[jay631]

Saw this video in the academy. Very sad, very powerful. I hate to monday morning quarterback this thing, but I'd of dropped that fuck the instant I saw him with a weapon. There is ZERO reason to tell someone with a weapon to drop it more than once.

The suspects military training is clearly evident when Dinkheller takes cover. The suspect advances on him and even uses Dinkhellers patrol vehicle as his own cover while advancing.

[giovanni0359]

Originally Posted by openminded13 ↗

I know this is posted before (http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...ak-47-a-30762/) but here is a longer version + no watermarks, Is this already posted?

story:
Deputy Kyle Dinkheller was shot and killed after pulling over a man on a rural road about 6 miles north of Dublin, Georgia. During the traffic stop he called in for backup. Before the backup arrived he was shot by the man with a rifle. He was able to return fire, striking the suspect in the stomach. The suspect was found during a search the next morning and taken into custody.

The entire incident was videotaped by a camera in Deputy Dinkheller's patrol car. On January 28, 2000, the suspect was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to death two days later.

Deputy Dinkheller is survived by his expectant wife and 22-month-old daughter. Deputy Dinkheller's son was born in early September 1998.

source:
http://www.odmp.org/officer/15034-de...yne-dinkheller

Thank God that insane motherfucker is off the street. I hope they don`t put him to death for years, because being locked in a 6 by 8 ft. cell alone 23 hours a day is more punishment.

[fromhell]

his kinda cool , the killer.

sorry about the cop but thats life

[AlvinKarpis]

Originally Posted by fromhell ↗

his kinda cool , the killer.

Kinda cool?! Really?!


You seriously think that scumbag pile of shit Andrew Brannan is cool?

[AlvinKarpis]

Here are a couple newspaper reports about the trial that adds to the story



"Kyle Dinkheller Andrew Brannan




"Come on back here for me, sir," the deputy said cordially. "How are you doing today?"

"OK," the man answered. He looked into the video camera mounted in the patrol car, likely without knowing it was taping him.

It was likely, too, that he didn't know what he was about to do, according to the attorney who's arguing to clear the man of murder - and save his life.

On Tuesday, the second day of Andrew Brannan's death penalty trial, a Glynn County jury watched the tape that showed the last five minutes of Kyle Dinkheller's life: 5:32 to 5:37 p.m., Jan. 12, 1998.

Brannan walked toward the patrol car, toward Dinkheller who stood just outside the driver's door.

"Take your hands out of your pockets," Dinkheller, 22, said just after Brannan said he was doing OK.

"Why?" Brannan asked angrily. He then lapsed into an expletive-laden rage.

"He has an exaggerated startle response," said defense attorney Richard Taylor during his opening statement Monday. "Loud sounds send him into a fit, sudden movements send him into a fit."

The jurors could not see Dinkheller. The microphone mounted on his right shoulder recorded no startling noise.

What they did see was Brannan hopping from one foot to another, waving his left and then his right hand in the air as if dancing. They heard him yell "shoot me," three times, and watched as he lunged off screen at Dinkheller.

"Sir, get back now," Dinkheller screamed. "Get back, get back."

Brannan ran back onto the screen again and mumbled about being a "Vietnam combat veteran."

He lunged again at Dinkheller, who again asked him to back off.

The camera in the patrol car kept the time. At 5:35 p.m., three minutes into the tape, Brannan crawled into his truck.

"Sir, get out of the car ... get away from your vehicle," Dinkheller said.

Brannan stepped out of the Toyota with an M-1 carbine, a high-powered military weapon.

"Put the gun down," Dinkheller repeatedly screamed, his breathing heavy. Twenty-six seconds later, Brannan started shooting. One shot hit the windshield. Brannan ran to the passenger side of the car. The shots continued over the car. Some hit Dinkheller.

At 5:36 p.m., Brannan ran back to his truck. According to earlier testimony, he reloaded the rifle there.

