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http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/09/38666905.shtml?Element_ID=38666905
Man left note before shooting
ERIC PARSONS / FILE
After a SWAT team cleared the Electric Picture Co. building, plainclothes officers move in for a closer look at the crime scene following a shooting on Friday. Police say Thomas Edgar ''Eddie'' Harrison shot the business's co-owner and later killed himself after trying to see his ex-girlfriend, who worked at the company.
By IAN DEMSKY
and CHRISTIAN BOTTORFF
Staff Writers
Harrison also denied that he raped ex-girlfriend
Thomas Edgar ''Eddie'' Harrison, who police say shot a Nashville businessman before taking his own life Friday, may have known that he wasn't coming back home when he left.
Police found a note on the nightstand in his bedroom stating, ''Name: Thomas Harrison.'' Then, without explanation, it continued: ''Please contact Andrea (daughter) or Angela (wife) Harrison at'' an Alabama phone number. ''Thank you.''
Police also found a document in his living room in which he denies that he raped an ex- girlfriend whom police say he was seeking Friday at Electric Picture Co. in south Nashville, where the business's co-owner Gregory Griffith, 39, of Mt. Juliet was killed.
A Davidson County grand jury Thursday issued five indictments against Harrison in connection with the incident. He was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated rape, possession of a weapon with intent to use it in commission of a felony and possession of a prohibited weapon.
The 34 points in the document tell Harrison's version of the June 3 events — a version in which he says the sex and use of handcuffs with the ex-girlfriend was consensual.
The Tennessean does not routinely publish the names of victims of sexual abuse. The woman did not return a call yesterday asking her to comment on the statements made by Harrison in the document.
Police do not know if Harrison learned of the indictments before he went to the business on Friday. Harrison had been out on $65,000 bail since June 11, the date of a preliminary hearing in the case.
The indictment meant that he would have to appear in court Sept. 11 and have the charges formally read to him. At his arraignment, prosecutors could have asked for his bail to be increased because the grand jury indicted him on a charge that a judge had previously dismissed. (See related story at right.)
In the document, he says he met the woman in the fall of 1997 and started seeing the 26-year-old ''after she seduced me for about six months.''
She called off her impending wedding, and the couple moved in together in June 1999, he wrote, although Harrison was still married.
He wrote that the woman was into ''pornography and sex toys. … Never done anything like this before. She had with ex-fiancé,'' Harrison wrote.
In her testimony at his preliminary hearing in June, the woman said she and Harrison used sex toys in their relationship.
The note also corroborates statements from the woman in police documents that the couple had broken up in February after unauthorized software had been found on her computer.
Harrison's document states that he installed some software on her work laptop to test it because he wanted to find out if someone was using his computer at work after he left. Her company later discovered it and fired her.
Although they stopped dating, ''we continued to speak on a daily basis via telephone and seeing each other. … We had sex on two occasions during this time,'' he wrote.
In relation to the June 3 incident, he wrote that he had been invited by the woman to her residence to return a bag of sex toys they used, have barbecue and go shopping.
In her testimony, the woman said he had asked if he could bring barbecue over and that she declined.
He said that she wanted him to handcuff her. ''She wanted this — NOT ME,'' he wrote — but the woman told police that she had been held against her will for five hours.
Harrison wrote that the couple had sex, after which he had trouble removing the handcuffs. Officers responding to her complaint found marks on her wrists.
As he was getting dressed, his pistol fell to the floor, he wrote.
''I told her about the man who appeared to be following me on two occasions and that I had meant to leave it in the car as always before but because my hands were full with the barbecue and the toys, I must've forgotten to take it out of my pocket,'' Harrison wrote. ''She then started to have a panic attack and hyperventilated.''
After the 45 minutes that it took her to calm down, he wrote, he checked her Caller ID while she got dressed and her ex-fiancé had called.
They then argued for two hours about their relationship, he wrote.
In her court testimony, the woman said the argument took place before she was handcuffed.
The couple later went shopping at a Harris Teeter grocery store, where the woman had him arrested.
''I said what is this all about — I haven't assaulted her. (The officer) said — she said you forced yourself on her. I said 'what' there is no way. There has been a mistake,'' he wrote.
The officer took him to the Metro police station: ''After about 45 minutes or so, I was taken into a room with two detective (sic). One questioned me while the other took notes. I was totally honest with him and told what had happened that day. He was very agitated and at one point began to yell at me,'' he wrote.
The woman told police that he had put the pistol in his car. He waited for several hours while police obtained a search warrant for his car.
When they returned, they told him he was being booked, Harrison wrote.
''I couldn't believe it and told him that something was wrong that there was a mistake and that this couldn't be.''
The names of several defense attorneys were handwritten at the bottom of the document.
