NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
December 20, 2006
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
HOMELESS
MAN CHARGED WITH DESTIN MURDER
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged a 41-year old transient with
an open count of murder. Orville Burton Horner was
taken into custody Wednesday night after beating to death another transient
behind the Winn Dixie Market Place at
Investigators say the victim is a 43-year-old white male from
Horner claims he was jumped by the victim. He also told investigators that when
the man became unresponsive after the fight, he called law enforcement, walked
to the store to buy a beer and "shooter", went back to the scene, drank the
beer, and waited for deputies to arrive.
Horner's being held in the Okaloosa County Department of Corrections in
Crestview.
The victim's identity is being withheld pending location and notification of
next of kin.
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