Austin Lee Edwards, who posed as a 17-yr-old boy on line to solicit nude images from the teenager, killed himself at some stage in a shootout with San Bernardino sheriff’s deputies in overdue November.

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“Detectives decided the gun used became Edwards’ department-issued semi-computerized service pistol,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said Friday in an e mail to the Los Angeles Times.

Edwards traveled throughout the country from Virginia to the Riverside home of the teenager.

After shooting the girl’s mom and grandparents lifeless, government stated he set hearth to her home and drove off with the woman, ultimately killing himself.

— New York Post (@nypost) December 10, 2022

Virginia State Police stated this week that Edward’s hiring become the end result of “human blunders” after it changed into discovered that he have been detained in 2016 for a psychiatric assessment over threats to kill his father and himself.