 Dog cut with knife
Waco, TX (US)Date: Jan 2005
County: McLennan
Local Map: available
Disposition: Alleged
Alleged: Andrew Booker
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While a police investigation into the double homicide continues, investigators believe that Andy Booker, a registered nurse, shot his wife, also a registered nurse, in the chest on Dec. 6, 2005, before shooting himself in the head with the same .45-caliber pistol. Police found Kate, who turns 2 at the end of this month, unharmed in her bed.
His is a tragic story of a young man who struggled as a teen, found religion and went on missionary trips to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Later, his mother said he became addicted to pornography, questioned his faith, became an atheist, abused his wife and alcohol, lost his job and ultimately took her life and his own. Goodwin said her son began seeing a therapist a couple of months ago to help deal with his depression. The three types of medication that he was on sometimes kept him from sleeping and he drank too much after his wife went to bed, she said.
Booker, 31, spent the day of Dec. 5, 2005, helping his stepfather, a retired Fort Worth police officer who is building a new home in the rolling, rural countryside between Clifton and Cranfills Gap in Bosque County. He had lost his job a few days before at Coryell Memorial Hospital but seemed unconcerned because he spoke of leaving nursing, Goodwin said. He told his mother that he got fired because of a �flippant� comment he made at work. He did not tell his mother that he was cited by police for roughing Angie up the month before.
Angie, 33, told her mother that Booker almost broke her jaw, but down-played her injuries when police arrived to investigate Angie's 9-1-1 call that a drunk Booker had injured his pet Weimaraner with a knife.
Booker admitted that he was drunk that night, but Goodwin said she knows that he was only trying to help the dog, who suffered a blood clot on his right eye and was in pain. Booker told his mother and others that he couldn't afford to let a veterinarian operate on the dog, so he tried to relieve the dog's pain by operating himself.
That decision led to felony animal cruelty charges being filed against Booker and the dog being seized by the Humane Society. The dog has since been adopted by family friends in College Station. Neighborhood MapFor more information about the Interactive Animal Cruelty Maps, see the map notes.
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