Friday

Friday started out crappy. First off I overslept so I was rushed in the morning. I went to art class and that was fine, but then for gym. For the last unit I was in Ultiment Frisbee (link in last post), and because it poured the night before, we got to play mat ball (the indoor version of kick ball) Anyways, we played it, and i didn’t do too bad, I had made a few homeruns, but near the end of the period I was on third base preparing to run for home, and mat ball allows more than 1 person to be on a base, the girl in front of me ran and I ran behind her, she stopped suddenly and to avoid hitting her, I stopped hard on my right foot and twisted it really bad, luckilly the gym class had three minutes to go. So i left and went to spanish and bombed the synonym quiz. Following that was locker clean out (which I had already done, so that wasn’t a problem). English, the last class of the day was horrible. The people sitting across from me were acting like idiots and driving me nuts. We reviewed everything we had read during the year. It was so boring. The period ended and I went home and took a nap. After doing that, I couldn’t sleep that night. :gloomy:

Saturday

I was laying in bed trying to sleep when around 1 am a bunch of sirens came flying by, I figured it was a fire or somthing, so I didn’t think too much of it. I woke up around 10 and mom was talking to my brother about having to run to the bank, and he wanted to stay home. So she said to lock the windows and doors (which kinda confused me until i knew what happened). She told me about a state trooper who was shot at 1am this morning, so I checked the local news site and they said this

NY State Trooper Shot
Last Update: 6/10/2006 9:14:58 PM
Posted By: Jericka Duncan

Town of Veteran

Police tell WETM 18 News they are searching for a vehicle and a person of interest in the shooting of a New York State Trooper early Saturday morning.

43 year old Ralph Bucky Phillips escaped from the Erie County Correctional Facility near Buffalo in April. Police say he is a person of interest that they want to speak with. They will not call him a suspect.

Phillips is described as 6 feet tall, 235 pounds. He has brown eyes and brown hair.

Police are also looking for a vehicle of interest in the case. It’s a 1992 white Chevy pick-up truck with plate number CYL-5410. Police say the suspect could have switched plates since he stole the car. The truck also has a silver toolbox in the back and a blue tailgate.

State Police say Trooper Sean Brown and Donald Will approached a car during what is being described as a routine traffic stop on Parrott Road. The car is said to be a dark colored Ford Mustang with a possible convertible top. The driver, described as a white male, fired several shots in the direction of Trooper Brown. Brown was wearing a bullet proof vest at the time. He sustained a gun shot wound to the abdomen. Authorities say the driver left the scene speeding off eastbound on Parrott Road.

The Ford Mustang involved in the shooting was recovered on Wygant Rd. in the Town of Horseheads at around 11:45 Saturday morning.

WETM 18 News has learned that Trooper Brown age 30 is a four year veteran and is recovering from a single gun shot wound and is listed in fair condition in the intensive care unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Elmira.

There are alerts posted in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and Canada looking for the white pich-up truck.

State Police say a full-scale search for the suspect who shot and wounded a New York State trooper in Chemung County on Saturday morning will continue first thing Sunday morning.

If you have any information you are asked to call the New York State Police at (607) 739-8796. Stay tuned to WETM-18 News and www.wetmtv.com for continuing coverage. We will have Live updates every hour on the figure hour.

Duncan, Jericka. "NY State Trooper Shot."
WETM-TV. 10 June 2006. 10 June 2006.
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I was amazed. That was the third time that had happened in the last 3 years.

April 2004 – Dustin Briggs shot and killed two Bradford County sheriff’s deputies .
March 2006 – State Trooper is shot after pulling over a car, which unbeknownst to him was filled with a group of people who had just robbed a bank.
June 2006 – Trooper shot after pulling over a dark Ford Mustang. As of now, trooper is in Fair condition at a St. Josephs Hospital in Elmira, NY.

Isn’t it horrible whats happening around here. And this is suppossed to be a nice town to live in.