John Jefferson
Christian Webster admitted to murdering his roommates, Matthew Johnson, left inset, and William Hulme, right inset, after cutting off a trigger lock to a shotgun and shooting them to death in their home in Franklinton, North Carolina.
A 30-year-old North Carolina man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he admitted to murdering the couple he was living with after cutting off a trigger lock and shooting them to death.
Christian Webster on Monday pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Matthew Johnson, 34, and William Hulme, 26, court records show. The Franklinton Police Department said in a news release that officers responded around 2 a.m. April 5 to a double homicide to a home on Pine Street. After about an hourlong standoff, cops took Webster into custody. When they searched the home they found Johnson and Hulme shot to death.
It was the second time in roughly a week cops responded to the home. Cops responded to a shots fired call March 31 and took Webster into custody on a charge of discharging a firearm. Cops said they seized guns from the home, but at least one firearm — a shotgun — was left behind. The shotgun was secured by a trigger lock, but Webster cut it off before murdering his roommates, authorities said.
According to a courtroom report from Raleigh NBC affiliate WRAL, family members spoke emotionally about their lost loved ones. Hulme’s father Tom Hulme told the court that Webster tortured his son and Johnson for four hours. He said Webster should meet the same fate as his son.
“I would gladly do the same thing to that man right in front of everybody here,” he said while gesturing at Webster.
Family members also recounted the horrific crime scene.
The “bloodstained tub still haunts me … I’ll never forget it,” one family member reportedly said, according to WRAL.
A detective reportedly testified that Webster admitted to cops that he killed the couple and he “expressed that he wanted to harm people since he was a child.” A psychiatrist also testified that Webster had a long history of mental illness and had a personality that went beyond narcissistic.
“[It is] much deeper-seed and much more dangerous and much more ominous. They just don’t emotionally attach to other individuals around them,” Dr. George Patrick Corvin reportedly said.
Johnson and Hulme were a happy couple, family said. According to his obituary, Johnson worked at a pharmacy and was a talented musician. Hulme’s obit said he also worked at a pharmacy and enjoyed camping, fishing and hunting.
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