PITTSBURGH — Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the man accused of killing a Pittsburgh woman and her uncle in Florida, Channel 11’s Catherine Varnum reports.
Thomas Brown is charged with the deaths of his girlfriend, Amy Hatfield, and her uncle, Robert Massey, who were both found dead in Massey's Jacksonville, Florida, home in July.
Officials released the sound from two separate 911 calls from the night of their murder.
Caller One: “Uh, yes, uh, I need officers. Our neighbor's been murdered.”
Caller Two: “His roommate came home from work, found him laying, came screaming out the door and said someone killed him.”
Video obtained by Channel 11 showed Brown being arrested from a treatment facility in Georgia, falling asleep on the floor at times, putting his head in his hands and talking to detectives about detox.
“I don't know how it happened. I honest to God don't know how it happened,” Brown said.
Channel 11 was first to report Brown had warrants for his arrest on burglaries in Mount Lebanon, and detectives asked him about them.
“Did you leave there because you knew you had the warrants?” detectives said.
“Yeah, it was on the news. Cause I’ve never been there. It was on the news -- Channel 11 News,” Brown said.
Amy’s sister, Dana Hatfield, said she is angrier and more frustrated by something else Brown said.
“I was doing burglaries every night so she could get high,” Brown said.
Dana Hatfield said her sister cannot defend herself and he is trying to make Amy look bad.
Amy Hatfield left a message for a friend, expressing concern about Brown, before her death.
“I have nothing. I’m done with him... I don't trust him,” Amy said in the message.
Dana said with the holidays approaching, it is still hard to realize her sister is gone.
“I don't even want to do it, but I have to, (for) my kids. It’s gonna be hard,” Dana Hatfield said.
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