THE POLICE HAD NOTHING. THEY WERE ZEROING IN ON KENNETH TUCKER, THEN ON 3/02/1999, THE STATE POLICE HAD THREE INDIVIDUALS COME FORWARD WITH INFORMATION THEY HAD ABOUT THE SHOOTING.
THESE THREE INDIVIDUALS WERE MY MOTHER, MY NIECE THEN 15, AND HER BOYFRIEND.
THEY GAVE THE STATE POLICE EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED, AS FAR AS THE NAME OF THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SHOOTING.
THEY DID LEAVE A FEW DETAILS OUT. SUCH AS HOW THEY BECAME AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION, AND OF COURSE NOT BEING PRESENT DURING THE CRIMINAL ACT, THEY ONLY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE TOLD.
REGARDLESS THEY GAVE THE POLICE THE INFORMATION THEY NEEDED TO MAKE AN ARREST, THAT LED TO THE CONVICTION OF THE GUNMAN, AS WELL AS THE ARREST, AND CONVICTION OF THE OTHER INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED, NOT COUNTING THE ONE INDIVIDUAL THEY DECIDED NOT TO CHARGE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS REHEARSED, AND PERJURED TESTIMONY.
NEVER THE LESS WITHOUT THIS INFORMATION, THEY HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, THEY WERE FOCUSING THEIR INVESTIGATION ON KENNETH TUCKER,AND THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THEY WOULD HAVE CHARGED KENNETH TUCKER FOR THE MURDER, AND I BELIEVE THEY WOULD HAVE MADE IT STICK.
IN MY HONEST OPINION,THEY WOULD HAVE CONVINCED A JURY OF THEIR OWN PEERS ( I HAVE NEVER SEEN A JURY SELECTION WHERE THEIR DEFENDANT HAS A JURY OF THEIR PEERS, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY, I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY SAY, BY THE TIME JURY SELECTION IS THROUGH, IT IS MADE UP PRIMARILY OF PEOPLE WHO LEAN FAVORABLY TOWARD THE PROSECUTION.) THAT KENNETH TUCKER WAS THEIR MAN.
NOW IF YOU LOOK AGAIN AT THE PHOTOCOPIES, THEY ISSUED RADIO BULLETIN ON 3/02/1999 TO SURROUNDING COUNTIES TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR TUCKER, THEN CANCELLED THIS ON 3/03/1999.
THEY GOT THE INFORMATION THEY NEEDED ON 3/02/1999, AND THEY WERE NO LONGER INTERESTED IN KENNETH TUCKER AS SUSPECT.
IN LATER REPORTS THEY BRAG ABOUT HOW THIS WAS JUST GOOD OLD FASHIONED POUNDING THE PAVEMENT POLICE WORK, THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, THEY HAD EVERYTHING HANDED TO THEM IN THEIR LAPS. I GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE, BUT THEY HAD NOTHING.