A witness said he heard the shot and then saw the 30-year-old running towards his vehicle and fleeing. Another person claimed to have caught the suspect, dressed in black pants, putting on a dark jacket. During his arrest, Carpenter was wearing this same outfit and a loaded pistol was found in his car. During his interrogation, the man gave contradictory information.
In particular, he explained that he was walking towards Nicole’s vehicle when he heard a gunshot and fled because he was “too traumatized” following seeing the body of the woman. victim. “He did not help her, did not go to work and did not call for help either,” summarizes the police report. According to the first elements of the investigation, the young woman had just spent a month rejecting the advances of her colleague. The day before she died, Nicole Hammond texted Michael Carpenter saying she “didn’t want him to touch her or handle her,” according to police.
The man, whom some colleagues described as having a “dirty temper”, admitted to the investigators that he was “angry” following receiving this SMS. For his part, the boss of the victim and his murderer assures that he was not aware of what was going on. “We had no indication that anything inappropriate was happening,” explains Rob Dubow, who refers to a “superemployee”, “always smiling”.
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