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    Funeral plans announced for Master Trooper Walker

    A Virginia State Police trooper killed in the line of duty will be laid to rest Tuesday.

    The Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police announced that the funeral service for Master Trooper Junius A. Walker will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday at Good Shepherd Baptist at 2223 S. Crater Road in Petersburg.

    There will also be a wake at Good Shepherd from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday.

    Trooper Walker was shot and killed Thursday afternoon on Interstate 85 south. The 63-year-old joined the Virginia State Police in 1973 and leaves behind a wife and two adult daughters.

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    More than a thousand turn out to honor trooper killed in the line of duty

    State police from as far away as Indiana and Ohio attended the wake of fallen Master State Trooper Junius A. Walker last night at Good Shepherd Baptist Church.

    A line of well over a thousand of Walker's friends and co-workers, as well as law enforcement and firefighters from Central Virginia, spilled over onto the sidewalk of Morton Avenue.

    Police and firefighters came in dress uniform and squad cars and trucks to honor their fellow serviceman.

    "We're all a part of the law enforcement family," said Barry Burnside, a Virginia corrections officer who didn't know Walker, but wanted to pay his respects.

    Walker, 63, was assigned to Dinwiddie County in the Virginia State Police's Area Seven Office in the Richmond Division.

    He was shot multiple times on Thursday afternoon and died on scene after he pulled up to a black sedan parked on the side of interstate 85 to check on the driver.

    Russell E. Brown, 28, of Chesterfield was charged with capital murder Friday in Walker's death.

    Amos Wingfield, who retired as Dinwiddie deputy sheriff in 2011, said that Walker talked to him about planning to retire only a few days prior to the shooting.

    "He did his job, but knew how to treat people," Wingfield said. "Everyone loved him and got along with him."

    Dinwiddie resident Rachael Hyman became an acquaintance of Walker's after he gave her husband a speeding ticket in 1993, the same year the couple moved to Dinwiddie.

    "He was nice and polite," she said. She continued to see Walker around the community on numerous occasions and began to buy him, and any other trooper with him, lunch or dinner to say thank you.

    "I wanted to show that I appreciated him in the community," she said. "No one broke my heart like Walker."

    Walker was described by numerous friends and acquaintances as a gentle giant.

    Andrea Simmons, a Surry County resident whose father worked with Walker, said that while he seemed intimidating, he was soft at heart.

    "When you look at him he's like a stallion ... but when he speaks he's like a lamb," she said.

    Harry Clay, who retired as Dinwiddie magistrate in 2010, remembered Walker's kind words after he lost his wife.

    Walker stopped his squad car and said, "Man, you have got to know someone's thinking about you."

    Many also commented on his aptitude as a police officer, including a Chesterfield man he pulled from a car seven years ago.

    Walker pulled Wayne Burch from his car on Boydton Plank Road after prying the roof off the car after an accident smashed the driver's side.

    "I was thankful he showed up. First cop on the scene," Burch said.

    Burch was hospitalized for three days with injuries to his neck, legs and back.

    When asked what he remembered most about Walker, Charlie Weaver, aretired Virginia State Police chaplain, said, "Nothing but good."

    Weaver will participate in today's funeral, which will also be held at Good Shepherd Baptist Church at 11 a.m., followed by a private burial.

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    Affidavit says man charged in shooting death of Virginia state trooper says God made him do it

    The man charged in the shooting death of a Virginia state trooper told investigators God made him do it, according to court papers.

    Russell E. Brown also said one of the investigators interviewing him would be the next to die. His grandmother told police that Brown had called her several times in the weeks leading up to the killing to talk about the Bible, which was uncharacteristic of him.

    “Rose Brown stated that he would not make much sense during their conversations,” state police Special Agent J.M. Gunderson wrote in an affidavit that was used to search Brown’s Chesterfield County apartment.

