gozgals
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 2892 Location: A Place Called Vertigo
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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:59 am Post subject: Stalked and Murdered- Denied Protective Order.. |
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This is the kind of murder that could have been prevented. A story I hate to even write about. A young woman with her whole life ahead of her. Why couldn't the courts just give her a protective order? It appears to me she had enough evidence against the man. I am just so upset to have to report this story.
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Fla. Woman Denied Protective Order From Stalker Before Murder
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585535,00.html
click link for full story
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A 23-year-old woman killed outside her Orlando office by a stalker had asked for a protective order but was denied, MiamiHerald.com reported.
Alissa Branton, 23, reportedly turned in more than 70 pages of documents, some e-mails from the stalker, to a judge. The judge denied the request and scheduled a hearing for next week, Fox2Now.com reported.
Police say Roger Troy, 61, fatally shot Branton and then fatally shot himself in an AT&T call center parking lot, when she returned from her lunch break. Her co-workers placed calls to 911 describing the scene.
"This gentlemen just shot this woman several times, and then he shot himself," said another caller,
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