CBS and NBC both considered the local murder case from Escambia County Fla that all three newscasts covered Monday to be worthy of one more national follow-up. The sheriff's department announced the arrest of six men and a teenager in the murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings, parents of 16 children, in their Pensacola mansion last week. NBC's Mark Potter came up with the tidbit that one of the accused, Donald Stallworth, is a military commando in USAF Special Operations. The sheriff called the killing a "home invasion" that had been "long planned, military style." CBS' Terrell Brown told us that a second suspect, Leonard Gonzalez, is a children's karate instructor. Besides murder, the suspects are accused of stealing the Billings' safe.
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