Man claiming cop killing arrested

November 26, 2002


Calif. Cop - Slay Suspect Caught in N.H.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:55 a.m. ET


CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A man suspected of killing a police officer in California last week was arrested Tuesday morning after a standoff in a downtown hotel, police said.

An officer at the scene said Andrew McCrae, 23, suspected of fatally shooting a Red Bluff, Calif., officer a week ago, was arrested without incident at the Holiday Inn around 10 a.m.

McCrae is accused of fatally shooting Officer David Mobilio in Red Bluff, Calif., on Nov. 19 while Mobilio, 31, was putting gas in his cruiser.

Police said the suspect identified himself on a San Francisco news Web site.

In one of two letters posted on the site Monday by a man identifying himself as McCrae, the writer claims he shot and killed the officer to protest ``police-state tactics'' and corporate irresponsibility.

The writer claims he is immune from prosecution because he incorporated himself as a protest against corporations who ``murder thousands of people each year.'' Corporations shield people from personal liability for a corporation's debts.

Gov. Gray Davis was to attend a memorial service for Mobilio in Red Bluff Tuesday.