Shooter, victims identified in apparent double homicide, suicide in Alcoa
By Iva Butler | (ivab@thedailytimes.com)
Investigators with Alcoa Police Department have identified the
shooter and victims in the double homicide suicide discovered Sunday night in
Alcoa.
Amos Turbyfill Jr. 47, 813 Maple St., Alcoa, is thought to have
killed his girlfriend, Stacy Lynn Wade, 39, and her son, Joshua J. Demetri, 18, and then turned
the gun on himself and committed suicide. Demetri appeared to be sleeping on the couch when he was
shot in the head.
Turbyfill and Wade were both in bed when
shot.
Alcoa Police Capt. Dale Boring said the motive for the shootings were
not yet known.
The three were found by Turbyfill's 21-year-old
son.
Wade and Demetri had lived with Turbyfill less than a year, he
said.
Alcoa officers have answered domestic calls to that address
previously.
Turbuyfill “was arrested early last week on a warrant
for simple assault against a neighbor,” Boring said.
A .40-caliber Smith
and Wesson semiautomatic handgun was used in the deaths.
