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Police Connect the Dots in Recent Ladyville Murders
posted (May 26, 2016)
So while police are on the lookout for the teenaged arsonist, they still continue to investigate the links between the recent Ladyville shootings. The latest update is that police had found a gun in the Ladyville area that is believed to be the one used to kill Lionel Rhamdas during the Lozano house shootout.

Well, to add to that piece of evidence, the shells found at Merkel Pitts' April Murder scene, the ones found after Lloyd Robateau was executed in the Japan area and the ones found at the Lozano home shootout, were all fired from the same gun.

But while more elements are coming together, they still don't bring police that much closer to solving these cases because although they have the gun and matched shells, they still need to find the shooters. Police told us more today.

ACP Edward Broaster - OC, Easter Division Rural
"The result we got back from the firearms examiner, reveals that the shells we found at the scene of Merkel Pitts, at the scene of Lloyd Banks and at the scene of the Lozano's - all came from the same firearm. I believe that we may just have that firearm in our possession, either one of the two firearms that we've recovered after that last shooting with Lionel Rhamdas."

Mike Rudon, Ch5
"In terms of connecting persons to that specific firearm, how is that going?"

ACP Edward Broaster - OC, Easter Division Rural
"That's the difficult task for our investigators, because we have to identify those persons who were the shooters in those murders, in those instances. So while if we're lucky we have the firearm, we still have to try and identify who is it that pulled the trigger and that is going to be somewhat real tedious for us."

Police had also recovered another gun on the scene of the Lozano home shootout. That one was found right beside Lionel Rhamdas' body.

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