Story Created:
May 1, 2008 at 6:26 PM CDT
Story Updated:
May 2, 2008 at 5:25 PM CDT
37 year old Brandon Wayne Robertson the suspect in the fatal shooting of a DPS trooper Tuesday night,.
He was found dead of a self-inflicted gun wound off of CR 1347 near Morris Lake in Cass County around 5 p.m. Thursday.
An accomplice, Jennifer Lynne Petrick, 36, was taken into custody at the scene. Petrick was Robertson's girlfriend. She is now in the hands of Cass County Jail.
Authorities had tracked Robertson through information gained from calls he made to a local 911 center as well as through investigative tactics and many calls to a tip line that had been set up to give a $30,000 reward.
Robertson killed himself as authorities closed in on his location.
Various local law enforcement agencies assisted DPS in the search for Robertson.
Trooper James Scott Burns, 39, was shot and killed Tuesday by a driver he had stopped near the intersection of FM 729 and FM 1969, northeast of Lake of the Pines in Marion County.