Ft Drum soldier murders wife, state trooper
Chief Tango sends us links to the news from Upstate New York where a Fort Drum infantryman apparently murdered his wife and then killed a responding New York State Trooper, Joel R. Davis, 36. From WWNY;
State police said the trooper responded to several reports of shots fired during a domestic incident. He was shot once while responding to the incident at 34371 Route 46. At some point – it’s not clear when – the woman at the property, Nichole Walters, 27, was shot and killed. A second woman who lived on the property was also shot in the upper torso, but a state police spokesman said the injuries were not life threatening. The second woman was home alone at the time, but police said she lived in a shed on the property with a man and child.
State police said the shooter put his gun down and surrendered when a back-up unit arrived. Police identified him as Justin Walters, 32, the owner of the property.
There’s no word on the type of weapon that Walter used, or whether it was properly registered and licensed in New York State, but I’m sure we’ll hear about it since New York’s governor likes to blame the weapons rather than the shooter.
Walters appeared in court at 4 AM today, clad only in shorts. He’s being held without bail, according to the Associated Press.
Category: Crime
Cuomo and Schumer screeching for Vets to be disarmed and corralled in 3, 2,…
And Gillibrand as well.
Christ, don’t give these fuckers any ideas. Then again, there are plenty of properties/home upstate that have anti-SAFE Act signs out front, and praise for Cuomo in some towns will likely end in getting your ass kicked.
Those two jerks probably don’t know whether to sh*t or go blind right now – “do we blame the evil military or the gun… gun…military…”.
I thought the SAFE act was supposed to cure all gun crimes forever? Where are the unicorn farts and skittles everyone was promised?
RIP Trooper Davis and Nichole Walters.
Well that sucks. I’ll be interested to hear the rest of the story and why this dumbass decided to do this.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/10/us-army-soldier-charged-in-killing-wife-ny-state-trooper-after-domestic-dispute.html
For the love of God, he and his lawyer better not go to the PTSD card.
I total agree. As a veteran who deals with it. The vast majority of veterans diagnosed with it just want to live quiet unassuming lives. Go to our therapy Appts and do the best we can with what we’ve got. I’m not saying he doesn’t have issues he might but I’m willing to bet they were there before military service. I know the MSM loves to paint returning vets with a broad brush. But sad episodes like this give them more reason to peddle their misguided and damaging narrative . Funny how if a civilian kills their spouse. Nobody talks about their mental state. They just treat it like another homicide. Just sayin
Well, his mom already told the local NBC affiliate, WOODTV8, that the PTSD made him do it.
According to what WOODTV8 found, he was a shit bird, before he turned 18. He was convicted of 6 felonies and 3 misdemeanors before he reached the age of 18. One of the felonies was a weapons charge. He “attended” an alternative High School, nowhere do they say he graduated. But, that may just be that no one was available at the school district to provide further info on him, or they just don’t want to.
http://woodtv.com/2017/07/10/zeeland-man-charged-with-slayings-of-wife-ny-trooper/
“Multiple friends and acquaintances tell WZZM 13 that Walters was expelled from West Ottawa Middle School after he made a bomb threat against the school and apparently had a “hit list” of people at the school. This would have been in the late 1990s”.
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/crime/west-michigan-ties-of-the-man-accused-of-new-york-state-murders/455568505
The Newzjunky and WWNY FB pages have the usual idiots claiming that he has PTSD and that caused him to do stupid shit, and that the military is full of bad apples.
I am glad I am not up there now, because I would have to listen to that bullshit 24/7 until a local did something dumb.
But they would probably blame that on the military as well.
If someone checks out his MOS, we’ll prolly find out he was a fobbit or some other brand of REMF. But hey, watching drone strikes now causes the dreaded PTSD.
Hopefully the asshole is getting his nuts stomped and his shit pushed in at the hoosegow.
God forgive me, but that’s the first thing that came to my mind.
Motherfucker deserves to get his nuts crushed.
From what I’ve read and saw on the news, Trooper Davis leaves a wife and 3 children. My condolences to them, his other family members and his work family.
Rest In Peace, Trooper Davis.
I forgot to add, my condolences to the family and friends of Nicole Walters.
RIP to Trooper Davis and Nicole Walters, as well as both their families, and here’s hoping that he gets the max penalty for his crimes
http://www.wwnytv.com/story/35847608/double-murder-suspect-is-well-honored-soldier
RIP Trooper Davis and Ms. Walters.