Virginia Trooper Resigns After Saying He Coughed on Driver to Spread Coronavirus
Source: NBC Washington
CORONAVIRUS
Virginia Trooper Resigns After Saying He Coughed on Driver to Spread Coronavirus
The trooper's texts were uncovered as his brother stands accused in a homicide in Arizona
By Tom Lynch and Andrea Swalec Published 4 hours ago Updated 3 hours ago
A Virginia State trooper assigned to Fairfax County has resigned after he claimed in a text message that he intentionally coughed on a driver to spread the coronavirus. A separate criminal investigation into the trooper also is underway.
Trooper Jacob P. Gooch was placed on administrative leave in early May and later resigned, state police told News4 on Monday.
In a text exchange with his brothers in mid-April, Gooch said he issued a ticket to a driver who was a Mennonite and coughed on him so he would spread Corona to the wedding they were going too. lol.
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Goochs brother, Mark Gooch, pleaded not guilty last month to the murder of Sasha Krause, a 27-year-old Sunday school teacher who disappeared from a Mennonite community in New Mexico, the Associated Press reported. (1)
(1) https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Man-charged-in-Mennonite-womans-death-grew-up-in-the-faith-570846341.html
Read more: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-trooper-resigns-after-saying-he-coughed-on-driver-to-spread-coronavirus/2326979/
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Virginia trooper who texted to his brother that he coughed on Mennonite driver "so he would spread Corona to the wedding they were going too. lol." has resigned.
Brother is on trial for the murder of a Mennonite woman which is how the text came to light.
Link to tweet
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)The evil in some people just defies explanation
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)The Associated Press
Created: May 28, 2020 01:08 PM
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) In a forest clearing outside Flagstaff, Arizona, Sasha Krause was found cold and stiff, with a bullet wound to the back of her head. She was face down beneath brush, wearing a gray dress, white coat and hiking shoes. Her hair was pinned in a bun and her hands bound by duct tape. Her underwear was missing.
The 27-year-old Sunday school teacher had disappeared more than a month earlier from a Mennonite community in New Mexico more than 400 miles (640 kilometers) away.
Authorities are still trying to determine how her body ended up steps away from a makeshift camp off a lonely two-lane road that cuts through the canyons and groves of towering pine trees.
A 21-year-old U.S. Air Force airman stationed near Phoenix has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges. Raised in a Mennonite family in Wisconsin, Mark Gooch joined the military to escape what he told investigators was a difficult, sheltered and restricted life, according to sheriffs records obtained by The Associated Press.
More:
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/man-charged-in-mennonite-womans-death-grew-up-in-the-faith/5743874/
relayerbob
(6,555 posts)and if any died, he also should be charged with murder.
Both are hates crimes, IMO
Ritabert
(669 posts)There's a new resignation or firing every day for assault or murder.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)One with this headline:
"NY Police Union Boss Rages: 'Stop Treating Us Like Animals and Thugs, and Start Treating Us With Respect".
What this trooper did was sadistic and cruel.
If so many cops didn't act like "animals and thugs" maybe people would treat them with respect. Meanwhile, what police often construe as respect is actually fear. Its long past time for major change.
BlueIdaho
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(19,871 posts)Nevilledog
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(4,941 posts)Polybius
(15,476 posts)Can't he just say "I was BSing to my brother?"