re: Double Murder + Suicide in Panama City

bowtie thank you. what u said is true. he was suppose to bring Audrey but brought a gun instead. keenith was there to protect her but it backfired

I will try to keep everyone up to date on stuff cause sometimes the news and Media will say things to spice stuff up for ratings

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But I stayed at the Holiday Inn and not the Hampton.

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Really makes you stop and think.

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PANAMA CITY BEACH — A breakup, a series of Facebook posts and a weekend at Thunder Beach Motorcycle Rally led up to a bloody murder-suicide that left three people dead at the Hampton Inn and Suites early Saturday morning, according to police.

Mark Stokes, 37, of Enterprise, Alabama, allegedly entered into the hotel room his estranged wife, Amanda Stokes, 28, was sharing with her friend Kenneth Krause, 30, at 4 a.m., shooting and killing them both before turning the gun on himself.

The bodies were then discovered by hotel maintenance staff Saturday morning, who were alerted by guests reporting blood was dripping through the floor and down from the ceiling in the rooms below, according to Panama City Beach Police Chief Drew Whitman.

According to investigators, Amanda Stokes and Mark Stokes had recently separated, with Mark Stokes moving out of the family home in Enterprise. The pair were active duty in the Army National Guard and were stationed at Fort Rucker, Alabama, where he was a major and she a sergeant. They also owned a business together, Chainsaws Corner Bar in Graceville, according to Whitman.

Last Wednesday, in a public social media post, Amanda Stokes stated she and her husband were no longer together, and she proceeded to post several photos from Panama City Beach and the Thunder Beach spring rally.

That same day, Mark Stokes publicly posted on Facebook he would be getting “back in the saddle” and making the 90-mile ride to Thunder Beach.

Whitman said the Stokes previously rented a vacation home to share with their employees, family and friends during the motorcycle rally. Whitman said they both knew the other would be at the rally, but because of the separation, Stokes opted to stay at the Hampton Inn and Suites down the road with Krause and a few other friends. One of her last Facebook posts, put up Friday morning, shows her and Krause together at the rally.

Later that afternoon, Mark Stokes made a post inviting his friends to the beach house for a post-Thunder Beach celebration.

Less than 24 hours later, all three would be dead.

Early Saturday morning, Mark Stokes entered Room 222 at the Hampton Inn using a key police say he obtained from the front desk and dead-bolted the door from the inside, locking himself in and keeping anyone who would interfere out. When officers responded to the scene four hours later, they had to break into the room.

Whitman said the scene was contained to the hotel room and they were not searching for any additional suspects. He said the case remains open, as his department awaits autopsy and toxicology results from the victims.

There was concern, based on information gathered and a post on Facebook that the Stokes’ 5-year-old daughter may have been in town at the time of the shooting. Whitman said that although the daughter had been at the rally on Thursday, her grandmother came down to pick her up that day and by Saturday “she was safe in Alabama.”

exactly,wtf.
You think he had a silencer on the gun?

seems like police would have mentioned why nobody heard gunshots if he had a silencer

Had to have had a silencer. The hotel must have been packed with the motorcycle thing in town, and the rooms there are packed in pretty tightly. There's no way three+ gunshots go unnoticed at ANY time of day

Maybe he went in not intending to kill himself? How else do you explain the lack of gunshot noise?

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seems like police would have mentioned why nobody heard gunshots if he had a silencer

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I think you may have seen too many movies. Shooting a gun with a silencer attached is still quite loud.

Here's a guy shooting inside a house with a silencer with a few different calibers.

lol I'm even confused why no one heard it. only thing I can guess is some hotels try to have sound proof walls but it don't always help but u put a silencer in the picture it might have knocked the sound down enough that people may of thought they were watching a shooter up movie next door. and if anyone is wondering Audrey the daughter is safe back here with us in Missouri. she not taken it well right now