Meanwhile back in the real world this guy was on a path to kill someone if he hadn't been stopped first.
"In text messages found on Hammond's cellphone, Hammond said he was "in full outlaw mode" and intended to "go out shooting," Adams said in the letter. He also said he had run several police checkpoints in previous weeks, including one June 23 in Clemson, S.C., that Clemson city police verified.
"Almost every text message deals with Hammond selling drugs to multiple individuals including marijuana, acid, cocaine and prescription pills," she wrote. "The text messages indicate Hammond was actively evading arrest by flight and evading law enforcement due to his outstanding warrant.
"Just four days prior to his death Hammond refers to himself as a 'criminal' and says he is 'Like an animal now,' " Adams wrote. "Hammond also talks about being a member of a gang and even goes so far as to say that police will 'just take me one day.' "