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THE FAMILY of Robert Anthony Flor, Sr., who allegedly killed one cop and wounded another and an emergency-room technician last week, wanted desperately to get him mental-health care.
Flors history of violence, mercurial temper, and alcohol and drug addiction had taken its toll on relatives and his girlfriends, whom he regularly threatened and smacked around.
He twice tried to attack cops when he was arrested once in 1987, despite being handcuffed, and again in 1994 when he tried to grab one officers gun and to hit others with an aluminum bat.
Then, last Thursday, cops say, Flors irrational rage erupted into a deadly rampage inside St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, where he had been taken for a blood-alcohol test after police stopped him on suspicion of drunken driving and of assaulting his girlfriend.
Flor, wearing a hospital gown, grabbed a .357 revolver from the holster of Newtown Borough Police Officer James J. Warunek, police said. Authorities say he fired until Waruneks partner, Brian S. Gregg, was dead and emergency-room technician Joseph Epps and Warunek were wounded. And there were no rounds left in the five-shot pistol.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/12805875.htm
Flors history of violence, mercurial temper, and alcohol and drug addiction had taken its toll on relatives and his girlfriends, whom he regularly threatened and smacked around.
He twice tried to attack cops when he was arrested once in 1987, despite being handcuffed, and again in 1994 when he tried to grab one officers gun and to hit others with an aluminum bat.
Then, last Thursday, cops say, Flors irrational rage erupted into a deadly rampage inside St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, where he had been taken for a blood-alcohol test after police stopped him on suspicion of drunken driving and of assaulting his girlfriend.
Flor, wearing a hospital gown, grabbed a .357 revolver from the holster of Newtown Borough Police Officer James J. Warunek, police said. Authorities say he fired until Waruneks partner, Brian S. Gregg, was dead and emergency-room technician Joseph Epps and Warunek were wounded. And there were no rounds left in the five-shot pistol.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/12805875.htm