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The Story - 2005-02-19 23:30:07
By Owen Eschenroder, Press Staff Writer
Last Wednesday afternoon, a couple of hours before he was slain, Ronald Hardesty drove to Webberville trying to locate the .22 caliber rifle missing from his truck.
He asked his 23-year-old son David, who lives in the Ingham County community, if he had the pump action weapon. David said no.
�Billy must have it, and he doesn�t need that gun,� David later quoted his father as saying.
The elder Hardesty returned to his Van Buren Township home, where he apparently confronted Billy, his 21-year-old son. The next day, police found the father�s frozen body doubled up inside a freezer in the home. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the head, and a medical examiner fixed the time of death at about 4 p.m. Wednesday.
That night, Billy�s mother Jan was also shot to death after she returned home from bingo. A coroner said she was shot four times in the head.
Police believe Billy killed his parents before beginning an overnight shooting spree in Ypsilanti that left three other persons dead and two wounded. He has been formally charged with three murders so far, and two other homicide charges may follow.
Hardesty was wounded and captured by police after a shootout at his home, 49630 Martz, last Thursday morning. He remains in fair condition at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.
He is under round-the-clock police guard and Washtenaw County Sheriff Thomas Minick said authorities are concerned about his safety.
Minick said he hopes to have Hardesty arraigned by a 14th District Court judge early this week if his condition permits. The arraignment may take place in Hardesty�s hospital room.
Should murder warrants be issued against Hardesty for the deaths of his parents, all five homicide cases can be tried in Washtenaw County even though the parents were slain in western Wayne County. State law permits adjudication of the entire matter in one county.
He is also charged with the attempted murders of Bobby J. Baker, 26, of Westland, and Tommy L. Brown, 29, of Tecumseh. Both men were wounded at an Ypsilanti tool and die shop early last Thursday.
Brown remains in serious condition and Baker is in fair condition at St. Joe�s.
The murder warrants involve Daniel Wood, 38, of Canton Township, who was fatally shot at the tool and die shop, and Troy Curry, 28, of Canton Township, and Timothy Schofield, 22, of Belleview, who both were slain in a parking lot outside a downtown Ypsilanti bar.
Police also found a cat, strangled to death with a wire hanger, inside a bedroom closet at the Hardesty house.
Hardesty had been described by those who knew him as a bully with a drug problem. But at last report, investigators were still searching for a motive which would tie together all five killings.* * * * * * * * * * * *
Laura - 2005-02-20 10:43:15
There's more to this part of the story than meets the eye. Ronald Hardesty traveled, on a working day (assuming he had a job) all the way up to Ingham County to try and get that gun. Seems to me that going to such lengths to track it down suggests that he knew something was up with Billy. If Ronald felt Billy was in a good state of mind, likely he wouldn't have minded that Billy borrowed the gun.
Tragically, he returned home only to meet his death, as did his wife a few hours later. Horrible.* * * * * * * * * * * *
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