updated: 5:20 p.m.
MCMINNVILLE - The community of McMinville was visibly shaken after
investigators discovered a family of six shot to death in their home in an
apparent murder-suicide Friday.
Robert Bryant is believed to have shot his wife and four children - whose ages
range from 9 to 15 - before turning the gun on himself, said Yamhill County
District Attorney Bradley C. Berry.
Robert Bryant was found dead in the living room, 37-year-old Janet Ellen Bryant
in the master bedroom, and their four children in their beds, Berry said.
All had been killed by shotgun blasts.
"Evidence ... indicates that Mr. Robert Bryant killed his wife and children
and then took his own life," Berry said, although a motive is not yet known.
"It was a horrible sight," Berry said.
The children last attended school on Feb. 22, and the shootings are believed to
have occurred the following day, he said.
Dead are the 37-year-old father, his 37-year-old wife, Janet Ellen Bryant, as
well as 15-year-old Clayton, 12-year-old Ethan, 10-year-old Ashley and
9-year-old Alissa Bryant.
Bryant was a self-employed landscaping contractor.
Family Leaves California After Being Shunned; Bryant Parents Worried About
Custody Battle
A former California neighbor, Albert Clary, said the Bryants and their
relatives were Jehovah's Witnesses.
According to Clary, Robert Bryant got into an argument with a church leader
over the Bible while he and his family were still living in California.
The family was reportedly shunned by both other Jehovah's witnesses as well as
their own relatives following the incident.
In fact, the Bryants were essentially kicked out of the church, KATU News
learned from an elder church member of the California congregation to which the
Bryants belonged.
And Mr. and Mrs. Bryant were concerned that relatives may seek custody of their
four children, the congregation member told KATU.
According to the church elder, relatives of the Bryant family had already filed
documents in an effort to seek custody.
(Typical tactic of loving JW's?)
Bryant murder/suicide oddly similar to Christian Longo case
The Bryants came to Oregon last summer to make a fresh start, a former
neighbor of the family told KATU News.
Two Jehovah's Witnesses who were at the McMinnville church on Friday said they
had never heard of the Bryants.
(yeah right)
A study of California bankruptcy records indicates that the family moved to
McMinnville from Shingle Springs California, where the father had a landscaping
business called Bryant's Landscape Maintenance.
A Gruesome Discovery
Two Yamhill County sheriff's deputies were in the vicinity of the Bryants'
McMinville home Thursday night when neighbors approached them to express
concern about the family.
Deputies spotted what appeared to be a body inside the home. They obtained a
search warrant and found all six bodies inside.
On Friday, deputies roped off the area around the Bryants' manufactured home
on a hillside outside McMinnville, a prosperous town in the heart of Oregon's
wine-growing country.
The home sits on about two acres of a rural subdivision west of McMinnville, in
hills at the foot of Oregon's Coast Range and about 20 miles south of Portland.
"There Were No Warning Signs"
Neighbors told investigators the Bryants were planning to build a larger house
on the site.
"It was our understanding that they planned to build a bigger home and then
sell it...so he had a lot of ideas of what he was going to do in the future, so
this really surprised us," family acquaintance Colin Armstrong told KATU News.
In a phone interview, Jeanna Wright told katu.com that her daughter Jaden was
friends with Ashley Bryant at Memorial Elementary School. Mrs. Wright said her
daughter had not seen Ashley in Mrs. Mecker's class for two weeks and was
concerned.
Karen Richey, assistant superintendent for the McMinnvile School District,
said teachers had noticed the children's absence from school and several
attempts were made to contact the Bryants.
"We had people knocking on the door several times," but no one ever answered
the door, she said.
At first school officials weren't alarmed, because it is not uncommon for
students to be absent during the flu season, she said.
School officials say that a 10-day absence is not unheard of, and there were no
real warning signs to alert them that anything may have been wrong at home.
Ashley's younger sister Alissa was a second grade student at Memorial
Elementary.
Ethan was a sixth grader at Patton Middle School, and Clayton, the oldest,
attended McMinnville High School.
The Children Were Well-Liked
Not surprisingly, this apparent murder-suicide has saddened many who knew the
Bryant children.
"Ethan Bryant was a very nice young man, he had many friends. We are very
saddened by this tragedy," Assistant Principal of Patton Middle School, Mark
Hyder told katu.com.
"Ethan was new to our district this year...he was a very popular sixth-grader,"
said Hyder. "We're just trying to get through this day supporting students and
their families."
In a press conference this morning, McMinnville Superintendent Elaine Taylor
told the media, "the Memorial staff is understandably very grief-stricken, the
two teachers of the children...are having a difficult time..."
It was clear that Taylor was struggling to maintain composure.
Alissa and Ashley Bryant were described by Memorial Elementary staff as "bright
students who showed an interest in school."
McMinnville High School, Patton Middle School, and Memorial Elementary all have
extra counselors on site today to help students and staff cope with their
grief.
How come everytime a landscaping contractor commits
a crime,...they tell the world he was a 'landscaping contractor'.
Just goes to show you that UnGodly people are against
'Landscaping Contractors'.
Yeah huh...still it just goes to show that prophesy is being fulfilled, as more
and more "landscaping contractors" are persecuted by this wicked system of
things. When they commit serious crimes such as rape, torture and infanticide
and the media notes that they are indeed "landscaping contractors," it lets
fellow "landscaping contractors" know that Armageddon is just around the
corner. Why, when a "landscaping contractor" whips his 12 year old daughter to
death with an electrical cord and the newspapers and TV note his "landscaping
contractor" credentials, his brother and sister "landscaping contractors" can
focus in on the bias and persecution oriented media rather than their fellow
"landscaping contractor's" fathomless evil, for this was foretold in last
weeks Book Study. It simply proves a New World with everlasting life awaitsr
all obedient "landscaping contractors;" A New World filled with carnivores like
lions that manage to eat and digest grass without having to worry about
employing suitable dentition or intestinal tracts. Sheesh, you'd think these
"landscaping contractors" walked around professing a certain moral superiority
over the rest of us, who are not "landscaping contractors" the way the media
carries on.
