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iult;£ ^epremoer v, iv/u%edy Strikes Seminole FamilyYesterday morning Seminole residents awakened to a red glow in the east; the sim rose in all its glory. Residents and close neighbors were unaware that a family of three lay dead in their home at 601 S. W. 16th St. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Thurman and their daughter, Sherry's lives had been snuffed out with a 30. 06 rifle. Mrs. Bonnie Brown, a sister to Mr. Thurman, was called from Odessa by Mrs. Thurman's mother shortly before 8:00 a.m. and asked to check on the Thurmans since their telephone did not answer. It was Sherry's 17th birthday and they were supposed to have visited the grandmother in Odessa on Monday.Mrs. Brown went by on her way to work, only to discover the terrible tragedy in her brother's home. She summoned help.Virginia Thurman was dead in the den on the rug approximately two feet from the open area of the kitchen with a single shot entering her chest. Sherry was dead in the adjoining room, her bedroom, having fallen in the floor after being grazed by one shot in the back and hit with another shot in the left chest. The bullet spent itself after going through the headboard, the inside wall and into the outside wall of the brick home. Mr. Thurman lay dead between his daughter and his wife with the bullet entering his lower rib cage on the left and coming out below the left shoulder in front. Ammunition used in the heavy rifle was silver point bullets that have a tendency to explode or separate after penetrating. Four to five shots, at least, were fired from the gun, one bullet evidently fired from the gun going through the ceiling and on out the roof in the bedroom where the daughter and the father were lying on the floor. The gunlay near the right shoulder of the fallen father.Sixty-nine dolls from around the world in an enclosed case in thehallway were the only witnesses as to the exact time and other details of earlier hours in the home. The dolls had been collected bya little girl in a wheel chair to her 17th birthday.The bullet that struck down Mrs. C. L. (Virginia) Thurman parted and made holes through a picture hanging on the south wall of the fashionable residence. The bullet traveled approximately 12 to 14 feet after going through her body. Con't on page 3 G 11
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Seminole Sentinel
Seminole, Texas, US
Wed, Sep 09, 1970
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