I just wanted to add that Lumpkin grew up in a military family so he lived many different places until he moved here with his family, met Shelly in high school and married her. His family retired here also. His father passed away about 7 years ago (with cancer). He has one sister and one brother, not sure where they live. Finally, his mother was a school bus driver. She is retired now. From what I understand she is a wonderful christian woman and has many friends. She is DEVASTATED beyond comprehension that her son has done this. Lumpkin's mother, wife, and others (not sure how many or who) saw him briefly last Friday at the jail where he was being arraigned. Shelly asked him "what did you do to her?" and he said, "I don't remember". She told me that herself. She literally lost it at that point and had to be carried out. She is an absolutely wonderful person and she is grief-stricken at the loss of her best friend. She can't even really grieve right now for trying to wrap her head around how on earth this could have happened. In addition to that, she is trying to protect a 14 year-old boy who is heart broken. It's absolutely ungodly what these people are having to endure.
please leave victims out of our threads.