Shannon
www.infidels.org
Doo tell us all about the "Brother Bryant DIRECTIVE",
since you have all these OTHER "Directives" you know so much about?
What was Brother Bryant trying to do, in carrying out his "Directive"?
But, but, you try to backtrack and say:
(Jabriol, a.k.a. Antonio J. Santana, spewed forth:)
> HOLY JUMPING LEAPS OF LOGIC BATMAN...
>
> you sure you did not have help with this tinky? it seem a bit too
> complicated for you.
>
> A superiror court New Jersey Judge mentioned and backed a trial defense
> attorney when he said that the american media never specify all the facts in
> order to sell a newspaper.. the information presented in the press sometimes
> comes fron third hand parties who are not involved in an incident like this,
> thus is merely speculatiuon, therefore your conclucion is based on third
> party speculation embellished by a newsreporter..
>
> Now thats the dumbing of america..
> I guess you are one of them gals in
> Atlanta that belives everything that written in the Enquirer.
> --
Buuuut, Jabs, you didn't seem to have ANY problem Believing
and REPEATING and Embellishing the press reports which
printed the "facts" of my case, my family tragedy.
So, the truthfulness/accuracy of the media is just a convenience thingy
with you, huh? Able to turn it On & Off at will, huh?
LOve, Tallyman
jehovah Witness Brother Bob Bryant, likely fed on a steady diet of
Watchtowercult "Art" and Propaganda... and, is it any wonder
he did what the media is allegedly reporting?
http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/WT_Evil.html
http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/WT_Evil.html
http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/WT_Evil.html
http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/WT_Evil.html
http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/WT_Evil.html
http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/WT_Evil.html
what gives?
I ask about the "Bryant Directive" and an hour later
you're in another thread talking about the 'taliman directive'...
?!?
You're really getting behind Antonio.
You seem to know ALL about the so-called "taliman directive",
but when asked
have yet to
explain to all of us what the "Moses Directive" was?
What the "Brother Mark Barton Directive" was?
What the "Christian Longo Directive" was?
What the "Larry Slack Directive" was?
How come you gone MUTE on those "Directives", Jabby...
but know all about and cite the so-called "taliman directive".
We eagerly await your Explanations...
(looking at wristwatch...)
LOve, Tallyman
seems to me, and obvious to anyone who has a bit of intelligence, that these
people were not JW's since they were disfellowshipped.. legally they are no
longer jw's..
look what taliman did after he left.. shot and killed his brother.. what
else is new.
The point of the material being to place blame entirely on the JW, isolating
the person as a victim. It is highly edited and one sided and the only hint
of the JW point of view is provided in a warped manner by the alleged
victim, usually in a manner that is irrational and predjudicial. =========== this is the typical JW response!!
> So i I undersrtand the line of reasoning corerectly Jabriol, those
> pedophile
> Catholic Priests are Catholic Priests in name only
I would say, that anybody who would willing go against their doctrine, in
any religion or even an non religious organization, when they make that
decision, they ceased to be. If I commit Adultry, at that point, I cease to
be a JW. From their it is just a matter of time. It matter not if I ever get
caught..from a human perspective.
Since the Bible is also againt lying, I guess that makes you a false
JW.
Yang
a.a.#28
rev -273.15 high priest of the most frigid church of Kelvin
EAC mole and other furry creature
Yang wrote:
>
> On 21 Mar 2002 03:52:37 -0800, jab...@navegalia.com (jabriol) wrote:
>
> >17-Mar-2002, messt...@aol.commie (xoxoxoxox) wrote:
> >
> >> So i I undersrtand the line of reasoning corerectly Jabriol, those
> >> pedophile
> >> Catholic Priests are Catholic Priests in name only
> >
> >I would say, that anybody who would willing go against their doctrine, in
> >any religion or even an non religious organization, when they make that
> >decision, they ceased to be. If I commit Adultry, at that point, I cease to
> >be a JW. From their it is just a matter of time. It matter not if I ever get
> >caught..from a human perspective.
>
> Since the Bible is also againt lying, I guess that makes you a false
> JW.
Yang,
Jabriol is a FALSE Human.
He is a Monster.
>
>On 21-Mar-2002, eac...@SPAMmail.com (Yang) wrote:
>
>> On 21 Mar 2002 03:52:37 -0800, jab...@navegalia.com (jabriol) wrote:
>>
>> >17-Mar-2002, messt...@aol.commie (xoxoxoxox) wrote:
>> >
>> >> So i I undersrtand the line of reasoning corerectly Jabriol, those
>> >> pedophile
>> >> Catholic Priests are Catholic Priests in name only
>> >
>> >I would say, that anybody who would willing go against their doctrine, in
>> >any religion or even an non religious organization, when they make that
>> >decision, they ceased to be. If I commit Adultry, at that point, I cease
>> >to
>> >be a JW. From their it is just a matter of time. It matter not if I ever
>> >get
>> >caught..from a human perspective.
>>
>> Since the Bible is also againt lying, I guess that makes you a false
>> JW.
>
>If I lie with intent to lie.. of course.
>
>I think this is the part where Jesus sacrifice comes in.. :-)
LOL! Well, I guess I can't hold a grudge against someone with a good
sense of self-deprecation humor.
Carry on.
Very good questions.. the Catholic leadership invent many things that
are not in the bible, like hellfire, life after death, the trinity..
and now they support evolution...
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