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Sunday, 08 November 2015 05:39

Rite Aid robbery suspect shoots self in Pa. motel

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Rite Aid robbery suspect shoots self in Pa. motel

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Lloyd Wayne Franklin, who was wanted in a Davidson County double murder as well as a string of drug store robberies in North and South Carolina, including Rite Aid in Roanoke Rapids, killed himself during a standoff with police.

The newspaper reported the 34-year-old barricaded himself in a Bensalem motel room Saturday after police arrived around 2:30 p.m. looking for a man who Franklin and his girlfriend, 38-year-old Jennifer Lanning, had picked up.

The paper quotes Bensalem police as saying Franklin thought law enforcement was coming for him and he opened fire.

Lanning surrendered and told law enforcement there were two men still in the room, Franklin, and James Miller, a 53-year-old hitchhiker the couple had picked up. Miller surrendered after a 2 1/2-hour standoff with police and the Bucks County South SWAT.

Franklin was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Roanoke Rapids police took out warrants against Franklin last week for the Rite Aid robbery, which occurred Tuesday night. Prescription medications were taken in the heist.

The Inquirer reported the drug store robbery spree in North and South Carolina netted Franklin 1,800 tablets of Opana and Fentanyl patches.

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