Ex-con accused of killing police officer turns self in
Source: AP
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) An ex-con accused of fatally shooting a police officer who interrupted a drug deal turned himself in Monday, ending an intensive two-day manhunt, a spokesman for a U.S. attorney said.
Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, was with his family when he arrived at a federal building in Memphis, said Louis Goggans, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office.
Wilbourn was a passenger in a 2002 Mercedes Benz that was parked illegally in a southeast Memphis neighborhood on Saturday night, police said. Officer Sean Bolton approached the car, Wilbourn got out of the Mercedes and the two men got into a struggle, police said.
Wilbourn took out a gun and fired, striking Bolton multiple times, and then he and the driver ran away as a civilian used Bolton's radio to notify police about the shooting, authorities said.
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This undated photo released by the Memphis Police Department shows Tremaine Wilbourn. According to authorities, Wilbourn is a suspect in the fatal shooting of Memphis Police Officer Sean Bolton during a traffic stop, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn. (Memphis Police Department via AP)
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scscholar
(2,902 posts)this wouldn't have happened. I've read quite a few comments to this story, and people keep missing the underlying cause.
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 22, 2015, 09:20 PM - Edit history (1)
Maybe if he wasn't doing a drug deal.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)He made a choice. One that killed a person and will imprison him for life.
840high
(17,196 posts)was he? Bank robber and now killer - bad apple.
christx30
(6,241 posts)At some point, a person has to sit down and decide what course his life will take. He was given a chance, and he blew it.
Now he'll spend the rest of his life in a place where he'll be supervised 24/7.
Whether he gets the needle, is shanked by another inmate over a pack of smokes, or dies of old age, he'll have no one to blame for the way his life turned out but him. But he'll blame everyone else.
More gun laws wouldn't have helped. As a felon, it was illegal for him to even touch a gun. It didn't stop him from getting it. What would have stopped it is for this guy to have made better decisions.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)He never would of had one. Let's just blame it on the laws instead of how many guns can be bought and made in this country.
christx30
(6,241 posts)and if unicorns existed, he could have gotten a job taking care of them I stead of getting involved with drugs.
It all comes back to his crappy, stupid-as-hell choices.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)From manufacture to the first legitimate owner, all the way down through Mr. Wilbourne's possession.