Retired veteran shot at Shaw Air Force Base

| December 29, 2022

The FBI provided an affidavit that identified Angelo Jerome Brown as the “retired veteran” shot at Shaw Air Force Base. They found him with weapons, and with what the FBI believed was crack cocaine. Brown’s adventure began at the entry control point, when he spoke nonsense. After the guard managed to get Brown to pull aside, so that the guard could call his supervisor, Brown took off.

From military.com:

After showing his identification to the guard at the main entrance to the base in Sumter, Brown began making a “rapid utterance in an aggressive tone,” the guard said, and Brown mentioned sex slave trafficking and kid sex slaves and told the guard that he was “laced,” according to the affidavit.

The guard convinced Brown to pull off into a parking lot, but while the guard waited for a supervisor, the veteran got angry and threatened to drive away, while saying he had “a knife and BB gun in the car,” Conroy said.

Brown ultimately pulled away and smashed through the gate, and was able to get through before guards could activate another barrier, according to the affidavit.

More officers converged on Brown’s vehicle, prompting the veteran to again pull over, Conroy said.

Once stopped, Brown got out of his vehicle and yelled at the officers and threw the key fob from the vehicle before getting back in the vehicle, backing up and hitting an officer with a door, according to the affidavit.

The collision caused the officer to fall down, but he did not sustain injuries, Conroy said.

Brown continued to drive away but the vehicle soon shut off when it was not in range of the fob, according to the affidavit. With officers taking cover around the vehicle, Brown got out again, walked to the rear of the car and pulled what appeared to be a firearm that officers said they thought was a rifle, according to Conroy.

Initially Brown did not point the rifle at the officers, but he disobeyed their commands to drop the weapon as he continued making statements about sex trafficking and girls, Conroy said. While guards waited for a negotiator to come to the scene, Brown pointed the rifle at the officers, prompting them to open fire at Brown, according to the affidavit.

The officers immediately rendered aid to Brown as he told them that he didn’t want help and that he wanted to die, then telling the officers they needed to “get them girls from Columbia,” Conroy said.

Brown also threatened to take a gun from one of the officers and shoot him with it, although he made no physical attempt to do so, and told an officer that “if he gets his hands on another weapon, he was coming back for them,” according to the affidavit.

“Our security forces personnel are trained to respond to a variety of situations to ensure the safety of our personnel and assets,” Col. Kristoffer Smith, 20th Fighter Wing commander, said in a statement posted on Shaw’s website Friday.

No other injuries were reported.

While Brown, who was in stable condition, was taken to a hospital in Richland County, FBI agents responded to the scene and processed evidence, Conroy said.

Agents determined the rifle “was a black pellet gun and that it did not fit the definition of a working firearm,” according to the affidavit.

Brown was also in possession of a knife with a blade measuring 6½ inches, and inside the vehicle agents found a rock-like substance believed to be crack, but it was not field-tested at the scene, Conroy said. Both the pellet rifle and knife were considered to be a “dangerous weapon,” according to the affidavit.

Military.com has a lot more to the story here.

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5JC

Just another GOP member out on the town.

SFC D

Somehow it will all be attributable to Trump and PTS of the D.

Sandman

See comment above

Green Thumb

And his Substandard Dischage.

Mason

Retired as an E-3? Along with his behavior here I’ll go way out on a limb that he manifested schizophrenia while in the service.

Skippy

Amen

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

“…a knife with a blade measuring 6½ inches…”
(Croc Dundee): That’s not a knife. (pulls out his own blade) Now THAT’S a knife!

 “if he gets his hands on another weapon, he was coming back for them,” 
From where? Inside a prison cell? Or possibly from the grave? Inquiring minds, and all that.

 threw the key fob from the vehicle 
 the vehicle soon shut off when it was not in range of the fob

I’d say that was a good auto anti-theft device.

KoB

“The 54-year-old has a criminal record dating back to 1995 that includes multiple convictions, including pleading guilty to a criminal domestic violence charge in 2014, Richland County court records show.”

The Veteran Community is a reflection of the population as a whole. Sh^tbags gonna sh^tbag. Nutjob is lucky that he wasn’t made DRT. Restraint shown by the Gate Guard(s) or piss poor target acquisition? Does he need mental help or just needed to be locked up for being a career criminal?

Freeing the sex slaves in Columbia. Didn’t the Secret Service try to bring comfort to some of those girls awhile back?

SFC D

Secret Service was providing economic support to those disadvantaged Columbian ladies.

USAFRetired

That was Colombian ladies with an ‘O’. Columbia SC the state capital is the County seat of Richland County SC.

SFC D

Oops. I blame autocorrect.

ninja

Mugshot with link to FBI Affidavit.

https://www.postandcourier.com/fbi-affidavit-detailing-arrest-of-angelo-jerome-brown/pdf_b0a88c26-861a-11ed-b25f-b35900f73cf4.html

“FBI Affidavit Detailing Arrest Of Angelo Jerome Brown”

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ninja

Page 1 of the Affidavit.

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USAFRetired

I’m doubting this guy was a retired veteran unless it was medically retired.

Being charitable if he is 54 born 1968 He’d be 18 about 1986 so he’d have less than 10 years service come 1995 when his criminal record kicked off. Is he even a veteran?

Mason

I did read an article that he was retired, had a military ID card, and would normally be permitted access to the base.

Anonymous

Cracktastic!

Slow Joe

The Air Force sucks at shooting.

Anonymous

That ten rounds of .22LR familiarization fire at their three-week basic training…

Hack Stone

If you have never fired a weapon during your enlistment, are you really a member of the Armed Forces

Anonymous

An employee (like a DA civilian) perhaps.