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/09/38666905.shtml?Element_ID=38666905
Man left note before shooting
ERIC PARSONS / FILE
After a SWAT team cleared the Electric Picture Co. building, plainclothes officers move in for a closer look at the crime scene following a shooting on Friday. Police say Thomas Edgar ''Eddie'' Harrison shot the business's co-owner and later killed himself after trying to see his ex-girlfriend, who worked at the company.
By IAN DEMSKY
and CHRISTIAN BOTTORFF
Staff Writers
Harrison also denied that he raped ex-girlfriend
Thomas Edgar ''Eddie'' Harrison, who police say shot a Nashville businessman before taking his own life Friday, may have known that he wasn't coming back home when he left.
Police found a note on the nightstand in his bedroom stating, ''Name: Thomas Harrison.'' Then, without explanation, it continued: ''Please contact Andrea (daughter) or Angela (wife) Harrison at'' an Alabama phone number. ''Thank you.''
Police also found a document in his living room in which he denies that he raped an ex- girlfriend whom police say he was seeking Friday at Electric Picture Co. in south Nashville, where the business's co-owner Gregory Griffith, 39, of Mt. Juliet was killed.
A Davidson County grand jury Thursday issued five indictments against Harrison in connection with the incident. He was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated rape, possession of a weapon with intent to use it in commission of a felony and possession of a prohibited weapon.
The 34 points in the document tell Harrison's version of the June 3 events — a version in which he says the sex and use of handcuffs with the ex-girlfriend was consensual.
The Tennessean does not routinely publish the names of victims of sexual abuse. The woman did not return a call yesterday asking her to comment on the statements made by Harrison in the document.
Police do not know if Harrison learned of the indictments before he went to the business on Friday. Harrison had been out on $65,000 bail since June 11, the date of a preliminary hearing in the case.
The indictment meant that he would have to appear in court Sept. 11 and have the charges formally read to him. At his arraignment, prosecutors could have asked for his bail to be increased because the grand jury indicted him on a charge that a judge had previously dismissed. (See related story at right.)
In the document, he says he met the woman in the fall of 1997 and started seeing the 26-year-old ''after she seduced me for about six months.''
She called off her impending wedding, and the couple moved in together in June 1999, he wrote, although Harrison was still married.
He wrote that the woman was into ''pornography and sex toys. … Never done anything like this before. She had with ex-fiancé,'' Harrison wrote.
In her testimony at his preliminary hearing in June, the woman said she and Harrison used sex toys in their relationship.
The note also corroborates statements from the woman in police documents that the couple had broken up in February after unauthorized software had been found on her computer.
Harrison's document states that he installed some software on her work laptop to test it because he wanted to find out if someone was using his computer at work after he left. Her company later discovered it and fired her.
Although they stopped dating, ''we continued to speak on a daily basis via telephone and seeing each other. … We had sex on two occasions during this time,'' he wrote.
In relation to the June 3 incident, he wrote that he had been invited by the woman to her residence to return a bag of sex toys they used, have barbecue and go shopping.
In her testimony, the woman said he had asked if he could bring barbecue over and that she declined.
He said that she wanted him to handcuff her. ''She wanted this — NOT ME,'' he wrote — but the woman told police that she had been held against her will for five hours.
Harrison wrote that the couple had sex, after which he had trouble removing the handcuffs. Officers responding to her complaint found marks on her wrists.
As he was getting dressed, his pistol fell to the floor, he wrote.
''I told her about the man who appeared to be following me on two occasions and that I had meant to leave it in the car as always before but because my hands were full with the barbecue and the toys, I must've forgotten to take it out of my pocket,'' Harrison wrote. ''She then started to have a panic attack and hyperventilated.''
After the 45 minutes that it took her to calm down, he wrote, he checked her Caller ID while she got dressed and her ex-fiancé had called.
They then argued for two hours about their relationship, he wrote.
In her court testimony, the woman said the argument took place before she was handcuffed.
The couple later went shopping at a Harris Teeter grocery store, where the woman had him arrested.
''I said what is this all about — I haven't assaulted her. (The officer) said — she said you forced yourself on her. I said 'what' there is no way. There has been a mistake,'' he wrote.
The officer took him to the Metro police station: ''After about 45 minutes or so, I was taken into a room with two detective (sic). One questioned me while the other took notes. I was totally honest with him and told what had happened that day. He was very agitated and at one point began to yell at me,'' he wrote.
The woman told police that he had put the pistol in his car. He waited for several hours while police obtained a search warrant for his car.
When they returned, they told him he was being booked, Harrison wrote.
''I couldn't believe it and told him that something was wrong that there was a mistake and that this couldn't be.''
The names of several defense attorneys were handwritten at the bottom of the document.
