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02/11 11:53 CST Late NFL star Pat Tillman's brother pleads guilty to setting
fire at California post office
Late NFL star Pat Tillman's brother pleads guilty to setting fire at California
post office
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) --- The youngest brother of late NFL star-turned-soldier
Pat Tillman pleaded guilty this week to setting fire to a San Jose, California,
post office last summer.
Richard Tillman, 44, was arrested on July 20 after he rammed a car into the
post office in a strip mall and then set the vehicle ablaze. The lobby of the
building went up in flames. Nobody was hurt.
Tillman, of San Jose, on Monday entered a guilty plea in federal court to
malicious destruction of government property.
"In pleading guilty, Tillman admitted that he intentionally set the fire in
order to ?make a point to the United States government,'" the U.S. Attorney's
Office for the Northern District of California said in a statement.
Prosecutors didn't say what point Tillman was trying to make.
U.S. Postal Inspector Shannon Roark said in July that Tillman told officers at
the scene he had livestreamed the incident on YouTube.
Tillman, who remains in federal custody, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison
and a $250,000 fine when he's sentenced on April 27.
After the crash, his brother Kevin Tillman said in a statement that Richard
Tillman had been suffering from "severe mental health issues" for many years,
and the family was relieved no one was hurt.
Pat Tillman left the Arizona Cardinals to join the military after 9/11 and was
killed in Afghanistan in 2004 at age 27. His family is from the San Jose area.
Kevin Tillman also left his Major League Baseball career with the Anaheim
Angels to serve in the military.
