Left inset: Tyronne Brazille (Shelby County Sheriff’s Office). Right inset: Lanessa Bradford (WREG). Background: The downtown Memphis area where Tyronne Brazille reportedly stopped after a multi-state journey with his wife’s body in the passenger seat (WREG).
In a disturbing incident, a Louisiana man allegedly murdered his wife before embarking on a cross-state drive with her lifeless body seated next to him.
Police in Tennessee halted Tyronne Brazille, 50, of Baton Rouge, for a traffic violation only to uncover a grim scene—his wife, Lanessa Bradford, also 50, was found dead in the car with a gunshot wound. This discovery was reported by local CBS affiliate WREG.
According to a close friend who spoke to WREG, Bradford had intended to leave Brazille and had formulated a plan to do so. Tragically, this plan was cut short following an argument with Brazille at a park in Baton Rouge.
The friend noted that although the couple had been together for years, their relationship was troubled, marred by marital problems. She also mentioned that Brazille struggled with mental health issues.
“[Bradford] was going to just vanish,” the pal, Shelicka Decker, told WREG. “That was the only way she would be able to get away from him. She was going to leave her car, she was going to leave all the things behind, and she had been in touch with her family that was out of town, and that’s how she was going to make this move to get away.”
According to police, Brazille was pulled over in downtown Memphis after driving through several states with Bradford propped up in his car’s passenger seat. Cops took him into custody after seeing that she was dead and booked him as a fugitive.
“I have so many questions,” Decker said. “Like, what were you doing in the car with her that amount of time while she was deceased. Where was his mind at during that ride? Like, it’s so crazy. It’s so crazy and heartbreaking.”
Decker told WREG that Bradford worked at an elementary school and her colleagues requested a welfare check after she missed several days of work. Decker said Bradford told her that Brazille threatened to kill Bradford or himself if she ever tried to leave him, and that he was abusive.
“He never put his hands on her up until recently, like maybe like two or three months ago,” Decker alleged. “It wouldn’t have surprised me if someone had called and said that he killed himself because he always says this. It surprised me that he killed her.”
Brazille is scheduled to appear in court Monday in Memphis and is expected to be extradited to Louisiana, where he will face a charge of murder in connection with Bradford’s death, WREG reports.
“It’s such an unfortunate situation,” Decker said. “My prayers are with her family and friends as well as his, because we were all friends. We all, you know, hung around each other, and this is just not the same person that we grew up with.”
Describing Bradford, Decker added, “She was such a good person.”
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