Ross County murder site a ‘horror movie’
Doris Jones said that what she saw Monday as she approached the mobile home in rural Ross County where her niece and her boyfriend had lived for years “was like a horror movie or something.”
“Someone come up here and beat these people. They’re about dead,” Jones told a 911 operator. “It looks like they tried to murder them.”
Jones is the aunt of Tammy Potts-williams, 51, who remained in critical condition Wednesday at Ohiohealth Grant Medical Center. Pottswilliams’ longtime boyfriend, Rick Adams, 50, died at Grant on Tuesday afternoon.
Adams was the brother of Leann Marie Potts, 46, who was found shot to death Monday along with her fiance, Thomas Steven Littler, 63, at Littler’s home on Bowman Lane, about 5 miles from the mobile home on Vigo Road.
Potts and Littler had been granted a marriage license last month, according to court records. Friends said they had been planning a Caribbean vacation prior to their wedding ceremony, a date for which had not been set.
Ross County Sheriff George W. Lavender Jr. has said the two shooting scenes in Liberty Township east of Chillicothe are connected, but has declined to say more.
On Tuesday evening, Ross County deputies charged Larry A Potts Jr. — who is Leann Potts’ ex-husband and Potts-williams’ brother — with a misdemeanor count of possessing drug paraphernalia. Thomas Littler and his fiancee, Leann Potts, were found shot to death Monday.
Larry Potts, 48, was arraigned Wednesday in Chillicothe Municipal Court, where he pleaded not guilty and was assigned a public defender, said Sherri Rutherford, the city attorney.
He was unable to pay a $250 cash bond and was being held in the Ross County jail, according to the jail’s website. A pretrial appearance is set for Monday.
Jones said she found Pottswilliams and Adams outside the mobile home on Monday afternoon about 6 feet apart, barely alive. It appeared they had been shot, stabbed and beaten, she said.
“It’s a terrible, terrible situation,” Jones said Wednesday.
The Ross County coroner conducted autopsies on two of the victims Tuesday and the third Wednesday, and referred questions about preliminary results to the sheriff.