New costs have been filed towards an lively responsibility Marine Willie Ellington in connection to the killing of a former actuality TV star.
For context, in keeping with WKRG Information 5, Tshey Bennett’s physique was discovered Wednesday (Dec. 18) in a pond in an deserted neighborhood in Alabama, although she’d final been seen on the Candy Dream Inn in Pensacola, Fla.
In accordance with a Fb put up posted by native authorities in Florida, Bennett was working as an escort on the location when she vanished, which was 50 miles away from the place she was ultimately discovered.
The identical day police discovered her physique was additionally the identical day Ellington was arrested in one other city over 200 miles away and brought into custody. There’s been no phrase but on simply how Bennett was killed or how she ended up in that pond.
Now per the New York Submit, on Friday, the 20-year-old army man has been been charged with first diploma homicide and possession of kid pornography. Alabama authorities had been capable of finding him after being tipped off to his location at a bus cease in Opelika, Ala.
“Our crew rapidly scrambled to the station and arrange a surveillance operation. When the bus arrived, investigators noticed and apprehended a person matching the suspect’s description,” Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones instructed the outlet.
As confirmed by the Pensacola Information Journal, Ellington is “a non-public firstclass within the US Marine Corps” serving within the Coaching and Schooling Command. He was stationed onboard on the Naval Air Station Pensacola the place he obtained specialised coaching in aviation, cyber, explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) and combatant dive communities as part of the Marine Aviation Coaching Help Group-23 (MATSg-23), per the Marine Corps.
In accordance with Capt. Jacoby Getty of the Coaching and Schooling Command, they’re conscious of Ellington’s arrest and have agreed to work in tandem with native authorities.
Bennett was one among 12 contestants and unique dancers on the primary season of the HollyHood TV sequence “Skrippa Bootcamp.”