Luther Ray Broome, 40, of Oak Tree Road, Sharon was murdered on April 13th at the Hot Spot where he worked. Sheriff's deputies arrested three Chester teen-agers, one who is a juvenile, and charged them in the slaying. Ray was really popular with all the people young and old who came in the store while he was working. He was the type of person who would give you anything he could.
Wesley Arron Shafer, 18 of Center Road, and Justin Matthew Porter 16, were arrested late Sunday in Chester, and returned to Union. Both were charged with armed robbery and murder.
Ray was the assistant manager of Jordan's Hot Spot, he died in the emergency room at Wallace Thomson Hospital in Union about an hour after the shooting. Union County Coroner William Holcombe said an Autopsy conducted Sunday in Newberry determined Ray suffered two gunshot wounds to the head. The incident was captured by a video camera in the store. Sheriff's deputies searched for the suspects in Chester County Sunday afternoon and recovered a pickup truck believed to be the escape vehicle. Late Sunday they worked with Assistant Solicitor Betty Miller in Preparing arrest warrants before returning to Chester to make the arrests. Capt. Frank Baldwin of the Sheriff's Office said Shafer and Porter entered Jordan's Hot Spot on Jonesville-Lockhart Highway around 1:15 a.m. on Sunday. He said they walked around the store for a short while, and one shoplifted a package of cigarettes. They exchanged some words with Ray, then one of them opened fire with a handgun. One bullet hit Ray in the head and he fell behind the counter, Shafer then went behind the counter and put the gun to Ray's head and pulled the trigger. "It was almost Point-blank," Baldwin said. "The video has some sound and we are trying to determine what was said." As Ray lay dying on the floor, the suspects unsuccessfully tried to open the cash register, Baldwin said. A car pulled into the parking lot, and the suspects fled the store, leaving with at least one other young male in a ford pickup truck.
The two boys had been in the Hot Spot 2 other times that night, shoplifting and touching the cash register. The third suspect Joseph Adam Mullinax stayed outside the store while the other two murdered Ray and tried to rob the store. They had also been in The Texaco station just across the bridge in Chester county. "Each time they went in the store they tried something a little more bold," said prosecutor Tommy Pope. "They were circling like wolves."
Luther Ray Broome, 40, died April 13, 1997, in Wallace Thomson Hospital in Union. A native of Chester, he was the son the Neely V. Broome Jr. of Sharon and the late Harriette Nichols Broome. He was a member of Lockhart First Baptist Church. He was a graduate of York High Shcool and was employed as assistant manager for Jordan's Oil Co. Survivors, in addition to his father, include his wife Karen Wyatt Broome; a daughter, Lori D. Broome of the home; a son Marcus K. Broome of the home; his stepmother, Brenda J. Broome of Sharon; and two brothers, Walter Lee Broome of Sharon and Ronald Keith Broome of York. The shooting happened on the night of Marcus' prom at York High School.
Wesley Arron Shafer, 18 of Center Road, and Justin Matthew Porter 16, were arrested late Sunday in Chester, and returned to Union. Both were charged with armed robbery and murder.
Ray was the assistant manager of Jordan's Hot Spot, he died in the emergency room at Wallace Thomson Hospital in Union about an hour after the shooting. Union County Coroner William Holcombe said an Autopsy conducted Sunday in Newberry determined Ray suffered two gunshot wounds to the head. The incident was captured by a video camera in the store. Sheriff's deputies searched for the suspects in Chester County Sunday afternoon and recovered a pickup truck believed to be the escape vehicle. Late Sunday they worked with Assistant Solicitor Betty Miller in Preparing arrest warrants before returning to Chester to make the arrests. Capt. Frank Baldwin of the Sheriff's Office said Shafer and Porter entered Jordan's Hot Spot on Jonesville-Lockhart Highway around 1:15 a.m. on Sunday. He said they walked around the store for a short while, and one shoplifted a package of cigarettes. They exchanged some words with Ray, then one of them opened fire with a handgun. One bullet hit Ray in the head and he fell behind the counter, Shafer then went behind the counter and put the gun to Ray's head and pulled the trigger. "It was almost Point-blank," Baldwin said. "The video has some sound and we are trying to determine what was said." As Ray lay dying on the floor, the suspects unsuccessfully tried to open the cash register, Baldwin said. A car pulled into the parking lot, and the suspects fled the store, leaving with at least one other young male in a ford pickup truck.
The two boys had been in the Hot Spot 2 other times that night, shoplifting and touching the cash register. The third suspect Joseph Adam Mullinax stayed outside the store while the other two murdered Ray and tried to rob the store. They had also been in The Texaco station just across the bridge in Chester county. "Each time they went in the store they tried something a little more bold," said prosecutor Tommy Pope. "They were circling like wolves."
Luther Ray Broome, 40, died April 13, 1997, in Wallace Thomson Hospital in Union. A native of Chester, he was the son the Neely V. Broome Jr. of Sharon and the late Harriette Nichols Broome. He was a member of Lockhart First Baptist Church. He was a graduate of York High Shcool and was employed as assistant manager for Jordan's Oil Co. Survivors, in addition to his father, include his wife Karen Wyatt Broome; a daughter, Lori D. Broome of the home; a son Marcus K. Broome of the home; his stepmother, Brenda J. Broome of Sharon; and two brothers, Walter Lee Broome of Sharon and Ronald Keith Broome of York. The shooting happened on the night of Marcus' prom at York High School.
