Murder of Kyle Dinkheller
Killing of a U.S. policeman, 1998 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The murder of Kyle Dinkheller took place on Monday, January 12, 1998, when Dinkheller, a deputy in the Laurens County, Georgia, sheriff's office, pulled over motorist and Vietnam War veteran Andrew Howard Brannan for speeding. A verbal confrontation escalated to a shootout resulting in Brannan murdering Dinkheller. The murder continues to receive national attention because the traffic stop and shootout were captured on a personal video recorder Dinkheller had placed on his patrol car dashboard and activated when he stopped Brannan. The recording is widely used for training purposes in U.S. police academies.
Date | January 12, 1998 (1998-01-12) |
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Location | Whipple Crossing Road Laurens County, Georgia, U.S. |
Coordinates | 32.517443°N 83.078321°W / 32.517443; -83.078321 |
Participants | Kyle W. Dinkheller, Andrew H. Brannan |
Outcome | Andrew H. Brannan injured, Kyle W. Dinkheller dead |
Suspects | Andrew H. Brannan |
Charges | Murder |
Verdict | Guilty |
Sentence | Death |
In the shootout, Dinkheller was armed with his semi-automatic pistol while Brannan was armed with an Iver Johnson M1 Carbine. Dinkheller shot and wounded Brannan. Despite this, Brannan fired the rifle, reloaded it, fired a lethal shot into Dinkheller's eye, and fled the scene in his Toyota pickup truck. The next morning, police found Brannan still in Laurens County, hiding in a sleeping bag beneath a camouflage tarp. Police arrested him for the murder of Dinkheller.
Brannan pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming in part that he suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) stemming from his military service in Vietnam. Because Dinkheller's video recorded most of Brannan's actions, the jury found he murdered the deputy in a premeditated, torturous, and cruel manner. Two years following the murder, on January 28, 2000, the jury convicted Brannan. On January 30, he was sentenced to death. Seventeen years and one day after the murder, on January 13, 2015, Brannan was executed by lethal injection.[1]