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Police in San Jose, California have arrested the brother of late NFL star and U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman after a vehicle crashed into a local post office.
Richard Tillman was booked Sunday and is being held without bail, according to the Santa Clara jail website. However, no specific charge is listed.
NBC Bay Area is reporting that Richard, the brother of Pat, is accused of driving his car into a local post office while live streaming the entire collision.
Officers reportedly discovered a burning vehicle crashed into the post office on the 6500 block of Crown Boulevard at around 3am. The fire spread to the rest of the building, although no injuries were reported.
Pat Tillman famously abandoned his NFL career to join the US Army at the onset of then-President George W. Bush’s War on Terror in 2002.
After deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Tillman was killed in a friendly fire incident in April of 2004 near the Pakistan border.
He was initially reported to have been killed by enemies before investigations by the Department of Defense and Congress found he was shot in confusion by fellow American troops.
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