Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
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So he had this stable of dudes that would go to court and testify on his behalf and provide him with alibis and say, like, he didn't shoot him in the stomach.
He was with us.
at the time of the shooting.
So he got away with shooting Romaine Henry in the stomach with a shotgun even.
Yeah, and just to make sure that you understand what kind of person Ken McElroy was, the reason that he shot Romaine Henry in the stomach was because Romaine Henry approached him and said, hey, will you please not shoot pheasants out of season on my land anymore?
And Ken McElroy responded by shooting him in the stomach because he told him basically to stop shooting birds illegally on that man's land.
Yeah, didn't matter who you were.
There was a cop even, a highway patrolman named Richard Stratton.
Hashtag hero.
Yeah, who had plenty of run-ins, obviously, with McElroy, because like you said, this is a town of a few hundred people at the time, I think.
Yep.
Maybe like 400 or 500 even.
So everyone knew this guy, including, obviously, Richard Stratton.
And he had a bunch of run-ins, and so McElroy started threatening—
His home and his family.
One day, his wife, Margaret, was on her way to church.
She got in the car to go to church.
And McElroy walks up to the car, puts a shotgun in her face.
And he did that to cops' wives.
He did it to judges, the county magistrate Montgomery Wilson.