Posted on 12/11/2022 3:55:03 AM PST by robowombat
Deputy in California slayings killed self with service gun yesterday Authorities say that a Virginia sheriff's deputy who police say traveled to California to kill several family members of a 15-year-old girl he tried to sexually extort online killed himself with a government-issued firearm.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff’s deputy who police say traveled to California to kill three family members of a 15-year-old girl he tried to sexually extort online killed himself with a government-issued firearm, authorities said Saturday.
Austin Lee Edwards, 28, drove across the country and on Nov. 25 killed the girl’s mother and grandparents and set fire to their home in Riverside, a city about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.
That same day, Edwards died by suicide during a shootout with San Bernardino sheriff’s deputies. The teenage girl was rescued.
“Our detectives determined the gun used was Edwards’ department-issued semi-automatic service pistol,” sheriff’s spokeswoman Gloria Huerta said in a statement.
The Riverside Police Department, which is investigating the deaths of the girl’s family members, has not said how they were killed.
Edwards, a resident of North Chesterfield, Virginia, appears to have posed online as a 17-year-old boy to engage in a romantic relationship with the girl and obtain her personal information by deceiving her with a false identity, known as “catfishing,” police said.
Authorities said the girl stopped communicating with him after he asked her to send him nude photos of herself.
Edwards was a former Virginia state trooper and was a sheriff’s deputy in Washington County, Virginia, at the time of the killings.
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To add to the “sinister”, there’s an additional story that cops from a different district got to the dead guy’s home and removed things from it the day before the official search. I’m betting there was a ring of these fellows trafficking girls.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-12-09/coworkers-catfishing-cop-employer-search-home
His kink seems to have been known by other officers.
Well the fires of HELL are burning hot!!
That’s not a kink, that’s a mental illness.
You say tomato they say tomotto.
Re: 2 - The LEOs/others that removed the vehicle and items from inside the the house tampered with a crime scene. That may be a felony in Virginia (need to check). Either way, someone is in trouble.
It’s Virginia. “Crooked as a dog’s hind leg” is a good description of how things work in this state.
Suicide by Cop.
....mental illness.... probably so....this is a snippet from another related article....”human error...” yeah...
(BTW, it is “Hen-RYE-co” County for those not familiar with the central Virginia region....”
...”...Edwards’ tenure as a police officer was brief. He entered the Virginia State Police Academy on July 6, 2021, and after he graduated on Jan. 21 of this year, he was assigned to Henrico County, in the Richmond division.
He resigned from the Virginia State Police on Oct. 28. A Virginia State Police spokesperson told The Times on Wednesday that “human error” in the agency’s background check process led to Edwards’ hiring....”
Hey...where are all the “back the blue” useful idiots and the “only government officials are trained and trustworthy with firearms” useful idiots?
Well, that escalated quickly.
***killed himself with a government-issued firearm***
Using the logic of the Democrats, this means all cops should be disarmed like in Britain.
Slow coupla weeks at the Sheriff’s dept?
Hey. Wait a minute. This guy’s a WHAKO!
And the difference between a kink and illness is what? Just a matter of degree?
He was a pedophile. Minors cannot consent and touching one should earn a death sentence. Glad he is gone. The earth is a better place.
Kink is you liking where your wife puts her finger when you are engaged in procreation. Your wife asking you to tie her hands to the bedpost with silk to spice things up is kink. Pedo is just sick. It’s another example of why words are important. Constantly reinforcing that there is legitimacy in pedophilia by associating it as a mere “kink” or calling them “minor attracted” is a tactic used by MSM and the current powers that be. That was the point I was trying to make.
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