Ralph "bucky" Phillips

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Is this story nationwide yet???

right around where I grew up and went to college.

has anyone outside of the WNY area heard of this, pretty sad one of the troopers he just shot has died.

32 years old had a 13 month old.

$225,000 reward for him......

[TN TITAN Fan In STL]

I Thought I Heard Something On The Radio A Couple Of Days Ago About This Guy Didn't He Shoot Multiple Troopers ?

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Originally Posted by TN TITAN Fan In STL

I Thought I Heard Something On The Radio A Couple Of Days Ago About This Guy Didn't He Shoot Multiple Troopers ?

2 of them a couple of days ago, one just died and the other one was upgraded from critcal to serious, he took them out in ambush style, with an assualt rifle. He also shot one back in April or May.

There is about 25% of the New York State troopers looking for this guy and they can't find him for about 3 months now, while staying in Western New York and northern Penn.

He hates Police and is not going to go alive. For those who don't know WNY outside of Buffalo Alot of Erie and Chautauqua Counties are Woods. IN Chautauqua county outside of Jamestown pop. approx 30-40k Dunkirk/Fredonia is the next biggest area. the two cities probably have a pop of about 25k to 30k. So think of how much woods they have to cover?

I guess I heard that this guy use to just go walk for like 3 days and live off the land.

MY prays go out to all the troopers this is a serious fcked up thing. I am thinking that there is alot more to come.

[TN TITAN Fan In STL]

I Just Read A Story About Phillips And How Some Of The Public Supports This Guy.why I Will Never Know.

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Originally Posted by TN TITAN Fan In STL

I Just Read A Story About Phillips And How Some Of The Public Supports This Guy.why I Will Never Know.

I just open they get that motherfcker

[Yankee23]

I am very familiar with this case.

Bucky is hiding on a reservation and is being protected by the people because he is half Native American. IMO the only way he comes off from that land is in a body bag.

He is also being linked to a robbery at a gun shop where 41 different guns were stolen.

Broke out of jail using a can opener.

[Yankee23]

FREDONIA -- One of the two New York state troopers ambushed last week while searching for Ralph "Bucky" Phillips died Sunday of his injuries, state police said.

Joseph Longobardo was shot in the leg Thursday night while staking out the property of a former girlfriend of Phillips. He died Sunday at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo with his wife at his side, State Police Superintendent Wayne Bennett said at a news conference Sunday night.

The announcement came in the midst of one of the largest manhunts in New York history and as Longobardo's fellow troopers held a candlelight vigil for him and for Donald Baker Jr., the other trooper shot in the woods of Chautauqua County.

Baker, 38, who was shot in the back, remained in critical condition in a medically induced coma, police said.

Longobardo, 32, had a leg amputated Saturday after suffering severe blood loss, police said.

Baker's condition was returned to critical Sunday afternoon. That changed from the morning, when a spokesman for Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pa., said his condition had been upgraded to serious. Baker was hit in the back by a bullet that penetrated his bullet-resistant vest.

The search continued for Phillips, Bennett said.

"You can run but you can't hide. Sooner or later, I don't care how good you are, we will find you," Bennett said at the news conference.

After the news conference, more than 100 troopers participated in a ceremony outside state police barracks in Fredonia. They saluted as the American and state police flags were raised and then lowered to half-staff in honor of Longobardo. Trooper Dan Brown sang a slow a cappella version of "Amazing Grace."

Afterward, Bennett said, "Without any words even spoken, that sends a powerful message to the public about what has gone on here tonight."

Longobardo is survived by his wife, Teri, a 13-month-old son, Louis, his parents and a sister, state police said. Funeral arrangements are pending, state police said.

Trooper Mark O'Donnell said Longobardo's death did not change the way troopers viewed their mission to catch Phillips. "You can't be more determined," O'Donnell said. "We were determined from the day he shot Sean Brown."

Brown was shot in the abdomen June 10 in the Chemung County town of Veteran during a traffic stop.

He has since recovered, and returned to work last month.

At the vigil earlier Sunday, troopers vowed to track down Phillips.

"We are not going to put up with it," police spokeswoman Rebecca Gibbons said after the vigil. "He's angered a family, and we're going to be out here until he is in custody."

Hundreds of police, 140 a shift, continued to search rural western New York for Phillips, the prime suspect in Thursday's sniper-style shooting. Others gathered at the vigil in Hamburg, about 10 miles south of Buffalo.

State police warn that Phillips, who has been on the run for five months, could hurt anyone who gets in his way.

The manhunt has reached a size not seen in New York since 1973, when hundreds of troopers scoured the Adirondacks region for murderer and serial rapist Robert Garrow. Also a veteran outdoorsman, he outran police in the wilderness for 11 days.

But Phillips, 44, has been on the run much longer. Saturday marked five months since he cut his way out of an Erie County jail with a can opener. Since then, he has been suspected in the shooting of Brown and has survived on the run by possibly stealing about 15 vehicles and breaking into hunting camps and a gun shop.

Some residents here in his native Chautauqua County once took the hunt for Phillips playfully, offering "Bucky Burgers" and "Where's Bucky?" T-shirts for sale. With Thursday's shootings, that started to change.

