Suspect met teen online and ‘catfished’ her before killing three members of her family, according to officers
Photograph: Cliff Owen/APPhotograph: Cliff Owen/APThe suspect in a triple homicide in southernwho died in a shootout with police was a Virginia law enforcement officer who police believe drove across the country to meet a teenage girl before killing three members of her family.
Edwards, a resident of North Chesterfield, Virginia, met the girl online and obtained her personal information by deceiving her with a false identity, known as “catfishing”, Riverside police said. Police in Riverside, about 50 miles south-east of downtown Los Angeles, received a call for a welfare check on Friday morning concerning a man and woman involved in a disturbance near a car. Investigators later determined the two people were Edwards and the teenager, whose age was not released.
The cause of the fire was under investigation, but appeared to have been intentionally set, police said. Edwards was hired as a deputy sheriff in Washington county, Virginia, on 16 November, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
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