"Stop now," Dinkheller cried.

The tape showed Brannan, eye to his rifle's sights and finger at its trigger, walking slowly toward the driver's side of Dinkheller's patrol car, firing rhythmically. Dinkheller's screams and moans could be heard. There was a 4.7 second delay. There were more of the deputy's screams and more shots fired.

Somewhere in there, Brannan said: "Die."

Then, the camera still ticking at 5:36 p.m., Brannan walked back to his truck and drove away. The microphone recorded a gasping and gurgling noise from Dinkheller. It recorded his 13 last breaths.

Dinkheller was shot a total of 10 times: once in the right lower leg, the bullet embedding itself in bone, according to testimony from a GBI medical examiner; once in the left foot and toes; once in the left shoulder; once in the left arm; once in the left armpit; once in the left chest; twice in the back; and twice in the head.

Brannan, who was shot once, fired about 30 times.

"He said he hated that it happened," according to the testimony of Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Terry Pelfry. "But the boy just wouldn't leave him alone."

Pelfry rode with Brannan, who suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen, in an ambulance the day after the shooting. Brannan was caught that morning and arrested on his ride to the hospital.

When describing the shooting to psychologist Robert Storms, Brannan said things like, "I was engaged with a target," and, "I had to put up a volume of fire."

Brannan, 51, a Vietnam veteran who spent 15 years in and out of treatment for combat-related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Storms, who testified for the defense Tuesday after the state closed its case with the videotape, said he has interviewed many accused murderers about their alleged crimes.

"I've never heard anybody describe it in these (military) terms," Storms said. "I don't know any other way to characterize it but bizarre."

He said his opinion was that Brannan was suffering from a flashback to Vietnam, that as he reached for his rifle, he heard bamboo clicking and felt that he had to protect his fellow soldiers.

"My opinion," Storms said, "is that he did not have the mental capacity to distinguish right from wrong."

Testimony will continue at 9 a.m. today in the Glynn County Courthouse, where the trial was moved because of extensive publicity in Laurens County and Middle Georgia."



"The State Supreme Court heard arguments Monday to uphold the conviction and death penalty case of Andrew Brannan who was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of Laurens County Deputy Kyle Dinkheller.

Brannan's case is before the state's highest court on a writ of habeas corpus, which is standard procedure filed by inmates who believe they have been wrongly convicted of a crime.

Laurens County District Attorney Craig Fraser joined Assistant State Attorney General Beth Burton on Monday as the two presented combined arguments before the Supreme Court. Fraser and Burton argued that the January 2000 conviction and sentence should be carried out.

"The jury spoke and we are confident that the court will uphold the jury's verdict and the death penalty," Fraser said just after leaving the state's highest court. "We've fought for 10 years in this case and we will continue to stand by the Dinkheller family to see that justice prevails."

Fraser, then an assistant district attorney, prosecuted the case which was moved to Glynn County due to pretrial publicity in Laurens County. Brannan, now 60, was found guilty in January 2000 after jurors deliberated four hours. After another four hours, the jury recommended Brannan be sentenced to death.

The Video Evidence

Dinkheller's execution was captured on his own patrol cruiser recorder after he pulled Brannan over for speeding. The chilling video is now used nationwide to train police officers about waiting too long to respond aggressively to an armed suspect.

The video documents the moments that followed after Dinkheller pulled Brannan over on Whipple's Crossing Road on Jan. 12, 1998. As Brannan exits his vehicle, he is seen on the video jumping around, flailing his arms and yelling at the deputy to shoot him.

Dinkheller is heard trying to reason with Brannan even as Brannan reached back inside his vehicle to pull out a high-powered military issued rifle. Dinkheller repeatedly ordered Brannan to put the gun down.

Brannan, a former Vietnam veteran and military trained killer, then began a gun battle with the young deputy, resulting in dozens of rounds being discharged at close range between the men. Both Dinkheller and Brannan reloaded several times in under 30 seconds. Brannan hit the deputy at least 10 times with the .30-caliber carbine, systematically disabling him until the final fatal shot.