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Graybeard

FWIW, one of my visiting professors in grad school had served a full (required) stint in the Italian Army and never touched a rifle.
My Winchester ’94 thuddy thuddy was the first rifle he ever held in his hands. When I pulled it out of the trunk he jumped.

MustangCPT

One of the program managers that I work with was in the Italian Army and served in their “Alpini” Mountain Infantry. It turns out he was in Bosnia at the same time my brother was out there with 10th Mountain. Those Alpini are some serious dudes.

Smitty

My wife’s cousin is in the USAF. I asked her how she did in rifle qualification in basic. She replied (sheepishly) that she was sick that week.

Mason

I was shocked to find out that you didn’t have to pass weapon qualification to graduate basic. What’s even more shocking is that most of the AF only shoots, at most, every three years. Getting a passing qual is really only critical if you’re out-processing for a deployment.

Drag Racing Maniac

You guessed it… Wrong.

MustangCPT

Uh, former Airman here, I fired an actual 5.56mm NATO M16 when I did Air Force BMT in 1994. And I fired more than 10 rounds. Just sayin’…

Mason

Same here in 2002. Annual qual (I was in CE) was also 5.56. Except for that one time we played the video game, which was the worst experience ever.

MustangCPT

Former Prime BEEF Engineer here, we had to qual every year. Now that I’m on the Army side, ain’t nothing changed. Well, except that I shoot a pistol now that I’m a Company Commander.

MustangCPT

Oh, and I’m still an Engineer. Essayons!

MustangCPT

Oh, and BMT was 6 weeks.

Drag Racing Maniac

Wrong.

Anonymous

Well, true, but just knockin’ on the airmen as a grubby Army person.

Drag Racing Maniac

Wrong.

Slow Joe

Well, the dude is black, so he prolly will just be released in a few hours. Prosecutors have a freeze on prosecuting black offenders because of evilz whitey super Macy’s.
Or something that happened over a century ago and nobody have ever seen outside TV.

JustALurkinAround

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY

WE HAVE A CRACKHEAD LIFTING THE BUS.

WE HAVE A CRACKHEAD LIFTING THE BUS.

I’d give anything to see that guy the morning of all this shit and saying, “hey man, what are you doing today”?

Then I’d sit back, pop in a dip, smile and nod.

Hack Stone

Wondering if he knows Corn Pop.

Skippy

He’s Corn Pops Nephew
😆🤣😂😁😅😜😆

TheCloser

Holy sh*t, trying to follow that story was like listening to one of Brandon’s speeches.

Caption of the picture at the top of the story;

For the fifth time since May, Shaw Air Force Base is mourning the death of one of its airmen.’

The perp wasn’t an airmen and didn’t die.

In the first sentence of the story; ‘retired veteran, according to an affidavit shared by the FBI’, but provides no details.

So tracking down the affidavit, he allegedly retired from the Army as an E-3 (assuming medical), and then, according to the article, he started a second career as a criminal at the age of 27 in 1995.

USMC Steve

I don’t believe a word the FBI has to say about anything. they lost all redibility when they unofficially became the Gestapo arm of the socialist democrat party.

Pecos Phil

“…the vehicle soon shut off when it was not in range of the fob…” Automatic admittance to MENSA. No application, no review board. Direct admittance. A.J. Brown is smarter than ” Guam will tip over ” Hank Johnson and ” will the Mars rover see the flag Neil Armstrong planted ( on the Moon )?” Sheila Jackson Lee.

The stooped is strong with these!

Anna Puma

Mr. Brown decided to play stupid games, so he won a stupid prize – “Bunk Mate of the Year for Cell Block 69.”

MustangCPT

True dat.

Hack Stone

When he stars in the mid season replacement on Fox Titled Who Wants To Be The Prison Bitch, he will give his brown rose to Tyrone.

Skippy

They the SP’s are nice there at Shaw
13 years ago while entering Nellis AFB
someone drove by me at a high rate of speed
past the shack gate house.
until this BIG ASS Cable shot up out the the ground
and stopped the car dead in its tracks
I stopped at the line because the lights started flashing red… the driver of the vehicle that drove by me didn’t make it, they lost there head literally

USAFRetired

October 2019 we had someone try to run the gate about 2100. They hit the popup security barrier at high speed killing all three in the vehicle.

5JC

I remember that because they were all illegals from Guatemala making sure the media ignored it for the most part with Twitter and FB helping make it go away.

Did the base ever release the report about why they think it happened?

Skippy

Davis-Mothballs right

Fm2176

Yeah, my state started Constitutional Carry for military and veterans this past year. It also exempts concealed carry permit holders from background checks. I started working retail selling guns a few months ago and I guess that after the law took effect a lot of veterans were confused about why they had to pass a background check despite having no permit. After all, they can carry with their veteran ID or paperwork, so why can’t they bypass NICS despite lacking a thorough check by the State Police?

A fellow retired Soldier and I like to openly discuss this on the gun line. It’s entirely possible, and sadly even common, for a felon to have Honorable Discharge and/or Retired reflected on their DD-214. This guy seems to have been a work in progress from the time of his discharge/retirement. Much like my brother…the Disabled Veteran who got an OTH after under 6 years before finally getting his discharge upgraded.

rgr769

I don’t know why anyone in your state is confused. Firearms sales by an FFL holder must comply with federal law, irrespective of what your states laws require. Federal law is supreme via the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. Each FFL dealer sale requires a background check with the NCIS.