PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A man confessed to shooting his supervisor to death at a bus stop so she couldn’t report him for stealing about $40,000 from the child advocacy organization where they worked, investigators said Monday.
The victim, 56-year-old Kim Jones, suspected Randolph Sanders was stealing from Turning Points for Children, and Sanders was worried he might lose his job, homicide Capt. James Clark said. Fearing Jones would report him, Sanders stalked her for more than an hour before shooting her in the back of the head at a bus stop Jan. 13, Clark said.
As police investigated Jones’ killing, Sanders gave an interview to Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV, saying he was shocked by her death.
“We’re all stunned, just stunned. Just stunned.” he said in the interview last month, adding that he had been invited to her wedding. “She was incredibly happy. So this is – this is just disturbing.”
Sanders, of Philadelphia, was arraigned early Monday on murder and firearms charges and ordered held without bail pending a Feb. 18 preliminary hearing.