Texas father, son kill NC couple, wound officers in crime spree
 

BECKLEY, W. Va. (Reuters) - A Texas father and son on a multi-state crime spree killed a husband and wife in North Carolina, set their home on fire, stole their truck and then shot two police officers in West Virginia, authorities said on Friday.

Police arrested the men in West Virginia on Thursday after a shootout in which the officers were slightly wounded. West Virginia State Police identified the suspects as Edward Campbell, 54, and Eric Campbell, 21, of Indian Acres, Texas.

"We believe that if West Virginia police would not have stopped this, this crime spree would have carried on," Granville County, North Carolina, Sheriff Brindell Wilkins told Raleigh's WRAL television.

"It's something you see in the movies. It's unreal."

Wilkins said the Campbells were driving a stolen SUV and allegedly broke into the home of Jerome Faulkner, 73, and his wife, Dora, 62, near Oak Hill, North Carolina, about 7 a.m. on Thursday.

The pair set the house on fire and killed the couple. The Campbells then loaded the bodies into the Faulkner's red pickup and drove off in both vehicles to West Virginia, Wilkins said.

West Virginia State Police said in a statement that two Lewisburg police officers noticed the SUV with stolen North Carolina plates and pulled it over on Interstate 64.

The truck stopped as well and its driver, Edward Campbell, opened fire on the officers with a pistol, striking both. One officer returned fire and wounded Campbell in the leg, the statement said.

The elder Campbell ran into the woods and was arrested shortly afterward by a Greenbrier County sheriff's deputy. Eric Campbell, who was driving the SUV, sped away but turned himself in after hiding behind an interstate guardrail, it said.

A search of the truck turned up the Faulkners' bodies hidden beneath a mattress.

The Campbells "tell us that they're father and son, but that's about all we know about them," West Virginia State Police spokesman Lieutenant Michael Baylous said in an interview with Metro News radio.

The officers were taken to Greenbrier Valley Medical Center and a hospital spokeswoman said their conditions were good. The wounded suspect also was taken to a hospital.
Texas father, son kill NC couple, wound officers in crime spree - Yahoo News

Wonder why the two geniuses set the house on fire drawing attention to themselves.

Looks like he might have fallen down a few times.

im guessing you dont know about crime scenes. fire burns up dna and prints

Amateur move.

It brings cops to a burned down house looking for answers, the home owners and the cars registered to that address. They could have just as easily taken the couple's bodies somewhere, dumped them and it might have been weeks later till someone even looked.

WTF is wrong with people

Bullshit.

If they were going to set the house on fire then just leave the dead bodies in the house.
Then drive the car to a place to steal another car or switch to other transportation.

You keyboard crooks aren't worth a shit, just like the warriors.

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But they didn't did they keyboard gangster?

They drew attention to themselves by setting the house on fire then got tracked down driving the victims car.

Which was my exact point.


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If you're looking for logic here, you're not going to find it.

The plan was to kill the home owners, burn down the house and drive around with the bodies. Success!

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How the hell do you decide to kill some people with your son?

It was time for that little pussy to become a man.