Military Fail, Because Professionals also….Fail!

I work at a recruitment sustainment program and the REPs are required to fill out an address form every drill. This is what one REP did on his first drill today.

Kimberly Brown was relaxing in her west Fayetteville apartment with some television Friday night when she smelled smoke and saw firetrucks come through the gate into the complex’s parking lot.

In the next 30 minutes, she heard pounding footsteps, men banging on doors, water spraying the outside of her apartment building and gunfire.

Brown’s upstairs neighbor, Fort Bragg Army 1st Sgt. Joshua Paul Eisenhauer, was involved in a shootout and standoff with police. He ended up critically injured and charged with 30 felonies, including 15 counts of attempted first-degree murder.

Two police officers suffered minor injuries. One was treated at the scene, the other at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, police said.

And Brown spent the night in a Fayetteville fire station.

The incident started about 10 p.m. Friday when someone reported a fire at Austin Creek Apartments on Capeharbor Court, which is off 71st School Road between Raeford Road and Cliffdale Road, the Police Department said.

Brown said firefighters knocked on residents’ doors, asking if they had a fire in their units. She saw two go up to the third floor, she said, and then heard them talking to Eisenhauer, asking him to open the door.

He refused, Brown said.

A rush of water splashed on the outside of her second-story apartment, Brown said. The firefighters were dousing a small fire on Eisenhauer’s third-floor balcony, according to police.

The firefighters came back down, checked for damage to Brown’s apartment, and a short time later, she said, some firefighters went back upstairs, this time with police officers.

She heard them pounding on the door, and then it sounded to her as though they broke open the door.

“They opened the door, and the guy shot at them,” Brown said. She estimates she heard four shots, and then the pounding feet of men running around upstairs. Then she heard more gunshots in the hall area outside. “They were really close to my door,” she said.

She ran from her bedroom to the front door to lock it.

According to Fayetteville police spokesman Gavin MacRoberts, a shots fired report came over the police radio at 10:22 p.m.

A man in the apartment fired at the police officers and firefighters, he said. The officers and firefighters took cover and the officers returned fire, he said, and then the man retreated into the house, he said.

In the next few minutes, Brown looked out her window and saw the parking lot fill with police officers, she said. Then a firefighter came to her door.

“I was barefooted and they just grabbed me to come downstairs,” Brown said. She had no chance to grab her shoes or anything else.

Brown said she and her neighbors were taken to a safe area away from the apartment, and then to Fayetteville Fire Station 8 nearby on 71st School Road.

Forty-nine of the apartment complex residents, including nine children, were sheltered at Fire Station 8, MacRoberts said. Three Walmart stores and other local businesses, through the American Red Cross and Fayetteville Fire Department, provided them with food and baby supplies.

Back at Austin Creek, the Police Department sent its emergency response team and its crisis team negotiators. They tried to contact the man in the apartment, but there was no response, MacRoberts said.

Finally, MacRoberts said, some time after 2 a.m. Saturday, the emergency response team used explosives to blow open the front door.

A remote-controlled robot was sent inside to look around. Officers saw Eisenhauer, injured, lying on the kitchen floor.

Eisenhauer was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and then sent to UNC Hospitals for care. He was in critical but stable condition there on Saturday, but his injuries were not life-threatening, MacRoberts said.

MacRoberts could not say whether Eisenhauer’s wounds were from the police or self-inflicted.

Eisenhauer is assigned to Fort Bragg’s Warrior Transition Battalion, Fort Bragg spokesman Ben Abel said. Soldiers assigned to this battalion are there either because they are recovering from an injury or because they are caring for injured soldiers. Abel on Saturday did not know Eisenhauer’s role in the battalion.

Brown and her boyfriend, Trevor Jones, said they have lived in their apartment for a year and never knew Eisenhauer. She and Jones said they never had any problems with him.

Brown and Jones, who had been out when the incident started, returned Saturday afternoon to find bullet holes in their ceiling and floor.

Eisenhauer also is charged with six counts of felony assault on a law enforcement official with a firearm and nine counts of felony assault on a government official with a firearm.

Because the incident is an officer-involved shooting, the State Bureau of Investigation has taken over the investigation, MacRoberts said.

The two police officers who returned fire in the shootout are on administrative duty pending the outcome of the investigation, MacRoberts said. MacRoberts couldn’t say whether the two injured officers are the ones who returned fire, and the officers’ names weren’t released Saturday.

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I caught him in the act of painting my evo, he spit on me, called me a gook, and put his hands on me….this is the end result. If you listen closely No direct threats were made towards him.

Ok for some reason everyone thinks this was 2 on 1, which is totally false. The other guy didn’t show up till about 2 seconds before I started recording and I have no relations to him.

He painted “12-7 USN” on the side of my car. the anniversary for the bombing on pearl harbor and usn= United States Navy

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