Bode_Millers_cousin_killed_by_passerby_after_killing_cop

Lets ignore the fact that Bode Miller is leaving the U.S. Ski Team, for a second.

As If this is not major news.

Liko Kenney shot Cpl. Bruce McKay four times
and ran over him after a traffic stop Friday evening, state Attorney
General Kelly Ayotte said. Gregory Floyd, who was driving by with his
son, grabbed McKay's gun and shot Kenney when he refused to put his gun
down, Ayotte said.

The 24-year-old Kenney was
convicted of assaulting McKay and resisting arrest in 2003. Ayotte had
no other details of that previous incident between the men, and
rejected suggestions the officer should have let someone else handle
the traffic stop given his history with the driver.

Officials
said McKay pulled Kenney over for speeding on Route 116. Kenney took
off, and McKay pursued him for about 1 1/2 miles before pulling in
front of Kenney's car and pushing it off the road.

The
officer used pepper spray on Kenney and his passenger and then turned
around and was shot, Ayotte said Saturday at a news conference in
Concord. Soon after, Floyd arrived and confronted Kenney while his son
called for help using the officer's radio. Authorities said Floyd was
justified in shooting Kenney.

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The 48-year-old McKay was a 12-year veteran of the Franconia Police Department.

"It really tears at the fabric of the community and the fabric of the state," said Gov. John Lynch, who visited the town of about 900 residents Saturday as people paid their respects and brought flowers to a police station.

Bode Miller's father, Woody Miller, said there was a history of animosity between the officer and his nephew.

"They
had a long relationship," said Miller, who operates an international
tennis camp in nearby Easton. "There's been physical altercations
between them before in the course of being arrested."

Miller
said Kenney, who lived next door to him, didn't have a steady job, but
often took work cutting firewood and picking fiddlehead ferns, a wild
green that grows in the region and is considered a delicacy.

Bode
Miller, who once bailed his cousin out of jail, was on his way home to
Franconia, his father said. Miller was in Park City, Utah, this week,
meeting with officials of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. At
that meeting, the former Olympic medalist told officials he was cutting
his ties with the U.S. team.

On going rival resulted in death!!



The shooting happened near this town in theWhite Mountain National Forest,
popular with skiers and tourists who visited the Old Man of the
Mountain, a rock formation and the state's symbol that crumbled into
pieces four years ago

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