01-24-2017, 11:43 AM
Tennessee
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Sometime late in the evening of Nov. 21st, 46-year-old Mark Walker heard what he thought sounded like a door slamming.
He got up and checked the house. Mr. Walker peered into his 16-year-old daughter's room and was relieved to see her sleeping in her bed.
The next morning at 6:30 a.m., Mrs. Walker went to wake their daughter, Emma, and found that she'd actually been shot. Emma was dead.
It didn't take police long to hone in on Emma's ex-boyfriend, 18-year-old William Riley Gaul (pictured above with Emma).
Emma had broken up with the Marysville College football player two weeks prior. Gaul was arrested at 11 pm the next night.
Gaul had posted about his love for Emma frequently on social media. After Emma was found dead, he continued to do so.
Yesterday, a warrant in the case was released. It revealed that Gaul's grandfather had reported a revolver missing from his truck 3 days before the murder. Gramps had switched vehicles with Gaul a couple of days earlier.
When LE arrested Gaul, he had the revolver which is believed to be the gun used in Emma's murder.
Police contend that Gaul crept up to the Walkers' home in the night and shot two bullets through the external wall into Emma as she lie sleeping.
It's not revealed whether Emma died instantly or slowly. I sure hope it's the former and she didn't suffer. If she instead slowly bled to death after her father had checked her room and falsely believed she was soundly sleeping, I imagine it would add even more anguish to losing his daughter so senselessly.
Sad case. RIP Emma Walker.
Refs:
http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime.../94724926/
http://www.local8now.com/content/news/Wa...42035.html
Sometime late in the evening of Nov. 21st, 46-year-old Mark Walker heard what he thought sounded like a door slamming.
He got up and checked the house. Mr. Walker peered into his 16-year-old daughter's room and was relieved to see her sleeping in her bed.
The next morning at 6:30 a.m., Mrs. Walker went to wake their daughter, Emma, and found that she'd actually been shot. Emma was dead.
It didn't take police long to hone in on Emma's ex-boyfriend, 18-year-old William Riley Gaul (pictured above with Emma).
Emma had broken up with the Marysville College football player two weeks prior. Gaul was arrested at 11 pm the next night.
Gaul had posted about his love for Emma frequently on social media. After Emma was found dead, he continued to do so.
Yesterday, a warrant in the case was released. It revealed that Gaul's grandfather had reported a revolver missing from his truck 3 days before the murder. Gramps had switched vehicles with Gaul a couple of days earlier.
When LE arrested Gaul, he had the revolver which is believed to be the gun used in Emma's murder.
Police contend that Gaul crept up to the Walkers' home in the night and shot two bullets through the external wall into Emma as she lie sleeping.
It's not revealed whether Emma died instantly or slowly. I sure hope it's the former and she didn't suffer. If she instead slowly bled to death after her father had checked her room and falsely believed she was soundly sleeping, I imagine it would add even more anguish to losing his daughter so senselessly.
Sad case. RIP Emma Walker.
Refs:
http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime.../94724926/
http://www.local8now.com/content/news/Wa...42035.html