Murder Charges Filed Against 3 Drifters in Deaths of Therapist, Tourist

Murder charges have been filed against three vagabonds accused of killing a prominent therapist in Marin County and a Canadian Tourist in San Francisco, Marin County District Attorney’s office announced Monday.

Sean Michael Angold, 24, Morrison Haze Lampley, 23, and Lila Scott Allgood, 18, are charged with murder under special circumstances, which could carry the death penalty or life in prison.

The trio are accused of killing 67-year-old Steve Carter in the Loma Alta Open Space Preserve last Monday and Audrey Carey, a 23-year-old resident of Quebec, Canada, who was killed in Golden Gate Park the week before.

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Carter was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds by a hiker on a trail. Carter’s dog, a Doberman Pinscher, had also been shot and was still leashed to him, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.

Passerby found Carey lying facedown with a gunshot wound to her in a wooded area near the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park.

Carey’s death occurred during the weekend of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival, which attracts hundreds of thousands of people to Golden Gate Park each year, but San Francisco police said it remains unclear whether Carey or the suspects attended the free festival.

A handgun stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked near San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf neighborhood was the weapon allegedly used in both murders, police said. San Francisco has a problem with auto theft, police said.

Police said the vehicle appears to have been unlocked when the auto burglary occurred.

Two days after the gun was reported stolen, the first homicide was reported.

The trio fled to Oregon after Carter’s muder and police was able to track them down using the GPS linked to Carter’s car. The three was seen on surveillence video fueling up Carter’s car after his murder.

In addition to murder, the three also face charges of murder by means of lying in wait, murder while in the commission of robbery, robbery, car theft, being in possession of stolen property of the murder victims and animal cruelty.

Lampley face an additional charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and being in possession of a stolen fire arm.

The charges were filed Friday and the exact arraignment date is unknown at this time, the D.A.’s office said.

--Bay City News Service contributed to this story, photo courtesy of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Department