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Posted: 10/18/2004 3:48:58 PM EDT

the dude lost his hands to his home made grenade??? can you say, "nutzy cuckoo"???

www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/9948030.htm?1c

Cop, suspect shot

Akron police officer in serious condition. Mentally ill suspect dies at scene

By Elbert Starks III and Craig Webb

Beacon Journal staff writers

An Akron police officer is wounded and his assailant -- who lost his hands in another confrontation with police seven years ago -- is dead following a Sunday night shooting outside a Triplett Boulevard home.

The officer, who was only identified as a 36-year-old male with nine years on the force, was undergoing surgery at Akron City Hospital for a single gunshot wound to his side -- just below his bulletproof vest. He was listed in serious but stable condition.

The wounded officer, along with another Akron patrolman, exchanged gunfire with Barberton resident Robert McMullen Jr., 33, as they responded to a call shortly after 8 p.m. from the home in the 2300 block of Triplett Boulevard after the man's wheelchair-using mother complained that her mentally ill son was attacking her.

When the two patrol cars arrived at the home, Akron police spokeswoman Sylvia Trundle said, McMullen -- who had no hands and used metal prosthetic hooks -- was lying in wait outside and began shooting a rifle at the officers as they exited their cars.

One officer was hit, Trundle said, but he and the other patrolman returned fire and fatally wounded McMullen, who staggered to a nearby business, E-Z Machine at the intersection with Utica Avenue, where he collapsed and died.

Police cordoned off the area around the shooting and called in a bomb-sniffing dog Sunday night to inspect McMullen's Ford Escort parked at his parents' home.

Trundle said investigators became suspicious about what might be in the car after noticing boxes of ammunition on the seats and saw that something else was covered by a coat. The dog did not detect any explosives.

In November 1996, McMullen lost both hands when he detonated a homemade grenade during a confrontation with police in West Virginia.

A state trooper there had stopped McMullen for a headlight violation when McMullen hit the police car and drove off. After leading officers on a 5-mile chase, he was stopped in Clendenin, W.Va., about 19 miles north of Charleston, where he stepped out of his car and began chanting.

After three or four minutes, he held the grenade to his chest and detonated it, blowing off both his arms to the elbows.

Trundle said the man had been visiting with his parents Sunday and became progressively agitated until he eventually attacked his mother.

McMullen's father, Trundle said, tried to fend off his son by hitting him with a board.

Akron police, she said, have responded to the home on multiple occasions to quell McMullen's outbursts directed at his parents.

``It's gut-wrenching when you get a call (that an officer's been shot),'' Trundle said. ``Everyone kicks into gear with their respective job. Everyone has a role here. We try to think of the suspect/victim and the family.''

A neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said this section of Triplett is typically a quiet residential street.

``I was sitting in my bedroom playing on the computer when I heard a boom, boom, boom, boom,'' the woman said. ``I didn't know what was going on.''

Posted: 10/18/2004 3:52:35 PM EDT

[#1]

That is one fucked up life!

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:10:29 PM EDT

[#2]

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:11:23 PM EDT

[#3]

Suicide by Cop. Bad deal all around.

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:14:28 PM EDT

[#4]

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:19:27 PM EDT

[#5]

[richard kinball]it was a man with no arms![/richard kimball]

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:20:30 PM EDT

[#6]

A state trooper there had stopped McMullen for a headlight violation when McMullen hit the police car and drove off. After leading officers on a 5-mile chase, he was stopped in Clendenin, W.Va., about 19 miles north of Charleston, where he stepped out of his car and began chanting.

After three or four minutes, he held the grenade to his chest and detonated it, blowing off both his arms to the elbows.

And he is out of jail because?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot....over....

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:25:18 PM EDT

[#7]

And he is out of jail because?

1. he's a lunatic and not even the other inmates could stand him.
2. he's a lunatic and the cost of caring for him was too high.
3. he's a lunatic.

Posted: 10/18/2004 4:34:16 PM EDT

[#8]

Ken RSA

Posted: 10/18/2004 5:36:10 PM EDT

[#9]

People never cease to amaze me. LOL.

Posted: 10/19/2004 3:25:51 AM EDT

[#10]

it never ceases to amaze me how a lunatic with no hands can shoot that well.

i hope the officer recovers from his wound quickly.

Posted: 10/19/2004 3:42:47 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
A state trooper there had stopped McMullen for a headlight violation when McMullen hit the police car and drove off. After leading officers on a 5-mile chase, he was stopped in Clendenin, W.Va., about 19 miles north of Charleston, where he stepped out of his car and began chanting.

After three or four minutes, he held the grenade to his chest and detonated it, blowing off both his arms to the elbows.

Wonder what he was chanting?

Posted: 10/19/2004 3:49:47 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
it never ceases to amaze me how a lunatic with no hands can shoot that well.

i hope the officer recovers from his wound quickly.

