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Stanley
NEACE
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics:
Shooting rampage - He
didn’t like the way his wife cooked his eggs
Number of victims: 5
Date of murders: September 10, 2011
Date of birth: 1963
Victims profile:
His wife, Sandra Neace, 54, her daughter, Sandra Rachel
Strong, 28, Strong's boyfriend, Dennis Turner, 31, and
neighbors Teresa Fugate, 30, and Tammy Kilborn, 40
Method of murder:
Shooting (12-guage
pump action shotgun)
Location: Breathitt County, Kentucky, USA
Status:
Committed suicide by shooting himself the same day
Kentucky Tragedy: Man Kills Wife, Five Others,
in Rampage Over Cold Eggs, Say Cops
By Naimah Jabali-Nash - CBS News
September 13, 2010
JACKSON, Ky. (CBS/AP) Authorities say a man known
for his hot temper snapped Saturday morning over how his wife cooked
his eggs, killing her and four others with a shotgun before shooting
himself.
Neighbors in the Breathitt County mobile home
community, nearly 90 miles southeast of Lexington, Ky., say
47-year-old Stanley Neace stormed across seven lawns in his pajamas
and fired dozens of shots from a 12-guage, pump action shotgun around
11:30 a.m.
Trooper Jody Sims of the Kentucky State Police said
Neace killed the five people in two mobile homes, then went to his own
home and shot himself. The victims were identified as the gunman's
wife, 54-year-old Sandra Neace, her 28-year-old daughter Sandra R.
Strong, and neighbors Dennis Turner, 31, Teresea Fugate, 30, and
40-year-old Tammy Kilborn.
Sherri Anne Robinson, a relative of Turner and
Fugate, said witnesses to the shootings told her that the shooting
rampage occurred after Neace became irate when he was displeased with
how his wife cooked his eggs.
"Over eggs?" Robinson said. "I thought that was
crazy. Really. I mean just because his eggs weren't hot?"
Kentucky State Police spokesman Tony Watts said
they are still trying to determine what exactly happened during the
rampage.
Robinson told officials that Fugate, her sister,
was shot in front of her 7-year-old daughter.
"Her daughter said, 'Please, please don't shoot
me,' and he said, 'All right, you can leave,' and she ran out," said
Robinson, who spoke to her niece after the shootings. "She went and
told her neighbors, and the neighbors called the law."
Neace's hostile temper was apparently escalating
over the past few months, so much so that it forced his landlord to
start eviction proceedings.
"He was unpredictable," said landlord Ray Rastegar.
"Little things would set him off."
The bodies of Neace and his five victims were sent
to the state medical examiner's office in Frankfort for autopsies.
Man behind mass murder had criminal record
WKYT.com
September 13, 2010
It's a shocking
crime. Six people, including the gunman, died over the weekend after a
shooting spree in an eastern Kentucky trailer park.
It happened in
the Mount Carmel community of Breathitt County.
As police
continue to look for a motive, 27 NEWSFIRST has learned more about the
shooter's past.
We checked with
the Breathitt County Circuit Clerk's office, who told us the shooter,
47-year-old Stanley Neace, was arrested in January, 1993 and charged
with two counts of sodomy involving a child. Those were felony
charges.
In 1998, court
officials say Neace pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of third
degree sexual abuse.
He was placed on
two years of probation, and his rights were restored in June, 2002.
Police say Neace
killed five people in the trailer park Saturday, before turning the
gun on himself.
Investigators say
Neace followed his wife, Sandra, into a nearby trailer, where he
killed her, along with her daughter, Sandra Rachel Strong, and
Strong's boyfriend, Dennis Turner.
Neighbors Teresa
Fugate and Tammy Kilborn were also killed in the trailer park, before
Neace killed himself.
There are reports
Neace went on the shooting spree because he was upset over how his
wife had cooked his eggs. However, police have not confirmed that.
"I don't
understand what could make somebody do something so horrible and take
so many lives," Shane Kidd, who lost two relatives in the shootings,
said.
Family members of
Sandra Neace, Stanley Neace's wife, say there may have been warning
signs before the shootings.
"I think he
(Stanley Neace) was really jealous," Dean Cockerham, who also lost
relatives in the shootings, said. "He would give her (Sandra Neace)
dirty looks and say something smart to her."
