A man from Alabama has been arrested and charged with a triple homicide and sexual assault after a manhunt took place in Mississippi.
William Miller,aged 27, killed three of his friends and then raped a woman who saw him do it.
Miller, who was convicted of first-degree rape in Alabama in 2013, told police that it all started when he hit a deer while traveling to see his friends in Buckatunna, Mississippi, around midnight on Monday night.
After arriving at the home of Lloyd and Sonya Taylor – about 16 miles from his home in Millry – Miller said he took methamphetamine and oxycodone.
Under the influence of the drugs, Miller, Lloyd Taylor and another friend at the house, Jamie Gardner, decided to set off to find the roadkill.
Miller said one of the men started ‘more or less picking on me’, The Clarion-Ledger reported.
‘He kept on and it got physical,’ Miller told police.
Investigators believe Miller then shot and killed both men near Alabama-Mississippi state line around sunrise on Tuesday.
Miller told a courtroom Thursday that he entered the home and shot Taylor in the head, WDAM reported.
Miller then sexually assaulted another woman at the home who saw Sonya Taylor die, police said.
Wayne County Justice Court Judge Charles Chapman set bail at $4.6 million.
The judge reportedly asked Miller why he did it, to which Miller responded that he made a ‘big mistake’.
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