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Chad Lewis Rains
United States · Aged 30 · Died 09/17/2002
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Deputy Tim Gillespie Jr. shot and killed Chad Lewis Rains, who was reportedly cutting a 15-month-old girl's neck. According to police, Rains broke into his estranged girlfriend's home at Grandview Mobile Home Park and started an argument. Deputies responded to a 911 hang-up call from the mobile home and found Rains in a bedroom with the woman's infant daughter. Gillespie shot Rains three times after he allegedly began cutting the child's neck.
Alleged responsible partyTazewell County Sheriff's OfficeReported by the cited sources. “Alleged” is used pending verification.
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