Three Suspects Arrested In Golden Gate Park Murder

San Francisco police say that three people held in Portland for the Monday evening murder of a man on a Marin County trail are also suspects in the killing of a woman in Golden Gate Park last weekend. The dog was also shot, but is expected to survive.

Police said the three suspects, Sean Michael Angold, 24, Morrison Haze Lampley, 23, and Lila Scott Allgood, 18, were arrested at the Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Southeast Portland.

Police say a homeless trio wandering Northern California used a handgun stolen from an unlocked auto in to rob and shoot to death two people.

The trio have waived their rights to extradition hearings and are expected to be brought back immediately to the Bay Area, first to Marin County and then to San Francisco to face homicide charges stemming from the shooting deaths of 67-year-old Steve Carter in the Loma Alta Open Space Preserve and Audrey Carey, a 23-year-old resident of Quebec, Canada, in Golden Gate Park, police and sheriff’s officials said. She had been shot in the head.

Marin detectives obtained a video surveillance image showing three suspects with Carter’s vehicle about 30 minutes after the homicide.

Chaplin said the stolen gun and a few of Carey’s camping gear was found when the three were arrested. The suspects, who apparently did not have home addresses, will be extradited to California, authorities said. The suspects will be charged with the robbery and murder of Carey, according to San Francisco police.

A device on Carter’s Volkswagen Jetta enabled police to track the suspects to Portland, Ore., where they were arrested mid-week outside a soup kitchen.

Carter was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds by a hiker on a trail just after 6 p.m. on Monday. They’re also trying to determine how long the suspects had been in San Francisco and how they got to Marin County.

The sheriff’s office said the weapon used in Carter’s shooting in Fairfax, California was recovered at the time of their arrest.

Carter and his wife are former residents of Middletown in Lake County, where they ran a consulting business called Ecstatic Living Institute.

When San Francisco police heard about the Fairfax homicide, they contacted Marin County sheriff’s investigators to look for similarities in the two cases. Police are continuing their investigation to see if any other unsolved crimes can be linked to the three drifters. “The tips that we’ve been receiving have been incredible”, Pittman said. Investigators say they’ve had a hard time finding out more about these three individuals and they don’t believe that’s an accident.