{"id":1038325,"date":"2021-07-21T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1038325"},"modified":"2021-07-22T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:21:01","slug":"four-found-dead-near-new-summerfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1038325","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested in quadruple killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1038633\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/ccmurd-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>NEW SUMMERFIELD \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Three people have been arrested in connection to Tuesday&#8217;s quadruple murder near New Summerfield.  According to our news partner KETK, The suspects are 20-year-old Jesse Pawlowski, 21-year-old Dylan Welch, and 37-year-old Billy Phillips. They are all charged with capital murder. During a Wednesday news conference, Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson said the motive appears to be a robbery \u00e2\u20ac\u0153as of this time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dickson says Pawlowski and Phillips have a criminal history. One has allegedly confessed to being involved. Dickson said a 9-millimeter gun was used in the shooting. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The victims have been identified as 18-year-old John Clinton, 39-year-old Amanda Bane, 39-year-old Ami Hickey, and 47-year-old Jeff Gerla. Hickey and Clinton were mother and son. Gerla and Clinton were in a relationship together as well as Hickey and Bane. Despite the two same-sex relationships, Dickson says the primary motive appears to be a robbery rather than a hate crime. Clothes and guns were taken from the scene.  Bond for each suspect has been set at $1 million. Dickson says the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW SUMMERFIELD \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Three people have been arrested in connection to Tuesday&#8217;s quadruple murder near New Summerfield. According to our news partner KETK, The suspects are 20-year-old Jesse Pawlowski, 21-year-old Dylan Welch, and 37-year-old Billy Phillips. They are all charged with capital murder. During a Wednesday news conference, Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson said the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1038325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three arrested in quadruple killing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1038336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/ccmurd-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Four found dead near New Summerfield","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 06:05:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/ccmurd-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Four found dead near New Summerfield","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038325"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039158,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038325\/revisions\/1039158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}