Once again, thank God for conceal & carry. Will you hear about this on the liberal news media? Noooooooooo
Man Held on Bond in Texas Woman's Death
Saturday, January 22, 2005
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"¢Man Charged With Kidnapping After Discovery of Teen's Body
TYLER, Texas "” The surveillance camera captured the crime in chilling detail: A college student punches out after her night shift as a clerk at a Texas Wal-Mart (search) and walks toward her truck in the parking lot. Suddenly she is attacked by a shadowy figure in a long, dark coat and kidnapped.
On Friday, 19-year-old Megan Leann Holden (search) was found shot to death in a ditch near Stanton in West Texas, about 380 miles west of Tyler, where she had been abducted.
Police said she was killed at the hands of a man who went on a multistate crime spree before he turned up Friday at an Arizona hospital with a gunshot wound.
The suspect, Johnny Lee Williams (search), 24, was being held on a $1 million bond on an aggravated kidnapping charge from Texas, authorities said, adding that Williams was driving the woman's pickup truck, which was parked outside the hospital.
The apparent abductor "” a man in a long, dark coat "” was seen loitering around the front entrance of the store "for a good period of time," Tyler police spokesman Don Martin said. The man was also seen on tape about 90 minutes before the abduction, emerging from a bathroom and walking around inside the store.
The tape later shows Holden getting into her truck just before midnight and the man "running up behind her and either hitting her or pushing her," Martin said.
"There's no doubt this was a total stranger abduction," Tyler Police Chief Gary Swindle said.
Swindle provided little detail about the killing, but said Holden died of a gunshot wound, adding: "We have every indication that she was shot at the location where her body was found."
Authorities said Williams kept heading west as he continued his crime spree, attempting a robbery at an Arizona RV park, but was foiled by a store worker who fired the shot that landed Williams in the Arizona hospital where he was treated and then taken into custody.
"He said, 'This is robbery, I want all the money in the cash register,'" retired New York City firefighter Richie Chapman said. "And as he said that, he drew a weapon from underneath his shirt, and I drew and fired."
Because Holden was kidnapped in Tyler, Smith County District Attorney Matt Bingham said he would seek capital murder charges.
It was not known if Williams had an attorney.
Police said Williams, a preacher's son who was discharged last year after four years as a Marine, was arrested last month in Tyler on a cocaine possession charge. He was released the same day on $2,000 bond.
Police said Williams also was involved in an armed robbery at a convenience store in Texas on Thursday.
"Something happened to my son," the suspect's mother, Pat Williams, told Dallas television station KDFW, saying he had trouble adjusting to civilian life after serving in Iraq. "Some of the things that he endured I may never know. But it changed who he is and for that I'm sorry."
As word spread Friday of the Tyler Junior College student's death, about 100 people sang "Amazing Grace" and prayed during a candlelight vigil held outside the store where Holden had worked for about a month.
Martin, the police spokesman, said the victim's mother was in a wreck while driving to Tyler. She was shaken and covered with cuts and bruises after flipping her car three times, a relative said.
Stacey Sullivan, Holden's high school principal, described her as a friendly, easygoing girl who made a point of saying hello to people by name.
"Megan was just one of those students who you instantly liked," Sullivan told The Dallas Morning News in Saturday's edition. "Everyone is so upset because it was such a senseless tragedy. Why did this have to happen to her?"
Well, he couldn't have picked a better (or worse, depending on your perspective) state to commit kidnapping and felony murder, both capital crimes. He'll fry for sure, and deserves no less.
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"Something happened to my son," the suspect's mother, Pat Williams, told Dallas television station KDFW, saying he had trouble adjusting to civilian life after serving in Iraq. "Some of the things that he endured I may never know. But it changed who he is and for that I'm sorry."
And 150,000 other servicemen who saw as much worse in Iraq, and countless others who've served in combat and seen the horrors thereof, don't get out and immediately go on a crime spree culminating in the kidnapping and cold-blooded murder of a 19-year-old girl. These people are just looking for some way to transfer blame and excuse his criminal actions.
And 150,000 other servicemen who saw as much worse in Iraq, and countless others who've served in combat and seen the horrors thereof, don't get out and immediately go on a crime spree culminating in the kidnapping and cold-blooded murder of a 19-year-old girl. These people are just looking for some way to transfer blame and excuse his criminal actions.
Amen. I'm tired of these copouts for criminals. they're total BS.[:@]
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Store owner in Milwaukee just zapped some knife wielding would be robber. Luckily the communists in the city of milwaukee aren't going to charge him.
Its almost too bad that they don't charge him. The last time a Milwaukee shopkeeper was charged with shooting a badguy, it opened the door for all kinds of more favorable gun laws.
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Well, he couldn't have picked a better (or worse, depending on your perspective) state to commit kidnapping and felony murder, both capital crimes. He'll fry for sure, and deserves no less.
Nope, he won't fry. Old Sparky has been put out to pasture for years. He'll get the needle instead.
Just like Ron White says,"Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty, and we (Texas) are putting in an express lane!"
The outcome was good but if this guy had spent some time at the range it may have been better. On the other hand as a fireman perhaps that is as good as it gets. Before anybody gets on my case about this, please understand, I worked with Firemen for many years in the Coast Guard Reserve. Most of them were NYC Firemen and, God Bless them, they are the salt of the earth, I do have to get my digs in where I can however. One of the guys had been a firefighter for nearly 20 years and finally transferred to the Fire Marshalls. After a relatively short time on that job, he had to waste an arsonist that had tried to punch his ticket. They gave him a medal. His comment; "I spent 20 years pulling people from fires and saving lives with never any notice, I get on this job and kill this Bonzo and they give me a freaking medal".........Go figure.
I said the same thing about the range to my wife! I also noticed that not one of the channels mentioned how the guy was caught unless I missed it. Interesting that a gun helps a situation like this and they all zip their liberal lips.[>:]
Armed store worker shoots killer
