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MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. – A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said Wednesday.
The victims had complained to police that Marvin's Potter's daughter was harassing them after they deleted her as a friend on the social networking site, Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece said Wednesday.
Potter, 60, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in last week's slayings of Billy Payne Jr. and his girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth. The couple was shot to death in their Mountain City home in the far northeast corner of the state. Their 8-month-old baby was found unharmed in Hayworth's arms.
"It's a senseless thing," the sheriff said.
Authorities have been involved other cases where Potter's daughter, Jenelle Potter, believed she had been slighted by someone.
Marvin Potter's friend, Jamie Curd, has also been charged in the killings. Curd, 38, had romantic feelings for Jenelle Potter, 30, the sheriff said.
Potter and Curd were arraigned Wednesday. Potter asked for time to hire an attorney while Curd was assigned a public defender who did not immediately return a phone message.
Assistant District Attorney General Matthew Roark said Curd's initial bond was raised to $1.5 million while Roark agreed to put off a bond hearing for Potter until next week, when he is expected to have an attorney. Potter remains jailed on his initial $200,000 bond.
The victims lived with Billy Payne Sr., who was the last person to see them alive. He told detectives he saw Hayworth get up to feed the baby before he left for work at about 5:30 a.m. on Jan. 31.
The slayings were discovered about five hours later when a former neighbor stopped by to pick up mail the family would save for him.
The younger Payne was found in his bedroom, and Hayworth was found in the baby's room.[/release]
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Facebook is at fault! Give it the death penalty!
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More like faceshot.
"You un-friended me, so now I'm going to kill you!"
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So. That whole x amount of $ in bond deal... Is that so people have to pay the system to flee the country AFTER they were caught or what? I never saw the sense in that.
"So, you seem to have killed two people. Now. While we prepare for the hearing, if you shell out 120,000 bucks you're free to run-the-fuck-like-hell off to where you want to go."
or what's the point of it? So they can be comfy at home while awaiting trial? IDONGEDID!
And this is why stupid people shouldn't be allowed near anything more dangerous than a dull crayon.
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[QUOTE=Bomimo;34617879]So. That whole x amount of $ in bond deal... Is that so people have to pay the system to flee the country AFTER they were caught or what? I never saw the sense in that.
"So, you seem to have killed two people. Now. While we prepare for the hearing, if you shell out 120,000 bucks you're free to run-the-fuck-like-hell off to where you want to go."
or what's the point of it? So they can be comfy at home while awaiting trial? IDONGEDID![/QUOTE]
The point isn't to pay to run off, the point is to prove that you're [i]not[/i] going to book a flight to South America the moment you step out of the jail cell. That's why bail for people who are flight risks is so high, it's to prevent them from making bail and buggering off. If you don't run off and show up for trial you get the bail back, minus fees if you use a third party bail bondsman.
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