An STD rumor may be at the root of the recent murder-suicide deaths of three women and one man in North Carolina, according to relatives of one of the victims.<\/p>\n
The bodies of 23-year-old Alexandria Pierce<\/strong>, 24-year-old Amesha Page-Smith<\/strong>, 22-year-old Adrianne Stevens<\/strong> and 23-year-old gunman Brinton Millsap<\/strong> were found Saturday (June 18) on the side of a Durham highway.<\/p>\n Authorities believe Millsap<\/strong> killed the women in the car before taking his own life.<\/p>\n Family members say that a nasty STD rumor may have sparked the deaths. According to Pierce’s<\/strong> mother, her daughter went to Durham along with her friends to talk to Millsap<\/strong> about a rumor that she had given him herpes. According to Pierce’s<\/strong> mother, one of Pierce’s<\/strong> friends had apparently started the false rumor.<\/p>\n Millsap’s<\/strong> brother says, Brinton <\/strong>was \u201coutraged\u201d when the rumors of him contracting an STD circulated. Millsap<\/strong> also has Lupus, which can give a false positive for herpes according to doctors. His brother said the disease altered his way of thinking.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was looking at things differently,\u201d his brother said.<\/p>\n Authorities have yet to confirm the rumor as a motive for the killings.<\/p>\n Pictured: Alexandria Pierce, Amesha Page-Smith, Adrianne Stevens And Brinton Millsap<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An STD rumor may be at the root of the recent murder-suicide deaths of three women and one man in North Carolina, according to relatives of one of the victims. The bodies of 23-year-old Alexandria Pierce, 24-year-old Amesha Page-Smith, 22-year-old Adrianne Stevens and 23-year-old gunman Brinton Millsap were found Saturday (June 18) on the side […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}