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Patrick Tracy Burris was released from a medium-security prison two months before Cowpens peach farmer Kline Cash was fatally shot, the first of five deaths blamed on the Cherokee County serial killer, according to the North Carolina Department of Corrections.
Burris, 41, was shot to death early Monday in a shootout with Gaston County, N.C., police.
Burris’ death brought to an end the killing spree that began with the June 27 shooting death of Cash, 63. Items taken from Cash’s home were in Burris’ possession.
Authorities said the motive remains a mystery…
Burris was released from Lincoln Correctional Center in Lincolnton, N.C., on April 29, according to prison records. His offenses included being a habitual felon and five counts each of felony breaking and entering and larceny after breaking and entering, records show…
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Reggie Lloyd said he became angry when he saw that Burris’ rap sheet extended about 25 pages and included crimes from Maryland to Florida.
“At some point the criminal justice system is going to need to explain why this individual was out on the street,” Lloyd said. “We owe that to the victims in this case. We owe that to the citizens who lived in terror for days.”
American jurisprudence at its best.
Bleeding Heart Judges! – forget the law, just make the decision using “empathy” for the down-trodden.
As our fearless leader recently said about judges: “the ones who recognize what it’s like to be a young, teenaged mom; the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old.”
Well duh, obviously non of those previous charges were for something atrocious like selling pot. Otherwise he’d be locked up for good!
time to make the ones responsible for releasing people like this, responsible for what the released do…
I have a crazy neighbor( down the block on the other side of the street). His door has been blown down by police; helicopters have been dispatched; he tried to burn down his own house; he has attempted carjacking; he has tried to take a cop’s gun; armored vehicles have been dispatched; has resisted arrest AND failed to stop; has wielded a gun on school property.
What has happened to him? He’s going strong. Goes away for a bit, and then returns to cause trouble.
This guy is a criminal, but that doesn’t capture the full picture. He is also completely bonkers. The U.S. has huge storage for criminal people, but is sorely lacking in storage for crazy people.
I’d say that along with health care one of the largest problems we face has do with who we decide is crazy / criminal / addicted / merely annoying.
As they are so fond of saying here in California, “No person is ILLEGAL!”
NC parole board has been roasted the past year. It’s now under new supervision. I agree with other posters, put the drug abusers in rehab programs and keep these psychopathic criminals tucked away for life. People are starting to get now, that all these tough on crime politicians are breaking the bank with incarcerations of non-violent crimes. We can’t afford this bullshit war on drugs anymore. We have much bigger problems.
The police are unable to control irreverent grandmothers, what makes you think they are prepared to take on guys like this?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=15YExclX4Gc
Funny… he doesn’t look inbred.
He doesn’t look anything like the artist’s rendition. That guy looked white with largish, wide-set eyes. This guy is beady-eyed and brownish. Political correctness gone mad?
Was that 25 pages portrait or landscape? Oh, wait, I can hear the dot matrix continuous form fed printer from here.
In the Carolinas this guy is a pedestrian. 25 pages? When he hits 26 then wake me up.
The danger in this is the over reacting. From the article, there is no explanation of why he went over the edge. The record posted is also pretty vague, there is only reference to some B & Es, nothing of the violent sort.
If we are intent on locking everyone up forever we better start building some more jails. Instead, for good behavior, parole is earned and we release prisoner’s early as a reward. Since no system is perfect, there will always be errors.
I heard that the cereals he hates most are:
1. Rice Crispies (too noisy)
2. Bran Flakes (too boring)
This inevitably led him to his life as a cereal killer.
#13, Winston
yes
All I can say is, thank God that none of the murder victims were armed. That could have been dangerous.
#15, Patrick,
none of the murder victims were armed
He only killed amputees? I suppose he told the legless ones to start running.