Officers Finally Fired in Murder-Suicide
The four officers who failed to perform their duties in November, finally arrested, after an investigation had more to do with public pressure than anything else. The attoney generals office, family and womens groups were the real success in the ultimate officers'
firing. And the department had a deep inbeded fried egg on their faces. They had no choice. Come to think of it, neither did the victim, whose cries for help fell on deaf ears.
May God keep the children, safe and healthy as they wake each day, trying to understand why they mother, was murdered.
May God keep the children, safe and healthy as they wake each day, trying to understand why they mother, was murdered.
Ohio- Fayette County Sheriff Vernon Stanforth has fired four deputies, saying they delayed the arrest of a former auxiliary deputy who one week later fatally shot his wife and himself.
Although the arrest delay did not appear to contribute to the murder-suicide, an internal investigation showed the four failed to perform their duties, Stanforth said. Three of the four also face criminal charges.
Deputy Patricia Bailey, the sister of the suspect, was dismissed on Thursday, followed on Friday by Deputies Ernest Jackson Jr., Terry Olsen Jr. and John Hyer.
"Each chose their course of action that night which either allowed or encouraged the events that took place and must now face the consequences of those actions," Stanforth said in a statement.
Bailey, Jackson and Olsen have pleaded not guilty to charges of dereliction of duty, a misdemeanor. They are accused of failing to stop Bailey's brother, John Bailey, from vandalizing his home and arrest him Oct. 25. The trial is set for February in Fayette County Common Pleas Court.
Jackson and Olsen had gone to Bailey's home to serve a civil protection order sought by his wife, Lori. The order required him to leave the home and for deputies to seize any guns.
Hyer, formerly a corporal and shift supervisor, called the off-duty Patricia Bailey to alert her, Stanforth said. She went to the home and stopped Jackson and Olsen from removing all the guns, Stanforth said. Three of the four officers, fired:
The three were in the house when John Bailey then smashed windows, ripped out wires and painted walls, authorities said.
Bailey was charged the next day with violating the protective order and damaging the home. Hyer resigned from his rank as corporal to become a deputy.
Bailey kidnapped his wife from the home of their children's baby sitter Nov. 1, fatally shot her in a rural barn and then killed himself, authorities said.
The sheriff's office now has about a dozen deputies for road patrols.
