The deaths of two Nevada State Police (NSP) Highway Patrol troopers on Thursday brings the total number of state police deaths to 12, with the most recent involving Trooper Micah May in an incident only about a mile away.
ELY, Nev. (AP) A 67-year-old Nevada man with acknowledged bipolar disorder was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole for ambushing and killing a veteran highway patrol sergeant on a remote state highway in March 2020.
Nevada man pleads guilty but mentally ill in trooper slaying
July 27, 2021 GMT
LAS VEGAS (AP) A 67-year-old Nevada man pleaded guilty but mentally ill on Monday and will avoid a death penalty trial in the fatal ambush shooting of a veteran highway patrol trooper on a remote state highway in March 2020.
John Leonard Dabritz, a former resident of the small White Pine County mining town of Ruth, is expected in September to face a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing highway patrol Sgt. Ben Jenkins, 47.
“The officer had come up to the side of the road, and I had shot him,” defendant Dabritz told White Pine County District Court Judge Steve Dobrescu, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported after a hearing that was livestreamed from court. “He was killed.”
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