Marine on liberty dies in gunbattle with police

[Mace]

(CNN) -- A 19-year-old Marine from Ceres, California, shot and killed a police officer and wounded another before dying in a weekend gunbattle.

Investigators said he may have been driven by a desire to avoid returning to Iraq.

Andres Raya was scheduled to report back to Camp Pendleton, near San Diego, on Sunday after a weekend leave.

Instead, police said, he went out with a semiautomatic rifle and drew officers into an ambush outside a liquor store in Ceres, a town of about 35,000 next door to his hometown of Modesto.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/11/marine.shooting/

Video of it here:
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/9750300p-10612430c.html

[KingChicken]

1. Can't blame him for not wanting to go back to that hell hole...

This is what I would probally do if I were ever drafted, don't fuck with people's lives and expect everything to turn up rosy.

This is what this country has bought in it's march to war, the cost of this war will continue at home for a long time.

[Moderator]

2. duplicate topic, please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1140431