Now "I think even his buddies will turn (on) him," resident Jackie Terrill told The Buffalo News. "We're not a bunch of idiots out here."

Police hadn't been able to interview the injured troopers because of their conditions. One trooper managed to return fire Thursday, but police did not say whether the sniper, who fired from less than 100 yards away in the woods, was hit.

Authorities say his disdain for police was well known. Sheriff's officials said that when he was released or transferred from the Chautauqua County jail several years ago, he left officials a note threatening "to splatter pig meat all over Chautauqua County."

State police were hoping that a new $225,000 reward for help in Phillips' capture would inspire residents to come forward.

Bennett said police are not looking for a shootout.

"That's not the way we want this to end," he said.

But friends of Phillips have said a shootout is exactly what he wants.

They said Phillips was infuriated after police arrested his former girlfriend, Kasey Crowe, and his 23-year-old daughter, Patrina Wright, on Aug. 24 and removed Wright's three children -- the youngest 3 weeks old -- from her custody for a week. The children were returned to Wright's custody Thursday.

"We are caught in the middle, though, and my kids were used to bring him out," Wright said Saturday by phone.

[Trossi3389]

Originally Posted by Yankee23

I am very familiar with this case.

Bucky is hiding on a reservation and is being protected by the people because he is half Native American. IMO the only way he comes off from that land is in a body bag.

He is also being linked to a robbery at a gun shop where 41 different guns were stolen.

Broke out of jail using a can opener.

Very familar with it also... This whole thing will end with the POS's death.

[Big Pimpin]

They will find and kill him

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Don't forget he shot a officer named sean brown to start things off. This sean brown is a brother of one of the females I work with. It happened about 15 miles from where I live. I hope they smoke him as soon as they see him.

[Trossi3389]

P.O.S Caught !! But minus the body bag.

[TigerCat_Tania]

It's been on here in Ontario for a while on NBC and a few other Buffalo stations that I get... Whenever they talked about this guy I never knew what he did... and they have been bringing him up for months now... I still don't get what he did but based on the thread I now know... I keep hearing something about other people getting arrested or something... i dunno...

[Big Pimpin]

pussy ass surrendered.......they should have waxed his ass

[Trossi3389]

Originally Posted by Big Pimpin

pussy ass surrendered.......they should have waxed his ass

Thats philly for ya bro.. You guys are soft down there.

LOL

[WildKat]

CARROLL, N.Y. - A fugitive suspected of fatally shooting a New York state trooper and wounding two others while on the run for more than five months surrendered to police who had cornered him in a field just over the Pennsylvania border Friday night.

Ralph "Bucky" Phillips walked out with his hands up, ending the state's largest manhunt for the 44-year-old career thief who broke out of a Buffalo-area jail in April, New York State Police Investigator Gary Colon said.

The arrest capped a frantic day of searching that included troopers firing at Phillips earlier in the day as he dodged authorities in a wooded area.

For hours, police had methodically moved closer to Phillips. Just before nightfall, 25 SWAT officers and 12 dogs swept through a field where he was thought to be hiding. He gave himself up around 8 p.m., police said.

"A few of my guys had spotted him in an open field, the helicopter zeroed in on him," said Lenny DePaul, commanding officer of the U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force.

He did not know what condition Phillips was in. In a photo taken as he was driven away from the field, Phillips looked gaunt, dirty and exhausted.

"He could run but he couldn't hide," said New York State Police Superintendent Wayne Bennett. "The bottom line is the pressure was so great on him. The game was up and he knew it."

Phillips was being taken to a jail in Buffalo and was to be arraigned Saturday morning. He faces a charge of attempted murder in connection with the shooting of a state trooper on June 10.

Phillips, who had threatened "suicide by cop" and once promised to "splatter pig meat all over Chautauqua County," was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.

Since his escape, he has twisted and turned his way throughout southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania, eluding a huge manhunt, stealing cars, burglarizing homes and camps and relying on a network of acquaintances to stay free, police said. He may have stolen 41 guns from a New York gun shop, authorities said.

Friday's search started shortly before 2 a.m. in Pennsylvania when a police officer tried to pull over a stolen car. After a short chase, the car crashed and the driver, identified by police as Phillips, fled into the woods.

A half-hour later, Phillips stole a second car and drove back into New York, where troopers located him and launched a second chase, authorities said.

Phillips jumped out of the moving car and ducked into woods, zigzagging back and forth between New York and Pennsylvania, authorities said. Police dogs tracked his scent for several hours until he was spotted by two troopers, Bennett said.

As troopers approached, Phillips wheeled around with a pistol in his hand but did not fire, police said. One of the troopers fired an undisclosed number of shots as Phillips disappeared into the thick woods.

Phillips became the subject of a huge search after allegedly shooting a state trooper near Elmira in June. The trooper survived.

Then, authorities said, he ambushed and shot two New York state troopers on Aug. 31 as they staked out the home of Phillips' former girlfriend. One trooper died on Sunday; the other was in critical condition.

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