DETECTIVES HUNT FOR CLUES IN KILLING OF LANCASTER MAN.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Homicide homicide (hŏm`əsīd), in law, the taking of human life. Homicides that are neither justifiable nor excusable are considered crimes. A criminal homicide committed with malice is known as murder, otherwise it is called manslaughter. detectives searched Thursday for clues in the death of a father of four who was bound and gagged then shot while home alone with his 3-year-old son. Michael Walker's body was found Wednesday afternoon in his Lancaster home by his three other children when they returned home from school. ``He was a very nice man,'' said Ethel Youngblood, a close friend and neighbor. ``He was a good parent and a good husband.'' It was Youngblood who cared for the children while sheriff's investigators marked evidence and removed Walker's body from the home on West Avenue J-4. On Thursday she described the 3-year-old's account of his father's last moments. ``He said the robbers came in looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. money and carried a gun,'' said Youngblood. ``He said they put paper over his mouth and did something to his eyes.'' The boy said the intruders locked him in a bedroom, but not before he saw his father's feet bound with handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. , his mouth taped closed and his hands tied together behind his back. Just before leaving, the men told the toddler he could come out. When he did, he found his father bleeding from the chest and mouth. ``He tried to wake up his dad but couldn't,'' Youngblood said. ``So he went back into the bedroom and began to play.'' It wasn't until the three older children came home and saw their father's body lying across his bed, that sheriff's deputies were summoned. ``He was a church-going man,'' said Youngblood, who along with her husband ran a ministry within the apartment complex that Walker had attended. ``This was truly uncalled for.'' Youngblood said Walker was a caring man who because of health reasons stayed home with the children and cooked and cleaned while his wife went to work. ``I picture him laughing and giggling, I don't understand how this happened,'' friend Mike Jap said. Jap had seen Walker earlier Wednesday decorating the family home for Christmas. On Thursday his work was evident - a small pine tree was decked with lights and tinsel tin·sel n. 1. Very thin sheets, strips, or threads of a glittering material used as a decoration. 2. Something sparkling or showy but basically valueless: the tinsel of parties and promotional events. . The patio patio In Spanish and Latin American architecture, a courtyard open to the sky within a building. A Spanish development of the Roman atrium, it is comparable to the Italian cortile but provides more seclusion, possibly due to Moorish custom. The patio of the contemporary U.S. , too, was lit and a silver star shone shone v. A past tense and a past participle of shine. shone Verb a past of shine shone shine on the apartment roof. Added to the decorations Thursday was a candle and a potted pot·ted adj. 1. a. Placed in a pot. b. Grown in a pot: many potted plants in the study. 2. Preserved in a pot, can, or jar. 3. Slang a. plant left for family members in Walker's memory. |
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