    According to media reports, Brown also appeared to be acting strange to apartment complex manager Mary Wilson. She told investigators that when she called to inform him that his rent was past due, “He replied, ‘you do you’ and hung up,” the affidavit says.

    Court papers say Brown, 28, was naked when he was caught hiding in the back of a car at a towing business a few minutes after the fatal shooting of Master Trooper Junius A. Walker on Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County. Brown exchanged shots with another trooper who came to Walker’s aid before dropping his gun and magazine and fleeing, disrobing as he ran, the affidavit says.

    Brown was taken to the Dinwiddie Sheriff’s Office to be interviewed, and after he waived his rights, he spoke with state police special agents about the killing.

    “Russell Brown stated that he knew this was going to happen because God told him to do it,” Gunderson wrote. “Russell Brown stated that the Virginia State Police Special Agent that was interviewing him was next (as in killing him).”

    Brown is charged with capital murder, two firearms counts and attempted capital murder. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.

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    Preliminary hearing for trooper shooting suspect postponed

    Russell Brown’s preliminary hearing was rescheduled until June. Brown had to be assigned a second lawyer, required in a capital murder case. Brown did not appear in court today.

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    Va. lawmakers honor trooper fatally shot in March

    The General Assembly took a few minutes at the start of its one-day reconvened session to honor a slain state trooper and his family.

    Master Trooper Junius A. Walker's wife Betty dabbed tears from the corners of her eyes during a tribute in the state Senate on Wednesday. She, other family members and some of Walker's colleagues listened as Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling praised the trooper for his dedicated service and many acts of kindness. Sen. Henry Marsh of Richmond called Walker "a compassionate man of integrity."

    Walker received a similar tribute in the House of Delegates.

    The 63-year-old trooper was fatally shot on Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County on March 7. Twenty-eight-year-old Russell E. Brown III of Chesterfield County is charged with capital murder and other charges.

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    Murdered trooper's widow speaks publicly for first time

    The wife of murdered Virginia State Trooper Junius Walker spoke publicly for the first time since his death at a vigil Thursday night.

    Betty Walker reached out to NBC12 last week to thank the community for the support she has received. At the vigil, held at the Smyrna Baptist Church in Dinwiddie, she thanked the community herself and talked about her late husband.

    "Walker was never one to talk much about he did on a daily basis," said Betty Walker. "In fact, when I would ask him how his day was he'd say 'fine.' I'd ask, 'what did you do today?' He'd say, 'nothing.' Obviously he was minimizing what he did for the community in so many ways and it's only since his passing that we've come to realize that."

    Junius Walker was murdered just three miles from home on March 7. Fellow state trooper Steve Chumley said Walker was almost finished with his shift when he received the call for a disabled car on the side of I-85.

    "He was helping someone," said Chumley. "Helping someone he thought had broke down on the side of the road. There's many a law officer who if they were that close to being home and that close to getting off, would have passed that car and called it in for somebody else to handle. But that wasn't Jay. He stopped."

    That stop cost Walker his life. Police say, 28-year-old Russell Brown shot the 40-year veteran multiple times. Brown has since been charged with his murder.

    "There's a hole in our lives since his death that will never be filled," said Walker's widow through tears. "These candles that we're going to burn are a symbol of our love and adoration that will continue to burn in our hearts forever."

    Then, candles were lit, a song was sung and a prayer said for the fallen hero and his family.

    The Walkers say their next step is to make sure Junius Walker's grandchildren never forget their grandfather.

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    Sanity of suspect in trooper killing to be evaluated



    A Chesterfield County man who told authorities that God told him to shoot Virginia State Police Master Trooper Junius A. Walker last month is to be evaluated to determine whether he was sane at the time of the offense.

    “Statements made by the defendant to law enforcement immediately after arrest and to his counsel, led counsel to conclude that it is likely he is in need of an evaluation … for sanity at the time of his offense,” wrote defense attorney Joseph M. Teefey Jr. in a motion for the court to order a psychiatric evaluation.
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    Dinwiddie County Commonwealth’s Attorney Lisa Caruso concurred with the request and Dinwiddie General District Court Judge Mayo K. Gravatt signed an order April 1 that appointed Michael L. Hendricks, a clinical psychologist based in Washington, to perform the evaluation of Russell E. Brown III at the Meherrin River Regional Jail, where he is being held.

