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| Dead inmate tied to killing |
| By Times-Dispatch |
| Published: 11/01/2004 |
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A felon who hanged himself early last Thursday in the Henrico County (Va.) Jail was linked to the ambush killing of a man in a town-house unit parking lot April 7. Authorities said Samuel Brandon Haynes, 22, hanged himself less than a day after he was sentenced to 267 years in prison for his role in a Feb. 21 home-invasion robbery in King William County. Haynes was connected to Phillip Ray Jernigan, 22, who authorities say was killed because his criminal associates thought he had spoken to police about the robbery. Authorities said Haynes placed a call April 6, a day before Jernigan's death, from the Culpeper County Jail that set into motion Jernigan's murder. Haynes was being held in Culpeper on drug charges. Haynes, Jernigan and two other men were implicated in the King William robbery in which the owner of a tree-service firm and his family were robbed at gunpoint of $30,000. Haynes and his accomplices believed Jernigan was talking to police about the case, authorities said. "The ironic thing is that Jernigan wasn't snitching," Henrico Commonwealth's Attorney Wade Kizer told The Times-Dispatch this year. Haynes was never charged in the killing. |
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