The News Sentinel
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Tennessee prison guard has been indicted in the fatal shooting of two post office workers during a robbery last year with his teenage son.
Chastain Montgomery Sr. faces two counts of unlawfully killing an employee of the United States for the deaths of Judy Spray and Paula Robinson last October inside the post office in the small West Tennessee town of Henning.
The indictment says Montgomery committed the slayings during a robbery of the post office along with his son Chastain Montgomery Jr.
The 18-year-old Montgomery Jr. was killed in a shootout with police Feb. 14 after a chase, and his father is jailed on charges related to the shootout. Afterward, federal authorities began investigating whether a gun used by the teenager was also linked to the post office shootings.
The sheriff’s office in Tipton County, just north of Memphis, said Montgomery Jr. got out of a stolen pickup armed with two handguns and fired at officers several times before a deputy shot him dead.
Chastain Montgomery Sr. was arrested when he went to the scene, ignored the shouted warnings of officers and tried to get in the stolen pickup truck his son had been driving, authorities said.
Montgomery Sr., a state prison guard, was carrying dye-stained cash and his home was searched that evening for guns and money from recent bank robberies.
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