Suicidal Man Shot Dead by Deputy was Registered Sex Offender Bruce Dawley

6-5-2017 California:

Authorities released the name Monday of a 66-year-old Campo man fatally shot by a deputy during an exchange of gunfire in a rural neighborhood near Lake Morena County Park.

Bruce Dawley of Campo — a registered sex offender — made a 911 call shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday from his home in the 2500 block of Gladiola Drive and reported that he was suicidal and armed with a gun, according to sheriff’s officials.

“Deputies arrived a short time later and established a perimeter in front of the home,” said Lt. Kenneth Nelson. “Shortly after doing so, deputies heard at least one gunshot … from inside the home.”

Moments later, Dawley appeared at the front door of his house, holding a pistol.

During a brief confrontation, Dawley allegedly fired at least one round from the handgun at deputies, prompting one of them to shoot back with a shotgun. Dawley then retreated back into his residence.

Getting no further response from Dawley, sheriff’s officials sent members of a SWAT team into the home, where they found him dead from a gunshot wound to his torso.

Though authorities were initially unsure whether Dawley’s fatal wound had been self-inflicted or resulted from the deputy’s return fire, the county Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the latter was the case, Nelson said. ..Source..

Court upholds killing by Columbus police of suspected serial rapist

See earlier story: Coroner: Suspected Rapist Died From Gunshot Wounds "80 bullets fired by police, 23 hit him"

4-21-15 Ohio:

Suspected serial rapist Abram Bynum died on a Far East Side freeway in 2009 during 20 seconds of Columbus police gunfire.

The four-year legal fight that followed between Bynum’s mother and the city now might be over after a decision favorable to the city was filed last week by a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The court found that Bynum’s rights were not violated and that the police officers were on firm legal ground when they killed him, reversing a decision that had been issued 18 months earlier by U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley.

Attorneys for Columbus had asked Marbley for a summary judgment that would end the case, arguing that the incontrovertible facts demanded that it be decided in the city’s favor.

Marbley instead found that Kathryn Pollard raised enough questions of fact that a jury might conclude that police acted recklessly and excessively when they fired 80 rounds at her son, striking him 23 times.

Suspect dead after confronting U.S. Marshals with air gun

This is more likely a case of "Suicide by Cop," no one is going to go up against the police with a BB Pistol; he wanted to die in this writer's opinion.

1-6-2015 Pennsylvania:

PITTSBURGH — The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office has released the name of a fugitive wanted on child sex charges who was fatally shot by members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force Tuesday morning in Pittsburgh.

The dead man is 47-year-old Leslie Sapp III.

Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay says the federal task force was trying to arrest Sapp when he brandished what turned out to be a BB pistol and was shot at his home on Redlyn Street in the city’s Knoxville neighborhood around 4:30 a.m.

McLay says the suspect drew a gun that appeared to be real, prompting one or more officers to shoot in self-defense.

The criminal complaint says Sapp was being sought in the alleged rape of a girl described as a family friend.

Former Scout Leader had child porn on computer when stabbed to death by former scout, court filing says

10-23-2014 New Jersey:

A former Boy Scout troop master, allegedly killed by a former scout who claims the man molested him decades earlier, had child pornography on his computer at the time of his death, according to court testimony.

Dennis Pegg, a 68-year-old Stillwater man who was stabbed to death on June 12, 2012, had numerous photos of child pornography on his computer, prosecutors said in court this morning, according to John Vazquez.

Vazquez is an attorney for Robert Reynolds, one of the two suspects charged with first-degree murder in connection with the killing.

Vazquez said that that Gregory Mueller, first assistant Sussex County Prosecutor, listed the photographs of child pornography as part of the evidence in the case.

Mueller did not comment.

Professor accused in death of her alleged rapist pleads guilty

9-12-2014 California:

A professor of psychology who was arrested nearly two years ago in the cold case slaying of a man she said had raped her pleaded guilty Friday to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter.

The Orange County case had drawn wide attention and gained support from advocates for rape victims who said she was being unfairly targeted.

Norma Patricia Esparza, who grew up in Santa Ana and went on to become a professor in Europe, was charged along with three others in the death of 24-year-old Gonzalo Ramirez while she was a college student in Claremont almost 20 years ago.

Esparza was accused of conspiring to commit the slaying, though she did not actually carry it out.

She is expected to be sentenced to six years in state prison and will testify against her co-defendants, the Orange County district attorney’s office said in a news release.

