Mammy of six, with one in the oven, slain!

[Tyrone N. Butts]

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Pregnant woman slain

The family and friends of Shernelle Tolliver wept openly Friday afternoon as her pregnant body was carried out of her home by police.

Tolliver, 24, was found slain at 1425 Hale St. around 11:20 a.m. Friday. Her slaying is the 25th homicide in Montgomery this year.

Tolliver, who was six months pregnant, also shared her home with her six children, ages 8 months to 9 years, said her cousin, Shaneka Ford. The children were not home at the time of th

e homicide.

According to family members at the scene, Tolliver, nicknamed "Moo Moo," was found by her sister-in-law, who also lived with her.

nPolice were still searching Friday night for Tolliver's killer, as well as her vehicle, which was taken during the crime. The car, a blue 1987 Honda Accord LX, has Alabama tag number is 3B3450C.

Sgt. Keith Barnett, an investigator at the scene, declined to release the manner in which Tolliver was killed or if the police have any suspects. The initial police report does not state what weapon was used in the homicide.

Tolliver's family at the scene, including an aunt, cousins, and her father, were in shock over her death.

"I just don't really believe it right now," said Lakisha Ford, Tolliver's cousin and her manager at Sonic on Carter Hill Road. She described Tolliver, a carhop at the hamburger restaurant, as a good, friendly worker.

"Everybody liked her," Ford sa
id.


Employees at Sonic declined to comment on Tolliver's death Friday night.

Shaneka Ford, another of Tolliver's cousins, said the victim got off of work around 3 p.m. Thursday and her boyfriend, whose
name was not available, drove her home. The first indication that something was amiss came around midnight, when a worker from Thomas Day Care and Learning Center called her father, Connell Tolliver, to say his daughter had not picked up her children.

"That wasn't like her, not to pick up those kids," Shaneka Ford said.

The children were picked up by their grandfather, but it was only this morning that Shernelle Tolliver's body was found.

Connell Tolliver declined comment at the scene on his daughter's death.

Tolliver's extended family remember her fondly, despite the horror of her slaying.

"She was nice, good and responsible," Ford said. "She had six kids, but she kept all those kids clean, kep
t their
hair combed. She took good care of them."

Tolliver's mother, brother and sister were on their way to Montgomery from South Carolina Friday afternoon.

Her body was taken to the Department of Forensic Sciences for an autopsy, said Lt. Huey Thornton, a Montgomery Poli
ce Department spokesman.

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Only a nigger would kill a pregnant woman.

T.N.B.

 

[Buster]

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25 years old and six little niglets - sounds like quite a nigger home based industry,

Evidently all the neighborhood bucks will sorely miss her.

 

[Gman]

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Hi Tyrone,

As usual, great post. I think you should have posted this article and omitted the pics and used it as a training piece for the rookie reporters. The TNB clues throughout the article are classic. Negritude just stands out in every sentence of this post. Keep up the good work.
Gman

 

[Tyrone N. Butts]

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I think you should have posted this article and omitted the pics and used it as a training piece for the rookie reporters. The TNB clues throughout the article are classic.

Clue 1: Shernelle
Clue 2: Shaneka
Clue 3: Lakisha

You can't miss those clues unless you're blind, and if you're blind, you wouldn't see the photos either. Come to think of it, if you're blind you wouldn't be able read the article.

T.N.B.

 

[Tyrone N. Butts]

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Boyfriend of victim dead

The families of Shernelle Tolliver and Dmitri Sanford are in shock, wondering how the couple, expecting their fourth child together, ended up dead.

Tolliver, a 24-year-old mother of six, was found slain in her home at 1425 Hale St. Friday morning. Less than 24 hours later, Sanford was also dead.

A suspect in Tolliver's slaying, Sanford, 27, collapsed at the Comfort Inn on Northchase Boulevard Friday night. According to a police report, he died around 11:44 p.m. at Jackson Hospital.

The cause of Sanford's death is still under investigation. As in Tolliver's death, an autopsy is being conducted by the state Department of Forensic Sciences.

"We're still withholding the manner of death on (Tolliver

) until the autopsy is finished," said Sgt. Mark Drinkard, a Mont
gomery police spokesman. "It should be completed by Monday."

Sanford's autopsy should be done by midweek, Drinkard said.

Sanford's mother, Patricia Murray, said she cannot believe the what has happened and that her son was involved in Tolliver's death.

"He just wasn't (a) violent person," Murray said of her eldest child. "They had a normal relationship. Like everybody, they had their ups and downs."

Drinkard said Saturday that Sanford was a strong suspect in the case. Tolliver's car, taken in the crime, was recovered Saturday morning at the Comfort Suites on Monticello Drive, where employees confirm Sanford stayed Thursday night.

"I feel strongly that (detectives) will end up wrapping up this case on Monday," Drinkard said. "They are planning on getting together (then) to see where the case stands."

The couple was appar
entl
y last seen together around 4 p.m. Thursday by Tolliver's neighbor, Charles Williams, who lives across the street.

"I was throwing away some boxes an
d I saw him bringing her home from work," Williams said Saturday afternoon, all the while gazing across to where police tape still marked off the victim's home. "The car was parked there, in front of the mailbox. They were just having some words and hollerin'."

Williams said the couple went inside the house and he saw nothing more until around 5:30 p.m., when Sanford left.

"When he left, he looked like he was upset about something," Williams said. "And he was wearing a different shirt."

The neighbor said Sanford went into the house wearing a red or maroon jersey. When he came out, he was wearing a white one.

Sanford's mother said she saw her son between 5 and 8 p.m. Thursday night, when he picked up some clothes at her home.

"He said he was moving
back in
with (Tolliver)," Murray said.

Jit Patel, the Comfort Suites' manager, said Sanford checked in around 6 p.m. Thursday. He apparently didn't seem nervous.

Sanford did not go to the front desk to check out the next day an
d employees cleaning his room found a black duffel bag he had left behind. Patel gave the bag to police Saturday.

Tiffeany France, an employee at Comfort Suites, alerted police to the car's location.

"I had browsed through (Saturday's) Montgomery Advertiser and just so happened to look at the tag number of the car," France said.

France was taking out the trash from the hotel's lobby a few minutes later when she spotted a blue Honda Accord in the hotel's back lot. Approaching it, she noticed "little baby stuff," such as a child safety seat, in the vehicle, she said.

When she looked at the first three digits on the car's license plate, 3B3, she dropped her bag of trash.

"I knew
those were t
he first three in the tag number (of Tolliver's car)," she said.

After confirming the entire plate number, France immediately called police.

"I was so nervous because I thought the killer might be in the hotel," France said.

Police took custody of the car that morning.

Drinkard said on
e thing detectives have not determined is how Sanford would have gotten from one hotel to the other. His possible motives are also still being investigated.

"It always helps to be able to question a suspect," Drinkard said. "That won't happen in this case."

Murray described Sanford as a good son who loved his children, as well as Tolliver's children from previous relationships. She said he and Tolliver, who had been together for several years, loved each other as well.

When asked if her son had been in trouble with the law before, Murray said he had not. Drinkard said, however, that Sanford had an outstanding wa
rrant for failin
g to appear on a first-degree marijuana charge from Montgomery County.

Tolliver's family, at the scene of her death Friday, said Sanford had a history of drug problems. They also claimed that Tolliver had recently gotten a check from FEMA for storm damage to her home, and speculated she might have been killed for the money.

Her family could not be rea
ched for further comment Saturday.

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All's well that ends well.

T.N.B.

 

[Smilin' Jack]

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The entire cast was in place, including Jit Patel, the Paki motel manager (charge d'affaires?). :tongue: