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Inquest jury to rule today in apartment shooting case

Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 | 9:21 a.m.

A coroner's inquest jury was expected to decide today whether a Metro Police officer was justified in killing a murder suspect who allegedly fired a shot at the officer's head.

Barrington Hall, 19, was a suspect in the June 10 rape and murder of a 21-year-old woman when he killed a 19-year-old woman and pistol-whipped her 16-year-old sister on June 24 at the Silver Palms apartment complex on Jones Boulevard near Lake Mead Boulevard, police said.

Officer Michael Fletcher came to the apartment after receiving a 911 call reporting the attack and was outside speaking to a relative of the victims when Hall came up behind them and fired at Fletcher's head, police said.

Fletcher turned and fired four or five shots at Hall, who died a short time later at University Medical Center.

Rinnah Esteban, the elder sister whom Hall allegedly attacked, also died at the hospital.

That morning police had named Hall as a "person of interest" in the rape and murder of Shelby Alko in an apartment at Sahara Avenue and Decatur Boulevard two weeks earlier. After his death, police said Hall was the person who killed Alko.

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