GUNS/BARMS

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Two shot dead after child custody dispute in Nashville
March 9, 2001
Web posted at: 1:24 PM EST (1824 GMT)


NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A man shot and killed two women in a parking lot outside a courthouse after a child-support hearing that did not go his way, police said.

Police said Michael Angelo Hill, 45, shot the mother of his child and another woman several times with a shotgun.

He then allegedly reloaded and shot their bodies as they lay in the parking lot. He fled in his car, police said.

Hill, the boy's mother and her friend had attended a child support hearing before Judge Betty Adams Green. The women's names were not immediately released.

Green said Hill was granted visitation to see his child Friday afternoon and Saturday.

"I don't know what went wrong after that," she said.

The hearing ended about 10:30 a.m. and the shootings occurred in the parking lot across the street, Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said.

"Apparently, he was not happy with the outcome," Aaron said.

Aaron said Hill was from Virginia, but had no other information about him.