2 Topeka Police officers killed, suspect still at large

[Brock Landers]

Dollar General is way more dangerous IMO.

In a previously retail-oriented career, Brock Landers managed a Dollar General over in east Topeka.  I was there less than a year and my store was robbed at gunpoint 3 times.  The third time I had a gun pressed into the back of my head.  Good times.

  JFC.

The guy only got away with a couple hundred bucks or so.  I did a fine job of not pissing/shitting myself and established some street cred in the process.  Next time someone pulls a gun on me I can use the badass movie line "I hate to disappoint you but this isn't the first time I've had a gun pointed at me."

Ha, just kidding I would probably soil myself.  That whole area of Topeka shopping plaza should just be burnt to the ground.

[Bloodfart]

Dollar General is way more dangerous IMO.

In a previously retail-oriented career, Brock Landers managed a Dollar General over in east Topeka.  I was there less than a year and my store was robbed at gunpoint 3 times.  The third time I had a gun pressed into the back of my head.  Good times.

  JFC.

The guy only got away with a couple hundred bucks or so.  I did a fine job of not pissing/shitting myself and established some street cred in the process.  Next time someone pulls a gun on me I can use the badass movie line "I hate to disappoint you but this isn't the first time I've had a gun pointed at me."

Ha, just kidding I would probably soil myself.  That whole area of Topeka shopping plaza should just be burnt to the ground.

I have no clue what I'd do in that situation.  You are brave.  crap I start crapping my pants just imagining how I would deal with someone breaking into my house. 

[williamthewildcat]

Know a person who was in the Dillons at the time. At the checkout counter. She heard two "pops" Turned and through the long plate glass that extends from ceiling to floor, saw the guy unload 11, 12 shots into the two officers on the ground. She said they were dead right there. Ambulance and revival were formalities.

Spent an hour locked in the store, and 2 hours at the Topeka LEC being interviewed. When she found out the dude was dirt napped by the KBI this AM, she breathed a sigh of relief. Was worried she'd have to testify in court.

[puniraptor]

wow

[SdK]

That all happened three blocks from my apartment. I headed back to MHK last night and actually stopped at a one car accident on the North side of that dillons. Heard the news an hour after it happened. Terrible terrible stuff. It's called ghetto dillons for a reason.

My friend turned to me last night and said that this guy wouldn't make it through the night. Woke up to a text confirming her speculation. I'm glad he's dead. I'm glad a fellow cop took him out.

I feel so bad for the families of these police officers. If anyone finds a better account of what happened, I'd be curious to know.

[8manpick]

That all happened three blocks from my apartment. I headed back to MHK last night and actually stopped at a one car accident on the North side of that dillons. Heard the news an hour after it happened. Terrible terrible stuff. It's called ghetto dillons for a reason.

My friend turned to me last night and said that this guy wouldn't make it through the night. Woke up to a text confirming her speculation. I'm glad he's dead. I'm glad a fellow cop took him out.

I feel so bad for the families of these police officers. If anyone finds a better account of what happened, I'd be curious to know.

I hope the cop that took him out did so completely unnecessarily.

[puniraptor]

KBI hit squad did it so TPD didn't get all the scrutiny.

[SdK]

That all happened three blocks from my apartment. I headed back to MHK last night and actually stopped at a one car accident on the North side of that dillons. Heard the news an hour after it happened. Terrible terrible stuff. It's called ghetto dillons for a reason.

My friend turned to me last night and said that this guy wouldn't make it through the night. Woke up to a text confirming her speculation. I'm glad he's dead. I'm glad a fellow cop took him out.

I feel so bad for the families of these police officers. If anyone finds a better account of what happened, I'd be curious to know.

I hope the cop that took him out did so completely unnecessarily.

My gut tells me a less lethal shot was probably possible, but why bother? I figured necessary or not, he would be shot dead and a scenario to justify it would be constructed. I'm ok with that.

[jtksu]

Dude aparently came out of the house carrying a gun.  Only reason you do that is to maybe take a few last shots before they gun you down.  Guess it saved the taxpayers some money. 

[WillieWatanabe]

from the video here...sounds like he shot himself...then the KBI filled him with bullets.

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Authorities-On-Scene-Og-Shooting-At-Grocery-Store-In-Topeka-183724341.html

[SdK]

from the video here...sounds like he shot himself...then the KBI filled him with bullets.

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Authorities-On-Scene-Og-Shooting-At-Grocery-Store-In-Topeka-183724341.html

Thanks for the link, WW.

[ednksu]

suicide or suicide by cop works for me. 

Would still like to know if his two buddies are also fine up standing members of society. 

[jtksu]

suicide or suicide by cop works for me. 

Would still like to know if his two buddies are also fine up standing members of society.

Didn't one of the articles say they were released without being charged with any crimes?  That had to be one mumped up situation for those guys. If they honestly were totally innocent dudes and then they guy in the back seat starts shooting cops in the head?!  Guess that's why he ended up driving away...

[jtksu]

Now that I think about it a bit more, those dudes must have been innocent as hell.  You know the cops wanted to charge them with anything and everything, considering the two dead officers involved.

[ednksu]

probably.


I'm still really rough ridin' confused on how this POS got the drop on these cops.  One cop to the driver's side, one cop on the back passenger corner. 

[EMAWmeister]

Good for the KBI for pumping his head full of hollowpoints. Worthless POS

[jtksu]

probably.


I'm still really rough ridin' confused on how this POS got the drop on these cops.  One cop to the driver's side, one cop on the back passenger corner.

I hadn't heard the specifics.  Both head shots, too, correct?  That does sound pretty damn difficult.  Not saying that this has anything to do with that case but I watched a TV special on the increasing difficulty police are having with returning vets and violent, gang related crimes.  Guess they relaxed the admission requirements and gangs are a big problem in the enlisted ranks, both before enlisting and after.  They highlighted one dude who killed some people at a C-store and then shot it out with LEOs for quite a while.  They had a Marine dissect the video and the dude was using standard crap he learned while enlisted and the LEOs were totally unprepared for that stuff.  Guess that's why it feels like some felony arrest when I get a speeding ticket these days. 

[sonofdaxjones]

My MHK brother told me this guy had a significant rap sheet and probably should have already been incarcerated.

[ednksu]

http://cjonline.com/news/2014-09-07/cpl-jason-harwood-was-family-man-highly-regarded-police-officer

The most recent cop killed, over this past weekend, was all     

[raquetcat]

Still not sure what the person's motive was, really sad, especially with the two little emaws

[ednksu]

I thought it was pretty interesting how the guy turned himself in.

[Asteriskhead]

I thought it was pretty interesting how the guy turned himself in.

He would not still be alive had he taken any other course of action.

[SdK]

I thought it was pretty interesting how the guy turned himself in.

He would not still be alive had he taken any other course of action.

True.

[ednksu]

I thought it was pretty interesting how the guy turned himself in.

He would not still be alive had he taken any other course of action.

True.

Probably true.  I mean the suspect did reference the other rough rider who killed the last cops.  But the other 2012 suspect could have made it if he didn't walk on his front porch and aim a gun the swat teams from 3 departments.

[Asteriskhead]

I thought it was pretty interesting how the guy turned himself in.

He would not still be alive had he taken any other course of action.

True.

Probably true.  I mean the suspect did reference the other rough rider who killed the last cops.  But the other 2012 suspect could have made it if he didn't walk on his front porch and aim a gun the swat teams from 3 departments.

Cop killers usually don't get taken into custody alive unless there are media present.