The barricade touched off Friday afternoon when Trenton police officers responded to the home Stevens rented on Grant Street to conduct a welfare check.
“Police further received additional information from another family member that Stevens’ two daughters had not been to school in 12 days,” Trenton Police Director Ralph Rivera, Jr. said.
“When officers did not receive a response at the door and, fearing for the safety of the family, they made a forced entry into the home through a rear door and immediately smelled an odor consistent with a decomposing body. The officers also noticed maggots throughout the residence.”
He said police heard a man’s voice coming from behind the closed door of a second-floor front bedroom.
The man, later identified as Murphy, allegedly told police there was a dead person with him in the room, as well as a second body in a rear bedroom.
Officers forced their way into the rear bedroom, where investigators said they found a corpse “in an advanced stage of decomposition,” confirming Murphy’s claim.
Murphy then told police he had barricaded three children with him inside the 10-foot-by-11-foot front bedroom.
He also allegedly said he was armed with a handgun and explosives.
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Murphy amassed what Bocchini called “an extensive record involving violence,” spending several stretches in Philadelphia prisons since the early 1990s on charges including aggravated assault, theft and firearms offenses.
“He has convictions for aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy,” Bocchini said.
“He has also been arrested for robbery and weapons offenses, as well as child endangerment.”
Murphy served his longest jail term in Philadelphia after pleading guilty in 2001 to sexual assault, for which he was sentenced to four to ten years’ confinement.
“Murphy, also known as ‘Skip,’ was found to have an arrest warrant out of Pennsylvania for failing to register as a sex offender,” Bocchini said.
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/05/12/gerald-tyrone-murphy-police-kill-barricade-suspect-find-two-bodies/
People should have an easy and inexpensive way to check for arrests, convictions, etc, before getting into a relationship with someone.
You can do it now through a detective agency, but it is expensive.
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