Paragraphs are our friend....
Posted on 01/22/2005 4:24:07 PM PST by ccbrin
ASSOCIATED PRESS Saturday, January 22, 2005 TYLER -- A woman whose abduction was captured on videotape as she was leaving work at a Wal-Mart in Tyler on Wednesday was found shot to death Friday, hundreds of miles away, police said. A suspect was in custody Friday after police said he turned up at an Arizona hospital with a gunshot wound and authorities realized the woman's truck was parked outside. The body of Megan Leann Holden, a 19-year-old college student from Chandler, near Tyler, was found in a ditch alongside Interstate 20 on Friday morning near Stanton, police said. Stanton is near Midland in West Texas, about 380 miles west of Tyler. Her body was identified with a photograph that was faxed from Tyler police to West Texas authorities. "It is apparent that she has died of a gunshot wound," Tyler Police Chief Gary Swindle said. "We can't release any specific information at this time as to where she was shot or how many times, but we have every indication that she was shot at the location where her body was found." He said that it appeared to be a "total stranger abduction." A Wal-Mart surveillance videotape from late Wednesday "shows Megan getting into her truck and the (man) running up behind her and either hitting her or pushing her," police spokesman Don Martin said. Johnny Lee Williams, 24, was taken into custody in Willcox, Ariz., more than 850 miles from Tyler, said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman for the Cochise County sheriff's department. Williams was treated at a hospital Friday for a gunshot wound, apparently inflicted in a robbery attempt at an RV park northeast of Willcox, Capas said. He was turned over to FBI custody Friday afternoon. Capas and Swindle both said Williams was considered a suspect in the abduction and shooting. Tyler police said Williams also was involved in an armed robbery at a convenience store in Odessa on Thursday night. After viewing the store's video surveillance, Odessa police determined it was Williams. Further details were not available. Police said Williams, who was honorably discharged last year after four years as a Marine, was arrested last month in Tyler on a cocaine possession charge. He was released from the Smith County Jail the same day on $2,000 bond. A worker at the Arizona RV park told authorities he had shot a man who had pulled a gun on him and demanded money. "He said, 'This is robbery, I want all the money in the cash register,' " RV worker Richie Chapman recalled the gunman as saying. "And as he said that, he drew a weapon from underneath his shirt, and I drew and fired. If he had gotten a shot off, I would have been dead." Capas said that shooting was under investigation but charges were unlikely. When the wounded man was found at the hospital, authorities determined that the pickup he had been driving was linked to the Texas kidnapping case. Holden, a student at Tyler Junior College, was abducted after clocking out from the Tyler store at 11:43 p.m. Wednesday, Martin said. The surveillance tape shows a man, about 20 to 25 years old, in a long, dark coat, apparently the abductor, loitering around the front entrance to the store "for a good period of time," Martin said.
And if this was the UK, then the RV park manager WOULD be dead - because he wouldn't have been allowed to have a gun.
'Williams, who was honorably discharged last year after four years as a Marine'
get ready, here it comes.....
Paragraphs are our friend....
Stressed out over Iraq, no doubt... Obviously, this was Bush's fault.
There was a news report that he was dishonorably discharged for smoking weed.
"'Williams, who was honorably discharged last year after four years as a Marine'"
Like that has anything to do with anything.
Why not say; "Williams, who attended public school. . ."
There was a news report that he was dishonorably discharged for smoking weed
If he's still a Marine, that means his punishment could be much harsher.
***'Williams, who was honorably discharged last year after four years as a Marine'
get ready, here it comes.....***
Remember the Bill Mauldin cartoon after WW11?
A discharged soldier is reading the paper. The front page yells "SOLDIER SLAPS AUNT".
The man says to his wife..."Here is a story about a tripple ax murder on page six. No GIs involved."
Megan could not carry a handgun. She was only 19. According to our feral government, people under 21 have no need of self defense.
That's sick.
The fact that he was a marine stunned me,,usually those guys are top drawer.
A woman whose abduction was captured on videotape as she was leaving work at a Wal-Mart in Tyler on Wednesday was found shot to death Friday, hundreds of miles away, police said. A suspect was in custody Friday after police said he turned up at an Arizona hospital with a gunshot wound and authorities realized the woman's truck was parked outside.
The body of Megan Leann Holden, a 19-year-old college student from Chandler, near Tyler, was found in a ditch alongside Interstate 20 on Friday morning near Stanton, police said. Stanton is near Midland in West Texas, about 380 miles west of Tyler. Her body was identified with a photograph that was faxed from Tyler police to West Texas authorities. "It is apparent that she has died of a gunshot wound," Tyler Police Chief Gary Swindle said. "We can't release any specific information at this time as to where she was shot or how many times, but we have every indication that she was shot at the location where her body was found." He said that it appeared to be a "total stranger abduction."
A Wal-Mart surveillance videotape from late Wednesday "shows Megan getting into her truck and the (man) running up behind her and either hitting her or pushing her," police spokesman Don Martin said. Johnny Lee Williams, 24, was taken into custody in Willcox, Ariz., more than 850 miles from Tyler, said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman for the Cochise County sheriff's department. Williams was treated at a hospital Friday for a gunshot wound, apparently inflicted in a robbery attempt at an RV park northeast of Willcox, Capas said. He was turned over to FBI custody Friday afternoon.
Capas and Swindle both said Williams was considered a suspect in the abduction and shooting. Tyler police said Williams also was involved in an armed robbery at a convenience store in Odessa on Thursday night. After viewing the store's video surveillance, Odessa police determined it was Williams. Further details were not available. Police said Williams, who was honorably discharged last year after four years as a Marine, was arrested last month in Tyler on a cocaine possession charge. He was released from the Smith County Jail the same day on $2,000 bond.
A worker at the Arizona RV park told authorities he had shot a man who had pulled a gun on him and demanded money. "He said, 'This is robbery, I want all the money in the cash register,' " RV worker Richie Chapman recalled the gunman as saying. "And as he said that, he drew a weapon from underneath his shirt, and I drew and fired. If he had gotten a shot off, I would have been dead." Capas said that shooting was under investigation but charges were unlikely. When the wounded man was found at the hospital, authorities determined that the pickup he had been driving was linked to the Texas kidnapping case.
Holden, a student at Tyler Junior College, was abducted after clocking out from the Tyler store at 11:43 p.m. Wednesday, Martin said. The surveillance tape shows a man, about 20 to 25 years old, in a long, dark coat, apparently the abductor, loitering around the front entrance to the store "for a good period of time," Martin said.
Wal-Mart has a corporate "no guns" policy. Gee, what a coincidence that their employees keep getting attacked.
'Capas said that shooting was under investigation but charges were unlikely."
I shoud hope so.
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