Kara Garvin shoots 3: leaves 6yo alive

**Dakota Valkyrie** · December 25th, 2008, 08:25 AM

Franklin Furnace, Ohio - James Damron never heard the shots that killed his neighbors.

He was smoking a cigarette on the front porch of the mobile home he when a strange vehicle raced past, followed minutes later by a running 6-year-old boy covered in blood.

"He was hollering, and at first I thought his dog had died," Damron said. "But then I got him calmed down and he said 'My papaw, mamaw and sissy got killed, they got shot.'"

The boy was the sole survivor of multiple shootings that killed his grandparents and aunt.

Edward D. Mollett, 46; his wife, Juanita F. Mollett, 43; and their daughter, Christina J. Mollett, 20, were found by deputies in the mobile home the couple shared.

Authorities arrested the 29-year-old woman who they say pulled the trigger, but they are looking for a man who might have been with her during the shootings.

Kara M. Garvin turned herself in to the Scioto County sheriff's office hours after the shooting.

Damron said the boy told him he was sitting on the couch next to his aunt when "a woman with black hair" came in and started shooting at his family. Damron thinks the criminals didn't hurt the boy because he was so covered in blood, they might have thought he was dead.

Damron saw at least two people in the fleeing vehicle, and neighbors told police that Garvin hangs around with Paul J. Balmer, 46, the man who is being sought.

Sheriff Marty V. Donini said his detectives think the murders were part of a robbery attempt and that drugs were probably involved.

Garvin was arrested in 2003 and charged with carrying a concealed weapon and marijuana possession.

Deputy sheriffs are looking for Balmer, who they say is a known associate of Garvin and might have been with her during the shootings. He also is wanted on a felony warrant for drug trafficking in an unrelated crime, according to the sheriff's office.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content...to_3slain.html

911 Call: http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/36606574.html

Garvin's Sparce MySpace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=423509682
Balmer's Sparce MySpace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=387804858
They are each others only friends besides Tom

**Nell** · December 25th, 2008, 02:26 PM

Don't sell outta your house or let crackheads know where you live. Drug Dealing 101.

Oh yeah, poor little kid. I like to think they didn't kill him cause they weren't that soulless yet. Yeah, I will go with that cause it is xmas.

**Whisper** · March 25th, 2010, 09:08 PM

Woman Avoids Death Penalty In Triple Slaying
Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:32 AM

Ohio — A Scioto County jury spared her the death penalty, but decided a woman convicted of killing three people will spend the rest of her life in prison.

Kara Garvin faced the possibility of becoming just the second woman to receive the death penalty in Ohio, ONN's Denise Alex reported.
[...]
Jurors spent Wednesday deliberating whether Garvin receive the death penalty, or serve life in prison. Defense attorney Chuck Knight said jurors made the right decision.

"The jury made the right decision not to give her the death penalty," he said. "The real killer is out there."

Garvin's family said there would be an appeal in the case. They also said Garvin was a new person who had turned her life around.

"We know Kara is coming home. We are going to fight this with an appeal. She needs to be with her daughter," said Audrey Dotson, Garvin's mother.
[...]
"They're gone but we have a lot of good memories that will last forever," said Parker Mollett, whose son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter were slain.

Parker Mollett, a preacher, said he did not think Garvin necessarily deserved to die for her crime, but put his faith in the system instead.

"We can find the peace in our hearts and our minds that this is the way. I believe it out to be and I believe this is what God would want us to do also," he said.

http://www.onntv.com/live/content/on...g.html?sid=102

Theres a video at link