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| Inmate says he killed Hooters waitress |
| By Richmond Times-Dispatch |
| Published: 02/16/2005 |
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A Virginia prison inmate with a history of mental illness testified today that he killed Hooters waitress Carrie Ann Williams in October 2002. However, the inmate, Jacob Alan Shouse, 22, could recall few details of the killing. He said that he and another man, whom he identified only as "Tim," abducted Williams and that Shouse shot her with a .22-caliber semiautomatic Jensen pistol. When attorneys asked him to provide details of the incident, Shouse said he was extremely drunk and high on marijuana at the time. Shouse's testimony came on the sixth day of the trial of Raleigh Thomas Campbell, Williams' boyfriend and the father of their child. Campbell is being tried in Chesterfield County Circuit Court on charges that he abducted and murdered Williams. Defense attorney Craig S. Cooley called Shouse as his first witness today, and Shouse waived his right not to testify against himself. On cross-examination, prosecutor James J. O'Connell III played an audiotape of an interview police conducted with Shouse. In the interview, Shouse said he was one of three men who abducted Williams and that one of the other men shot her. Shouse was sentenced to 30 years in prison for four armed robberies in Chesterfield committed about the time Williams was killed. He has been held at the Marion Correctional and Treatment Center, the state prison for mentally ill inmates, since he attempted to commit suicide five months ago. |
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