Dinkheller, 23, was married with one child and another on the way.

In January, the Lauren's County Sheriff's Office and the District Attorney's Office held a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of Dinkheller's murder. The memorial service commemorated Dinkheller's life and public service. A wreath placed at the site of his tragic death on Whipple's Crossing remains in view from I-16.

Brannan's Appeals Process

Brannan was scheduled for execution in May of 2003, but he was granted a stay of execution as he began his way through the appeals process. In criminal convictions, a direct appeal is immediately filed with the State Supreme Court, and ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court. In Brannan's case, the State Supreme Court upheld his conviction and death sentence; likewise the U.S. Supreme Court in essence affirmed the conviction by refusing to review the case.

Brannan's next standard appeal was to file the writ of habeas corpus, which sent the case back to the Georgia Supreme Court justices.

In petitioning for a habeas corpus, a defendant must prove that the court that ordered his imprisonment made a legal or factual error. Brannan's writ stated that he had been diagnosed by Veteran's Administration hospitals in Decatur and Augusta as suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and bipolar disorder. It further questioned whether Brannan was properly medicated at the time he killed Dinkheller.

In March, Superior Court Judge Richard C. Sutton of Butts County granted Brannan's petition, saying "this Court finds ineffective assistance of counsel" by Brannan's defense attorney during the trial in January 2000. Brannan was represented during his trial by Richard Taylor and Larry Duttweiler.

In his ruling, Sutton refers to "factual history" stating that Taylor was designated as lead counsel but had never represented a client in a death penalty proceeding.

Sutton stated in his ruling that Brannan's defense attorneys "completely undermined" his defense by not adequately exploring the documented history of Brannan's mental illness. The judge stated that Brannan's attorneys limited his defense strategy to "guilty but mentally ill" which Sutton said left Brannan's bizarre actions on the video unexplained.

Fraser said Monday that a ruling is expected from the Georgia Supreme Court by December 2008. If the court upholds Brannan's conviction, he can file another writ of habeas corpus with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Once all appeals are exhausted, death row inmates have the right to appeal to the State Parole Board to commute the death sentence to a sentence of life in prison."

[AmericanIllusions]

Weird satisfaction when I heard this vid. The visual had no affects. Those screams though.

[Wendell]

Talk about bad luck. Rookie cop vs Deranged Vietnam war vet.

Was Andrew Brannan drunk in this video?

Because he was completely relaxed and confident considering he had a gun pointed straight at him. I mean, he actually sprinted at Deputy Dinkheller while he had a firearm aimed at him (before Brannan got his rifle, and was yelling at Dinkheller) . A lot of trigger happy cops would've opened fire if they made a sudden move like that.

If he wasn't drunk, then he must be unstable and suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

[Salmonizer54]

Originally Posted by Xeperiset ↗

I would've shot the motherfucker in the leg (or legs) as soon as he advanced on me in a threatening manner.

what i learned in my permit to carry class, if you have no other choice but to shoot, you shoot to kill, because if you shoot to wound, there was another way out of the situation

[Ssguard]

I'm sure it's been tough for his son not to have his old man around :/ Stupid way for his life to end

[Zambini]

Originally Posted by The Sentinel ↗

Talk about bad luck. Rookie cop vs Deranged Vietnam war vet.

Was Andrew Brannan drunk in this video?

Because he was completely relaxed and confident considering he had a gun pointed straight at him. I mean, he actually sprinted at Deputy Dinkheller while he had a firearm aimed at him (before Brannan got his rifle, and was yelling at Dinkheller) . A lot of trigger happy cops would've opened fire if they made a sudden move like that.

If he wasn't drunk, then he must be unstable and suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I think the cops inaction empowered the shooter mentally to do what he was trained to do when a gun is pointed at you.

Shoot back!