Suspect in Florida slayings ex-sheriff's nephew

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Suspect in Florida slayings ex-sheriff's nephew

Associated Press Tuesday, May 03, 2016

The nephew of a former county sheriff in Florida is suspected of fatally shooting his girlfriend, her father and his ex-wife on Tuesday, police said. He was still at large.

Officers and deputies from multiple agencies in Green Cove Springs are searching for Murray Lancaster, 41, and four schools were on lockdown during the manhunt, Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler and authorities from the Green Cove police department said.

Officers found the bodies of Lancaster's girlfriend Valorie Short, her father, Welland "Buddy" Short, and his ex-wife Erica Green early Tuesday, Beseler said. He said Lancaster is the nephew of former Clay County Sheriff Scott Lancaster.

Murray Lancaster was involved in a previous domestic violence arrest, records show, and Short had taken out a restraining order against him. Lancaster appeared with a gun Tuesday at the Keeping It Classy hair salon where Short worked.


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[WhiteTara]

1. What an evil looking man. nt

[ReRe]

2. I'm sorry to say it, but....

... family values are loosing in Florida. Judges and Sheriffs raise kids who morph into killers as adults. Did they spoil them rotten, or what? Did they grow up thinking they could actually get away with murder? Did they raise themselves? So sad that 3 people are dead because of this mistake of humanity.

[Glitterati]

3. They grow up believing they are above the law

After all, Daddy's the head cop. He will bail him out of anything.

These people truly believe the law does not apply to them - they ARE the law, in their opinion.

[csziggy]

4. Man who killed 3 found dead in camper

By Chris Parenteau - Multi-media journalist , Lynnsey Gardner - Investigative reporter , Kumasi Aaron - Reporter/The Morning Show anchor , Scott Johnson - Reporter , News4Jax.com Staff

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. - A man abducted his ex-girlfriend Tuesday and then shot and killed her, her father and his ex-wife before running from the scene and later taking his own life, Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said.

Murray Lancaster, 40, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a camper trailer on property belonging to his family, ending a manhunt in the deadly triple shooting in the small Clay County town of Green Cove Springs, Beseler said. Lancaster is a nephew of former Clay County Sheriff Scott Lancaster.

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Beseler said Murray Lancaster kidnapped his ex-girlfriend, Valorie Short, at gunpoint from a Green Cove Springs hair salon on Orange Avenue about 9:45 a.m. Tuesday and drove her to the Magnolia Point Golf & Country Club.

Beseler said Murray ran into Short's father, Welland "Buddy" Short, there and then shot and killed them both. Officers responding to 911 calls about the double shooting at Country Road 315 and Medinah Lane found the two victims dead.

More: http://www.news4jax.com/news/crime/police-2-shot-at-home-in-green-cove-springs

[ReRe]

5. Now we hear they are all dead.

... Dead people everyeffingwhere. The little girl in New Mexico; three innocent people in Fla going about their day, gone. How many others? No telling. Sometimes it feels like nothing makes any sense. Nothing.