Thursday, April 7, 2011

Sanford, FL: Families of slain couple deserve no damages, Seminole Sheriff's lawyer says

SANFORD — An attorney for Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger today argued that deputies did nothing wrong when they turned away two college students who showed them death threats from Andrew Allred hours before he hunted them down and shot them in their Oviedo home.

Allred, 24, of Oviedo, killed his former girlfriend, Tiffany Barwick, and friend Michael Ruschak on Sept. 24, 2007.

Allred pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and is on Florida's death row.

The victims' families filed a wrongful-death suit against Eslinger two years ago.

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