Recently released video footage from a Florida convenience store shows suspects in the brutal “massacre” of three friends on a fishing trip as they followed one of the victims 10 minutes before the horrific incident.
The video shows brothers Tony “TJ” Wiggins and William “Robert” Wiggins and Mary Whittemore, walking inside a Dollar General store in Frostproof, Florida. The raw video also shows Robert Wiggins standing at the counter behind Damien Tillman. And then it shows Robert Wiggins leaving the store about 20 seconds after Tillman leaves.
Tillman was on his way to meet his friends Brandon Rollins, 27, and Keven Springfield, 30, for night fishing.
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When the Wiggins and Whittemore brothers left, TJ Wiggins allegedly told his brother to take a particular path, instead of going home.
“Two trucks, occupied by the three victims, passed Robert that way, at which point TJ told Robert to turn U and follow the trucks,” police said.
Robert Wiggins followed the trucks to Lake Streety Road in Frostproof. Wiggings’ younger brother and Whittemore stayed in the truck, while TJ Wiggins allegedly jumped up and confronted Springfield, accusing him of stealing their truck. Then he started hitting Springfield.
Springfield’s friends Rollins and Tillman got out of their truck to help their friend and that’s when TJ Wiggins really started wreaking havoc.
Robert Wiggins told authorities that he saw his older brother shoot Tillman, Rollins and Springfield. TJ Wiggins asked Robert Wiggins to help put Tillman in the back of one of the trucks.
SHERIFF JUDD ABOUT KILLINGS OF 3 FISHING BUDDIES IN FLORIDA: ‘IT WAS HORRIBLE AND THERE WAS NO ABSOLUTELY REASON’
After the horrifying murders, brothers Wiggins and Whittemore drove to McDonald’s, where they ordered 10 double cheeseburgers and two McChicken sandwiches, authorities said.
The next morning, police said, Robert Wiggins drove his truck to a car wash in Lake Wales to clean up the stuck clay from the murder scene.
When the police finally tracked down the trio at a local trailer park, they were “living off the grid,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. “Without running water, without electricity, just a few generators.”
The circumstances surrounding the incident have rocked the small town.
Tony Wiggins, for example, has 230 felony criminal charges against him on his arrest history.
Judd called Elder Wiggins “pure evil in the flesh” and said his criminal history dates back to when he was 12 years old.
“He is a bully, he is a criminal,” Judd said, adding that Wiggins has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, tampering with evidence, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of ammunition by a criminal. condemned.
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Her brother has been accused of tampering with evidence and accessories. Whittemore has been charged with accessories after the fact of a capital crime.
Judd later told Fox News’ Trace Gallagher that he had no explanation why Wiggins had taken to the streets with so many criminal charges against him.
“He has – look at the Florida statute … he has done it all,” Judd said. “He recently broke someone’s arm.”
