Murder suspect’s confession contested
As Jimmie Reed rode in the back of a squad car after showing Pontiac police where he had tossed the gun he said he used to kill his girlfriend and the gas can used to douse his 2-month-old daughter before burning her alive, he had a simple request.
He wanted to call his mother. The detectives obliged and put him on a speaker phone.
In taped confessions played in court Thursday, Reed told how he shot Byas in the head in the morning hours of July 20 as she lay sleeping, then went to visit his girlfriend.
He then stopped and bought gasoline and a gas can at a Meijer discount store. He crept back several hours later and set the bed on fire as the baby lay next to her dead mother.
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