Investigators say 27-year-old Derrick Dearman of Leakesville, Mississippi, faces six counts of capital murder one count for each of the victims plus an additional murder charged since one of the victims was pregnant.
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When asked why he went to the home located off Jim Platt Road early Saturday morning, Dearman’s response was, “Drugs making me think things that was not really there happening, happening”.
Photo taken of the home where five people were found dead.
Mobile County sheriff’s Capt. Paul Burch said Dearman attacked the victims as they slept and abducted his estranged girlfriend and an infant from the home.
Jail Warden Trey Oliver said Dearman will be kept in isolation for his protection, and the safety of other inmates.
Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran says Derrick Dearman overpowered the victims in the ax attacks, and then used guns from inside the house to shoot them.
Officials say that while Lester was giving her account of what happened to authorities, Dearman, along with his father, walked into the Greene County Sheriff’s office to turn himself in.
Almost a week-long run of illegal drug use is what mass murder suspect Derrick Ryan Dearman says drove him to kill five people and one unborn child. The victims included a pregnant woman and her unborn child.
Dearman also said that he was high and, “barely remember anything”.
Dearman, 27, of 108 Waynes Avenue in Leakesville, Miss., told law enforcement officers he had been using methamphetamines for several days prior to entering a home near Citronelle on August 21 to kill five family members and kidnap his girlfriend and the three-month-old child of one of his victims.
Wearing shackles and escorted by law enforcement officers as he arrived in Mobile, Alabama, from MS, where he surrendered to authorities, Derrick Dearman said he was on methamphetamine when he went to the house the night of the killing.
Authorities say a MS man will be charged with murder in the slayings.
Alabama court records do not indicate whether Dearman, of Leakesville, Mississippi, has a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
About 1 a.m. Saturday, someone inside the home called 911 and reported that Dearman was on the property, authorities said in a statement.
Turner was Lester’s brother and had let her stay at the house, which all the victims shared, McDaniel and Sullivan said.
Turner and Randall were the homeowners.
“I’d always get on my horse and ride down there bareback”, Madison said.
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Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich told reporters near the scene that in her 20-year career as a prosecutor, she’s never encountered a crime “where there were five people who were brutally and viciously murdered, and that’s what we have here”. “Her step-aunt Randall would say, “‘Be careful because you’re already got a hurt knee.’ I’d say, ‘OK, Shan-Shan.’ That’s what I called her”. (Mobile County Sheriff’s Office) Chelsea Randall Reed and Justin Reed. Citronelle police came to the house, but Dearman had left before officers arrived, sheriff’s officials said. The three drove to the MS home of Dearman’s father.
