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A West Virginia man has been arrested and answerable with annihilation in affiliation to the January 2014 Artery 81 cutting in Franklin County.
John "Boo" Wayne Strawser Jr., 38, is answerable with aboriginal amount murder, in which badge said Strawser attempt and dead Timothy "Asti" Davison, 28, of Poland, Maine, on Jan. 4, 2014, abreast the Maryland-Pennsylvania bound on I-81.
Strawser is additionally adverse assassination accuse in affiliation to the annihilation of a woman in West Virginia in April.
A columnist appointment apropos the adventure and the arrest of Strawser is set to booty abode today at 2 p.m. at Pennsylvania State Badge Troop H address in Harrisburg.
Following Davison's death, an actual analysis ensued in chase of the being amenable for the cutting afterlife of the Maine driver, said Matthew D. Fogal, District Attorney for Franklin County.
Fogal said through a columnist absolution Monday that antecedent affirmation aggregate during the alpha phases of the analysis included video footage that portrayed a agent access Davison's vehicle, a 911 alarm in which Davison declared the agent that the ballista was driving, GPS abstracts from Davison's vehicle, carapace casings, acrylic alteration on Davison's agent and a Ford Ranger XLT adumbration that was begin at the abomination arena which would accept been included on the agent that Davison declared in the 911 call.
GPS abstracts showed that Davison had maintained a abiding acceleration from Florida, about there was a apparent access starting in Martinsburg, West Virginia, the columnist absolution stated.
However, State Badge at Chambersburg said board were contacted by a man on April 20 in attention to Davison's murder, in which the man claimed that he and his wife may accept been the advised targets.
The brace told badge that they knew Strawser and that he "gets in rages," according to the affirmation of apparent cause.
Trooper Jason Cachara said in the affirmation that the man told badge that he "believed that Strawser was hunting him and his wife the night Davison was killed. He estimated that Strawser mistook Davison's argent SUV for endemic (a argent Honda Pilot). The man recalled the specific night and what they were doing. The abutting morning, he saw the account that appear Davison had been killed."
Police were abreast by the man that Strawser acclimated to axis his wife, and that bodies told him that Strawser said he would annihilate him to get to his wife, according to cloister documents.
"I begin internet accessories acknowledging what the man had related. John Wayne Strawser Jr., was answerable in a assassination analysis in the Kingwood, WV area, about 04/16/15," Trooper Cachara said in the affidavit.
Fogal said affirmation that was aggregate in the abutting appearance of the analysis focused on Strawser, after bond him to affirmation that had ahead been found.
Fogal said badge were able to affirm that Strawser endemic a 1997 Ford Ranger with aphotic lapis paint--the aforementioned blush acrylic that had been begin on Davison's vehicle. Cell belfry advice links Strawser to the breadth in which the annihilation occurred, and additionally confirms that Strawser had fabricated again aggravation calls to the man's wife that had appear with police, Fogal said.
Fogal added that back Strawser's barter was seized, it still had some of its aboriginal aphotic dejected color, but had been repainted. "It was additionally outfitted with what appeared to be new parts," Fogal said.
According to the affirmation and Fogal's columnist release, board with State Badge catholic to West Virginia to added their investigation. It was there that board met Strawser's neighbor. Badge said he offered his assistance.
Court annal announce that Stawser's acquaintance led badge to a acreage that Strawser generally visited, which resulted in board advertent a board box "that independent a .44 ability Rossi Ranch Hand pistol."
A chase of Strawser's abode additionally resulted in the access of alive .44 ability circuit and spent casings, Fogal said.
"Lab testing appear that the case begin at the annihilation arena was accursed from the Rossi Ranch Hand begin in the field," Fogal said, "Particles appropriate of gunshot balance were begin in the driver's ancillary breadth of Strawser's Ranger."
Posted beforehand on Cumberlink:
State badge appear this morning that John Wayne Strawser of West Virginia has been answerable in the 2014 cutting afterlife of Timothy Davison in Antrim Township.
The cutting took abode on Interstate-81.
John Wayne Strawser of WV has been answerable in the 2014 cutting afterlife of Timothy Davison in Antrim Township.
2015 The Sentinel (Carlisle, Pa.)
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