According to prosecutors, Esparza and a group that included her ex-boyfriend went to a Santa Ana bar in the spring of 1995 so she could point out Ramirez, who she said raped her in her dorm room.

After day-long search, suspected rapist Charlie Christopher 'Chris' Bates shot to death in shootout

9-6-2013 Florida:

Suspected rapist Charlie Christopher 'Chris' Bates was shot and killed in a shootout with law enforcement officers Friday afternoon, after several agencies went door-to-door in a day-long search for him.

The hunt for Bates, 24, ended dramatically, shortly after he was spotted driving near Greco High School in Temple Terrace. Officers attempted to stop him near U.S. 301 at Harney Road and Temple Terrace Hwy., but he fired a gun through the back window at the officers.

They continued pursuit south on U.S. 301 and an officer sped up to perform what they called a PIT maneuver, or bump him from behind. Bates lost control of the car on the second collision, and ended up in a ditch just south of Interstate 4.

Officers closed in, including Tampa Police, Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies, and the U.S. Marshals task force. The suspect began shooting through the windshield at no less than seven officers, who protected themselves with ballistic shields.

Officers returned fire, wounding the suspect, and they were able to remove the suspect from the vehicle.

The suspect died at 1:21 after receiving medical care.

No officers were injured in the exchange.

Bates was on the run after a series of home invasions near USF late Thursday night and early Friday morning. Officials said Bates fired shots, raped four women, and forced some 20 people at a birthday party into a bedroom.

Family Identifies Sex Assault Suspect Shot & Killed by Officers

2-7-2014 Michigan:

A Kalamazoo man shot and killed by Public Safety Officers during an ongoing sexual assault investigation has been identified by his relatives.

FOX17′s Troy Campbell spoke with Wanda Coskey, who identified the deceased as 42-year-old Brad Allen Mason, her son. Online records with the Michigan Sex Offender Registry show Mason was a registered sex offender, with a past conviction for Accosting a Child for Immoral Purposes in 2006.

His registered address is the same location where a deadly confrontation took place with Public Safety Officers Friday night. Police have not officially released the name of the deceased.

Officers were sent to his home in the 100 block of Dutton St. around 5:30 p.m., not far from Bronson Hospital, to follow up on a sexual assault that happened earlier in the week. Official details on what led investigators to his location have yet to be released.

In a press release earlier this week, detectives announced they were looking for a white male in his mid to late 30′s with dirty blonde or brown hair and a short beard connected to the abduction and sexual assault of a 24-year-old woman in the area of Fairview and University Streets in Kalamazoo early Wednesday morning. Investigators say the suspect grabbed the woman and forced her into a red truck and drove away from the area, sexually assaulted her, then released her near the area where she’d been abducted.

Rapist on Facebook: "Well folks, Im going to get shot"

1-20-2013 Michigan:

MT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN (WWBT) -- A man out on parole changed his Facebook status to "Well folkes Im about to get shot. Peace" right before he was killed by police, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Eric Ramsey, 30, of Central Michigan, abducted a college student at random with a BB gun, raped her, set fire to a house, stole a flatbed truck, rammed three police cars' before police shot him dead. Ramsey also posted to one wall of his 117 face book friends, "It's been real, bro. I wish we could have hung out longer."

Officials are now believing that this case was ended by "suicide by cop".

Thursday night, Ramsey abducted a student on the campus of Central Michigan University. He then took the victim to a house off campus, which is now being identified as Ramsey's mother's house where he was residing with her. Ramsey bound and raped the victim and then told her that he was going to kill her in the presiding car ride. The victim jumped from the moving car and found refuge in a local home where 3 children were waiting for their father to return. The four individuals locked themselves in a bathroom. A frustrated Ramsey set the house on fire and fled. The father returned soon after to put out the fire and free the children and victim. Ramsey then went on a 85 mile police chase with two different vehicles where it is believed he posted on the social media web site during the chase.

The victim is now safe and with family.

Ramsey had a violent history. He served a prison term from July 2007 to July 2012 on a conviction for assault with the intent to cause great bodily harm less than murder. He had previous convictions for malicious destruction of fire department or police property, assaulting/resisting/obstructing a police officer, and assault with a dangerous weapon, reports the Detroit Daily Press.

The parole board released him at his minimum sentence time, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said. During his time in several Michigan prisons, he was classified as a minimum-security prisoner. ..Source.. by Dax Gray