Thomas Randolph
Appearances
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
I don't know how many times I shot him, but I just kept right on going. Boom, boom, boom! And he just lay in there. Just laying there. And I look back because then I'm trying to make sure everything's cool. Kind of stepping back like that. And about that time, I heard the really, really loud noise. And what had happened is I guess he had hit the refrigerator and the... Help me here, though.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
Fire extinguisher. The fire extinguisher fell down. I didn't know what it was, but it made a loud clunk, and I was kind of, like I said, I was kind of looking back because I don't hear well, and I can't tell depth perception, anything. And when I heard the noise, I was kind of, like I said, backing up and kind of trying to make sure there's nothing else going on.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
And when I heard that noise, it really did scare me. And I, boom, boom! Except the door. Except the door didn't come down. It stayed just like it was open. I had... And I mean, I actually got close. Boom, boom! And I don't know if I shot him once. I shot him twice. And then started coming back down this way. He wasn't moving. He... Some noise. Come back down this way.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
And I'm being real... Just, you know... Sharon? Sharon! Sharon! She's not, but she was laying here and by then I could tell she was hurt really, really bad. I mean, the blood was just, then you could see thick blood. And I came back over and I went to call 911. And I came back over and I didn't have my phone. And it keeps falling off of me.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
I come back through here and just kind of, you know, just didn't know what to do and just kind of looking around. And I dialed 911, and the phone didn't work. I remember saying, fuck, what a time for a Vonage to go out. I stuck the phone in my pocket, and I thought about Sharon's cell phone. And I looked around, because sometimes she sits it on the purse, I mean, on the table.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
So I don't know how long she'd been, because I was for a minute letting the door come down and listen to the song. Looked on the table, came back out, come through here. I tried actually about right here. I'll take it back about right here. I tried 911 again and it was busy. When I called 911, it was busy. So I said, good, it's not Vonage.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
And I got back over here where I could kind of see everything. And I called 911 again and that's when Whoever said 911 and said, slow down, you're breathing too hard, slow down, whatever. And what's the emergency? And I don't remember for sure what I told them. Something about my wife been shot. This guy's tried to rip me off. I shot him. I think she said, did you shoot your wife?
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
I don't remember what all was said. You guys will have to get the tape of that. I don't remember. But just said that she'd been shot really bad.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
As we got up in here, he kind of rushed up on me a little bit, and that's when I just pushed him, boom, boom, boom, and he started going out toward the shed. I don't know how many times I shot him.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
My name is Tom Randolph. My date of birth is 2-2-55, social security number 8. And it's my understanding we're doing a walkthrough of the house, kind of a reenactment of what happened last Thursday.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
About there, we start opening the door up. I will stop because there's not enough room for both cars to get in there. You can't get both cars in and get both people out. So I stop the car. Sharon gets out. She had the steak and... lobster from charcoal grill or something.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
So she gets out, closes the door. She goes on in, starts walking in. I give her a little bit of head start to get to the door. I start pulling in. As I start getting out... This is about how close it was that night, so that's probably... This is it, just coming on in the house. Now, this door was closed, so I opened it up. I get right here, and Sharon's laying in the floor, face down.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
Her head's just barely, I mean, barely in the bedroom with that. And I stopped right about here, had the door, said, Sharon! Sharon! And I seen the... the bag from charcoal steak or whatever, and it's really a bright red. And this hall light, this hall light wasn't on at the time. So it was just like this? Just about like this, and I turned to light on myself as we got in.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
And about right here when I was like this, I was trying to kind of get a view. I thought I just seen like a shadow or something over this way. And I remembered that there's the 9mm right up here because earlier I'd taken all my guns, put them in a suitcase, was going to take them to Utah and switch the guns around.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
I reached right up here, got the gun, and as I got the gun, there's also an extra clip. There's a few up there, but I got the gun, the clip. And I'd already started to run, and then I just reached up just like that, grabbed it, stuck it in my pocket, came around just like that, and about that time, he's right up on me. Just right up on me, and we actually touched right about here.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
And he's short. He's short. And when he... I don't know if he gave me an elbow... But as we came around like that, I was kind of coming out. I was actually going to try to be slow, you know, and look out, but it just happened too quick. We came up and he kind of banged into me about right here. And then he went over to about right here.
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
And somewhere along here, I bit my mouth or something, trying to say something like, what the fuck or something. And he looked kind of like, I don't know if he was looking in here to see if there was somebody else or what. And there was a,
Sword and Scale
Episode 281
He had on a sweatshirt, and I don't remember if I seen the handle in the sweatshirt, if I seen the handle down his pants, but he was doing something, going for something down in here. And as we got up in here, and he kind of rushed up on me a little bit, and that's when I just pushed him, boom, boom, boom! And he started going out toward the shed.