Kyle Dinkheller murder case
The Kyle Dinkheller murder case occurred in the US state of Georgia in 1998 . A sheriff's deputy was shot dead during a traffic control.
Course of events
Deputy (Deputy) Kyle Wayne Dinkheller (* 18th June 1975 ) Sheriff Office of Laurens County (Georgia) pursued the evening of 12 January 1998, on the Interstate 16 a white Toyota - Pick-up because of speeding. The chased driver then left the interstate and stopped his car on a little-traveled country road near Dublin . The following three-minute official act and the murder were recorded in picture and sound by the video camera of the official vehicle.
The stopped driver, defying Deputy Dinkheller's instructions, got out of the car and put his hands in his trouser pockets. Then he began to dance, insulted Dinkheller and called out repeatedly; " Here I am ... shoot me ". When Dinkheller picked up the radio, the driver ran towards him. Dinkheller then pulled out his baton and asked the driver to step back several times, which, however, was not impressed.
Then the driver went back to the pick-up and grabbed a semi-automatic M1 carbine , whereupon Dinkheller asked him several times to put down the gun and called for help over the radio. When the driver pointed the barrel of his weapon at the deputy, the latter opened fire from his service weapon, which resulted in an exchange of fire. Dinkheller took cover behind his company vehicle, while the perpetrator first advanced on the passenger side and then on the driver's side to Dinkheller and shot him several times. Finally, one saw how the perpetrator fired one last shot in the direction of the deputy who was lying on the ground and then fled with his vehicle.
aftermath
The stopped driver was identified as 49-year-old Vietnam veteran Andrew Howard Brannan from the video footage. The next day he was arrested without resistance in a forest area not far from his home address. He had a gunshot wound in the stomach area. Brannan had never been suspected of a violent offense before and had no previous convictions. He was enlisted in the Army in 1968 and was transferred to Vietnam as an officer in 1970. There he was involved in heavy fighting and “search and destroy” missions until mid-1971 and was awarded the Bronze Star , among other things . Upon his return, he was diagnosed with PTSD and bipolar disorder . He made particularly serious allegations for the deaths of comrades who had fallen under his command.
The defense's motion to declare Brannan insane on the basis of his previous history and to transfer him to a psychiatric facility was not granted by the court. Instead, Brannan was found guilty of premeditated murder on January 28, 2000 and sentenced to death two days later. He was executed by lethal injection on January 13, 2015 at 8:33 p.m. EST.
Deputy Dinkheller left a pregnant woman and a 22-month-old daughter. He was named Deputy Sheriff of the Year by the Georgia Sheriffs' Association in 1998. He had been shot in the arms, legs, lower body and head nine times.
The recordings of the video camera of the company vehicle have been used since then for training at police academies in the USA. "No Film School" made a short film about the incident, which made it into the finals of the 2014 BAFTA Student Film Awards.