A squabble over social distancing may have led to the execution-style slayings of a Wisconsin doctor and her husband, court documents show.
Khari Sanford, 18, was charged Tuesday with two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of University of Wisconsin physician Beth Potter, 52, and her husband, Robin Carre, 57, who were found shot in the back of their heads near the Madison university on March 31, according a criminal complaint obtained by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Sanford, who was dating the couple’s daughter at the time, was forced to move out of the couple’s home along with their daughter and into an Airbnb rental because they weren’t following “social distancing rules” during the coronavirus outbreak, the complaint shows.
Potter’s supervisor at University Hospital and Clinics said medication she had been taking put her at higher risk of infection, heightening the need for social distancing, according to the complaint.
Just hours before the killings, which prosecutors have called a “brutal execution,” Potter told a friend that her daughter told her as she and Sanford moved out, “You don’t care about me” and “You don’t talk to me,” the complaint shows.
Potter was “clearly frustrated” during the exchange, according to the complaint.
Sanford’s suspected accomplice, Ali’jah Larrue, 18, was also charged Tuesday with two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide. Bail for both him and Sanford was set at $1 million.
Potter and Carre’s daughter, meanwhile, claimed during an interview with police that she was with Sanford on the night of the slaying and that neither of them had left the Airbnb rental home, according to the complaint.
An investigation into the double slaying remains ongoing, a University of Wisconsin police spokesman said.
With Post wires