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Thursday 2 March 2017

Mississippi suspect’s mayhem-fueled run ends in fiery crash

JEFF AMY break up with him and he detection and capture.”
Associated Press wasn’t going to have it,” While not elaborating, he
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — A Bailey said. “He wasn’t go- said Deaton had worked in
trail of mayhem that be- ing to let her go. I think he a cellphone store and that
gan last week in a subur- went into a fit of rage. I be- could have helped him
ban Mississippi apartment lieve he killed her first, and evade police.
ended Wednesday morn- after that, everything went Police began chasing a
ing when a stolen SUV downhill.” Honda Accord before
chased by police flipped in Neshoba County Sheriff dawn Wednesday in south-
a fiery crash in a rural Kan- Tommy Waddell said he ern Kansas. Pratt Police Sgt.
sas field. believes Deaton shot and Edward Gimpel said Dea-
In between, authorities sus- killed 69-year-old Brenda ton evaded a roadblock
pect 28-year-old Alex Dea- Pinter, who had gone to at the edge of that town
ton killed two people, shot clean Dixon Baptist Church around 4:30 Wednesday
three others and stole four south of Philadelphia. morning.
vehicles. Waddell said video shows While police kept looking
“He’s led us on quite the a white SUV that matches for him, Gimpel says Dea-
chase the last few days the one Deaton stole from ton ran to a Kwik Shop,
and I think everybody here Robinson entering the shot the clerk, and stole a
is happy he’s in custody,” church parking lot. He said black Cadillac vehicle.
Mississippi Department of Deaton later sent a text Gimpel said the store clerk,
Public Safety Commission- This Kansas Highway Patrol photograph provided by the confessing to a murder in whom he didn’t name,
er Marshall Fisher said at a Ellsworth County, Kan., Sheriff’s Office shows 28-year-old Alex a church, and said officials was flown to a Wichita
news conference Wednes- Deaton. Deaton, accused of killing two in Mississippi, was have collected physical hospital. Maria Loving,
day. arrested in Kansas after police ran a stolen SUV off the road in evidence including a bul- a spokeswoman for Via
Officials in Mississippi, Kan- a fiery crash Wednesday, March 1, 2017. let. Christi Hospital in Wichita,
(Ellsworth County SO via AP)
sas and New Mexico are Bailey said Deaton sent a said the clerk is in critical
investigating Deaton, al- will seek to extradite Dea- the apartment of 30-year- series of texts before going condition Wednesday but
though Mississippi authori- ton from Ellsworth County, old Heather Robinson in silent Saturday. “A lot of she could not release the
ties appear likely to get first Kansas, where he is jailed. Brandon, Mississippi. Bailey them were jumbled, unin- man’s name.
crack at prosecuting him “So far, everybody is want- said he believes Deaton telligible, but some of them Gimpel said Pratt police
because both the killings ing to release him to us to strangled Robinson after did say some incriminating will seek charges against
he’s being investigated come back here; and we the nurse told Deaton she things,” the Rankin County Deaton there.
for happened there. Fisher want that also,” Bailey said. wanted to break off their sheriff said. The chase resumed on In-
and Rankin County Sheriff Authorities say Deaton’s relationship. Bailey said Deaton did terstate 70 near Dorrance,
Brian Bailey said Mississippi spree began Feb. 22 at “I believe she was trying to “specific things to avoid when authorities tried to
stop a vehicle matching
Deputy: the description of the one
stolen from the conve-
4 children dead, 3 people injured in Oregon fire nience store, Kansas High-
way Patrol trooper Tod
Hileman said.
GILLIAN FLACCUS the decline of the timber in Riddle.” Grief counselors 13, were transported to The trooper said authori-
Associated Press industry. The dead children were on hand at schools in Legacy Emmanuel Medi- ties used tire-puncturing
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — were ages 4, 7, 10 and 13 the South Umpqua School cal Center in Portland, Hut- devices before the suspect
Four children died in a and included a foster child, District, where some of the son said. Killed were 4-year- began driving toward Wil-
house fire Wednesday in an authorities said. The cause children attended class, old Gwendolyn Howell, son in Ellsworth County.
Oregon timber town and of the blaze did not ap- said Superintendent Tim 7-year-old Haley Maher, The chase ended around
their mother, her husband pear suspicious, but an in- Porter. The district has 1,450 10-year-old Isaiah Young 8 a.m. with a crash after a
and a 13-year-old sibling vestigation was continuing, students in all grades and and 13-year-old Nicholas “tactical vehicle interven-
were critically injured, a authorities said. the news shook up the Lowe. Nicholas Lowe was tion,” Hileman said. Troop-
sheriff’s official said. The fire “It’s awful, it’s devastating,” community where people a foster child, Hutson said. ers forced the vehicle off
broke out around 2 a.m. in Douglas County sheriff’s know each other. Tabitha Howell is the moth- the road, with it flipping
Riddle, a small town about Deputy Dwes Hutson said. James Keith Howell, 39, er of all the other children into a field and catching
200 miles south of Portland “It’s a small town. There Tabitha Annette Howell, 38, and is married to James fire. Deaton was then ar-
that has been hit hard by are less than 1,000 people and Andrew Hall-Young, Howell. q rested. q