Alan C. Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 D.C. Police Officer Guilty in Deaths of Mistress, Infant Richmond Phillips killed Wynetta Wright because he was facing a paternity lawsuit and didn't want to pay child support for a baby girl he fathered out of wedlock, Prince George's County prosecutors said. A defense lawyer had countered that his client “didn't do this thing” and there wasn't evidence for a conviction. Phillips was also convicted of other counts, including possession of a handgun and child abuse. . . . Phillips was arrested in June 2011 after police located the bodies of 20-year-old Wright and her daughter, Jaylin, in a park outside Washington. Prosecutors said Phillips shot Wright and then drove the child - still strapped in the car seat of her mother's car with the doors closed and the windows up - a short distance away, where he left her to die. A heat advisory was in effect, and temperatures inside the car reached 125 degrees... [view:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpx1Mjl1eI:640:390]
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