Quadruple murder of Tennessee family - Infant spared and left in yard miles away *ARREST* (7 Viewers)

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Baby found in vehicle and 4 connected adults later found deceased.


MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Investigators with the Dyer County and Lake County Sheriff’s Departments are investigating the death of four people located in Lake County.
Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box isn’t saying where the bodies were found, but it appears the incident involves the ongoing investigation of a baby found in someone’s front yard in Dyer County on Tuesday.
The child was found in a baby seat at a residence on Old Highway 20 near the Tigrett area.
Baby abandoned in Dyer County

Courtesy: Dyer County Sheriff’s Office
A deputy said that a dark-colored minivan or white midsize SUV was reported to have dropped off a baby at a random person’s home. The baby was not hurt and was identified.

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Tresir said:
This article has some further details. He actually managed to get a weapon while he was in prison.

He was out on bond when he committed these murders.


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Vehicle of Tennessee quadruple murder suspect found as details of criminal past emerge

Police in Jackson, Tennessee have found the vehicle driven by Tennessee quadruple murder suspect Austin Drummond and are warning locals to stay vigilant.
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Bringing this forward.

From the article

"Tennessee District 29 District Attorney Danny Goodman said during a Friday news conference that at the time of the alleged murders, Drummond was out on bond for trying to kill someone while he was in prison on Dec. 12, 2024."
 
Here you go. The perp has connections to the Vice Lords drug gang.


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Search for suspect in Tennessee killings focuses near university, source says, as third arrest announced​

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Law enforcement search an area in Jackson, Tennessee, on Monday.

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A third person has been arrested on suspicion of helping a fugitive accused of killing four relatives of a Tennessee baby who was found abandoned alive last week, authorities said Monday.
Meanwhile, authorities were scouring a wooded area near a private university in Jackson, Tennessee, on Monday afternoon as part of the investigation into the suspect in the killings, 28-year-old Austin Robert Drummond, a law enforcement source familiar said.
As for the latest arrest: Dearrah Sanders, 23, was taken into custody Monday on warrants charging her with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder, accused of assisting Drummond after the killings of the baby’s relatives, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. Sanders will be booked into the Lake County Jail, the TBI said, and it is unclear if she has obtained an attorney.
The same charges were also filed last week against Tanaka Brown and Giovontie Thomas, both 29. Brown is also charged with tampering with evidence, according to the TBI. Authorities have not specified precisely what the three are accused of doing to help Drummond.
Investigators believe Drummond has connections to the Vice Lords gang and they suspect he may be getting help from its members, the law enforcement source said.
The Vice Lords is a gang whose members have been involved in murder, drug trafficking, and other violent crime, according to the US Justice Department. Prosecutors say the gang has members and offshoot groups in Illinois and throughout Tennessee.
Drummond remains on the lam, but authorities investigating the case were searching a wooded area Monday near Union University in Jackson – the same western Tennessee city where authorities say a vehicle associated with him was found unoccupied last week. At the request of police, the university locked exterior doors to all buildings, university spokesperson Tim Ellsworth said Monday afternoon.
A private school less than a mile from the university – Jackson Christian School – was on lockdown Monday afternoon, a receptionist told CNN. Because the school year starts Thursday, teachers, but not students, were at the school, which covers pre-K through grade 12.
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The search comes after a confirmed sighting of Drummond was captured on a resident’s camera system in Jackson Sunday night, police there said.
Drummond is sought in connection with the deaths of James M. Wilson, 21; Adrianna Williams, 20; Cortney Rose, 38; and Braydon Williams, 15, whose bodies were found July 29 in Tiptonville, a town in northwest Tennessee’s Lake County, the TBI said.
The four were found dead hours after the baby daughter of Wilson and Adrianna Williams was found abandoned on the afternoon of July 29 in a car seat in a “random” front yard near the Dyer County community of Tigrett, nearly a 40-mile drive southeast of Tiptonville, authorities had said.
Jackson is about 45 miles southeast of Tigrett. A second vehicle sought in the hunt for Drummond, a 1988 white Ford pickup truck with a red stripe, was located in Dyer County, the TBI said Saturday.
The TBI hasn’t said what led it to name Drummond as a suspect, or whether investigators know of a motive in the killings or why the baby was abandoned a county away from where the bodies were found.
Rose was the baby’s maternal grandmother, and Braydon Williams was the baby’s maternal uncle, according to Danny Goodman, district attorney for Dyer and Lake counties.
“The victims were all from Dyer County, and we suspect the person that killed them knew all of them,” Goodman, who also confirmed Wilson and Adrianna Williams were the baby’s parents, told CNN last week.
 
Tresir said:
Bringing this forward.

From the article

"Tennessee District 29 District Attorney Danny Goodman said during a Friday news conference that at the time of the alleged murders, Drummond was out on bond for trying to kill someone while he was in prison on Dec. 12, 2024."
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After an attempted murder, why was he out on bail?

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Cousin Dupree said:
After an attempted murder, why was he out on bail?

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Out on bond - is that the same?

The attempt was in prison so i guess that is why he was on bond. If he was kept in prison, he could try again I guess. I don't know, but it is a crazy situation as he then murders four people outside while out on bond.

Clearly they won't make the same mistake again, hopefully.
 
Tresir said:
Out on bond - is that the same?

The attempt was in prison so i guess that is why he was on bond. If he was kept in prison, he could try again I guess. I don't know, but it is a crazy situation as he then murders four people outside while out on bond.

Clearly they won't make the same mistake again, hopefully.
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Move him to another prison.
 
Cousin Dupree said:
Move him to another prison.
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He will be in Lake County jail now. I don't think it likely he will get bond or be out of prison ever again. They have the DP in Tennessee, so he should get that on conviction.

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Shocking details emerge in Quadruple suspect Austin Drummond's cushy jail life, here's all you need to know | Today News

Quadruple murder suspect Austin Drummond lived lavishly in prison with alcohol and electronics before allegedly killing four family members. Armed manhunt continues across Tennessee.
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Authorities said Thomas is being transferred from Madison County Jail to Lake County Jail, where Brown is also being held without bond. Sanders was also set to be booked into Lake County Jail, officials said Monday.
 
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Parents of murder victim speak out as DA seeks death penalty for Austin Drummond

The man accused of killing four people in Lake County appeared virtually before the court and one of the victim’s families on Thursday morning.
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Parents of murder victim speak out as DA seeks death penalty for Austin Drummond​

The man accused of killing four people in Lake County appeared virtually before the court and one of the victim’s families on Thursday morning.

The Lake County Courthouse saw 28-year-old Austin Drummond via video conference call as the judge read aloud the charges against him.

Drummond is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, as well as aggravated kidnapping and abandonment.

The judge revealed that the four Tiptonville victims were found shot to death.


Drummond is expected back in court on August 14 at 9 a.m.
 
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