A Columbus police officer was injured and a man shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire Thursday afternoon on Interstate 70 near Downtown.
The shooting happened later that afternoon.Ĭhase received a law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law, but did not take his bar exam, Brasca said.Ĭhase worked as an academic dean at Strayer University's Baymeadows campus teaching criminal justice and retired eight months ago. He said in that Thursday morning text he also told Chase to "have a good week."
Vogelsang said he texted Chase back and told him once he heard something he would let him know.
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"The last text that I sent him he had asked if there was any update ," Vogelsang said. "Then my next thought was that I would dearly love to know what that text message said that sent you over the edge."Ĭhase's other attorney, Phillip Vogelsang, could not be reached Tuesday for comment, but he called the Times-Union Wednesday and said the text exchange was like most exchanges between the two. The truth was going to come out,' " Brasca said. OK bye."Īfter learning what happened next, "My initial thought was, 'Dexter, what did you do? Why couldn't you have waited? We were so close. My attorney sent me a nasty text message. "It is always the innocent who get prosecuted. The gist of the message was 'Meredith, I want to thank you for what you did,' " Brasca said. The final straw may have come when his criminal attorney left a text message for him Thursday, the content unknown, Brasca said. 9, Brasca said, which also is documented in a crash report that was included in his petition.Īs the pressures mounted, Chase told a friend that he was "guilty in the eyes of the world so he might as well be guilty for real," Brasca said about what his son informed her. She even ran over his leg in a Clay County parking lot Feb. After the couple had broken up and Chase asked for the engagement ring back, Brasca said Herriott was verbally and physically abusive to him. 10 by Herriott, he asked Brasca to represent him. When a domestic violence case was filed against him Feb. Chase had retired from a career as an undercover officer from 1980 to 1993 in the Bridgeport Police Department after numerous death threats.īrasca said she had represented Chase in a number of cases over the past few years. Herriott, 52, works for Family Support Services of North Florida, which helps foster children in Duval and Nassau counties. after Chase, who then went by Dexter Levin, met her in a parking lot outside the AvMed building where she worked on Riverplace Boulevard. The legal battles between the couple ended Thursday with her shot six times about 6 p.m. Her last condition reported by police was life-threatening. Herriott's family could not be reached for comment. He had been unable to sleep or eat and was under the care of a psychiatrist and took medication for depression. "I went over his case with him and tried to reassure him that there was so much exculpatory evidence that I didn't even think the prosecutor was going to charge him with anything."īut it preyed on his mind, she said. "I spoke to him Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and on all three of these days, he said he was ready to snap," Brasca said.
With that criminal case hanging over his head as well as Herriott's approved request for an injunction for protection, he was afraid his new life was ruined, Brasca said. The 58-year-old retired undercover Connecticut cop who shot his ex-fiancee Thursday in a Jacksonville parking lot, then turned the gun on himself and died Monday night, was in a witness protection program under a new name.Īccording to one of William "Billy" Chase Jr.'s attorneys, he was not the abuser - he was abused and had petitioned for, but was denied, protection against Lynn Herriott on March 28.Īttorney Meredith Brasca said Chase told her Herriott lied to police when she said he forced his way into her Fleming Island townhome Feb.
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