MS - Bay St. Louis PD Officers Branden Estorffe and Steven Robin Shot & Killed During Welfare Check - Perp Deceased

[HMSHood]

I wonder if it was suicide by cop.

 

[Marysmith]

This article has a better description of what took place. Apparently cops were trying to stop her from leaving because of concern for the child. She then shot and killed one of the cops, and died from return fire from the second cop.
Sure sounds like some sort of mental breakdown (paranoia? being followed, etc).

Woman who killed two Bay St. Louis officers didn’t commit suicide, investigators now say

WLOX News has learned several new, key pieces of information about the state’s investigation into the deaths of two Bay St. Louis Police officers, and an Ocean Springs woman.

www.wlox.com

What a brutal situation. It definitely sounds like a mental breakdown and unfortunately she had access to a weapon.
I don’t imagine anything could have been done differently by LE - who would think that would happen?

 

[Gardenista]

This article has a better description of what took place. Apparently cops were trying to stop her from leaving because of concern for the child. She then shot and killed one of the cops, and died from return fire from the second cop.
Sure sounds like some sort of mental breakdown (paranoia? being followed, etc).

Woman who killed two Bay St. Louis officers didn’t commit suicide, investigators now say

WLOX News has learned several new, key pieces of information about the state’s investigation into the deaths of two Bay St. Louis Police officers, and an Ocean Springs woman.

www.wlox.com

Thanks for this. The guy who the news is interviewing has seen the body cam video and he said she clearly was having mental health issues. So sad.

 

[ellabella]

This is just absolutely heartbreaking from every single perspective. I hope that little girl is provided a lot of access to care, and therapy, and surrounded by love.

 

[jjenny]

Thanks for this. The guy who the news is interviewing has seen the body cam video and he said she clearly was having mental health issues. So sad.

I am wondering if she had a history of mental health issues or was this new? She was in her forties, which is kind of late for an onset of mental disease.

 

[Medstudies]

It’s likely she was having a mental health crisis, however I’m not going to state this as a fact. For all I know, it’s possible she really was being followed or stalked by someone intending her harm.

Women have been victims of this very thing.

All the same, this is just so tragic.

 

[jjenny]

It’s likely she was having a mental health crisis, however I’m not going to state this as a fact. For all I know, it’s possible she really was being followed or stalked by someone intending her harm.

Women have been victims of this very thing.

All the same, this is just so tragic.

So if she was being followed and not having mental health crisis, how do you explain her killing two police officers? Seems pretty clear to me she was paranoid and possibly psychotic.

 

[Medstudies]

So if she was being followed and not having mental health crisis, how do you explain her killing two police officers? Seems pretty clear she was paranoid and off her rocker.

Umm because she was scared and angry at not being believed? By not wanting her young daughter taken by strangers? Trying to get daughter away.

Like I said, it’s likely she was having a mental health crisis, but it’s not an established fact.

 

[YaYa_521]

Bay St. Louis Police Department
15 Dec 2022

Services for Sergeant Steven Robin and Officer Branden Estorffe will be held at the Bay St. Louis Community Center on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. and services will begin at 12:00 p.m. Upon conclusion of the services, both Officers will be escorted by a law enforcement procession to Garden of Memory Cemetery in Bay St. Louis.

14 Dec 2022

Thank you for your service. Rest in peace, Sgt. Robin and Officer Estorffe.

 

[jjenny]

Umm because she was scared and angry at not being believed? By not wanting her young daughter taken by strangers? Trying to get daughter away.

Like I said, it’s likely she was having a mental health crisis, but it’s not an established fact.

Killing police officers because she was scared and angry and not being believed is not a normal response.

 

[Gardenista]

This article is heartbreaking, but it has all the info

Mom told her 8-year-old girl to hand her gun she used to kill two cops

Amy Anderson fatally shot two Mississippi cops, Sergeant Steven Robin, 34, and Officer Branden Estorffe, 23, on Wednesday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[citizen_sleuth]

This article is heartbreaking, but it has all the info

Mom told her 8-year-old girl to hand her gun she used to kill two cops

Amy Anderson fatally shot two Mississippi cops, Sergeant Steven Robin, 34, and Officer Branden Estorffe, 23, on Wednesday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Within seconds the motel guest said several shots rang out, two of the shots she said were simultaneous. Another guest told DailyMail.com that he heard yelling and screaming and a women's voice saying, 'get off me, get off me' before he heard several gunshots.

After hearing the gunshots, the guest came back outside to complete silence.

'It was eerily quiet,' she told DailyMail.com. She then saw a little girl walking around the SUV. She yelled out to the young girl to 'come over here.'

But the girl – who was dressed in a red flannel nightgown – had blood splattered on her face, arms and legs and was hesitant at first.

Anderson's daughter asked the guest: 'Are you going to hurt me? Momma told me people are trying to kill us.'

After reassuring her that she wasn't going to harm her the girl walked toward the guest.

[…]

One friend told DailyMail.com she was going through a personal crisis that all came to a head on Tuesday, the day before she died.

'There was a call made Tuesday to 911 to go check on her because she had a gun and was delusional and paranoid,' the friend said.

The friend said Anderson's family were advised to call 911 to help her. the friend said.

 

[Medstudies]

Killing police officers because she was scared and angry and not being believed is not a normal response.

Of course it’s not, nor did I remotely say it was.

Of course I cannot recall ANY murder that is “normal” Ymmv

 

[jjenny]

Sounds to me like she most likely had a mental health issue for a long time. Like I mentioned before, forties would be pretty late for an onset of a mental health issue.

“Unfortunately she was a very troubled person although we loved her very much,” Sylvia Brogdon said. “She was really sick, more than we even realized, and we couldn’t help her. It was a mental illness issue. But she was a good mother and a good veterinarian. She loved her job and if you could see her children you can see she was a good mother. It’s so terrible when someone is a good person but they do something like this and then all the good is erased and people only see the bad.”

Amy Brogdon Anderson’s daughter reportedly handed her gun used to kill cops

“Momma told me to give her the gun, so I gave her the gun,” the blood-spattered child reportedly told another guest at the motel.

nypost.com

 

[Marysmith]

Sounds to me like she most likely had a mental health issue for a long time. Like I mentioned before, forties would be pretty late for an onset of a mental health issue.

“Unfortunately she was a very troubled person although we loved her very much,” Sylvia Brogdon said. “She was really sick, more than we even realized, and we couldn’t help her. It was a mental illness issue. But she was a good mother and a good veterinarian. She loved her job and if you could see her children you can see she was a good mother. It’s so terrible when someone is a good person but they do something like this and then all the good is erased and people only see the bad.”

Amy Brogdon Anderson’s daughter reportedly handed her gun used to kill cops

“Momma told me to give her the gun, so I gave her the gun,” the blood-spattered child reportedly told another guest at the motel.

nypost.com

I wouldn’t say that’s the most terrible part of it IMO…

 

[Marysmith]

Vet had threatened her husband with same gun she used to kill two cops

Cop-killing veterinarian Amy Anderson brandished a gun on her husband after learning he had been arrested for performing oral sex on a 10-year-old girl.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[jjenny]

This is just absolutely heartbreaking from every single perspective. I hope that little girl is provided a lot of access to care, and therapy, and surrounded by love.

I am not sure who is going to provide it. Her father is in prison for a sex offense (against a 10 year old) and her mother is now dead. The other two children are from a different father, which is why they weren't with her at the time of this horrible incident. But I am not sure where is the youngest child is going to end up.