Thursday, March 20, 2008

Southwest Missouri trooper nominated for national award

Walter L. "Corky" Burr, the Missouri Highway Patrol trooper involved in the arrest of Neosho church shooter Eiken Saimon has been nominated for the Trooper of the Year award by the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Burr was one of the team who entered the First Congregational Church of Neosho Aug. 12 following a shooting spree in which four leaders of a Micronesian church which was using the building, including Pastor Kernal Rehobson, were killed.

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