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Title: Athletic director shot at Canton (TX) High School
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Tyler Morning Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.tylerpaper.com/site/news ... 4&PAG=461&dept_id=226369&rfi=6
Published: Apr 7, 2005
Author: Staff Reports
Post Date: 2005-04-07 14:40:18 by Sam Houston
Keywords: Athletic, director, Canton
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Comments: 8
CANTON - The Canton High School athletic director was the apparent victim of a shooting on campus this morning, and officials were searching for a suspect. Law enforcement officials responded to a report of shots fired Canton High School, and reports indicate Gary Joe Kinne, the Canton High athletic director and football coach, was transported by helicopter to a Tyler hospital, where his condition is unknown. Kinne was reportedly shot at the school's athletic field house in Canton. Police Chief Mike Echols said Kinne was shot in the chest. The Governor's Office of Homeland Security identified the shooter as Jeffrey Doyle Robertson, father of a Canton High School student. According to the Associated Press, the suspect fired a high-powered rifle and fled the scene in a 2004 black Dodge pickup. Canton police officials confirmed Robertson is the suspect and described him as heavily armed and dangerous. At mid-day police were searching an area around Garden Valley after a pickup was found abandoned on Farm to Market 1995. Robertson had other weapons in his truck and had made a statement that he had a hit list and would not be taken alive, said Sophie Yanez, a spokesman for the state Home-land Security office. With the suspect at large, Canton schools were immediately placed on lock-down. Six Tyler schools were also placed on low-level lockdown as a precautionary meas-ure, Tyler Independent School District officials. Those schools were John Tyler High School, Stewart Middle School, Boulter Middle School, and Dixie, Orr and Peete ele-mentaries. Police Chief Echols said Robertson was an original member of the "Canton Mafia" and had been warned off all school premises and not to attend any school functions. Officers were originally told that the suspect may be headed toward Tyler where he has friends. Later, police issued a statewide alert. According to the Tyler Police Department spokesman Don Martin, Robertson is driv-ing a 2004 black Dodge pickup with license plate 64N XW1. Kinne is a former Baylor linebacker who signed as a free agent with the Philadelphia Eagles out of Baylor and also played one year in the old World League for the Orlando Thunder. His post at Canton began two years ago, his first as head coach, after spending six years at Mesquite High School. He also spent one year at Allen and three at Kaufman. Kinne also has family ties to Tyler. His father, Gary Kinne Sr., played on Tyler Junior College's national championship football team. His mother, Nancy, was an Apache Belle.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Smoaky.com message board thread about this topic As of now, the coach is in critical, but stable condition. He's got to be pretty damned tough to take an AK round in the chest at relatively close range and remain alive.
I guess a local would know what that means.
I have no clue myself. I'm not close enough to Canton for it to be local. They have already caught the perp. He was in the woods near Lindale (near I-20 northwest of Tyler in Smith County) and talking with someone on a cell phone. Of course, that left him open to being tracked to within a couple of feet by GPS. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, although I read on Smoaky.com that he is a successful Dallas businessman. But then so is "Badeye" wherever he is, as he kept reminding everyone.
Robertson worked for Dallas Plumbing Co. for six years, leaving in 2002 to start his own business with a partner, company President John Downs said. Downs described Robertson as a good air-conditioning project manager and a devoted father who enjoyed taking his son hunting and fishing. But Downs said he heard about Robertson getting into fights in his hometown. "He just seemed to be a good person, other than this temper that he had, which we never personally saw," Downs said. When Downs last saw Robertson, about six months ago, he said Robertson had a broken leg, bruises and scrapes from a road-rage fight on the side of a highway. "The last conversation that I had with him was that he really needed to learn how to control his temper or he was going to get hurt worse than that, but it didn't work," Downs said.
Even a casual lurker of TOS4 would know that. Robertson is no Eric Rudolph. My next thought turns to whether Robertson is a transplanted yankee or something.
The news said they took him out of the woods on a stretcher. Any idea what his injuries were?
Not sure. I have heard he had slashed his wrists. There were other reports that a law enforcement officer had shot him.
http://www.tylerpaper.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14302095&BRD=1994&PAG=461&dept_id=226369&rfi=6 Update on the shooting of the coach is in link above. It seems that the perp used a handgun rather than an AK-47 as first reported. It appears to me that the perp badly wanted to die and is probably really pissed off at this point that someone didn't take him out.
East Texas is a very fanatical area for high school sports, especially football.
#2. To: Sam Houston (#0)
Robertson was an original member of the "Canton Mafia"
#3. To: CWRWinger (#2)
#4. To: Sam Houston (#3)
From an AP article:
#5. To: Sam Houston (#3)
Of course, that left him open to being tracked to within a couple of feet by GPS.
#6. To: Sam Houston (#3)
#7. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#6)
#8. To: All (#7)
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