State of Tennessee Spared Expensive Court Costs

Because this punk who killed one police officer and wounded another took his own life when cornered. The only good thing he has ever done in his miserable life it would appear.

A man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy and wounding another officer died Friday morning after authorities say he shot himself at the end of a daylong manhunt.

Kermit Bryson, 29, died around 12:30 a.m. at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, said David Trillet, a supervisor at the hospital.

This guy really has some great character references too.

"He's not a bad guy. He had to freak out in some way," said Tim D. Sanders, 30, before authorities found Bryson.

Sanders said he and Bryson spent weekends in jail together last summer and that the slain deputy was the jailer. He said Tate and Bryson were friendly.

Bryson's criminal record includes convictions for theft, burglary and a jail escape in 2001.

Here in Atlanta we are still trying to bring this guy Brian Nichols to trial after he escaped police custody, grabbed a gun and killed a judge, a court reporter, a sheriff's deputy and later a customs enforcement agent. That was three years ago!

Of course this guy did father a child some time ago but to nobody's surprise the marriage only lasted as long as the pregnancy and his mother in law is less then impressed with him.

"I saw it on TV and I just couldn't believe it," Crowe, a 57-year-old from Dayton, said in a phone interview Thursday. "I expected him to steal, do dope and stuff like that, but I never thought he would kill someone."

I am glad he spared the people of Tennessee a long protracted and probably expensive court case and has assumed room temperature.