Staff photo by Jim Williamson Calvin Bennett, left, looks at family and friends near the west entrance to the Howard County Courthouse Wednesday morning. Deputy Sheriff Todd Tallant walks behind Bennett, who is charged with capital murder in the deaths of an elderly couple near Nashville, Ark. The family and friends shouted to Bennett saying, “We love you.”
NASHVILLE, Ark.—It was an emotional contrast Wednesday in the Howard County Courthouse during the mental competency hearing for the man accused in the deaths of two elderly Howard County residents.
When Calvin Bennett, 28, of Nashville, was escorted from a police vehicle and into the courthouse, family and friends shouted, "We love you, Calvin!"
In the upstairs courtroom, the first three rows on the south side of the room were filled with family and friends of Pierce "Ben" Odell, 79, and Mary Odell, 78, who were shot to death in late 2006, allegedly by Bennett.
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