Wisconsin Couple Executed After Kicking Daughter And Boyfriend Out Of House For Not Social Distancing

A Wisconsin doctor and her husband were executed shortly after kicking their daughter and her boyfriend out of the house over their refusal to maintain social distancing.

Miriam Potter Carre‘s 18-year-old boyfriend Khari Sanford and his friend Ali’jah Larrue have each been charged with two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide.

ABC News reports:

During the early morning hours of March 31, two joggers came upon the bodies of Dr. Beth Potter and her husband, Robin Carre, lying off the roadway in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum and covered in blood, police said. A witness told the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department that they had heard a series of gunshots after 11 p.m. the night before.

Carre, 57, was pronounced dead at the scene as Potter, 52, was taken to a nearby hospital where she later died. Both were shot in the head and were left for dead in their house clothes with no shoes, according to the criminal complaint.

Investigators conducted several interviews that led them to arrest and charge Khari Sanford, the boyfriend of the couple’s adopted daughter, and Sanford’s friend Ali’Jah Larrue with two counts of first-degree murder. Sanford and Larrue made their court appearance on Tuesday via video conference, where a plea was not entered for the felony charges.

Here’s more form CBS News:

Potter, a doctor at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, had a greater risk of infection because of medications she was taking, and she was concerned about the teenagers going in and out of the house, the complaint said.

According to the criminal complaint, during their investigation detectives spoke to a friend of Potter, who said that the evening before her body was found they had taken a walk together, where they had discussed Beth’s troubled relationship with her daughter and her boyfriend Khari Sanford.

“You don’t care about me,” Potter Carre allegedly told her mother as they were being moved out.

Potter Carre allegedly told police that she loved her boyfriend and was extremely loyal to him. Dane County Prosecutors did not respond to a request for comment on whether Potter Carre was implicated in her parents’ death.

Larrue allegedly told police that before schools were closed due to the pandemic, he had overheard Sanford and Potter Carre talking in ceramics class about getting money from her parents, who “were rich,” according to the criminal complaint.

Another witness told detectives that on March 31, Sanford had stopped by his house in an “excited and frantic” state, and began “pacing around the room and sweating”.

When he got off the phone, the witness claimed Sanford told him he had shot two people near the Arboretum, and that Larrue was with him at the time. He claimed to have shot them in the head — a detail that had not been released by police at that stage.

The witness also claimed Sanford asked him to hide the gun; he was refused.

Sanford allegedly identified Larrue as an accomplice who, in turn, gave police permission to analyze his phone activity, according to the criminal complaint.

A Madison, Wisconsin judge has set $1 million bail for the two teenagers.

The families of Potter and Carre are anticipating establishing a memorial fund to provide resources for community activities that were important to the couple, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health website.