Kansas City, Mo. ? A man accused of shooting a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper numerous times after a weekend traffic stop apologized to the trooper’s family – but blamed society for his actions and said he was “temporarily insane” at the time of the shooting.

“I didn’t mean to shoot the man,” Tommy R. Rollins Jr. said Sunday, as he was being led back to jail from a court appearance. “It’s like I said, it was just temporary insanity. I wasn’t even thinking when I did it.

“The society’s what caused me to do what I did,” he said. “Just look at the society we live in.”

Trooper Brandon Brashear, 27, of Grain Valley, shot nine times early Saturday, remained hospitalized Monday in critical but stable condition.

Rollins, 26, of Grandview, is charged with assault on a law enforcement officer and armed criminal action. He is being held without bond.

Jackson County Prosecutor Michael Sanders, who said additional charges were possible, said Rollins’ blame was misplaced.

“Mr. Rollins can try to blame anyone he wants to blame, but the reality is, society wasn’t out there pulling that trigger,” Sanders said.

According to the video camera mounted on the dash of the trooper’s squad car, Brashear had stopped a man who was driving erratically on northbound Interstate 470 in suburban Lee’s Summit. As the trooper got out of his car, he was shot by the suspect, who then chased him into the highway median, continuing to shoot him with a 9 mm assault rifle.

Before being flown to a hospital, the wounded trooper was able to provide a description of the man who shot him.

Less than an hour later, police arrested Rollins at a pool hall in Independence. Documents filed in court supporting the charges against Rollins say he told people in the pool hall that he had just shot a police officer and asked them to call authorities.