Health

By LAUREN GROVER
Staff Writer

A replacement blood drive for Terry Caffey, whose wife and two sons were killed in a gruesome triple murder March 1 in their Alba home, is taking place on Monday, Carter BloodCare Stewart Center officials said.

"We're hoping a good number of people can come out," said Justin Whiteman of Carter BloodCare. "It's partly a memorial drive for the Caffey family and partly a replacement drive."

The drive will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Monday at the Miracle Faith Baptist Church, 820 State Highway 276 in Emory.

Two banks in Emory are still receiving donations for Terry Caffey, who is recuperating in his hometown after his house was burned to the ground and his 16-year-old daughter incarcerated after the killings.

First National Bank and Austin Bank have funds set up in Terry's name, his pastor Todd McGahee told the Tyler Paper last week.

During the pre-dawn hours of March 1, Caffey was shot five times in the head, shoulders and chest before escaping his burning house, where the bodies of his wife, Penny, and young sons, Tyler and Matthew, were found stabbed, shot and burned, according to an autopsy report.

Caffey crawled 300 yards to a neighbor's house and remained conscious to tell Rains County Sheriff David Traylor that 19-year-old Charlie James Wilkinson, his daughter's boyfriend, had shot him and killed his family, police reports said.

Wilkinson, Erin Caffey, and friends Charles Allen Waid, 20, and Bobbi Gale Johnson, 18, all from the Emory area, were arrested and each charged with four counts of capital murder. They are each being held on $1,500,000 bond at the Rains County jail.

According to police reports, the Caffeys had forbidden Erin to date Charlie Wilkinson the night before the slaying. The four young people had discussed killing her family for weeks.

Wilkinson told police in the report that Erin wanted her family dead so they could be together.

Caffey was about to be ordained as a Baptist pastor, family friends said, and Penny Caffey was the church's pianist.