Watch: Shots Ring Out as Cops Nab Man Trying to Break Into MO Army Base
- Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:16pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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ROLLA, Mo. (The Blaze/AP) — Police said Thursday that they captured a man who tried breaking into an Army base and fired on police during a high-speed chase before entering and leaving a university building:
Rolla Police Chief Mark Kearse said officers took Cody N. Willcoxson, of South West City, into custody Thursday afternoon, hours after they say he tried sneaking into nearby Fort Leonard Wood using a fake ID.
Willcoxson was released from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 2008 after serving about 3 1/2 years for burglary, escaping from jail, and other felonies.
Fort Leonard Wood spokesman Mike Warren said a man tried entering the base through its west gate Thursday morning but was told to leave by a security guard, who determined the man‘s identification card didn’t look legitimate. Instead of leaving, the driver accelerated rapidly and drove through the gate, then led military police on a chase that ended when he drove back out through the front gate and the St. Robert Police Department began the pursuit, he said.
St. Robert Police Chief Curtis Curenton said the officers had been on Interstate 44 for only a couple miles when the driver began firing shots from what appeared to be an AK-47. Curenton said he followed the gunman about 32 miles to Rolla when his driver’s-side mirror was hit with one round and his engine compartment was hit by another.
Officers put “stop sticks” on the road and punctured a tire before the driver reached Rolla. He eventually had to ditch the vehicle and fled on foot before stealing another vehicle and heading toward the interstate, according to the sheriff’s department website.
Just before 9 a.m. the Missouri University of Science and Technology received a report of a gunman entering McNutt Hall, which houses the school’s Department of Mining and Nuclear Engineering. There were no classes in session in the building at the time. A university spokeswoman said the gunman was seen leaving the campus.
Campus police issued an alert at 8:50 telling those on campus to remain indoors and everyone else to stay away. The suspect left campus without firing a shot, a campus police official said.
Willcoxson was among nine inmates who attacked a jailer and fled on foot from the Delaware County Jail in Oklahoma. He had escaped twice previously, and authorities suspected him of masterminding the jail break.
During the escape, a prisoner attacked the jailer, stole his keys, kicked in the door to the sheriff’s office and stole a .22-caliber rifle before all nine slipped out the side door of the courthouse, the Tulsa World reported at the time.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth and Bill Draper contributed this report from Kansas City.
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Comments (80)
AZ BALLS
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:21pmHey Orville REDDENBLACKer!! I would rather be a TEABAGG-er than a ******-ee. Sounds like you’re a ******-EE aren’t ya , little guy…. Where you want it? On the chin??
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:19pm@reddenblack
Your post speaks volumes to your racist views. Bet you are a proud card carrying democrat, aren’t you.
Just remember…the military is sworn to protect the constitution, not the civiliians. What side do you fall in that equation? What side do the democrats who continually denounce it?
Remove that obstacle, and you have a group that is pro-gun and a group that is anti-gun. I bet you fall into the latter.
So who is going to protect you? The weather underground? Soros?
I don’t advocate violence, but when idiots like you post your inflammatory comments, I do pray you go down within the first salvo.
Report Post »Skee
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:57pmHey reddenblack, Incase you missed it, the story is about a criminal that tried getting on a military base. You are the only one that mentioned race in this blog. It’s amazing how the one that accuses us of racism, sees everything through the prism of color. Your comment about the civil war and how we lost, we did lose about 500,000 Americans but incase you didn’t notice blacks are free and Maggies farm was burned down.
Report Post »Tyr
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:42pmRIGHT ON! We take our line soldiers for granted! They are not heros to most americans, Just Cannon fodder! If the American people really cared about the troops on the line they would just cut them loose to kill every MF that stood in their way until not one radical Muslim would have the balls to show his face. First rule of successful warfare is to kill so many of the enemy they can no longer sustain the offensive, to demoralize the enemy by massive caualties so that he loses the will to resist. I THOUGHT WE LEARNED THIS IN VIETNAM. I vaguely remember something about this concept from my days at the war college. Probably just more lies!!!
Report Post »jordy2010
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:38pmYou know you’re a redneck when your name is Cody!!!!!! The MSM are going to have fun with this one…..
Report Post »ofallon
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:24pmGreat police work. Thanks for keeping us safe in the Show Me State.
Report Post »Pelling1020
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:16pm“Son of a motherless goat”, Fort Lost in the Woods on Natl’ news? What happened to the Waynesville Police? How about the Pulaski County Sheriff?
Report Post »No Nazis or Commies
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:35pmRed & Blue is designed to screw you!