+1 beyond frickin belief

Posted: 10/19/2004 3:55:45 AM EDT

[#13]

What the hell was the ray gun device

they took from his house ???

Posted: 10/19/2004 3:59:15 AM EDT

[#14]

supposedly, the cops confiscated a "flame thrower" and a pipe bomb at his home.

hmmm? i wonder if he was in contact with aliens from remulak and they gave him a phased plasma rifle in 60 gigajoule range?

Posted: 10/19/2004 4:04:57 AM EDT

[#15]

Inside Robert McMullen Jr.'s apartment at 20th Street and Northview Avenue in Barberton, detectives say they found a pipe bomb, a ray-gun style device, a homemade flamethrower, a starter pistol, a crossbow, a sword, two BB guns and several books, including a Bible, a Quran and two works titled A History of the Devil and Rules For Radicals.

?

Posted: 10/19/2004 4:20:14 AM EDT

[#16]

Ray-gun? I think they got a little overzealous in confiscating his guns:

Posted: 10/19/2004 4:20:28 AM EDT

[#17]

Perhaps the "ray-gun" is a description of a Mech-Tech CCU? I don't know how many people have asked me if I am carrying a phaser rifle when I have had it out.

Posted: 10/19/2004 4:24:06 AM EDT

[#18]

damn! the dude had a bb gun? now THAT is seious!

Posted: 10/19/2004 4:40:06 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
damn! the dude had a bb gun? now THAT is seious!

No, he had TWO BB guns. Why would anyone need two BB guns? Someone should do something, you know, for the children.

Posted: 10/19/2004 4:42:51 AM EDT

[#20]

[crazydeadguy]They can have my gun when they untangle it from my cold dead hooks![/crazydeadguy]

Would not suprise me if he was a member here...

Posted: 10/19/2004 7:51:15 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

After leading officers on a 5-mile chase, he was stopped in Clendenin, W.Va., about 19 miles north of Charleston, where he stepped out of his car and began chanting.

yep, nothing says "whacko" like a little chanting amid a confrontation with police.

Posted: 10/19/2004 7:58:35 AM EDT

[#22]

Posted: 10/19/2004 8:07:29 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Quoted:

After leading officers on a 5-mile chase, he was stopped in Clendenin, W.Va., about 19 miles north of Charleston, where he stepped out of his car and began chanting.

yep, nothing says "whacko" like a little chanting amid a confrontation with police.

He was chanting from the Book of the Holy Hand Grenade! "Whenst thou pull the pin, you shall count to three. Three shall be the count..."

Posted: 10/19/2004 10:38:51 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Quoted:
damn! the dude had a bb gun? now THAT is seious!

No, he had TWO BB guns. Why would anyone need two BB guns? Someone should do something, you know, for the children.

A veritable BB arsenal!

A cache of Air Assault Weapons.

I'm surprised that they didn't burn down his compound.

Posted: 10/19/2004 10:44:36 AM EDT

[#25]

this dude was certifiable. too bad an officer had to get shot to put this one down.

the nutjob 'should' have been living under closely supervised conditions. he was probably off his meds, too.

i can't wait to hear how this investigation progresses.

Posted: 10/19/2004 2:27:43 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
damn! the dude had a bb gun? now THAT is seious!

No, he had TWO BB guns. Why would anyone need two BB guns? Someone should do something, you know, for the children.

A veritable BB arsenal! A cache of Air Assault Weapons.

I'm surprised that they didn't burn down his compound.

I heard he had thousands of BBs on hand too. He must have been the leader of some fanatical religious cult. It would explain the chanting.

Posted: 10/19/2004 3:08:56 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:

After leading officers on a 5-mile chase, he was stopped in Clendenin, W.Va., about 19 miles north of Charleston, where he stepped out of his car and began chanting.

yep, nothing says "whacko" like a little chanting amid a confrontation with police.

He was chanting from the Book of the Holy Hand Grenade! "Whenst thou pull the pin, you shall
count to three. Three shall be the count..."

Apparently he never read the part that says, "Five is right out".

Posted: 10/19/2004 5:11:05 PM EDT

[#28]

Now that really is....

MORE THRUSTS per SQUEEZE

or

More squee...

hell, I'm jsut tired now

Posted: 10/19/2004 5:20:51 PM EDT

[#29]

And he is out of jail because?

1. he's a lunatic and not even the other inmates could stand him.
2. he's a lunatic and the cost of caring for him was too high.
3. he's a lunatic.

4. he's a lunatic and therefore not responsible for his actions

Posted: 10/19/2004 5:36:09 PM EDT

[#30]

Damn......
just damn......

Sure he is a certifiable loon but what a hardcore loon indeed.
Hope the wounded cop recovers quickly.

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