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Kenneth Glenn Milner Indicted
By Carson County Grand Jury
Local Happening
THE GROOM NEWS-Page 3
Thursday, July 26,1990
A 19-year-old man has
been indicted on a murder
charge and two attempted
murder charges in a July 13
shooting death and the
wounding of two people.
The prosecuter in the case
has said satanic involvement
may be the root of the three
attacks.
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The indictment returned
Thursday by a Carson
County grand jury names
Kenneth Glenn Milner of
Panhandle on a charge of
murder in connection with
the Friday the 13th shooting
death of Frankie Gasper
Garcia, a 17-year-Old
Panhandle High School
student.
Milner was indicted on
two charges of attempted
murder in the stabbing of
Jimmy Britten of Groom and
in the wounding of
Panhandle High School
principal Ken Williams
during the early hours of
July 14.
Sources have confirmed to
The Pampa News that the
grand jury was convened in
the case less than a week
after the murder and
assaults because of what one
termed “an iron-clad case,
complete with confessions.”
Investigators contend that
Garcia was shot as an occult
sacrifice in a decaying barn
located next to an aban-
doned farm house northwest
of here known to local youth
as “the haunted house.”
Earlier this week, Carson
County District Attorney
David McCoy said, “We’re
looking at the possibility of
satanic involvement” in the
shooting death.
Britten was stabbed at his
home about 1:30 a.m. Satur-
day, a few hours after Garcia
was shot to death. He was
treated at a local hospital
and released the same day.
About two hours later,
officers said, Williams was
shot twice through the door
of his home.
Williams, formerly the
assistant principal at Horace
Mann Junior High School
and baseball coach at
Amarillo Palo Duro High
School, was wounded in the
abdomen and leg. He was
listed in satisfactory condi-
tion at Northwest Texas
Hospital in Amarillo
Refreshments were
served to twelve guests in
the home of Donna Atkins of
Amarillo last week where
they played charades and
watched videos.
Those attending were Sue
Bowen, Bette Vogler,
Bonnie Walker, Kay findie,
Donna Atkins and Barbara
Caldwell of Amarillo; Gloria
Ledwig, JoAnn Britten,
Vivian Lacy and Doris
Britten of Groom and Joan
Conrad and Billie Chaveaux
of Claude.
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District Judge John T.
Forbis of Childress issued a
gag order in the case earlier
this week, restricting law
enforcement agencies from
releasing information
pertaining to Milner’s
activities.
But he designated McCoy
as official spokesman for the
case.
Steve Sherwood, who
graduated from Panhandle
High School with Milner last
year, said Milner was open
about his involvement with
the occult.
It wasn’t a secret, he told
people about it,” Sherwood
said."He told a group I was
in that he worshiped the
devil.”
Milner had no prior
criminal record. Panhandle
police said, but they noted
that an officer helped talk
Milner into climbing down
from the city’s water tower
three years ago when he
threatened suicide.
Court officials said no
attorney had been appointed
yet to defend Milner,
preventing him from being
arraigned on the three
charges.Appointment of an
attorney should come within
a week, Forbis said.
Jake Lacy and Hap
Watson went to Amarillo to
see Dr. Lacy and Dr. Bass
due to an eye injury Jake
had years ago.
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Baughman, Betsy Krizan. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 1990, newspaper, July 26, 1990; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1706578/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.