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Jimmy Earl
WHITT
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Robbery
- To avoid arrest
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: June 1994
Date of birth: 1971
Victims profile: One man / Officer Gary Wayne Heath / Deputy Sheriff Len J.
Rowell / Lieutenant Coy N. Smith
Method of murder:
Shooting
Location: Alabama/Mississippi, USA
Status: Committed suicide by shooting himself
after being
surrounded by federal agents
on June 28, 1994
Deputy Sheriff Len J. Rowell
Pearl River County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi
End of Watch: Tuesday, June 28, 1994
Deputy Len Rowell was shot and killed
by the suspect who had shot and killed Greenville, Alabama, Officer Gary
Heath on June 14, 1994.
Deputy Rowell had pulled the suspect
over at 3:45 am and called in the tag number. Dispatchers came back with
nothing on the tag number. As he approached the car, the suspect exited
the vehicle shooting. Deputy Rowell was struck six times in the vest and
once in the shoulder as he reached for his weapon. He fell to the ground
unconscious and was then shot twice in the face.
After the suspect murdered Deputy
Rowell he was stopped by Lieutenant Coy Smith, of the Alabama Public
Safety Commission. As he sat in his patrol car calling in the tag number
the suspect shot him in the head, killing him.
The suspect committed suicide after
being surrounded by federal agents later in the day.
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Lieutenant Coy N. Smith
Alabama Public Service Commission,
Alabama
End of Watch: Tuesday, June 28, 1994
Lieutenant Coy Smith was shot and killed after
stopping a suspect who had murdered Greenville, Alabama, Officer Gary
Heath and Pearl River County, Mississippi, Sheriff's Deputy Len Rowell.
As Lieutenant Smith was calling the tag number the
suspect shot him in the head.
The suspect committed suicide later in the day after
being surrounded by federal agents.
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Officer Gary Wayne Heath
Greenville Police Department, Alabama
End of Watch: Tuesday, June 14, 1994
Officer Gary Heath was shot and killed at 4:00 am by
a suspect.
The suspect later shot and killed Deputy Len J.
Rowell, of the Pearl River County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi, and
Lieutenant Coy Smith of the Alabama Public Service Commission. The
suspect committed suicide after being surrounded by other officers after
killing Lieutenant Smith.
Officer Heath had served with the agency for 10
months. He was survived by his parents and brother.
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SEX: M RACE: ? TYPE: N MOTIVE:
CE-felony
MO: Killed one holdup victim
and three policemen in three-week rampage.
DISPOSITION: Suicide to avoid
arrest, June 28, 1994.
