On Monday, January 12, 1998, near the
end of his shift, Deputy Kyle Dinkheller of the Laurens County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) in
the U.S.
state of Georgia, pulled over motorist Andrew Howard
Brannan, for speeding. A verbal confrontation escalated to a shootout resulting
in Brannan murdering the Deputy. Dinkheller's murder continues to get national
attention (e.g., training in police academies) because the stop and shootout
were captured on a personal video recorder Deputy Dinkheller had placed on his
patrol car dashboard and activated when he stopped Brannan.
In the shootout, Dinkheller was armed
with his semi-automatic service handgun, and Brannan had an M1 Carbine
rifle. Dinkheller shot and wounded Brannan. Despite this, Brannan fired the
rifle, reloaded it, fired a lethal shot into Dinkheller's eye, and fled the
scene in his Toyota truck. The next morning, police found Brannan still in Laurens County, Georgia, hiding in a
sleeping bag beneath a camouflage tarp. Police arrested Brannan for the murder
of Deputy Kyle Dinkheller.
Brannan pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity,
claiming in part that he suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
stemming from his military service as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Because
Deputy Dinkheller's video recorded most of Brannan's actions, the jury found he
murdered Dinkheller in a premeditated, torturous, and cruel manner. Two years
following the murder, on January 28, 2000, the jury found Brannan guilty of
murder. On January 30, 2000, Brannan was sentenced to death. Nearly fifteen
years later, on January 13, 2015, the State of Georgia executed Brannan by lethal
injection.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kyle_Dinkheller
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