charges date coordinates outcome title suspects article_title place participants verdict
murder 1998 01 12 yes 32.517443 title -83.078321 region : xxxx_type : event inline , andrew h. brannan injured , kyle w. dinkheller dead murder of kyle dinkheller andrew h. brannan murder of kyle dinkheller
 whipple crossing road laurens county , georgia , u.s. kyle w. dinkheller , andrew h. brannan guilty
murder of kyle dinkheller

on monday , january 12 , 1998 , near the end of his shift , deputy kyle dinkheller of the laurens county sheriff 's office -lrb- lcso -rrb- in the u.s. state of georgia , pulled over motorist andrew howard brannan , for speeding .
a verbal confrontation escalated to a shootout resulting in brannan murdering the deputy .
dinkheller 's murder continues to get national attention -lrb- e.g. , training in police academies -rrb- because the stop and shootout were captured on a personal video recorder deputy dinkheller had placed on his patrol car dashboard and activated when he stopped brannan .
in the shootout dinkheller was armed with his semi-automatic service handgun , brannan had an m1 carbine rifle .
dinkheller shot and wounded brannan .
despite this , brannan fired the rifle , reloaded it , fired a kill shot into dinkheller 's eye , and fled the scene in his toyota truck .
the next morning police found brannan still in laurens county , georgia , hiding in a sleeping bag beneath a camouflage tarp .
police arrested brannan for the murder of deputy kyle dinkheller .
brannan pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity , claiming in part that he suffered from ptsd stemming from his military service in vietnam .
because deputy dinkheller 's video recorded most of brannan 's actions , the jury found he murdered dinkheller in a premeditated , torturous , and cruel manner .
two years following the murder , on january 28 , 2000 , the jury found brannan guilty of murder .
on january 30 , 2000 , brannan was sentenced to death .
fifteen years later , on january 13 , 2015 , the state of georgia executed brannan by lethal injection .