Family members say
they wished they had paid more attention to a conversation they had
with Sandra Neace years ago. They say she told them Stanley Neace
threatened to kill her if she ever left him.
Funeral services
for Sandra Strong will be Tuesday afternoon at 1 at Watts Funeral
Home. Arrangements for the other victims are still in the works.
We're also learned a memorial fund
has been set up for the children of Rachel Strong at First National
Bank in Jackson.
Man shot five because of way wife cooked his
eggs
Kentucky man Stanley Neace killed wife,
stepdaughter and three neighbours before shooting himself
Guardian.co.uk
September 12, 2010
For months, Stanley Neace had shown increasing
hostility to his neighbours in rural eastern Kentucky, to the point
where his landlord started eviction proceedings. Then he snapped over
the way his wife had cooked his eggs, and killed her and four others
with a shotgun before shooting himself.
Neighbours in the roadside mobile home park said
Neace had stormed across several lawns in his pyjamas on Saturday and
fired dozens of shots from a 12-gauge pump shotgun. When the rampage
ended, Neace and his wife lay dead, along with the gunman's
stepdaughter and three neighbours.
Trooper Jody Sims of the Kentucky State Police said
Neace, 47, killed the five people in two mobile homes, then went to
his home and turned the gun on himself. Investigators were still
working today to piece together what had happened, Breathitt County's
sheriff, Ray Clemons, said.
The state medical examiner's office in Frankfort
was expected to carry out autopsies on all six who died.
Steve Smith, a neighbour, saw the shootings from
the window of his mobile home. When he walked outside, Smith said
Neace took a shot at him but missed.
"He chased his wife around that Jeep, shooting at
her," Smith said. "I heard her screaming and running."
Sims said that when state police arrived about an
hour after the gunfire began, they heard a single gunshot and found
Neace's body on the porch in the unincorporated community of Mount
Carmel in Breathitt County, which is home to about 16,000 people.
Sherri Anne Robinson, a relative of two of the
victims, said witnesses to the shootings told her that Neace had
become enraged when his wife did not cook his breakfast to his liking.
"She tried to run to tell my family and he shot
them too because they found out about it," she said.
The victims were identified as the gunman's wife,
Sandra Neace, 54; her daughter, Sandra R Strong, 28; and neighbours
Dennis Turner, 31, Teresa Fugate, 30, and Tammy Kilborn, 40.
The names of the victims were provided by the
Kentucky State police, while Robinson described their relationships.
Fugate is Robinson's sister, Turner is her cousin and Kilborn was a
witness who happened to step on to the porch of another mobile home
when she heard the commotion.
Robinson said Fugate was shot in front of her
seven-year-old daughter.
"Her daughter said, 'Please, please don't shoot
me,' and he said, 'All right, you can leave,' and she ran out," said
Robinson, who spoke to her niece after the shootings. "She went and
told her neighbours, and the neighbours called the law."
Robinson said Neace had never appeared threatening
to her, but that he was known to have a violent history. Sims could
not confirm that Neace had a criminal record.The county prosecutor,
Brendon Miller, said his dealings with Neace had been on nonviolent
issues involving child support, and he had been in Miller's office a
month ago regarding a traffic ticket.
Sims said that, when police arrived at the mobile
home park, about 90 miles southeast of Lexington, they heard a single
gunshot, then found Neace's body on his porch. They found victims in
two other mobile homes.
"Over eggs?" Robinson said. "I thought that was
crazy. Really. I mean just because his eggs weren't hot?"
Landlord Ray Rastegar said Neace received monthly
disability checks from the Social Security Administration, though he
didn't know what his disability was. Rastegar said he had begun the
process of evicting Neace, who had lived in the trailer park for about
seven years, because he had become more hostile towards neighbours in
recent months.
"He was unpredictable," Rastegar said. "Little
things would set him off."
Robert Collins, a neighbour, 50, said it wasn't the
first time he had heard gunshots in the area. Neace often walked down
to a nearby river to take practice shots, he said.
Smith said Neace ended up mumbling to himself on
the porch of his trailer, pointed the shotgun at his head and pulled
the trigger.
"He's been trouble ever since he's been here,"
Smith said. "He's always been trouble."
The trailer in a shooting rampage by Stanley
Neace in Jackson, Ky.
(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
