Left inset: Tyronne Brazille (Shelby County Sheriff’s Office). Right inset: Lanessa Bradford (WREG). Background: The area in downtown Memphis where Tyronne Brazille was allegedly pulled over after driving through several states with the body of his wife, Lanessa Bradford, in the passenger seat (WREG).
A Louisiana man murdered his wife and then drove through several states with her body propped up in the passenger seat, cops say.
Tennessee police pulled over Tyronne Brazille, 50, of Baton Rouge, for a traffic violation and found the body of his 50-year-old wife, Lanessa Bradford, in the passenger seat with a gunshot wound, according to local CBS affiliate WREG.
A longtime friend told the Memphis television station that Bradford was trying to leave Brazille and had “come up with a plan” before he allegedly killed her following an argument at a Baton Rouge park.
The pal claimed the couple had been together for years and had marital problems. She said Brazille also suffered from mental health issues.
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“[Bradford] was going to just vanish,” the pal, Shelicka Decker, told WREG. “That was the only way she would be able to get away from him. She was going to leave her car, she was going to leave all the things behind, and she had been in touch with her family that was out of town, and that’s how she was going to make this move to get away.”
According to police, Brazille was pulled over in downtown Memphis after driving through several states with Bradford propped up in his car’s passenger seat. Cops took him into custody after seeing that she was dead and booked him as a fugitive.
“I have so many questions,” Decker said. “Like, what were you doing in the car with her that amount of time while she was deceased. Where was his mind at during that ride? Like, it’s so crazy. It’s so crazy and heartbreaking.”
Decker told WREG that Bradford worked at an elementary school and her colleagues requested a welfare check after she missed several days of work. Decker said Bradford told her that Brazille threatened to kill Bradford or himself if she ever tried to leave him, and that he was abusive.
“He never put his hands on her up until recently, like maybe like two or three months ago,” Decker alleged. “It wouldn’t have surprised me if someone had called and said that he killed himself because he always says this. It surprised me that he killed her.”
Brazille is scheduled to appear in court Monday in Memphis and is expected to be extradited to Louisiana, where he will face a charge of murder in connection with Bradford’s death, WREG reports.
“It’s such an unfortunate situation,” Decker said. “My prayers are with her family and friends as well as his, because we were all friends. We all, you know, hung around each other, and this is just not the same person that we grew up with.”
Describing Bradford, Decker added, “She was such a good person.”
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