GUILTY NC - Two couples slain in Halifax County home, 22 Aug 2017 *Arrest*

[tlcya]

HALIFAX COUNTY, NC (WTVD) — One day after a family member walked into a home to find four people shot dead around the kitchen table, Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp said detectives had taken a major turn in their investigation.


No one has been arrested in the murders of the two elderly couples who were known for getting together for Sunday night dinner and a friendly game of canasta.

https://www.wwaytv3.com/2017/08/22/north-carolina-4-elderly-killed-in-apparent-home-invasion/

News outlets quoted Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp as saying the two married couples had been sitting around a kitchen table when they were killed sometime between Sunday and Monday morning.


Tripp identified the four as 72-year-old Janice Harris and 88-year-old James Harris, who owned the home, and 76-year-old James Whitley and 67-year-old Peggy Whitley, both of whom were visiting the house.

http://wtop.com/national/2017/08/sheriff-2-elderly-couples-in-nc-killed-while-playing-cards/



Friends, colleagues and clients are mourning the loss of a former Wilson hairdresser after she and her husband were killed in apparent home invasion with another couple at an Enfield home.

http://www.wilsontimes.com/stories/...th-in-halifax-county-quadruple-homicide,93311

Halifax County authorities identify quadruple murder victims, reward being offered

 

[LadyL]

crazy!
elderly people not even safe playing cards in their own home

 

[lstiff]

This has been covered by my local news and I really hope something comes out about it. I can easily picture my own grandparents and family sitting at home playing cards on any given day. How insane this is!

 

[SuzDuJour]

It must have been someone they were comfortable enough to have in the house while they played cards.

 

[Skully]

We have had 2 attacks on two elderly women here in FL in the Tampa Bay area. One was 87, held up at gun point, in her driveway after getting stuff at Walmart. A young black man and his girl friend, needing money, followed her home and held her up at gunpoint. Both have been arrested. The other woman was at home, 72 years old when a young black male walked in, pistol whipped her and robbed her. He is still at large. What the hell is going on with our youth? I know they need money or drugs, but really, hitting an old women? No one is safe anymore. Not even in broad daylight, in your own home. Sickening.

 

[laballance]

According to the reports they were shot through a glass door. Was this glass door an exterior door? If so, no one entered the home or was let into the home. The reports also state robbery appears to me the motive. I need to go back and read through the reports, I do not remember them listing anything that was taken, but they may be holding that back to use against someone at a later date. I find it odd if they were shot from outside the home.

 

[zelmajane]

News now saying reward has increased to $51,000 and it may be gang related.
http://www.wral.com/reward-offered-in-halifax-county-quadruple-homicide/17004236/


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[Razz]

News now saying reward has increased to $51,000 and it may be gang related.
http://www.wral.com/reward-offered-in-halifax-county-quadruple-homicide/17004236/


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Harris was a federally licensed gunsmith who ran his business from his home. All search warrants were sealed.
LE also thinks the home was targeted.
Some things were taken from the home.

IMO but I can't help but think it was guns that were stolen from the house.
Harris may have had a large and interesting collection of firearms. Enough to kill for.

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[zelmajane]

Harris was a federally licensed gunsmith who ran his business from his home. All search warrants were sealed.
LE also thinks the home was targeted.
Some things were taken from the home.

I had no idea! Thank you!

 

[pamelado2]

ARREST!!!!

http://abc11.com/arrest-made-in-halifax-county-quadruple-murder/2571470/

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[BrownRice]

He was out on bond for another murder when he allegedly killed these 4 people!!!

http://wncn.com/2017/10/26/arrest-made-in-halifax-county-quadruple-murder-sheriff-says/

According to court documents, Simms was arrested on Nov. 19, 2015 in Cambridge’s murder and given a $100,000 secured bond with electronic monitoring on Feb. 17, 2016. His bond was reduced to $20,000 unsecured on May 18, 2016. Simms was able to bond out and then failed to appear in court on June 15 of this year.

 

[Whiskers16]

He was out on bond for another murder when he allegedly killed these 4 people!!!

http://wncn.com/2017/10/26/arrest-made-in-halifax-county-quadruple-murder-sheriff-says/

According to court documents, Simms was arrested on Nov. 19, 2015 in Cambridge’s murder and given a $100,000 secured bond with electronic monitoring on Feb. 17, 2016. His bond was reduced to $20,000 unsecured on May 18, 2016. Simms was able to bond out and then failed to appear in court on June 15 of this year.

Wonder if he had an ankle monitor that helped tie him to these 4 murders...

And wonder what the motive was for these murders. Did he know the victims? I don't see anything about this in the article.

 

[JerseyGirl]

RRSpin - Powell gets four consecutive life sentences in Glenview murders

Roanoke Rapids and Halifax County News from RRSpin

www.rrspin.com

James Edward Powell will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole after taking a plea in which he will serve four consecutive life sentences for the August 2017 murders of James and Janice Harris and James and Peggy Whitley who were shot to death while playing a regular Sunday night game of cards at the Harris’s home in the Glenview community.

 

[NervousNellie]

RRSpin - Powell gets four consecutive life sentences in Glenview murders

Roanoke Rapids and Halifax County News from RRSpin

www.rrspin.com

James Edward Powell will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole after taking a plea in which he will serve four consecutive life sentences for the August 2017 murders of James and Janice Harris and James and Peggy Whitley who were shot to death while playing a regular Sunday night game of cards at the Harris’s home in the Glenview community.

A quote from the article linked here.... I know it's not a funny situation, but this quote made me laugh.

“This was a very difficult case,” said David Braswell, who along with James Antinore represented Powell. “There were over 170,000 pages of discovery. It was evident to us that conducting a jury trial – a jury would not listen to anything we had to say.”