Alabama Cops Charge Missing Boyfriend With Murder in Deaths of Woman and Her Father – Crime Online

Alabama police have obtained capital homicide warrants for John Peyton Scott III, accusing him of killing his girlfriend and her father in Helena.

Sharon Tarwater Whited, 40, and Chester E. Tarwater Jr, 75, had been discovered lifeless of their house on Wednesday, as CrimeOnline beforehand reported.

Scott, who additionally reportedly lived within the residence, was initially named an individual of curiosity within the deaths of Whited and Tarwater, and has not been positioned.

Tarwater’s 12-year-old grandson discovered his grandfather unresponsive within the house and ran to a neighbor’s along with his grandmother, who suffers from dementia, to name for assist. First responders discovered Tarwater in a hallway and his daughter in one other a part of the home.

The grandmother was not harmed. Whited’s two daughters weren’t at house on the time of the incident; she has additionally helped look after her nephews for the reason that dying of her brother.

WBRC reported that police named him the suspect and secured the warrants on Sunday.

Helena police say that Scott is probably going armed and harmful and ask anybody with data to name 205-663-6499.

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[Featured image: Left: Sharon Tarwater Whited/Facebook; Center: John Peyton Scott/Helena Police Department; Right: Chester “Chuck” Tarwater/Facebook]