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has anyone else beisdes me mike and andy heard about this? for those of you who dont know liko kenney was pulled over by a cop who had once hospitalized liko and when mckay(the officer) came to the car liko demanded another officer cause of there troubled past(mckay had a problem wiht the whole family acaully) but mckay refused and instead maced liko and then turned aroun and that is when liko shot mckay and then ran him over, somoen driving by then shot liko.


liko was born in easton new hampshire his dads name was david kenney and i dont know theres moms name i know that they were friends with my parents and had a "coffee plantation" in hawii that was really a pot plantation, when i was really young i knew liko he wasnt really the nicest kid but appeantly hes gotten alot better and turned a new leaf holding down a job at a flower/garden shop, the gun that liko used to kill mckay likos friends say he carried to protect him from mckay who his friends say he was very afriad off. thougts?

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tdoc210

ive probably seen him, but i can't put a face on him

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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

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tdoc210

hmm ive seen him around maybe, not that great of a photo
but ive definitely seen the cop

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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

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the cops a real prick (i dont mean all cops, although for the most part i dont like most cops some are ok but if theres a hell, there should be a specail place for poeple like him)

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tdoc210

the media sure does make him sound like an angel

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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

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mckay, no not really considering he his first wife divorced him for hitting her, he hospitalized liko before and often over used his power against liko well the media might make him look like an angel but people in the town including officail and other officers are leening twards liko as a good guy

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Can someone explain this coherently?

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P
eople who knew the two men shot and killed in Franconia on Friday night said it was a tragic end to a long, contentious relationship.

Friends and family of Liko Kenney said he was hot-tempered and defiant toward authority figures. They said Bruce McKay, a Franconia police corporal, had had many run-ins with the 24-year-old and other members of his family.

Kenney was convicted in 2003 of assaulting McKay and resisting arrest, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said yesterday. She had no other details about the incident.

Meanwhile, Kenney's uncle, Bill Kenney, said his nephew tried to press charges against McKay several years ago, after Liko Kenney alleged McKay and another police officer had kicked him in the head and broken his jaw at an underage drinking party. Because there were no witnesses - other partygoers fled when the police arrived - Bill Kenney said nothing ever came of the allegations.

Bill Kenney called his nephew a "loose cannon" with a bad temper but also said that McKay was a "rogue cop" who had targeted his nephew and the family for years.
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One of Kenney's first cousins, ski champion Bode Miller, told Sports Illustrated last year that he, too, had a rocky relationship with McKay and believed that the local police watch him closely. He contested a $500 parking ticket and represented himself in Littleton District Court in October 2005, "to try and get my fine reduced and to antagonize McKay," he told the magazine.

McKay was the town prosecutor and represented the police department in criminal cases at Littleton District Court, Franconia Administrative Assistant Sally Small said. She declined to discuss the relationship between Kenney and McKay but said the officer was very professional.

Asked if McKay was well-liked, Small said: "It depends on who you talk to. Because there are a lot of people who think a lot of him, and I'm sure those who came up against him in court didn't think a lot of him."

Bill Kenney described Liko as troubled, but not violent.

"He was definitely part of the family, but we all had a little bit of a tenuous relationship with Liko," Bill Kenney said. "I consider him a loose cannon, volatile."

Liko Kenney and Bode Miller grew up together near the grounds of the Tamarack Tennis Camp in Easton, which their grandparents started in 1962.

Bill Kenney said his nephew had a tough upbringing. His parents, Dave and Michelle Kenney, run a coffee plantation in Hawaii, and for years the family spent their time split between Hawaii and New Hampshire. Liko was often in trouble at school and dropped out of Profile High School in Bethlehem by the time he was in 10th grade, his uncle said.

"He had a lot of anger," Kenney said.

He spent several years living in Las Vegas and Washington state before moving back to New Hampshire about three years ago, according to his uncle. He loved the outdoors, his ATV and hanging out with his friends in the small house he lived in on Easton Valley Road across from the tennis camp. He had recently found a steady job at Agway in Littleton.

Connie McKenzie, a longtime family friend who lives down the road, said Liko Kenney was a handsome, smart, good kid. McKenzie said she was driving into town Friday evening when she saw McKay and Kenney by the side of the road about a mile from her house. At the time, McKenzie said she told her husband, "We're going to be reading about that in the paper next week."

"I was really sorry I didn't stop and say, 'Oh, can we help out or something,' " she added. McKenzie said she knew Kenney and McKay "hate one another," and that Kenney had some emotional problems.

When she saw police lights as she approached her house, she said she knew something had happened between Kenney and McKay. The routine traffic stop had turned into a chase that ended across the street from her house, where Kenney shot McKay, who stumbled across the street and collapsed on her front lawn.

"This was an accident waiting to happen," McKenzie said.

She wondered yesterday why Liko Kenney felt he needed a gun to protect himself. Another family friend, Rob Hayward, said Kenney was afraid of McKay, and Bill Kenney said he thinks that is why his nephew carried the weapon.

"McKay was going to provoke him one too many times," Bill Kenney said.

