An Upstanding Citizen

Skip Brinkley was a wholesome young man. With sandy blond hair, green eyes, and a goatee, Skip was quite handsome. He had earned the respect of most people who knew him. Skip Brinkley was a U.S. Army veteran; he served in the Infantry in Iraq from 2004 to 2006. Prior to that, he had undergone law enforcement training in North Carolina and served as a police officer from 2001 to 2002. Many local girls would have liked to snag Skip Brinkley for themselves, but he was a family man living with his fiancé and two kids.

On the night of September 19, 2008, police responded to an emergency hang-up call coming from Lenoir, NC. The 24-year-old Deputy Adam William Klutz was the first to arrive. As the officer was getting out of his patrol car, he was shot in the head and instantly killed.
Brinkley's fiancee and her two children were in the house at the time of the shooting, but they were not harmed. She explained that she called the police because of an earlier domestic disturbance. Apparently, Brinkley presented quite a different persona behind closed doors. Now he was gone.

Police forces from local, state and federal agencies combined their efforts in search of the killer. For three days, hundreds of officers fruitlessly raked through the surrounding areas around the clock. Then, on September 24, they found Brinkley's dead body on his 37-acre property, about a half mile from his home. He had turned the gun on himself.

The above account is based on a true story. Background checks protect peaceful citizens from being deceived and/or harmed by a cunning criminal.