Post by sclcookie on Jun 6, 2006 11:44:54 GMT -5
Nurse may face death penalty----DA weighs options in double slaying
A man charged with shooting to death a woman and her 4-year-old daughter
in a rural church parking lot Saturday might face the death penalty if he
is convicted, prosecutors said.
The local district attorney will decide in the coming months whether to
seek a death sentence in the case of Houston F. Lloyd, 48, a nurse at a
Nashville prison hospital facility who is charged in the Saturday slayings
of Kimberly Wyatt, 27, and her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Wyatt.
Lloyd, whose first name appears in some state personnel records as Huston,
will continue to be held without bail in the Cumberland County Jail, a
judge there ruled Monday.
Authorities found a 9mm pistol on a rural road Monday that they believe
was used in the slayings, Assistant District Attorney General Gary
McKenzie said.
Wyatt and her daughter were slain in the parking lot of Lantana Church of
Christ outside Crossville. A witness told authorities that the mother was
shot "execution style," with Lloyd saying Wyatt "would not ruin my life
anymore" as he shot her, a warrant said.
Wyatt's other daughter, 6, and an acquaintance who is a prison guard where
Wyatt worked saw the shooting but were not injured, authorities said.
Lloyd, of Matthews Court in Kingston Springs, attended the state
Correction Department's training academy with Wyatt, which may have been
how the two knew each other, a state spokeswoman said.
However, the 2 worked at different prisons. Wyatt, a licensed practical
nurse, worked at Southeast Tennessee Regional Correction Facility near
Pikeville, and Lloyd worked at the Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs facility
in Nashville.
Wyatt had been slated to return to work Monday after being on sick leave
since May 4, Correction spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said. She had a clean
work history, Carter said.
Lloyd had begun working at DeBerry in February 2005 and was paid $38,102
last year, according to state personnel records. He had previously worked
at DeBerry from 1998-2001. He holds active registered nurses' licenses in
Tennessee and Michigan, according to the Web sites of the 2 states' health
departments.
(source: Ashland City Times)
A man charged with shooting to death a woman and her 4-year-old daughter
in a rural church parking lot Saturday might face the death penalty if he
is convicted, prosecutors said.
The local district attorney will decide in the coming months whether to
seek a death sentence in the case of Houston F. Lloyd, 48, a nurse at a
Nashville prison hospital facility who is charged in the Saturday slayings
of Kimberly Wyatt, 27, and her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Wyatt.
Lloyd, whose first name appears in some state personnel records as Huston,
will continue to be held without bail in the Cumberland County Jail, a
judge there ruled Monday.
Authorities found a 9mm pistol on a rural road Monday that they believe
was used in the slayings, Assistant District Attorney General Gary
McKenzie said.
Wyatt and her daughter were slain in the parking lot of Lantana Church of
Christ outside Crossville. A witness told authorities that the mother was
shot "execution style," with Lloyd saying Wyatt "would not ruin my life
anymore" as he shot her, a warrant said.
Wyatt's other daughter, 6, and an acquaintance who is a prison guard where
Wyatt worked saw the shooting but were not injured, authorities said.
Lloyd, of Matthews Court in Kingston Springs, attended the state
Correction Department's training academy with Wyatt, which may have been
how the two knew each other, a state spokeswoman said.
However, the 2 worked at different prisons. Wyatt, a licensed practical
nurse, worked at Southeast Tennessee Regional Correction Facility near
Pikeville, and Lloyd worked at the Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs facility
in Nashville.
Wyatt had been slated to return to work Monday after being on sick leave
since May 4, Correction spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said. She had a clean
work history, Carter said.
Lloyd had begun working at DeBerry in February 2005 and was paid $38,102
last year, according to state personnel records. He had previously worked
at DeBerry from 1998-2001. He holds active registered nurses' licenses in
Tennessee and Michigan, according to the Web sites of the 2 states' health
departments.
(source: Ashland City Times)