(TX) Kidnapper/murderer shot by armed citizen 01-21-05
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From: “Robert Waters”
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 6:12 AM
Subject: (TX) Kidnapper/murderer shot by armed citizen 01-21-05
NOTE: This kidnapping and murder made national news. I haven’t seen
the guy who shot the suspect interviewed yet. You’d think he’d be a
hero. Robert
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Abducted Wal-Mart Clerk’s Body Found
TYLER, Texas – A woman who was abducted from a parking lot while leaving
work at a Wal-Mart was found shot to death Friday, police said. A
suspect was in custody in Arizona.
Slideshow: Abducted Clerk Found Dead
Tyler Police Chief Gary Swindle confirmed the body of Megan Leann
Holden, a 19-year-old college student from Henderson whose kidnapping
was captured on videotape late Wednesday, was found.
“It is apparent that she has died of a gunshot wound,” he said,
declining to give details.
A surveillance videotape “shows Megan getting into her truck and the
(man) running up behind her and either hitting her or pushing her,”
police spokesman Don Martin said earlier. “Then the vehicle drives off.”
The body was found in Martin County in West Texas, Martin said.
Said Swindle: “At this point in time there’s no doubt this was a total
stranger abduction.”
Authorities in Willcox, Ariz., were holding Johnny Lee Williams, 24, for
investigation in the missing woman’s case, said Carol Capas, a
spokeswoman for the Cochise County (Ariz.) Sheriff’s Department.
He was treated at a hospital Friday for a gunshot wound, apparently
inflicted in a robbery attempt, Capas said. He was to be questioned by
Texas police and the FBI (news – web sites), who were en route to
Willcox.
Holden, a clerk at the Wal-Mart store, had clocked out at 11:43 p.m.
Wednesday, Martin said.
He and Swindle both said Williams was considered a suspect.
Capas said Williams is believed to have been shot during an attempted
robbery at an RV park northeast of Willcox. A man at the RV park told
authorities he had shot a man who had pulled a gun on him and demanded
money.
Williams was treated at Northern Cochise Community Hospital for a
gunshot wound to the shoulder, Capas said.
When the wounded man was found at the hospital, authorities determined
that the pickup truck he had been driving was linked to the Texas
kidnapping case.
The FBI has joined the investigation, Tyler police said.
Wal-Mart surveillance tape shows a man, about 20 to 25 years old, in a
long, dark coat, apparently the abductor, loitering around the front
entrance to the store “for a good period of time,” Martin said.
He was also seen on tape about 1 1/2 hours before the abduction,
emerging from a bathroom and walking around inside the store.
