Florida deputy kills wife, daughter, granddaughter, self

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Source: Ledger Inquirer

A Florida sheriff's deputy fatally shot his wife, granddaughter and daughter before he radioed dispatchers to say he'd hurt his family early Wednesday, then killed himself in front of fellow deputies near a high school, authorities said. The events unfolded before students had arrived for school in Plant City, a rural community east of Tampa.

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister identified the deputy as 58-year-old Terry Strawn, who in 2009 was named "Officer of the Year."

"There was no indication, no behavior issues," Chronister said. "Nothing that would lead any employee to believe this employee was struggling."Strawn went on the department's main radio channel just before 7 a.m. Wednesday to say he had harmed his family. The deputy mentioned financial and health problems and said he was going to kill himself near the local high school, the sheriff said.

"Throughout the entire dialogue on the radio, the dispatchers did a wonderful job of trying to convince him that suicide is not the answer," Chronister said. The sheriff said three other deputies quickly located Strawn and they made "every attempt possible to try to convince this deputy sheriff that there was a different way, that there was a different solution. Unfortunately, the deputy took his own life on scene in front of the other deputies," Chronister said.



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[sakabatou]

1. How awful

[JohnnyRingo]

2. He did that in reverse order.

it was his granddaughter.

[DRoseDARs]

3. "a different way ... a different solution." Yeah, no. Suicide was the best option.

Seriously. Fuck him. Let me guess, the three bitches had it coming? Six year old granddaughter wet the bed one too many times? I don't give a good God damn what his issues were. Fuck. Him.

Killed his wife, daughter, granddaughter. Took his own life in front of co-workers, and potentially in front of a whole school filled with children and their parents dropping them off, in the ultimate display of LOOK AT MEEEE self-indulgent selfish prickery. Is a cop. Sorry, is a corpse, WAS a cop. If convicted (Again, he was a cop. Non-zero chance he'd avoid conviction...) of murder and sentenced to death, he'd be on death row for *years* being a drain on resources. If he got life imprisonment, he was a cop that murdered three people including a child. Double-whammy that would make him super-popular in prison. And being a drain on resources.

Suicide was the correct choice. Justice served, money saved. Fuck him.

[rainin]

10. Couldn't agree more. n/t

[C Moon]

11. Indeed.

[uppityperson]

4. This is so sad. People cover up their mental health issues too much.

RIP family.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. A very frightening story.

(snips from the link)

Chronister said he was briefly suspended in 1998 for defacing sheriff's office property and was disciplined in 2016 for two traffic crashes.

Retired from the office in 2017, he then returned to duty as a contracted school safety officer, a position that some schools in Florida created after the Stoneman Douglas High School massacre last February in South Florida. Chronister said the agency had recently told Strawn he would be hired full-time as a school officer.

"He had done a wonderful job. Phenomenal," the sheriff said. "When we hired him back, he went through an extensive background and psychological testing."

I suspect their system needs to develop a vastly improved psychological evaluation mechanism used for hiring school guards.

.......... ..........

[BadGimp]

6. So incredibly sad.

Killing his family was so cowardly and selfish.

That he took his own life in front of his fellow deputies is such an awful thing to do to them.

I've said too much...

[dalton99a]

7. Terry Strawn and family:

[harumph]

8. "There was no indication, no behavior issues," Chronister said...

Buddy, you just weren't paying attention.

[susanna]

12. YES. n/t

[RainCaster]

9. If the NRA had done their job right...

They would have taught this guy (and everyone else) that if you want to go out and kill a lot of people, you must start with yourself. If those irresponsible Russian pigs at the NRA ever felt a tinge of guilt for all the carnage they cause, they would publicize this one concept.

[Coventina]

13. So, he was a good guy with a gun.....

Until he wasn't?