The murder that occurred Monday, June 21, between the Olde Sproul Village Shopping Center and Smedley Park in Springfield, Pa. was reportedly motivated by a wife’s threat to leave a husband for an old lover.
The victim, of Norristown, was a wounded Army calvary scout who had served long-deployments in Iraq and was reportedly the old boyfriend of the wife of the accused killer. The wife had kept up a correspondence with him and was allegedly preparing to leave her husband for him.
The woman has children from a first marriage who are reportedly close to the accused — an immigrant from Jamaica who owns a small business in Morton. Her relationship with the victim is reportedly the cause of the dissolution of the first marriage.
The crime was initially reported at 10:50 a.m. as an assault occurring in a white Jeep Cherokee at the parking lot of the shopping center. County detectives investigating a different matter happened to be on the scene and followed the Jeep down Baltimore Pike into the heavily wooded park where it stopped and the accused was captured after a short chase.
Inside the vehicle was the victim’s bloody body. The accused is claiming self defense.
This is not true.