Brandon Messick – Daily Press
By BRANDON MESSICK
Daily Press Staff Writer
“I don’t think you meant to kill him,” said Detective Alan Griffith in his interview with Jess Carpenter, 28, of Artesia, on the morning of May 21, 2011. “But that’s what happened.”
Griffith, the Eddy County Sheriff’s Office Chief of Detectives, questioned Carpenter in reference to the 2011 shooting death of Carpenter’s friend, Joe Darras. Carpenter is charged with second-degree murder and negligent use of a deadly weapon in connection with the death. … For the rest of the story, subscribe in print and on the web.
