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Subscribe to RSSJEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-- Authorities in Missouri say a former sheriff's deputy is suspected of killing his ex-wife and her new boyfriend before leading officers on a high-speed chase that ended with a shootout at an upscale hotel hosting a Christmas party.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Sunday identified the murder victims as 32-year-old Annette Durham, of Salem, and 39-year-old Steven Strotkamp.
The suspected shooter — former Dent County Sheriff's Deputy Marvin Rice — was in fair at a Columbia hospital after being wounded in the shootout.
Rice was captured at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City, where about 500 doctors, nurses and their families had gathered for a Christmas party. Among the hotel's other guests were members of a youth hockey team. No guests were injured.
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Damn coward. Doesn't he know, if he's gonna' kill others, that he's supposed to kill HIMSELF, too (preferably, that should have been his FIRST action)?!!
Would be nice to know the true story or all of it. I feel he did the right thing. If you steal some ones wife you should be shoot. You play you pay.
I sincerely hope you were under the influence of something when you wrote that less than eloquent statement. He did the right thing? Steal someone's wife? What century are you living in? Neanderthals....
The article listed it as his EX-wife and her new boyfriend. Once they are an EX let it go if they don't want to be with you any more let them go. So many of the guys in rural areas seem to have a "Now she's mine" mentality if you even look at their girlfriend as you walk by in a store or dare to say high they look at you like they are gonna attack. It's crazy. It must have to do with low self esteem and lack of enough social confidence that they can find some one new themselves. And before you go all indignant on me I grew up 30 miles from there. I was that guy when I was a teenager. I still think of myself as a "gun totin', pickup drivin', red neck" and proud of it. But let them go if they come back they are yours if not they never were.
Steve either doesn't believe in divorce, or he strongly believes in trolling. Either way, it doesn't help his intelligence level.
mental stability
Ya he passed the mental competency test to be a deputy. And we pay for their guns at tax payer expense. Having grown up in that area I've seen some of the mental midgets they hire it would be laughable if it weren't so scary. Hopefully it's better now and this guy just fell through the cracks. I've been away almost 30 years.
I lived in that general area (Nevada, MO and Columbia, Mo) from 1976 off and on until 2003. I know well what you mean about the mentality of these folks. My sister married a former police officer, and after they divorced, she re-married, and he went to their house and killed her new husband, at his fathers urging. Nice. Finally moved back to my native land, the Northeast. These kind of things happen here occasionally, but not nearly as much.
unfortunately that is what sometimes happens to people that enforce the law. They start to believe their word IS law.
I know there is concern over lack of police as it is. But I would rather have a shortage than people on the beat who think they can control every situation just cause they have a badge. We need mandatory assessment tests every few years, to make sure these cops are still in the job for the right reasons. If there is no risk of losing your job, then what is the incentive for doing it well?
So what the hell did the organizations having parties at the hotel have to do with the shootout? Pure fluff! The author realized that if he hadn't put irrelevant info in the story would be almost a non-story since it lacked any other details.