Five people were found dead in Alabama on Saturday, including a pregnant woman, in connection to a domestic dispute.
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According to Capt. Paul Burch of the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, another baby, this time, four-months-old was found unharmed inside the house. Both were later found alive.
Police have not released a motive for the slayings.
Derrick Dearman is now charged with six counts of capital murder.
Dearman was booked at the Greene County jail and held for questioning. Dearman, accompanied by his father, then turned himself in to the Greene County Sheriff’s Department in MS, a police statement said.
Greene County Sheriff Stanley McLeod released a statement Monday that noted that Derrick Dearman said while surrendering that he “had killed someone or more than one person” in Citronelle, Alabama. The sheriff’s office is about 20 miles west of Citronelle.
Some of the pills taken from Prince’s estate in Paisley Park after his death were counterfeit drugs that actually contained fentanyl – a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, an official close to the investigation said Sunday. “It’s just such an very bad, terrible tragedy”.
The victims are Robert Lee Brown, 26; Chelsea Marie Reed, 22; Justin Kaleb Reed, 23; Joseph Adam Turner, 26; Shannon Melissa Randall, 35.
Alabama police now have the man connected to killing five people Sunday, including a couple with ties to Fresno. That woman has been identified as 24-year-old Laneta Lester, who had been hiding at the home from Dearman, her boyfriend.
Dearman had earlier stalked the house in Citronelle, Alabama that Lester had fled to before the attack, but had left the area when someone in the house called police, according to officials. “Sad to say, one of the females was about five months pregnant”.
Speaking to reporters, Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich said that in her 20-year career as a prosecutor, she had never encountered a crime “where there were five people who were brutally and viciously murdered, and that’s what we have here”. After the killings, Dearman forced Lester and the three-month-old infant – the child of the one of the murder victims – into a vehicle. However, when they arrived at his father’s house, Dearman turned Lester and the baby free.
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“He always had a temper, especially when he doesn’t get his way”, said Crystal.
