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    Sheriff: Facebook spat led to 2 shooting deaths

    MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. (AP) — A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said Wednesday.

    The victims had complained to police that Marvin's Potter's daughter was harassing them after they deleted her as a friend on the social networking site, Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece said Wednesday.

    Potter, 60, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in last week's slayings of Billy Payne Jr. and his girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth. The couple was shot to death in their Mountain City home in the far northeast corner of the state. Their 8-month-old baby was found unharmed in Hayworth's arms.

    "It's a senseless thing," the sheriff said.

    Authorities have been involved other cases where Potter's daughter, Jenelle Potter, believed she had been slighted by someone.

    Marvin Potter's friend, Jamie Curd, has also been charged in the killings. Curd, 38, had romantic feelings for Jenelle Potter, 30, the sheriff said.

    Potter and Curd were arraigned Wednesday. Potter asked for time to hire an attorney while Curd was assigned a public defender who did not immediately return a phone message.

    Assistant District Attorney General Matthew Roark said Curd's initial bond was raised to $1.5 million while Roark agreed to put off a bond hearing for Potter until next week, when he is expected to have an attorney. Potter remains jailed on his initial $200,000 bond.

    The victims lived with Billy Payne Sr., who was the last person to see them alive. He told detectives he saw Hayworth get up to feed the baby before he left for work at about 5:30 a.m. on Jan. 31.

    The slayings were discovered about five hours later when a former neighbor stopped by to pick up mail the family would save for him.

    The younger Payne was found in his bedroom, and Hayworth was found in the baby's room.

     
    • Swan  •  3 mths ago
      I had Facebook for six months. I only got an account because my mother died and it was the only way people would "respond" to the funeral arrangements (sad).

      The last week I had it, I "liked" someones vague comment and all of my inlaws started calling me.I guess the person that posted it was in a fight with them and now all of a sudden I am taking sides.

      I deleted my Facebook because it was absolutely astonishing how they reacted to the incident and I didn't want it to happen again!

      BET they were all coming over the next day asking why I blocked them....I showed them I deleted my account because of DRAMA and they still won't talk to me..........

      Facebook makes people evil!
      • Eldon 3 mths ago
        Your better off with out them even if it does not seem like it yet.
      • nono 3 mths ago
        that's just crazy... i am a single guy and i was talking to a couple of girls via email and then they wanted to friend on facebook at about the same time, so i did.. that was a big mistake...can we say "cat fight" ..lol.. i was not yet "serious" with either of the girls, but they didn't see it that way..
      • rOptic Samurai 3 mths ago
        That's retarded. But dont worry, they're your inlaws.
    • IFightYourSpam  •  Greensboro, North Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      The daughter better be arrested too. Damned DERANGED lunatics!
      • E 3 mths ago
        Bullets for both, forget jail time...
      • Realist 3 mths ago
        AND make sure this particular genetic line ends NOW
    • FKU  •  3 mths ago
      "Authorities have been involved other cases where Potter's daughter, Jenelle Potter, believed she had been slighted by someone..." - let me guess, troublemaker Jenelle, is still walking around free, and is a narcissistic psychopath that will always have a fight going with someone, hundreds of people during her lifetime.
    • H K  •  3 mths ago
      Proof our world is getting dumber and more ridiculous by the minute.
      • joe 3 mths ago
        Naw...you just hear about the madness that has been going on for thousands of years more, because of advances in media.
    • Caliracer  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      Face Book,My Space,Twitter,E-mail,Texting,Messages,Voice Mail...All i do is answer phone calls if my friends want to talk..Yup! old school or old fool but this is me.....
      • mr wallace 3 mths ago
        If your old school then why the computer ???
      • Zagnut 3 mths ago
        what about skype? is skype okay?
    • Brian  •  Baltimore, Maryland  •  3 mths ago
      Sick people This obsession with Facebook is out of control My 32 year old girlfriend is on it from the time she gets home from work to bed time It should be called life book Because it consumes your life and kills others
      • mmm 3 mths ago
        your girlfriend,brian,tell her to stay the hell off face book,you should be enough for her,tell her it's you, or facebook,see who she chooses,if she keeps facebook,leave her #$%$
      • Ladybug 3 mths ago
        A lot of relatonships have broken up over FB. Easy cheaters site !
    • robert c  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  3 mths ago
      what is a facebook !??
    • Slim  •  Dayton, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      What's a facebook?
    • christina  •  San Diego, California  •  3 mths ago
      Wonder what it would be like, if everyone just smoked pot?
    • my2cents  •  3 mths ago
      Good reason to just delete your whole FB account.
    • Miss*Ireland  •  Detroit, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      A child will be an orphan because someone was unfriended. SMH in disgust
    • independent  •  Rolling Meadows, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      I deleted my face book account a while back.
    • Brian  •  3 mths ago
      Facebook is worthless. It's a bunch of people writing things like, "Got out of bed and took a dump. Then went to the store."
    • Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      There is something seriously wrong in this world!
    • Ken  •  Wallingford, Connecticut  •  3 mths ago
      I still haven't succumbed to this so-called social network. I have been asked to join Facebook by friends at least 25 times and each time I start to join, I read the following: "You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof." This contract stops me dead in my tracks. People take this crap way to seriously.
    • 好的  •  3 mths ago
      I don't use facebook or the twit thing, life is okay
    • Capt. Thunderpants  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Over Facebook??? Idiots.
    • ignatius r  •  Sacramento, California  •  3 mths ago
      poor baby has to grow up with no parents over a bunch of stupid #$%$ what a jacked up world we live in.
    • stringbean  •  Fayetteville, North Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      Sounds to me as if both father and daughter are psychologically and emotionally UNSTABLE!! A father who still takes actions in regards to his adult daughter's friendship/acquaintance woes needs to cut the apron strings...an adult daughter who turns to daddy to fix her "boo boos" has never learned what moving on and leaving the past where it belongs means.
    • charleybronson  •  Islip, New York  •  3 mths ago
      I've given up on technoglogy. I still have a tv set from the 80's and that's all I need.
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