William E. Thomas

In the early morning hours, a quiet street in Clinton was shattered by a violent domestic assault. Inside a home on Tulane Drive, a son, William Bradford Thomas, was attacking his parents. The altercation turned fatal, leaving his 63-year-old father, Shelton Minor Thomas, IV, with deadly injuries. The mother was also hurt during the assault.

When Clinton Police Department officers arrived at the scene around 1:00 a.m., they found a tragic family situation that they began to investigate as ...