Report Post »Tyr
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:50pmYou are also an idiot…….The RednBlack was saying we need to stop putting mindless restrictions on our troops. SEALS kill Bin Laden…… heros. U.S. Troops wipe out entire village supporting Muslim Terrorists…..war criminals! Screw you!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:57pmNice to have another Perfesser join us. He/She /It stoops to enlighten us Goobers, Idiots, dumasses, with Ivy League Verbage , and lofty goals. TYR, thanks again.. Come back again next month when your food stamps and welfare check arrive
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:29pmps—- my comments have nothing to do with the story but others comments make me sick. just call me racist and trialer thrash
Report Post »ED4237
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:29pmThat guy wants more time in prison with this stunt.
Report Post »PIPCO
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:23pmUS military don’t use “AKs”. That’s a Russian rifle.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:22pmYes we who write in are Racist and Trialer Thrash. If my thoughts make you think i‘m a racist because i don’t like the direction of this country— oh well. remember America only bombs BROWN PEOPLE. SO that makes all us Americans RACIST.
Report Post »RugNug
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:13pm@REDDENBLACK How much is George Soros paying you to be a troll? Just curious.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:31pmthat would be capitalism
we all know redncommie does it for the privilege of spending time under soros’s desk
Report Post »Tyr
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:45pmYou are an idiot! He is saying if the SEALS are heros, then why are we restricting the rest of the military. Dumass
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:00pmanother attempt to entertain the trailer folk at the Blaze
Report Post »Jd85
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:11pmhuh?? Your comment makes no sense… the story is a National security issue. Nutbags breaking into military bases is not Trailer folk entertainment..what is trailer folk anyway?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:34pmSteelhead? More like dumb a$$.
Report Post »Dandelions
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:00pmHe‘s lucky Obama wasn’t calling the orders. He’d be dead.
Report Post »TraceyM
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:47pmSo glad the were able to stop him before he got in undetected with an AK47.
Report Post »ReddenBlack
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:46pmthats why we as a people should stop slobbering love all over anyone who signs up for the army. If you flew in and killed Osama bin Laden, your a hero. If your just some dumbass in camoflage “to earn money for college” YOU ARE NOT A HERO, AND YOU DO NOT DESERVE MY ADULATION!!!!
Report Post »ExpertShot
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:24pmI hate to break it to you but even the “dumbasses (your words, not mine) who signed up to get money for college” end up downrange & put their lives at risk so idiots like you can speak your mind & live in a free society. My hubby blew his knee out during SF selection so he couldn’t be a “hero” as you think only the SEALS are; however, he’s been over 3 times & was in many many helluva firefights when they were moving in to take out Baghdad in 2003 as part of the “tip of the spear” ROCK OF THE MARNE!!!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:52pmWell said ,Skippy
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:39pmWhat an intellectual giant. I’ll bet he filled out his Mensa application with a crayon.
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:34pmA friend of Obamas, a wannabe cop killer.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:30pmSix years ago he was found carrying a Ku Klux Klan leaflet — see, he‘s one o’ them thar Tee-bggrsz!
(Ha ha, just warming up for the trolls, folks!)
Report Post »Bluestraveler
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:29pmHa! Clever disguise! Get it? *Cody*… such a innocent “american” name. Those Muzzlims, always coming up with new ingenious ways to try and harm us.
(SARCASM!)
Report Post »neverending
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:27pmDanger, violence and no regard for the rule of law at all anymore and it is just rampant across this country. Pretty frightening.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:57pmnobody is responsible for even there own actions except murder, no money to encarcerate any more thousands were released in ca this years cut off if they even ended up there.
Report Post »MightyBee27
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:25pmPlease pray for our troops abroad and here at home. The base we were stationed at had barriers that zig zagged so u had to drive 2 miles a hour just to get thru. Think those need to be put back up ASAP
Report Post »ExpertShot
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:08pmThis story doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. The post where we are stationed confiscates ID cards that are: expired, appeared altered, worn, etc…I just can’t see the guard at the gate telling him to leave, especially if he thought the ID card was not legit & especially after Ft. Hood. I can see if they told him to pull over to the side (which is what they would have done here & done a thorough vehicle check) & then he drove off, but the story makes it sound like the guard just told him to turn around & leave & that’s when he gunned it. Maybe it’s just the reporting??
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:24pmthere’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that’s with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of…Gunsmoke!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:29pmJust put the dumbass away forever before he kills a civilian or a policeman. No sense in wasting three squares and TV on him anymore.
Report Post »ReddenBlack
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:31pmNo, the way to handle crime in this country is to make the police more effective. You can start by legalizing small amounts of marijuana. This would free up 1/3 of all prison space in the country. Then you could fill it with real criminals, like this white jackass who thinks the country belongs to him.
