2017- Just released after the suspect was convicted of 2 counts of attempted murder. Trooper Ryan Seiple made a traffic stop on the suspect for speeding at 82 MPH, then initiated a sobriety check. Corporal Seth Kelly was shot 4 times and was clinically dead, before being brought back to life at the hospital.
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Prosecutors said the video depicted the two troopers acting professionally and with restraint during a speeding stop Nov. 7 that unexpectedly turned violent. Defense attorney Janet Jackson unsuccessfully argued self-defense, describing Clary as a scared young man who was getting his first speeding ticket, then was surprised when police moved to handcuff him.
The video showed Seiple hand Clary a ticket and begin to drive away, before the motorist motioned for him to come back. As he talked more with Clary, Seiple became suspicious of whether he was driving impaired, leading to field sobriety tests and Kelly’s arrival at the scene on the side of the highway.
It was when troopers tried to arrest Clary on suspicion of driving under the influence of marijuana that chaos erupted.
A melee between Clary and the troopers lasted one minute and six seconds. The gun battle that followed, just 41 seconds.
Before he ran to his car, grabbed a gun and opened fire, Clary and the troopers grappled on the ground, Clary trying to grab their service handguns and continuing to struggle even after he was repeatedly shocked with stun guns.
The video showed Clary grabbing the handle of Kelly’s holstered gun early in the struggle, before the troopers used their Tasers or punched him.
Clary tried to grab both troopers’ pistols, and succeeded in dislodging the ammunition magazine of Seiple’s. A spare firearm of Kelly’s fell to the ground at one point, which Seiple later picked up, disarmed and threw to the side.
Seiple used his Taser on Clary twice and punched him five times, according to trial testimony. Kelly tasered Clary five times, threw nine punches and kneed him once.
According to a state police expert who examined the video frame-by-frame, Clary and Seiple shot at each other simultaneously, as Clary pointed a handgun at police.
Clary fired all six of his gun’s bullets, Kelly fired 21 rounds and Seiple fired 20 rounds.
Clary, 22, of Chestnuthill Township, was wounded in the gunfight, driving himself to Easton Hospital with injuries that included a bullet lodged in his head.
Clary could face decades in prison when he is sentenced Aug. 31 by Baratta.
08-12-2018, 10:58 AM
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