    Brown, 28, was apprehended 38 minutes after police said he fatally shot Walker, 63, in his police cruiser March 14 on Interstate 85 near mile marker 45. He was charged with capital murder of a police officer, attempted capital murder of a police officer and two related firearm charges related to Walker’s slaying and an exchange of gunfire between Brown and another trooper.

    Hendricks, who also is an adjunct professor of psychology at Catholic University of America in Washington, will observe and evaluate Brown and submit a report concerning his mental state at the time of killing, according to the order.

    Brown’s defense team, which includes the Central Virginia Capital Defender’s Office of the Indigent Defense Commission, has not yet submitted a motion for Brown to be evaluated on his competency to stand trial, although Caruso said that is expected soon.

    “They’re separate,” Caruso said of the two evaluations. “Competency means that you understand the nature of the proceedings and you can effectively assist in your defense. Sanity refers to your mental state at the time the offense occurred.”

    In court documents, state police said Brown essentially admitted to killing Walker, stating that he “knew this was going to happen because God told him to do it.” Brown also told the state police special agent that was interviewing him after his arrest that he “was next,” according to a court affidavit.

    Brown also exhibited other odd behavior and made unusual comments to family members and others in the weeks leading to his roadside confrontation with Walker, police said in court documents.

    Brown called his grandmother several times to “speak about the Bible,” which she said was unlike him, adding that he “would not make much sense” during their conversations. In addition, the manager of the apartment complex where Brown was living with a girlfriend told investigators that Brown was not acting like himself and she “felt something was not right,” police said in the affidavit.

    After fatally shooting Walker and exchanging gunfire with another trooper, police said in an affidavit, Brown dropped his gun and magazine and fled, disrobing as he ran. He was found hiding naked in the back of a Toyota Camry at Bishop Towing in the 19600 block of Boydton Plank Road.

    At the time of the shooting, Brown’s license had been suspended for $358 in unpaid traffic fines and court costs; he owed $35,000 in child support to the mother of his twin 7-year-old children; and he faced an April 5 trial after ignoring court orders to pay his debt. He also faced eviction for failing to pay rent.

    Authorities have refused to release the specific type of firearm used in the shooting, aside from describing it as a long-barreled gun. Caruso on Wednesday said it is her firm practice not to comment on the details of a pending criminal matter.

    “A lot of information has already made it out into the media about this particular case,” she said. Brown’s preliminary hearing has been set for June 24.

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    Resolution approved to commemorate trooper

    Dinwiddie County’s Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution naming a section of Interstate 85 in honor of a slain Virginia State Police trooper.

    The resolution also must be approved by the Commonwealth Transportation Board.

    It calls for a section of I-85 southbound from the state Route 703 overpass to the Brunswick County line to be named the “Master Trooper Junius Alvin Walker Memorial Highway.”

    Walker was fatally shot on I-85 in Dinwiddie County on March 14.

    Russell E. Brown of Chesterfield is charged with capital murder in Walker’s death.

    County Administrator W. Kevin Massengill told The Progress-Index that Del. Rosalyn R. Dance, D-Petersburg, suggested renaming the highway during Walker’s funeral.

    A county resolution is a quicker route than going through the General Assembly.

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    New charges obtained as trooper killing case advances



    The case of a Chesterfield County man accused of capital murder in the killing of a state trooper will proceed to trial without a preliminary hearing after new charges were recently obtained by Dinwiddie County’s chief prosecutor.

    Commonwealth’s Attorney Lisa Caruso said the move was not an attempt to avoid the hearing, where the prosecution must disclose some of its evidence, but a means to consolidate the original charges with several new ones.
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    Caruso said she advised defendant Russell E. Brown’s attorneys in advance. “They were aware of it,” she said.