Report Post »Ballgame
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:53pmYeah legalize drugs is sort of like dummying down schools. It doesn’t fix the problem just makes things worse.
How about we:
Report Post »Put God back in schools.
Raise the standards.
Shame those who glorify cop killers.
Carry out the sentence for those on death row instead of letting them sit for 20 years.
Secure the borders.
Spend what you can afford.
Stand up for the Constitution.
Obey the law.
Be proud to be an American.
Confront evil where ever it is in the world.
Jaycen
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:19pm@Red-N-Commie
“Then you could fill it with real criminals, like this white jackass who thinks the country belongs to him.”
Uhm, interesting theory. My question is, how do you know what he thinks? The story gave no details on motive. I guess you can read minds?
Report Post »ReddenBlack
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:10pm@jaycen
How do you know I can’t?
Report Post »Jenna_Lee_is_BEAutiful
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:41pmcause you’re black.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:19pmBecause if you could, every word that came out of your mouth not be as wrong as it is.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:28pmyea hurray for the cops, this time!! But myself “I won’t convict on officers testimony, as they have lied about the “ticket” i got!! to bad I do see a need but I won’t trust them now.
Report Post »“They are there own worst enemey” I‘m still waiting to have one show up that’s there to help. It’s always to accuse and smart off with graituitus remarks.
KenInIL
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 6:26pmWe probably need TSA screeners at each military base !! Then our military will be safe !
Report Post »Ballgame
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:23pmI bet he was listening to Common.
Report Post »ReddenBlack
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:31pmSomething tell me this white jackass would hate hip-hop as much as all the blaze racists.
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:31pmMore proof that White people are completely FED UP with the direction of America and they feel the only direction left is civil war II
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:36pmI don’t understand how this ties into any of the comments about rap and race.
This incident is antithetical to both arguments…
Report Post »SgtWark
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:39pmprobably. My favorite is how every single moron who commits a crime has an AK-47…. I bet it was a .22 Long rifle. media is retarded
Report Post »ReddenBlack
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:40pm@big pickle…
What I find so funny is that they failed so bad in the first civil war, but they think this time there gonna win!!
“No no guys, it’ll be different this time. We have the mighty Glenn Beck!!! And Teabaggers!! Oh wait till the feel the wrath of a fat mormon and teabags.” LOL
Report Post »Ballgame
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:40pmWow, two racist comments back to back. Must have been shift change at Media Matter.
Everyone please ignore these two racist even though we could go on and on about both the KKK, New Black Panthers, and the rest of the nut jobs out there.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:44pmWait… was this at Denny’s?
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:47pmhe’s a Ted Nugent fan
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:48pmDeath penalty!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:52pm@Sinista MACE
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:36pm
I don’t understand how this ties into any of the comments about rap and race.
This incident is antithetical to both arguments…
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Ephesians 5:20 (paraphrased) Be grateful to God for all things always.
It’s not a requirement that you understand everything. Just be grateful for it.
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:55pmAmen Big Pickle.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:59pm@REDDENBLACK
It is clear from various posts, that YOU are the racist. We don’t respond to your race game anymore, your claims (and all the other liberals) are invalid and politically motivated.
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:12pmNinety percent of all legal immirgation into America is from Non White third world countries and nearly 100 percent of all illegal immirgration is from Non White third world countries and our public schools are now over 50 percent non White, mostly illegal immigrants, our social welfare programs are over burderened…we can’t finance all the non White illegal aliens in the prison system or our emergency rooms….the unemployment rate of black males is 60 percent, nearly half of black males involved in the criminal justice system etc..etc..etc…
How can anybody NOT see the obvious problem?
Right now I‘m extremely upset the South hasn’t risen up yet and saved America….Enough of the promises…Do it!
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:17pmI’d have sent the obozo seal doll after him, not much for a cowboy like obozo!!
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:11pm“authorities suspected him of masterminding the jail break.”
If one were to be racist, one could point out that the ‘white guy’ is the criminal mastermind..
you know, some people just want to watch the world burn… and some are good at it..
Report Post »rgranger
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:43pmTHE BIG PICKLE @ Just ignorant, 100% of the illegals are, uh (to quote barry), ILLEGAL! But you go ahead and denigrate the non-whites they obey the laws, you ignorant racist pig. I wish you were stupid, then you would have an excuse, but alas, you are just ignorant.
Report Post »onegodinkansas
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:27pmuhhhhh….I don’t have all the facts, but it’s clear that Obama acted stupidly…
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 9:50amI understand the comments, it‘s just some racists always trying to throw race into an issue that doesn’t have to do with race.
My folly was trying to make sense out of that nonsense.
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