Luther Ray Broome, 40, of Oak Tree Road, Sharon was murdered on April 13th at the Hot Spot where he worked. Sheriff's deputies arrested three Chester teen-agers, one who is a juvenile, and charged them in the slaying. Ray was really popular with all the people young and old who came in the store while he was working. He was the type of person who would give you anything he could.
Wesley Arron Shafer, 18 of Center Road, and Justin Matthew Porter 16, were arrested late Sunday in Chester, and returned to Union. Both were charged with armed robbery and murder.
Ray was the assistant manager of Jordan's Hot Spot, he died in the emergency room at Wallace Thomson Hospital in Union about an hour after the shooting. Union County Coroner William Holcombe said an Autopsy conducted Sunday in Newberry determined Ray suffered two gunshot wounds to the head. The incident was captured by a video camera in the store. Sheriff's deputies searched for the suspects in Chester County Sunday afternoon and recovered a pickup truck believed to be the escape vehicle. Late Sunday they worked with Assistant Solicitor Betty Miller in Preparing arrest warrants before returning to Chester to make the arrests. Capt. Frank Baldwin of the Sheriff's Office said Shafer and Porter entered Jordan's Hot Spot on Jonesville-Lockhart Highway around 1:15 a.m. on Sunday. He said they walked around the store for a short while, and one shoplifted a package of cigarettes. They exchanged some words with Ray, then one of them opened fire with a handgun. One bullet hit Ray in the head and he fell behind the counter, Shafer then went behind the counter and put the gun to Ray's head and pulled the trigger. "It was almost Point-blank," Baldwin said. "The video has some sound and we are trying to determine what was said." As Ray lay dying on the floor, the suspects unsuccessfully tried to open the cash register, Baldwin said. A car pulled into the parking lot, and the suspects fled the store, leaving with at least one other young male in a ford pickup truck.
The two boys had been in the Hot Spot 2 other times that night, shoplifting and touching the cash register. The third suspect Joseph Adam Mullinax stayed outside the store while the other two murdered Ray and tried to rob the store. They had also been in The Texaco station just across the bridge in Chester county. "Each time they went in the store they tried something a little more bold," said prosecutor Tommy Pope. "They were circling like wolves."
Luther Ray Broome, 40, died April 13, 1997, in Wallace Thomson Hospital in Union. A native of Chester, he was the son the Neely V. Broome Jr. of Sharon and the late Harriette Nichols Broome. He was a member of Lockhart First Baptist Church. He was a graduate of York High Shcool and was employed as assistant manager for Jordan's Oil Co. Survivors, in addition to his father, include his wife Karen Wyatt Broome; a daughter, Lori D. Broome of the home; a son Marcus K. Broome of the home; his stepmother, Brenda J. Broome of Sharon; and two brothers, Walter Lee Broome of Sharon and Ronald Keith Broome of York. The shooting happened on the night of Marcus' prom at York High School.
Wesley Arron Shafer, 18 of Center Road, and Justin Matthew Porter 16, were arrested late Sunday in Chester, and returned to Union. Both were charged with armed robbery and murder.
Ray was the assistant manager of Jordan's Hot Spot, he died in the emergency room at Wallace Thomson Hospital in Union about an hour after the shooting. Union County Coroner William Holcombe said an Autopsy conducted Sunday in Newberry determined Ray suffered two gunshot wounds to the head. The incident was captured by a video camera in the store. Sheriff's deputies searched for the suspects in Chester County Sunday afternoon and recovered a pickup truck believed to be the escape vehicle. Late Sunday they worked with Assistant Solicitor Betty Miller in Preparing arrest warrants before returning to Chester to make the arrests. Capt. Frank Baldwin of the Sheriff's Office said Shafer and Porter entered Jordan's Hot Spot on Jonesville-Lockhart Highway around 1:15 a.m. on Sunday. He said they walked around the store for a short while, and one shoplifted a package of cigarettes. They exchanged some words with Ray, then one of them opened fire with a handgun. One bullet hit Ray in the head and he fell behind the counter, Shafer then went behind the counter and put the gun to Ray's head and pulled the trigger. "It was almost Point-blank," Baldwin said. "The video has some sound and we are trying to determine what was said." As Ray lay dying on the floor, the suspects unsuccessfully tried to open the cash register, Baldwin said. A car pulled into the parking lot, and the suspects fled the store, leaving with at least one other young male in a ford pickup truck.
The two boys had been in the Hot Spot 2 other times that night, shoplifting and touching the cash register. The third suspect Joseph Adam Mullinax stayed outside the store while the other two murdered Ray and tried to rob the store. They had also been in The Texaco station just across the bridge in Chester county. "Each time they went in the store they tried something a little more bold," said prosecutor Tommy Pope. "They were circling like wolves."
Luther Ray Broome, 40, died April 13, 1997, in Wallace Thomson Hospital in Union. A native of Chester, he was the son the Neely V. Broome Jr. of Sharon and the late Harriette Nichols Broome. He was a member of Lockhart First Baptist Church. He was a graduate of York High Shcool and was employed as assistant manager for Jordan's Oil Co. Survivors, in addition to his father, include his wife Karen Wyatt Broome; a daughter, Lori D. Broome of the home; a son Marcus K. Broome of the home; his stepmother, Brenda J. Broome of Sharon; and two brothers, Walter Lee Broome of Sharon and Ronald Keith Broome of York. The shooting happened on the night of Marcus' prom at York High School.
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