COBB COUNTY, Ga. -- The man police say shot and killed two New York City police officers had several run-ins with police, including encounters in metro Atlanta.
Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, walked up to the officers in New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood Saturday and shot them in the head and upper body. Brinsley then ran inside a subway station and fatally shot himself in the head, police said.
Details from a 2011 incident in Cobb County paint a picture of Brinsley as reckless criminal with a history of resisting police.
According to the incident report, on June 6, 2011, Cobb County police were called to an apartment complex. A woman said Brinsley, her sister's then-boyfriend, was demanding to come inside, the report says.
"After she refused to open the door, she heard what sounded like a gunshot," the report states.
Police responded and found Brinsley leaving the complex. They told him not to move, but Brinsley ran.
"As we were chasing the subject he threw several items out of his pockets on to the ground," the report states.
After a long foot chase, Brinsley stopped.
"The subject still refused to show his right hand so I deployed my Taser," the officer stated in the report.
After Brinsley was Tased, an officer recovered a gun they said Brinsely used to shoot a hole in to the car of the woman he was visiting. The report says, upon arrest, Brinsley was worried about going to jail.
"The subject asked me several questions including the amount of jail time he was facing," the report states.
The reports also say Brinsley smuggled a phone in to jail and posted this message on Facebook, "I'm locked up right now in Cobb County and I'm looking at some serious time, please write if you ever cared about me...thank you and sorry."
Police said that the gun Brinsley threw down a drainage ditch while running from police was stolen.
Brinsley was also a convicted felon at that time.
