Who is Royce Carroll Mize? Amy Anderson threatened pedator ex with same gun she used to kill 2 cops
BAY ST LOUIS, MISSISSIPPI: Mississippi veterinarian Amy Brogdon Anderson, who shot dead two police officers last week, reportedly threatened her ex-husband with the same firearm she used to gun down the cops. She allegedly threatened Royce Carroll “Jerry” Mize with the 9mm handgun she used to kill officers Brandon Estorffe and Steven Robin.
Anderson killed the officers when they responded to a call for a welfare check from the motel she checked into. This happened after Anderson believed she was being followed by a white truck and subsequently asked the motel clerk to call 911.
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At the time when Anderson threatened Mize, he had been released on bail after being arrested for performing oral sex on a 10-year-old girl in June 2017, the Daily Mail reported. The 63-year-old is serving a 10-year sentence for sexual battery at Leake County Correctional Facility at present. Anderson married Mize in 2011, and had two children from a previous relationship.
Court papers revealed that Mize sexually abused the minor in February and March 2017, and the couple divorced soon after the incident. Anderson, in the divorce filing, asked for custody of their young child, as well as her two older children.
“[Mize’s actions] have been extremely damaging to the mental health and physical health of Amy, and that the continuance of the marital relationship would cause further serious damage to both her mental and physical health and well being, and to the physical health and well being of the minor child,” the documents said.
In Mize's court filing, he accused Anderson of stealing or losing some of his possessions, including a Chevy Silverado truck, clothing and prescription glasses. He also provided details on the moment when she waved the gun at him as he tried to retrieve his RV.
Meanwhile, investigators have said that Anderson, a 43-year-old Ocean Springs resident, did not die by suicide after shooting the cops. She checked into a motel on Interstate 90, which runs through the Gulf Coast city, and later claimed she was being followed by a white truck. She asked the motel clerk to call 911.
After the officer arrived, she told them she came to the motel room with her daughter, eight, because she was in fear for her life. Her death, however, was caused by a bullet from one of the officers, and was not self-inflicted, WLOX News reported.
Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell detailed how the officers spoke to Anderson for about 40 minutes, a part of which was a “pleasant conversation." “During the course of the conversations with Ms Anderson, the officers became concerned for the safety of her daughter,” said Tindell. “She had made a number of comments that had the officers concerned for the safety of the child.”
The two officers then decided to call Child Protective Services. “Ms Anderson was loading up her car and was apparently attempting to leave the hotel. They were trying to keep her there until Child Protective Services could arrive," Tindell said. Anderson then sat in her car and gunned down Robin, who was at the door of her vehicle.
Estorffe and Anderson then exchanged two shots each, and Estorffe was hit in the arm and head. Anderson, however, was fatally shot in the chest. Estorffe later succumbed to his injuries at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport. Officers said that Anderson, who died at the scene, had a Glock semi-automatic pistol. Her daughter sat inside the car and witnessed the murders.