Free cuz
There are 2 cac brothers in Tennessee who killed a cop on their property
They are still walking around
And posted pictures of their (the cop and the person the cop was with who was there to serve a warrant with) dead bullet ridden bodies on their property as a warning to others.
Is there a thread on this?
Brothers who killed deputy, friend put up billboard with photos of victims’ bodies
VICTORIA CAVALIERE
Published: Sep 12, 2012 at 2:22 pm
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Graphic images of a sheriff's deputy and his friend who were killed in a shootout are seen posted by brothers Rocky Joe and Leon Houston near Kingston, Tenn. Roane County Deputy Bill Jones and ride-along Mike Brown were fatally shot by the brothers on May 11, 2006, after they went to serve an outstanding arrest warrant for Rocky Houston. The brothers were never convicted. (Saul Young, Knoxville News Sentinel/AP)
Two Tennessee brothers who say they killed a deputy officer and his friend in self-defense have hung photos of the dead men's bodies outside their property as a warning to other law enforcement officials.
Roane County Deputy Bill Jones, 53, and former police officer Mike Brown, 44, were shot to death on the property of Rocky and Leon Houston in 2006 while trying to serve an arrest warrant.
After two mistrials, both Houston brothers were acquitted of murder charges when prosecutors were unable to prove that they fired first at Jones and Brown.
The Houston brothers insist that the deputy and his friend showed up to kill them and opened fire without warning.
Six years later, the brothers still believe they are being targeted by corrupt police and local officials. They say the posters outside their property showing the dead men's bodies, court documents and allegations of government corruption serve as a warning to the oustside world.
"This ain't nothing complicated," Rocky Houston
told the Knoxville News Sentinel of the posters, which were erected in August. "It's real simple. We fear for our lives and our family's lives, and we will continue to defend our lives."
Rocky Houston did not return the Daily News' request for comment Wednesday.
Roane County deputy Bill Jones and former police officer Mike Brown were shot in 2006. (WATE)
The billboards, which rest along a rural road on the side of the Houstons' property, have offended some residents and law enforcement officials who believe the photos are insensitive and too graphic for passers-by, including school children.
"To see anybody, let alone someone that you knew, someone who wears the same uniform and does the same job as you, it's really disturbing to see that, whether it's on a billboard or whether it's on the Internet. It's awful," Chief Deputy Tim Phillips
told WATE-TV.
Roane County brothers Rocky and Leon Houston have made a billboard out of crime scene photos taken on their property the night Bill Jones and Mike Brown were killed. (WATE)
But legally, the Houstons can display the photos, which became a matter of public record during their trials, District Attorney Russell Johnson said.
"It goes without saying that any public display on their own property of these photos, in whatever manner by the Houstons, is despicable and certainly runs counter to the Houstons' claims of innocence," Johnson said.
Rocky Houston, a former security guard for the U.S. Department of Energy in Oak Ridge, Tenn., said the signs won't come down.
He accuses law enforcement officials of trying to plot to kill him and his brother.
"We are trying to report federal crimes, and we feel like our plea has fallen on deaf ears," Houston told the News Sentinel. "We're praying President Barack Obama will turn toward East Tennessee. I'm preparing a package for him right now."
Rocky and Leon Houston maintain that Bill Jones and Mike Brown had come to kill them in 2006. Prosecutors said they were there to serve a warrant to Houston.
The brothers faced three criminal trials in connection with the crime.
Rocky Houston's trial ended in a split verdict in 2008, but a mistrial wasn't declared. An appeals court later said he couldn't be tried again.
Leon Houston was found not guilty in 2009.
A Cumberland County jury in April found the Houstons liable for Brown's death and awarded Brown's parents $5.45 million in wrongful-death damages. The brothers have said they won't pay, the News Sentinel reported.