Posted on 01/22/2005 7:11:32 AM PST by SandRat
The shooting of a robber at a Bowie RV park led to a man's arrest Friday in the abduction of a woman in East Texas that was captured on a surveillance camera at the Wal-Mart where she had just ended her shift. The 19-year-old woman's body was found later.
Johnny Lee Williams, 24, was arrested at about 7 a.m. Thursday morning at a Willcox hospital after being shot by an employee of an Bowie RV park investigators say he attempted to rob at gunpoint.
He was being held on a $1 million bond at the Cochise County jail on an aggravated-kidnapping charge in connection with the Texas abduction as well as a local charge of attempted armed robbery, authorities said.
Megan Leann Holden, a 19-year-old college student from Henderson, Texas, was reported missing Thursday morning when she did not return home from her night shift at a Tyler, Texas, Wal-Mart.
Her body was discovered Friday on the side of a West Texas highway near the community of Stanton.
About 6 a.m. Friday, investigators say, Williams pulled into the Mountain View RV Park in Bowie driving Holden's pickup truck. He went inside a convenience store on the property where he pulled out a gun and demanded money, said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman for the Cochise County Sheriff's Department.
"He said, 'This is robbery. I want all the money in the cash register,' " store worker Richie Chapman said. "And as he said that, he drew a weapon from underneath his shirt, and I drew and fired."
"If he had gotten a shot off, I would have been dead," said Chapman, a retired New York firefighter who carries a .45-caliber automatic. "And I have no qualms about it, that I think he would have shot me."
Chapman "felt threatened, and pulled out his own gun and shot the man one time," Capas said.
Investigators said Williams ran to the truck and drove away. A short time later, as he traveled east on Interstate 10, Williams pulled over and began flagging down passing motorists.
When deputies arrived at the area where Williams was flagging down motorists, they were told by someone that the man had driven himself to Northern Cochise Community Hospital in Willcox.
Capas said Williams was treated at the hospital before being released to FBI agents Friday.
This is a little more background detail on just how the Texas abductor and killer of the 19-Year old Texas Girl got caught.
2nd Amendment Bump too!
Short trial...then shoot him.
He should have shot him one more time, right between the friggin eyes!
What a scum sucking, sorry sack of sh!t. I hope he dies a painful death in prison or in the electric chair.
"If he had gotten a shot off, I would have been dead," said Chapman, a retired New York firefighter who carries a .45-caliber automatic. "And I have no qualms about it, that I think he would have shot me."
Thank heavens he was armed..I believe we would be reading of two victims of this murderer.
Wait, wait; don't tell me: paroled from a Blue state prison, right?
Chapman's good, the NRA could make him their poster boy.
He'll get the needle here in Texas.
The shot must have been more like a graze to the shoulder. Wouldn't a .45 directly in the shoulder have knocked him flat?
At least the local media has noted that the good guy was carrying, and armed with a .45!
Too bad Mr. Chapman didn't empty his whole clip into the scumbag. My heart goes out to the family of that poor girl.
Normally, I'd agree with you. However, considering he may know where Megan is...dead or alive, I'm glad he lived and hopefully will cooperate before suffering in the pen.
Sadly, in the Houston area the local MSM are really emphasizing the fact that this thug is a former Marine. The photo they are using is his boot camp photo with dress blues. The MSM should follow him to prison and be his cell mates.
The Police should have Let him bleed to death.
Unfortunately she was found dead alongside the road in Stanton, TX before he was caught.
Nope, an AWOL Marine from Camp Pendleton who was awaiting Courts-Martial when he went AWOL.
Oh the horror.
I see the victim was white. Why are there no screams of "hate crime?!" If it were the other way around Jesse and the usual suspects would be screaming about racism in America, etc.
Maybe, if you notice he's a BIG feller.
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