Hayward said the situation between Liko Kenney and McKay had been simmering for some time, but nobody in the town had ever looked into it. Hayward's son, who was killed in a car wreck in 2005, grew up with Liko Kenney, and Kenney was always at Hayward's house. Kenney still kept in touch with Hayward, and visited him Friday morning.

"He was a good kid," Hayward said. "He was not a thief. He was honest."

Hayward said he was also a friend of McKay and has known him since McKay joined the Franconia Police Department in 1995. Hayward said he got along well with McKay, who gave his son a break when he was pulled over several years ago. McKay was always trying to do his job and treated him with respect, but he said young people in town complained about problems with the officer.

Liko Kenney was "very, very afraid of Officer McKay," Hayward said.

"He was a good boy and I can't understand what brought it to this," he added. "Officer McKay was a good officer. Those two had their problems, but I don't understand how it got so escalated."

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By KATE DAVIDSON

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RANCONIA – The first time Liko Kenney and Cpl. Bruce McKay met on a January night four years ago was not unlike their final, and fatal, encounter Friday night.

A prosecutor's account shows a 2003 encounter between McKay and Kenney turned violent when Kenney, yelling and resisting arrest, grabbed the officer's groin and squeezed.

"Another officer witnessed McKay yell in pain and jump as a result," a statement issued yesterday by Grafton County Attorney Rick St. Hilaire said.

Kenney, a cousin of international skiing champion Bode Miller, later pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.

"The offenses could have resulted in a sentence of prison time," St. Hilaire said in his statement. "However, Officer Bruce McKay expressed his desire that compassion be shown to the defendant. He supported a short 15-day term of incarceration in the county jail, which was accepted by the court."
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A memorial to Liko Kenney has been set up outside his parents’ home in Easton. (LORNA COLQUHOUN)

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The 2003 episode bore some resemblance to the traffic stop that went awry last Friday, ending both men's lives. Both incidents began with a confrontation outside Kenney's car. Both reportedly spiraled out of control when Kenney tried to flee.

McKay died in the struggle on Route 116 last Friday. Investigators say Kenney shot him four times in the upper torso with a Colt .45, then ran him over.

A passerby who saw the shooting, Gregory Floyd, 49, of Easton, grabbed the fallen officer's gun and shot Kenney dead. State Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said Floyd was justified and would not be charged.

Court records describe several encounters between McKay and Kenney, beginning four years ago. One brief stretch in 2003 saw Kenney arrested three times. Each arrest was based on information provided by McKay.

Kenney was charged that March with two counts of marijuana possession. Those charges were eventually dismissed.

The next month, prosecutors say, McKay launched an investigation when Kenney's uncle, Bill, called police to report that Kenney was illegally off-roading on his property. The probe found Kenney in possession of a "blowdart gun,"� a violation of his bail conditions.

Kenney was placed under house arrest and was jailed that June after removing an electronic monitoring bracelet, according to St. Hilaire.
First meeting

The attorney's statement recounts what appears to be the introductory exchange between McKay and Kenney on Jan. 26, 2003, when the officer noticed Kenney's car in a secluded and snow-covered parking area in Franconia.

McKay didn't know Kenney back then, the statement says, "except by reputation."

According to St. Hilaire, Kenney told McKay he was relaxing, waiting for friends to join him from a Super Bowl party. Because it was cold out, Officer McKay returned to his cruiser to get his coat. Kenney then left his car and asked the officer his name. "Officer McKay gave Kenney his name, but Kenney was silent about his identity when asked," St. Hilaire said.

McKay's suspicions were aroused, St. Hilaire's statement says, when Kenney refused to hand over his driver's license. After a time, according to St. Hilaire's account, Kenney produced the license.

Before McKay returned to his cruiser to run a license check, he directed Kenney to remain in his car. However, Kenney got out of his vehicle, informing McKay that he did not have the right to his license.

"Officer McKay's concerns for his personal safety heightened when Kenney continued to approach the officer while Kenney was yelling, waving his hands and placing his hands in and out of his pockets," according to St. Hilaire. "Unknown to the officer at the time ... Kenney had knives in his pocket."

Police officers from Littleton and Bethlehem came to McKay's aid as the situation escalated, with Kenney yelling "These officers are trying to molest me" and "These officers are torturing me."

The three officers eventually subdued Kenney, who was trying to crawl beneath his car, and called in emergency responders.

"While struggling, Kenney reached out to the groin area of Officer McKay and gripped ... McKay applied lawful defensive force by engaging in a protective maneuver to successfully release Kenney's grip by striking the left side of Kenney's face," St. Hilaire wrote. "Kenney later denied that he assaulted the officer in the fashion described, but claimed that he could have applied a bite to the officer if he wanted."

Kenney was taken to Littleton Hospital, where he complained that his jaw was swollen and painful.

"There was no evidence of a fractured jaw,"� according to St. Hilaire.

St. Hilaire said Kenney was about to be released from the hospital when he asked the state trooper "Will you shoot me?" After the trooper replied no, Kenney said he would have to kill himself. A counselor later found Kenney competent to be released, and Kenney was booked and released to the custody of his parents.

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