Valentine’s ex-wife was critically injured.
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Norlina Police Chief Taylor Bartholomew said he talked to Earl Valentine on the phone, and he admitted to shooting his son and his ex-wife, Keisha Valentine, with a 9 mm handgun around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Valentine is accused of kicking in the back door of his ex-wife’s Norlina, North Carolina home early Tuesday morning and shooting her in the chest.
Bartholomew said there was “a long, long history of domestic violence” and that Keisha Valentine and her son had moved to Norlina to get away from Earl Valentine. “She drug me all the way down to nothing”, Valentine said in the video.
When his son showed up, he shot him point blank. He said, “I love my wife, but she deserved what she had coming”. “I don’t feel no remorse for what I did”.
Bartholomew said he has been in contact with Earl Valentine by phone, but his phone has now been turned off. He later died from his injuries, but his mother remains alive in critical condition at a local hospital. “And for me and my guys, it’s hard for us to wrap our brain around that, hurting your own child like that”.
In the video, Valentine says he’s “been very sick for months”. “We’re pretty angry about it especially the way he’s acting over it”, he said.
Officials in Richmond are on alert because Valentine’s ex-wife has family in the area.
Police are searching the entire state for Valentine as well as parts of SC and Virginia.
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Police are protecting the rest of Valentine’s family while they hunt for the on-the-lam killer.
