Walmart worker who doesn't return from break found 'slumped over' in car after father of her children followed and shot her dead, cops say

A antheral successful West Virginia is accused of fatally shooting the parent of his children successful a Walmart parking batch portion she was connected a interruption from work.

Eric Dewayne Richmond, 54, has been charged with first-degree murder successful the decease of 40-year-old Misty Rose Williams, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office announced. He is being held without bail successful the South Central Regional Jail.

On Monday astatine astir 9 a.m., Williams was moving astatine the Walmart superstore connected Nitro Market Place successful Cross Lanes, West Virginia. She decided to instrumentality a interruption and went to her conveyance — but she ne'er came back.

"I judge they get a 20-minute interruption and she didn't return, it had been implicit an hour," Sgt. Jeremy Burns with the sheriff's bureau told West Virginia Metro News.

Williams' co-workers went to cheque connected her and noticed her wrong her conveyance successful the parking batch "slumped implicit inside," authorities said.

Investigators realized Williams had been changeable successful the chest, and they searched done video surveillance of the time. It reportedly showed Richmond wrong the store earlier the shooting and past walking extracurricular during her break.

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Richmond could besides allegedly beryllium seen getting successful and retired of Williams' car respective times earlier leaving the area. At 1 point, her car moved guardant and struck a parked conveyance successful the parking lot.

The sheriff's bureau noted that Richmond "shares children with Williams."

Burns said they brought Richmond successful for questioning and arrested him. A 9 mm handgun was recovered successful his location erstwhile instrumentality enforcement searched it.

Richmond was expected to beryllium arraigned connected Monday and past reappear successful tribunal connected April 20.