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 William Boyette (Photo: Special to the News Journal) 
 
 WEST POINT, Ga. — Authorities say one of two people wanted in the deaths of four women has killed himself, ending a Tuesday standoff at a west Georgia motel and a multi-state crime spree. 
 
 Escambia (Fla.) County Sheriff David Morgan said William Boyette died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and that another suspect, Mary Rice, surrendered and is in custody. The pair is charged with killings that sparked a manhunt throughout southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, where the crimes occurred. 
 
 Deputies in Florida responded to a citizen tip Tuesday afternoon and found Boyette and Rice holed up at the West Point Motel in West Point, Ga., along with a car that was stolen Monday morning from Kayla Crocker's home in Pensacola, Fla. Crocker, 28, was shot and died Tuesday afternoon at an area hospital. 
 
 According to Sgt. Smith with Troup County Sheriff's Office, police made multiple attempts to contact Boyette and Rice inside the hotel with no luck. 
 
 Rice came out of the motel room where she was holed up with Boyette shortly after the Georgia SWAT team arrived. Within minutes of Rice being put in handcuffs and led away from the motel, police heard a single gunshot from inside the motel room, according to Troup County Georgia Sheriff James Woodruff. 
 
 Officers entered the room and found Boyette dead, Woodruff said. 
 
 The tip was received at about 2:30 p.m. today from a citizen who spotted the car that was being discussed in the media and on social media, Woodruff said. An officer was dispatched to the motel and confirmed it was the car stolen from Crocker. 
 
 A clerk at the motel told deputies that Rice checked into the motel Monday night under her own name. Deputies confirmed there were people inside the room because Boyette and Rice opened the curtains periodically and waved at law enforcement. 
 
 Deputies set up a perimeter around the hotel and just as SWAT was preparing to enter, Rice came outside, Woodruff said. 
 
 “We are always glad when something this seriously is resolved and no one is injured and no one is killed,” Woodruff told media gathered outside the motel. “We knew going in, them having killed several people already, that this could end very badly.” 
 
 Dominic Guadagnoli of the U.S. Marshals Service said federal, state and local law enforcement officials were on the scene. 
 
 Santa Rosa County Sheriff, Bob Johnson, right, and State Attorney, Bill Eddins, center, and Santa Rosa Deputy Sgt. Rich Aloy, left, holds a press conference Tuesday morning Feb. 7, 2017, to update members of the media on the latest in the William Boyette case. Local law enforcement agencies are seeking Boyette for the alleged murders of three people. (Photo: Tony Giberson/tgiberson@pnj.com) 
 
 The shooting of Crocker Monday morning in her home was the most recent attack in the crime spree that began Jan. 31. 
 
 Two women, Alicia Greer and Jacqueline Moore, were killed at the Emerald Sands Inn in Milton, Fla., on Jan. 31. Boyette and Rice are are then thought to have killed Peggy Broz at her Lillian, Ala., home the morning of Feb. 3 in order to steal her vehicle. 
 
 Baldwin County (Ala.) Sheriff’s Office information officer Anthony Lowery confirmed that a warrant for capital murder had been issued for Boyette and Rice for the ambush and killing of Broz. 
 
 It’s alleged that Rice and Boyette followed Broz to her home early on the morning of Feb. 3, where they shot and killed Broz in her front yard. Lowery said BCSO has found no other connection between the suspects and the victim other than the fact she had a vehicle they wanted. 
 
 “We believe at this point that obviously they selected her to prey on, they don’t have any ties that tie them together at this point,” he said. 
 
 Mary Craig Rice (Photo: Special to the News Journal) 
 
 Broz worked at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, but Lowery wasn’t able to confirm whether Boyette and Rice had followed Broz all the way from Pensacola to her home, or whether they were already located in Alabama when they found her. 
 
 In a press conference at the Santa Rosa county sheriff's office Tuesday morning, Sheriff Bob Johnson said a warrant for accessory after the fact to capital murder has been issued for Rice, who Johnson says is a "willing participant." 
 
 Records show that Boyette was a habitual violent offender, having been accused of beating and stabbing previous girlfriends in the years leading up to his killing spree and eventual death. 
 
 The prosecution was forced to drop a number of charges as the victims either couldn’t be located or recanted their statements on Boyette’s abuse, and as such he never served more than a year in jail for his domestic violence accusations. 
 
 Boyette had only been out of jail four months for a probation violation when he allegedly committed the Milton double homicide. 
 
 Aside from the known relationship between Boyette and Greer, police can’t point to any other connection between Boyette and Rice to the other three victims. 
 
 State Attorney Bill Eddins said Rice faces charges of accessory after the fact to capital murder in the Milton double homicide, and charges are still pending in the attack on Crocker. 
 
 Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office public information officer Anthony Lowery said Rice is facing charges of capital murder in the Alabama jurisdiction for her involvement with Broz’s killing. 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2kKL8YA ||||| The Escambia County Sheriff's Office has reported that the stand off with William "Billy" Boyette, 41, and his accomplice Mary Barbara Craig Rice, 37, of Milton, Florida inside of the West Point Motel in Georgia has ended. 
 
 ECSO Public Information Officer Andrew Hobbs confirmed that Boyette is deceased and Rice has been captured by the Troup County Sheriff's Office in Georgia. 
 
 The TCSO said that Boyette died from what they believe to be a self-inflicted gun shot wound. Investigators are processing the scene at the West Point Motel at this time. 
 
 On Tuesday afternoon, the TCSO in Georgia reported that Boyette and Rice were inside of the West Point Motel in Georgia. 
 
 Troup County officials said that there was an active scene at the motel located at 7800 West Point Road in West Point, Georgia. 
 
