Scott Abbott killed Nika Sandlin, Jeri Cole, William Gilbert, Joshua Gilleo (video)
By Therese Lisieux on March 8th, 2009Updated on March 9: Scott Lamar Abbott, 24, was charged with 4 counts of capital murder. Abbott was arrested and detained. Abbott has no bond conditions allowed.
Abbott was accused of having stabbed and slashed 2 women and 2 men while they were sleeping in their home. The dead were Nika Sandlin, 24, Jeri Cole, 27, William Gilbert, 31, and Joshua Gilleo, 26.
Abbott allegedly committed 4 murders single-handedly. Police suspected Abbott was the jilted boyfriend of one of the two women who was killed.
Scott Abbott killed Nika Sandlin, Jeri Cole, William Gilbert, Joshua Gilleo - news link.
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Four people were murdered in Hueytown, Birmingham, Alabama. Police suspect that the victims were killed on early Saturday morning, March 7.
Two adult females and two adult males were found dead in a home at 225 Woodland Drive. The victims, whose ages are in the range of their twenties, were violently killed.
The names of the dead were not released at press time.
Officers said they have detained a person of interest in custody. Hueytown Police chief Chuck Hagler said that the residents of Hueytown need not be worried. This murder case appears to be an isolated incident.
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March 10th, 2009 at 12:01 am
NIKA’S LAST NAME IS SANDLIN
March 10th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Thanks.
March 10th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Very sad, such a waste, Nika was a good person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She loved her daughter, Zoe, and her grandparents.
March 10th, 2009 at 8:44 am
sorry to say,jeri always played guys and finally caught up with her always playing games and doin drugs, nika was great, its sad that nika and chad and the other guy are dead cause of jeri’s BS….sad….sad….sad.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:28 am
you know everyone needs to remember that nika was a great mother,she loved zoey with her whole heart and would have given her the world some day and this jerk took her from zoey and i just hope that he lives with what he done and never forgets there faces cause he doesnt deserve to i hope he dreams of this everytime he closes his eyes.. nika is still alive in zoey and always will be and shes in a better place we all have a extra angel looking down on us and lord knows zoey and tasha and her whole family and friends have the best angel of all….. love you nika and may you rest in peace….