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Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press
April 19, 2021
(Clockwise left to right) Detroit Police Department Neighborhood Police Officers Marcia Williams, Dan Robinson and Eric Hill gather with Sergeant Charles Spruce before handing out gun safety information and gun locks while going door-to-door along Fenelon Street on Detroit s east side on Thursday, March 25, 2021.Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press
On a recent warm sunny Thursday morning in March, Officer Barren Coleman was at one of his usual stops, a Citgo gas station on West McNichols and the Southfield service drive.
As he made his way to the door, it was held open for him by a young Black man. The two slapped hands after entering and exchanged a “what up.” It was like they knew each other forever, but, they were total strangers.
Russell John Tully
Photo: POOL / Dean Kozanic
Russell John Tully, was found guilty in 2016 of the fatal shooting of Peggy Noble and Leigh Cleveland, in the Ashburton Work and Income office, in 2014.
Tully was also found guilty of attempting to murder case manager Kim Adams.
The jury found him not guilty of attempting to murder Lindy Curtis, who was shot in the leg.
He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 27 years.
Tully appealed his conviction in 2016 and gave evidence for his appeal earlier this year.
Tully said he had an available defence of insanity, which the trial judge Justice Mander refused to leave to the jury.
Work and Income double killer s appeal fails
Russell John Tullyin the High Court at Christchurch. Photo / file
Work and Income double killer s appeal fails Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 3:34PM
Work and Income double killer Russell John Tully has lost an appeal against his conviction and sentence.
The Court of Appeal has dismissed Tully s challenge in a decision released this afternoon.
Tully is serving life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 27 years for the 2014 Winz slayings.
Tully was found guilty in 2016 of storming the Ashburton Winz centre at 9.51am on September 1, 2014, and shooting dead receptionist Peggy Noble, 67, from point-blank range and shooting case manager Susan Leigh Cleveland, 55, three times as she pleaded for her life.
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A jury in the High Court in Christchurch found Tully guilty of killing Work and Income workers Peggy Noble and Leigh Cleveland on Monday September 1, 2014 and guilty of the attempted murder of Kim Adams.
A man who gunned down two Work and Income staff members in mid-Canterbury has had an appeal against his conviction and sentence dismissed. Russell John Tully, 54, appeared in the Court of Appeal in Christchurch in October to fight his life sentence with a minimum non-parole period of 27 years, claiming he had medical conditions that affected his mental capacity. Tully became one of New Zealand’s most notorious killers after he entered the Ashburton Work and Income office on September 1, 2014, armed with a shotgun and wearing a balaclava.