Court resets execution for June in fast-food killings

Reid was to have been put to death by lethal injection on Oct. 5, but the court granted his request for a stay and reset the execution for June 28, 2006.

Reid has been convicted of three incidents of multiple murder during a three-month period in 1997. He received seven death sentences for the string of murders at fast-food restaurants in Nashville and Clarksville.

A Texas drifter who moved to Nashville to attempt a career in country music, Reid was fired as a dishwasher from a Shoney’s restaurant on Feb. 15, 1997, for losing his temper and throwing a plate that hit another worker.

The next day, Sarah Jackson, 16, and Steve Hampton, 25, were slain execution-style at a Captain D’s restaurant not far from the Shoney’s.

In March 1997, Ronald Santiago, 27; Robert A. Sewell Jr., 23; and Andrea Brown, 17, were shot and killed in a midnight robbery at a McDonald’s a few miles from the Captain D’s.

A month later, Angela Holmes, 21, and Michelle Mace, 16, were kidnapped in a robbery at a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store in Clarksville, about 50 miles northwest of Nashville. Their throats were slashed and their bodies were dumped at Dunbar Cave State Natural Area.

The Oct. 5 execution date was for the murders of Holmes and Mace.

Reid was arrested in June 1997 and linked to the murders after attempting to kidnap and kill the Shoney’s manager who fired him.

Both the Supreme Court and the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals have upheld Reid’s convictions this year after he filed appeals.