Trial to begin (finally) in death of Officer Anthony Holly
Laurie Roberts, columnist | azcentral.com
Glendale Officer Anthony Holly ................. Bryan Hulsey
Nancy Bonner has waited for this day for seven years.
Bryan Hulsey has done everything he could to make sure that this day never comes.
On Monday morning, Hulsey, at long last, will stand trial for the murder of Bonner's youngest son, Glendale Officer Anthony Holly.
Holly and Hulsey were about as different as two men can be.
Tony Holly was an easygoing guy, the sort of man who lit up a room and loved kids. After high school, he joined the Air Force and in his spare time, he volunteered as a Big Brother. After his military service, he became a Glendale police officer in 2005. While many people had expected him to take a job in the aviation industry, he told them he wasn't through serving.
One of his last calls was to the home of an infant not breathing. The child was obviously dead but the mother begged Officer Holly to save her baby. He continued CPR on that dead child until help could arrive.
Hulsey, meanwhile, had a rap sheet dating back 14 years, to when he was 19. He was a one-man crime wave, a drug addict who spent time behind bars for an assortment of felonies, including burglary, auto theft and destruction of property. By 2007, he was out of prison and wanted yet again, this time for weapons and drug violations.
At 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 19, 2007, Presidents Day, Hulsey, then 33, was a passenger in a car stopped for a routine traffic violation. When asked to get out of the car, he came out shooting. Officer Holly was 24 years old.
Nine days later, a grand jury charged Hulsey with first-degree murder but he's managed to avoid trial for more than seven years. His is the oldest continually active case yet to be tried in Maricopa County as he has played the system like a Stradivarius.
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