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Auburn shooting suspect surrenders

Updated: Tuesday, 12 Jun 2012, 8:59 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 12 Jun 2012, 8:42 PM CDT

MONTGOMERY, ALa. (WALA) - A defense attorney says a man accused of killing three people near Auburn University over the weekend has turned himself in.
    
Attorney Susan James says in a phone interview that Desmonte Leonard was taken into custody on Tuesday. Her comments confirm an earlier report by a law enforcement official who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
    
She said she received a text from her law office about noon saying Leonard's family was reaching out to her to turn himself in. She arranged for Leonard to turn himself in around 7:50 p.m. at a courthouse in Montgomery.
    
Leonard is wanted for killing three people and wounding three at a party near Auburn University on Saturday.
    
Police surrounded a house in Montgomery Monday afternoon and spent hours scouring it only to realize that the suspect wasn't inside.

 

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