Police say a man who bludgeoned his mother and girlfriend to death in a burning house and told his relatives he wanted police to kill him was found holding a chrome shower head believed to be a gun, killing eight people. He was shot and killed by a police officer. Division’s submission of evidence in the case.
Gary Pratt Whitten was wearing an ankle monitor when he killed the women on January 17 and was out on bail after being ordered to stay away from his girlfriend’s house in December, investigators said. told the Post and Courier.
According to Monitor data, Whitten was at his Greenville home for several hours on the day of the killing, but the company tracking his ankle bracelet did not contact the sheriff’s office until Whitten removed the bracelet. Ta. The fire was reported 30 seconds later, authorities said.
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Witten’s family called 911 in September to say he wanted officers to kill him, according to a video conference released Saturday by Greenville County Sheriff’s Lt. Ryan Flood.
The video includes snippets of body camera recordings that show Whitten, 36, emerging from the porch of the mobile home. Flood, who narrates the video, said deputies saw a chrome object in his hand. One of the officers yelled, “I have a gun,” and eight officers fired dozens of shots in about five seconds. The video includes a photo of a removable chrome shower head.
South Carolina State Police say a double murder suspect was shot and killed in a Jan. 17 confrontation.
After finding the bodies of Whitten’s girlfriend, Anissa Henderson, 55, and her mother, Kelly Korman Whitten, 56, investigators used a license plate reader and other investigative techniques to track Whitten to his mobile home. I was tracking. Investigators said the two women were found burning inside their home several hours earlier and had been beaten to death with sharp objects.
Deputies said they spent 26 minutes trying to get him to surrender peacefully before shooting him.
Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis said internal investigators have cleared eight people of violating sheriff’s office policy. A national investigation continues as prosecutors determine whether the shooting was justified.
The nine-minute police presentation includes about three minutes of audio from the September incident. At the time, the 911 caller asked officers to check on Whitten, warning them that he was “not in a good state of mind” and that “he would act in a manner that would result in him being legally killed.”
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The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office has a policy of releasing selected body camera recordings, 911 calls, police radio communications and other evidence 45 days after an officer-involved shooting. It is one of the only agencies in the state that makes such information publicly available. Most are waiting until the investigation is complete and prosecutors decide whether the shooting was justified.
