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Story of Varn brothers' killings at family's Plant City (FL) ranch reads like Old West shoot-em-up
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Milton pulled up near Perry's Polaris and got out of the Escape. He wore a camouflage-patterned Columbia shirt and dirty blue jeans rolled up over brown cowboy boots. He held a rusty black Ruger .44-caliber revolver in one hand and a green Kel-Tec 22-caliber semi-automatic pistol in the other.
Perry Varn reached for a Ruger rifle he had with him in the Polaris, but there was no time. Milton fired at least twice.
Long pulled his .38 caliber Ruger pistol from his pocket and Joanne drew her Smith and Wesson .22-caliber revolver. The couple ran around to the back side of Long's pickup.
Long, 72, said he stood up to peer over the truck's bed.
"When I did, he shot me," he told Remia later. "And I went down."
Joanne Varn said Milton pulled the Escape around the other side of the pickup and pointed both guns at her. He reminded her he had told her stay away.
Fearing for her life, Joanne Varn pulled the trigger on her .22 caliber, but it didn't fire. Hammer marks on the rounds indicated she pulled the trigger six times. She threw the gun to the ground.
The whole sordid tale:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/story-of-varn-brothers--killings-at-familyas-plant-city-ranch-reads-like/2330492
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