Hey Randy, welcome to the Site.
I put up that story based on the initial information I got from Metro. Here is what I have heard, as of tonight, please correct whatever you see as wrong.
1. Day one the killer (perhaps also his accomplice) was charged with a crime resulting from a domestic violence situation and was released from custody.
The killer and his accomplice were drug dealers, and upon being released, some drugs were sold.
2. Day two, the killer and his accomplice purchased three guns. He lied on his form 4473, and TBI did not have a record of his recent arrest.
Later that day, the killer went to his home and killed his wife, after the accomplice had helped him kick in the door.
Later that day, the accomplice went to his girlfriend's (and mother of 2 of his children) home, and went in to kill her, while the original killer waited in his car.
One of the accomplice's kids called 911 and reported the domestic. The officer happened to be close by and he showed up quickly after the call. While walking across the parking lot, the officer was somehow made to turn his attention to the killer, who shot him in the face.
The killer then went into the home and told the accomplice what happened. They both left the scene, driving right past two patrol cars who were responding to the domestic call .. and did not know that the first officer had been shot, or even that he was on the scene.
Later that day the accomplice turned himself in, and the killer was found asleep in his vehicle at a mall about 40 miles from where the officer was killed, with the murder weapon on his lap.
Apparently, Their plan was to sell the drugs, kill the women who had scorned them and then go on a bank robbing spree, and likely be killed in the process of it all. The killer was White and the Accomplice was black.
I heard 90% of that ealier this evening.
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-Essayons
[This message has been edited by Rob (edited May 25, 1999).]
