Via NYDN:
The 44-year-old Tennessee man who killed a police officer Thursday penned a letter in which he blamed cops — and his own family — for his “misfortune.”
Brian Keith Stalans fatally shot Maryville Police Officer Kenny Moats, 32, in the neck after police responded to a domestic violence call at his father’s Alcoa home around 3:30 p.m.
Police had been called to the home of Stalans’ unidentified father earlier in the day in regards to an assault in-progress, but once cops showed up there was no cause for arrest.
“The father did not want to place charges against his son, and we had no reason without any sign of physical injury to take him into custody,” Blount County Sheriff James Berrong said.