Posted on 10/12/2014 10:22:10 AM PDT by george76
Shane Leon Rhea is a 39-year-old ex-con with a long criminal record who’d been released from his latest prison stint in June.
Samantha Rae Monden was a 30-year-old married mother of two young children and a former nurse
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On Wednesday afternoon, the seemingly disparate group had gathered in a southeast Oklahoma City motel room. Just what brought them together in Room 167 of the Plaza Inn motel at 3200 S Prospect Ave. remains a mystery. But the result was a shoot-out that left Monden dead, two officers wounded, Rhea and Williams hospitalized in critical condition, Boen and Patterson in police custody and investigators and family members still searching for answers.
“Nobody has any idea why she was there,” said Monden’s cousin, Cassi Walker, 29, of Clayton. “We don’t know. We don’t understand. We have more questions than answers. We don’t know.”
One apparent common link is a history with illegal drugs.
Monden was fired from her job as a staff nurse at the Norman Veterans Center in May 2012, accused of taking Lortab, a powerful prescription painkiller, for personal use, according to state Board of Nursing records. She voluntarily surrendered her nursing license later that year.
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Monden’s father said Friday his daughter had been depressed in recent months. Sam Robinson said he thought his daughter was down because “she was 30 … and she was still living at home with her parents.”
Monden, her husband and their children lived in Robinson’s home in Lexington, the same home where Monden grew up.
Robinson said his daughter moved out three weeks ago.
“We kind of had a falling out,” her father said. “She got to where she would scream and cuss her mother and I … I just wasn’t going to have it.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsok.com ...
Maybe it was fate that brought them all together in that motel room.
When I read this I would have lost my bet. I would have bet it was one of Obama’s sons involved. Oh well I still have a 90% winning streak.
All the “I don’t know”s from the families, but it screams drugs to anyone else.
Here is the nugget inside the dross: “The incident began ... when police received a 911 call from a woman ... claiming she was being held in a room against her will and feared for her life. [pause for effect] Officers responded about 45 minutes later.”
It’s a good thing her situation wasn’t urgent or anything. [tag unnecessary]
One apparent common link is a history with illegal drugs.
“This was about drugs,” Joe Shaddix said. “There’s no doubt about it.”
Oh, so they do know the answer.
Ya think? A former nurse fired for stealing drugs, a known drug dealer, and a career criminal all together in a shady motel room and armed. They weren’t there selling Girl Scout cookies. Tripadvisor.com has some reviews about the motel in question.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g51560-d314223-Reviews-Plaza_Inn-Oklahoma_City_Oklahoma.html
Yeah, that's a stumper. Could it start with "D" and end with "ugs"?
Just a bunch of drug addict scum. At least they’re off the street for now.
The photo says it all.
That’s not the hair of a heavy drug user. The face is. That’s weird.
Mystery? The mystery was dispelled for me about 50 words into the article. Then again, maybe I’m another Poirot.
“Zumba instructor”? How the hell do you instruct a zumba?
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