    With the indictments, Brown's preliminary hearing that had been set for Monday will not take place.

    The prosecution had intended to seek additional charges against Brown, Caruso said, and “it just made the most sense” to consolidate the original charges with the four new ones so they would be heard in one court, rather than two.

    “There was no change in strategy that occurred,” said Caruso, who plans to seek the death penalty against Brown for the slaying of Master Trooper J.A. Walker. “We didn’t charge him with those other (offenses) at the onset. And so when we decided to charge, it was an easier mechanism to get everything together and indict, and take it all up to circuit court.”

    On May 21, a Dinwiddie Circuit Court grand jury indicted Brown, 28, on eight felony charges, including capital murder of a police officer, attempted capital murder of a police officer, attempted murder, two counts of maliciously shooting into an occupied vehicle and three counts of using a firearm in the commission of felony.

    Two days later, prosecutors withdrew the original four charges against Brown – capital murder of a police officer, attempted capital murder of a police officer and two felony firearm counts.

    A similar decision was made in a high-profile case in Colonial Heights, where prosecutors obtained indictments against Matthew Brady ahead of his preliminary hearing on charges of robbing and bludgeoning to death Joseph and Evelyn Bland, an elderly couple found slain inside their home on January 2011.

    But Colonial Heights Commonwealth’s Attorney William Bray decided to proceed with Brady’s preliminary hearing anyway, because the prosecutor said the defendant had a legal right to such a proceeding because he originally had been charged with the crimes under warrants.

    A prosecutor can gain a tactical advantage by opting to take their case directly to a grand jury, because evidence is shielded by the secrecy of the proceeding. That allows prosecutors to avoid disclosing certain evidence during a preliminary hearing that could be helpful to the defense.

    “I don’t play that way,” Caruso said. “I have open file discovery (with the defense), so I’m not hiding anything.”

    Brown is accused of fatally shooting Walker, 63, in his police cruiser March 14 on Interstate 85 after the trooper rolled up to Brown’s vehicle, stopped on the shoulder, to see if he needed any help.

    After shooting Walker and exchanging gunfire with another trooper who had responded to the scene, Brown dropped his gun and magazine and fled, disrobing as he ran. He was found hiding naked in the back of car on a towing company lot on Boydton Plank Road, according to court papers.

    State police said in court documents that Brown essentially admitted to killing Walker, stating that he “knew this was going to happen because God told him to do it.” Brown also exhibited other odd behavior and made unusual comments to family members and others in the weeks leading to his roadside encounter with Walker, court papers say.

    Dinwiddie General District Court Judge Mayo K. Gravatt agreed April 1 to a defense request that Brown be evaluated by a clinical psychologist to determine whether he was sane at the time of the offense. Caruso said the results of that evaluation have not yet been submitted.

    A trial date has not yet been set.

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    Virginia police dedicate highway for slain trooper





    Virginia and community leaders have dedicated a section of Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County, Va., in honor of a slain Virginia State Police trooper.

    An unveiling and dedication ceremony was held Friday for the "Master Trooper Junius A. Walker Memorial Highway."

    Sixty-three-year-old Walker was fatally shot on I-85 in Dinwiddie County during a traffic stop in March. Russell E. Brown of Chesterfield is charged with capital murder in Walker's death.

    A section of I-85 southbound from the Route 703 overpass to the Brunswick County line is being named in the 35-year veteran's honor.

    Signs were placed along the interstate. And a smaller version of the highway signs was placed at a nearby rest area as an accessible memorial for the public to safely pay their respects.

    Brown is charged with capital murder, two firearms counts and attempted capital murder in Walker's death. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.

    A judge has ordered Brown to undergo a mental evaluation to determine whether he was sane when he shot Walker. Brown told police God made him do it.

    http://www.tricities.com/news/local/...a4bcf6878.html
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