Breaking: Austin Lee Edwards, the now-deceased Virginia cop who drove to California and killed three relatives of a 15-year-old girl he 'catfished' online, groomed another teenager online years before November's slayings.
after cutting his hand and threatening to kill himself and his father.
In messages, Edwards would also repeatedly drop homophobic and racist slurs, including the n-word. But he also seemed to be under the false impression that the girl he was chatting with was Black. “ur black rite,” he wrote on Oct. 29, 2014. “i have jungle fever. lets do this.” An undated photo of noodles taken by Austin Lee Edwards. Edwards repeatedly tried to solicit nude photos from a teen girl in the mid-2010s.
The next day, Edwards expressed a desire to see her in person, saying he found an affordable round-trip ticket for $263 to her state. On Feb. 7, 2016, Edwards told the girl over chat that he wanted to kill himself, but wouldn’t because he “loved” her. He asked to video-chat over Skype. On video chat, he was crying and had been drinking alcohol, she said. He told her about how awful his life was and expressed concern that she would leave him.
Edwards’ father held him down as emergency medical technicians tried to administer aid. Edwards resisted, however, and EMTs called for police assistance. Three days after the incident, Edwards messaged her on Skype and told a different story about how he got his injury.
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