Suspect In Shooting Deaths Caught
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Monday November 8, 1999
Suspect In Shooting Deaths Caught
ABC
(CHATTANOOGA, TN) -- The man who
allegedly killed an Atlanta woman and her two children has been
arrested.
Police found 21-year-old Kenneth Beamon at Chattanooga Airport in
Tennessee
yesterday. Thirty-two-year-old Teresa Shoemaker, and her two sons,
14-year-old Lamar, and 12-year-old Robert were fatally shot in their
home
on Friday. Police say Beamon also allegedly shot Shoemaker's husband,
34-year-old Charles Shoemaker in the head. He survived. Beamon could be
in
Georgia today since he has waived extradition. Sizemore hasn't been
charged
yet. Police plan to interrogate her. Sizemore is Teresa Shoemaker's
niece.
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The following appears courtesy of the 11/9/99 online edition of The
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution newspaper:
Suspect waives extradition in triple slayings
By Joshua B. Good and Paul Donsky , Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Suspect arrested in multiple murder
Kenneth Beamon, 21, accused of killing an Atl. woman and her two
children.
The man accused of killing an Atlanta woman and her two children Friday
waived
extradition at a hearing in Chattanooga today, clearing the way for him
to be
brought back to Atlanta to face charges in the slayings.
Chattanooga police said Kenneth Beamon, 21, should be back in Atlanta
within
the week.
Beamon was arrested at 12:10 a.m. Sunday at the Chattanooga Airport
after he
and the dead woman's niece asked to spend the night in the airport.
Airport
police also detained Beamon ’s girlfriend, Shannon Sizemore, 19.
Ed Buice, a spokesman for the Chattanooga police, said Sizemore's
clothes were
stained with blood.
Beamon is charged with the murders of Teresa Shoemaker, 32, and her two
sons,
Lamar, 14, and Robert, 12, in their southeast Atlanta home. Police say
Beamon
also shot Shoemaker’s husband, Charles Shoemaker, 34. He survived
despite a
gunshot wound to the head.
Sizemore already has been questioned by Atlanta homicide investigators,
said
police spokesman John Quigley, but it's not yet clear whether the
teenager will
be charged, Quigley said. Sizemore is Teresa Shoemaker’s niece. Police
believe
Sizemore had stayed briefly with the Shoemakers.
They want to know why. They want to know what Beamon said to his
girlfriend as
the couple traveled to Chattanooga. They want to know if anyone else was
involved, since a gun and a knife were used.
“We’ll have the answers soon enough,” Jackson said. “He will have to
answer for
killing three people.”
Teresa Shoemaker was shot in the head and chest, said Al Boudy, of the
Fulton
County Medical Examiner’s Office. Lamar was shot in the chest. Robert
was
stabbed in the heart.
Charles Shoemaker was shot, then stabbed, said his uncle, Joe
McCollough.
Shoemaker told him the gunman shot him in the head. It was only a
glancing blow
that knocked him out.
The shooter then apparently ran out of bullets and tried to finish the
job by
stabbing Shoemaker with a knife three or four times in the back and
side,
McCollough said.
Shoemaker regained consciousness and called 911.
Richard Ansel, the airport police officer who made the arrest, first
spotted
Beamon and Sizemore as the pair were walking across a bridge from the
Greyhound
bus station to the airport about 9:45 p.m. Saturday.
After the final scheduled flight of the night, the officer said he again
questioned the pair, who told him they were waiting for a bus scheduled
to
leave at 8 a.m. Sunday.
‘‘They asked if they could stay at the airport for the evening, and I
told them
it wasn’t a problem if they didn’t cause any problems,’’ Ansel said.
Later, a dispatcher described the couple wanted in connection with the
slayings, and Ansel found them in the airport atrium.
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