SAMSON, Ala. (AP) — A deputy who joined the pursuit of a rampaging gunman now faces the grim task of burying two of his own family members. Funerals were set Sunday in Geneva for deputy Joshua Myers’ 31-year-old wife, Andrea, and their 18-month-old daughter, Corrine Gracy, two of the 10 people Michael McLendon killed during a 24-mile shooting spree before he turned the gun on himself last week. The Myers’ other daughter, 3-month old Ella, was injured by shrapnel but survived. She was released from Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital in Pensacola, Fla., on Thursday. Joe Newsome, an emergency medical technician, was sent to the porch in a quiet Samson neighborhood where Andrea Myers, her daughter and three other people were shot Tuesday.——Contact the Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Funerals held for deputy’s family members
March 14, 2009