The informant told investigators that Minkley and his girlfriend left town shortly after the triple homicide.
Sullivan and Detective M.D. Green met with Minkley’s girlfriend on Sept. 1.
She told the detectives she and Minkley had gone to his the house on Sunset to obtain some property they had been storing there. She said she stayed in the car while Minkely went inside.
The girlfriend told investigators she soon heard what sounded like a car backfiring twice before Minkley emerged from the house. She told police Minkley told her that Ronney Jackson had pulled a gun on him so he shot Jackson.
Minkley told his girlfriend he then shot an unknown man inside the house and later Sessums after she tried to call police, according to the affidavit.
The girlfriend told investigators Minkley then told her to come inside the house, where she saw the three victims. She said she and Minkley then retrieved items from the house that belonged to them.
Minkley also took Jackson and Sessum’s cellphones, as well as a laptop, from the home, the girlfriend told investigators.
Loughman said it is still undecided whether the girlfriend will be charged in the case.