 The Troup County Sheriff's Office along with multiple support agencies were attempting to make contact Boyette and Rice. 
 
 The TCSO said that while they tried to bring the situation to a peaceful resolution, they wanted people avoid the area of the motel. 
 
 Earlier, Baldwin County Schools reported that they would continue to have increased security measures in place until Boyette and Rice were apprehended by authorities. 
 
 During a press conference on Tuesday morning, Santa Rosa County, Florida District Attorney William "Bill" Eddins said charges for Rice, 37 had been upgraded to accessory after the fact to premeditated murder. 
 
 "We are asking her to turn herself in," said Eddins. 
 
 Eddins went on to say that the other suspect, Boyette, had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault charges in Santa Rosa County in 2003 and served a stint in jail. 
 
 Boyette was arrested and face state charges in Florida for possession of a firearm by a felon after being released from jail. Eddin also hinted at not being able to charge Boyette with domestic violence in Santa Rosa County on several occasions because his spouse would not cooperate. 
 
 A warrant for capital murder was also issued Tuesday morning in Baldwin County for the arrest Rice by investigators with the Baldwin County Major Crimes Unit. 
 
 Rice is charged with capital murder and first-degree robbery in the death of Peggy Phillips Broz of Lillian, Alabama. 
 
 BCSO investigators have determined that Rice was with William "Billy" Boyette, 41, when they shot and killed Broz during the early morning hours of Friday (Feb. 3). 
 
 After the murder, both suspects are believed to have stolen Broz' vehicle and fled to Florida. 
 
 That news came a few hours after the Escambia County Sheriff's Office reported that Crimestoppers has increased the reward to $21,000 for a tip that can lead to the arrest of Boyette and Rice. 
 
 The ECSO made the announcement on their Facebook page just after 8:00 p.m. Monday night. 
 
 The previous reward had reached $11,000 over the weekend when Boyette became the suspect in the deaths of Alicia Greer and Jacqueline Moore in Milton, Florida and Broz. 
 
 The ECSO also released a portrait-view photo of Boyette's suspected accomplice, Mary Rice. 
 
 The photo highlights the gap between her upper-middle teeth. 
 
 Authorities are still considering Boyette and Rice armed and dangerous. They are urging residents in Escambia County and Baldwin County to avoid approaching the pair if spotted and to call 911 immediately. 
 
 The duo are still believed to be traveling in a white 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt with Florida license plate number: 9613BJ. 
 
 The vehicle was stolen during a home invasion in the Beluah, Florida area on Monday morning when Kayla Crocker was shot and left in critical condition at a local hospital. Her 2-year-old son was unharmed during the home invasion. 
 
 A relative of the victim, Loretta Crocker, has set up a donations page to help Kayla's family while she recovers. ||||| Just One More Thing... 
 
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 The search for a gunman suspected of murdering four women in two different states ended Tuesday when he was found dead in a Georgia motel and his alleged female accomplice was taken into custody. 
 
 After several days of searching, police found William "Billy" Boyette, 44, and 37-year-old Mary Rice in the town of West Point, about 80 miles southwest of Atlanta, shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday. 
 
 Peggy Broz. John Broz 
 
 While a SWAT team was preparing to storm the West Point Motel, Rice came out and surrendered, the Troup County Sheriff's Office said in a statement posted to Facebook. 
 
 Inside, the deputies found Boyette dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. 
 
 Boyette was suspected of murdering Alicia Greer and Jacqueline Moore in Milton, Florida, and Peggy Broz, whose car Boyette is believed to have stolen, in Lillian, Alabama. 
 
 "There is nothing to make sense of this. He needed a car, and he did not care 'cause he's an evil person," Broz's father-in-law, John Broz, told NBC News. "He's a coward." 
 
 Mary Rice and William 'Billy' Boyette in sheriff's photos. Escambia County Sheriff's Office 
 
 The Escambia County, Florida, Sheriff's Office said Boyette was also suspected of shooting a woman, later identified as Kayla Crocker, during a home invasion in Pensacola. Crocker died Tuesday, the sheriff's office said. 
 
 Moore’s mother, Brenda Stockhill, said the victim's dad bought bus tickets so that the 39-year-old could relocate to Ohio days just before the shooting. She never showed up to the bus station. 
 
 "I didn't even find out that my daughter was murdered until Wednesday," Stockhill said. 
 
 She called the death of Boyette "some relief." 
 
 "He's off the streets," Stockhill said. "He's not going to hurt anybody else."
– A fugitive murder suspect who vowed he wouldn't be taken alive killed himself after being cornered at a Georgia motel Tuesday, police say. William "Billy" Boyette died of what police say was a self-inflicted gunshot wound moments after alleged accomplice Mary Rice surrendered at a motel in West Point, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Cops believe the pair murdered Alicia Greer and Jacqueline Moore at a motel in Milton, Fla., on Jan. 31 before killing Peggy Broz in Lillian, Ala., on Feb. 3 to steal her car. A fourth victim, Kayla Crocker, was shot in Pensacola, Fla., on Monday and died from her injuries on Tuesday, USA Today reports. Rice has been charged with robbery and first-degree murder. Police say they found the pair and that a standoff at the Motel West Point began after they received a tip from a citizen who spotted Crocker's car outside the motel at 2:30pm. The vehicle was stolen after a home invasion in which Crocker was fatally wounded but her 2-year-old son was left unharmed, AL.com reports. Boyette was confirmed dead and Rice was arrested at around 6:15pm. Boyette was in a relationship with Greer, but police say there was no known connection between him or Rice and any of the other three victims. "There is nothing to make sense of this. He needed a car, and he did not care 'cause he's an evil person," Broz's father-in-law tells NBC News.