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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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10 Jun 2005 12:30:51 AM |
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Good Christian Goes on Murderous Rampage |
http://www.sgvtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,205~12220~2911462,00.html
Article Published: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 8:59:00 PM PST
Kidnap suspect leaves his friends, family stumped
Motive unknown in abduction
By Angie Valencia-Martinez , Staff Writer
Back in Alabama, friends and family of the suicidal man who tied up Los
Angeles freeways for four hours after an allegedly kidnapping attempt said
Wednesday they were baffled how a church-going family man and selfless
volunteer could go so wrong on a short business trip to Southern
California.
Police too were bewildered over what motivated suspect Dennis Elliot
Shellhouse, 45, to allegedly try to abduct a woman from her home in
exclusive Lake Sherwood in Ventura County and then lead authorities on a
wild 75-mile chase across Los Angeles County.
Cornered on the I-10, he held officers at bay by threatening to kill
himself. He was finally taken into custody after being shot, bitten by a
police dog and tear-gassed, and is recovering from his injuries.
"He may have gone crazy,' the suspect's mother, Jane Shellhouse, 67, said
in a telephone interview from Georgia. "It is not like him to do something
like this.'
Shellhouse, an industrial trainer from Phenix City, Ala. a city of 28,500
residents on the Georgia border left for California on Friday for a
business trip for his Georgia-based company, Quick Start, according to his
mother.
She was contacted by a sheriff's deputy in Los Angeles seeking more
information about her son, who she described as heavy-set, weighing as much
as 300 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. She said he had been taking
diet pills and other medication for depression.
Friends said they could not believe Shellhouse was responsible for the
kidnapping attempt and the ensuing police chase and freeway standoff. There
were even some rumors in town that Shellhouse himself had been kidnapped.
"There is no way that can be the same person,' said neighbor Kathy
Birdsong.
"The only explanation is they've got the wrong guy,' said South Girard
School Assistant Principal Joshua Laney. "The identification has been mixed
up or something. There's no way that the guy that I know would ever attempt
to take anybody hostage for money.'
Laney knew Shellhouse through his volunteer work at the school, where his
14-year-old son was enrolled. He was also a Phenix City Schools Heart of
the Community Volunteer in 2004 and 2005.
Shellhouse, whose wife teaches at a local school, has a son, 14, in high
school and a 19-year-old daughter attending a university.
He was described as a robotics buff competing in Battlebot and other robot
combat competitions and mentoring his son's robotics team at school.
"(He) is a model citizen here in Phenix City and extremely admired by
students and teachers,' said schools superintendent Larry DiChiara. "We are
baffled. When I first got the call I said, 'That's not the same guy.''
But on Tuesday morning, Shellhouse allegedly lied his way into a wealthy
gated community of Lake Sherwood near Thousand Oaks.
He is believed to have posed as a delivery courier to get past security,
saying he needed to drop off a package for a 35-year- old woman. The
unidentified woman met him in front of her porch in the 2100 block of Marsh
Brook Road, where he pulled out a gun, forced her into her home and left a
ransom note, officials said.
"He knew her name but we don't know how,' said Eric Nishimoto, a spokesman
for the Ventura County Sheriff's Department. "We don't have anything on
him. We haven't found anything to indicate that he would engage in any
activity like this.'
As Shellhouse allegedly tried to take the woman, who has not been
identified, to a minivan he rented, she was able to mouth "Call 911' to one
of her neighbors and then managed to escape.
The alleged attempted kidnapping led to a 2-hour car chase from Ventura
County into Los Angeles County and ended in Alhambra in a standoff with law
enforcement officers on the San Bernardino Freeway.
During the standoff, Shellhouse repeatedly threatened to kill himself. Two
handguns and a knife were recovered at the scene. Shellhouse was wounded by
a single gunshot wound when police removed him from the van after firing
tear gas into it. He also suffered a bite wound when a police dog was sent
in to pull him out.
Sheriff Jay Jones of the Lee County Sheriff's Department in Alabama said
Shellhouse does not have a criminal record there. "We haven't even answered
any calls at his residence,' he said. He added that a license to carry a
handgun has been revoked.
The Alabama man was expected to be booked on suspicion of assault with a
deadly weapon against a peace officer in Los Angeles. He also faces charges
related to the attempted kidnapping in Ventura County, Nishimoto said.
Meanwhile, residents of Lake Sherwood are left feeling uneasy.
"It left a funny feeling,' said Nancy Purrill, who is co-owner of the
Foxfield Riding School on Potrero Road. "We feel violated. It's so peaceful
here and lovely. It never occurred that anything like that could happen.'
Staff Writer Eric Leach and The Opelika-Auburn News contributed to this
story. Angie Valencia-Martinez can be reached at
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| User: "SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim" |
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| Title: Re: Good Christian Goes on Murderous Rampage |
10 Jun 2005 11:47:26 AM |
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doing a fine job taking after his loving, caring shithole of a god
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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| Title: Re: Good Christian Goes on Murderous Rampage |
11 Jun 2005 06:31:28 PM |
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"SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim" <killgod@killgod.com> wrote:
doing a fine job taking after his loving, caring shithole of a god
What I thought was so telling about this was the reaction from
his fellow Christians. They pretended to express shock and
amazement that one of their good Christian members would ever
do such a thing, as if it's not something that happens a thousand
times a day.
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