’s sake!

Trautman: You’re goddamn lucky he didn’t kill all of you.


12 posted on 12/31/2017 7:41:18 PM PST by conservative98
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Nope, a gay doper lawyer with a chip on his shoulder is NOT John Rambo.


13 posted on 12/31/2017 7:46:28 PM PST by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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To: RandallFlagg

Vegas is being erased as a topic. It wasn’t on the news last night as one of the significant events of the year. They always do a wrap up on New Years Eve.


14 posted on 12/31/2017 7:49:41 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: narses

Sharks are exempt?


15 posted on 12/31/2017 7:51:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: narses

Clapton says to shoot the sheriff but not kill the deputy.


16 posted on 12/31/2017 7:54:37 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: narses

Listening to him rambling in his pathetic videos, he reminded me of that crazy Matthew Apperson, the guy who harassed George Zimmerman in Lake Mary, Florida, eventually shooting a pistol at Zimmerman head while both were driving.

Apperson was tried and convicted of armed aggravated assault and shooting into a vehicle, and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

He has a history of mental illness.


17 posted on 12/31/2017 8:57:37 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Bob Marley, not Eric Clapton.


18 posted on 12/31/2017 9:59:08 PM PST by SoCalConservative
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To: narses

He mustn’t have been a TEA Partier, or we’d be hearing MSM caterwaulering from sea to shining sea.


19 posted on 12/31/2017 11:47:53 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: SoCalConservative
Bob Marley, not Eric Clapton.

Well, Clapton was the one who made it a hit even though Marley wrote it.

20 posted on 12/31/2017 11:57:27 PM PST by KevinB (When you drink the water, remember the men or women who dug the well.)
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