Press conference on potential release of convicted cop-shooter

On New Year’s Eve in 1994, Kansas City Police Department officers Patrick Brown and Larry Schoen spotted 25-year-old Aquil and 13-year-old Jason Rushing near 37th and Prospect and pulled over to conduct a pedestrian check. “We just wanted to ask some questions,” Brown said at the press conference. “He would have been on his way in five minutes.”

Instead, Aquil ran. When the officers pursued him on foot, he ducked around a building and waited. Brown reached him first. Aquil turned and fired the .9 milimeter gun he’d been concealing under his jacket, hitting Brown in the chest at close range. Aquil then fired at Schoen, hitting him in the right hip and left thigh. Both officers returned fire, and Aquil fell in the street at 37th and Prospect, where he was arrested by officers responding to the scene.

Both officers recovered from their injuries. Schoen is still with the KCPD. Brown, who left the force five years after the incident, told the assembled reporters and photographers, “I believe [Aquil’s] motive was to kill a police officer that night, or someone else.”