Saturday, July 26, 2008

BENNETT, COLORADO: TEEN DAUGHTER ESCAPES FROM EDWARD DAVIDSON

Map from
The Denver Post

Officers at the murder scene in Bennett. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)

Chris Schneider / The Rocky
A flatbed truck hauls away an SUV from the crime scene about 20 miles east of Denver.

Teen tells tale of terror, tragedy
'Spam King' promised gifts before killing wife, 3-year-old and himself

By
Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
News staff writers Bill Scanlon, Carrie Porter, Tillie Fong and David Accomazzo contributed to this story.
Friday, July 25, 2008


(snip)

The 12-page Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office report that recounts the 16-year-old's recollections does not name her or her 7-month-old brother. But it paints a vivid sequence of events leading up to the burst of violence in the gravel driveway at 43042 E. Arkansas Place, the home where Davidson lived with his family, and where he ran his business before his world unraveled.

Thursday began with a phone call. Davidson told his wife that he was going to turn himself in to authorities. But he wanted to see his family first. Hill was reluctant, but she agreed to bring the children and meet him at the Home Depot at 6000 S. Gun Club Road.

It was about 9:45 a.m. Hill and the children were in the Toyota when Davidson pulled up in a beat-up old green car. He muscled his way into the driver's seat of the Toyota, shoving Hill to the passenger side, and drove off.

Bailey, his 3-year-old daughter, sat buckled in a car seat behind him. In the middle of the back seat, facing backward, was the car seat that held his 7-month-old son. Davidson's 16-year-old daughter sat on the passenger side in the back seat.

(snip)

As he pulled into the driveway leading to their former home, Hill asked him why they were there. Then he stopped, stepped out of the driver's door and pointed the gun at Hill.

She lunged for the gun, but he fired, hitting her in the head. Hill fell dead on the ground outside the passenger door of the Toyota. Then he turned and fired at his oldest daughter, but somehow she squirmed away at just the right instant and the bullet just cut the flesh on the back of her neck. Davidson turned to 3-year-old Bailey, strapped in her car seat and killed her.

By then, the teenager was out the door, running for her life. She hustled about a quarter mile to the closest home, where Denver police officer Jeff Cook, a nine-year veteran, lives.

THIS IS A SAD PORTRAIT OF A COWARD AND A BRAVE TEENAGE GIRL...
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/25/report-spam-king-deaths-due-today/

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