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The bodies of two young girls and their father, a Clarksville man wanted in Montgomery County on rape charges, were found in a car near Oak Ridge yesterday in what investigators are calling a murder-suicide.

Richard Alfonso Howard, 32, was approached earlier yesterday morning in his car by a Tennessee Valley Authority police officer patrolling a parking lot at TVA's Bull Run fossil plant, about 15 miles west of Knoxville in East Tennessee, said Jim Carver, director of TVA police.

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The officer asked Howard why he was there, and he responded that he had run out of gas and was waiting for someone to bring him gas or money to buy it, Carver said.

The officer initially did not notice the girls, whose bodies were covered in the back of the vehicle, Carver said.

After the officer ran a check on Howard's license plate numbers, he discovered the outstanding rape warrants. When he returned to Howard's Ford Crown Victoria, he found the father slumped over the steering wheel, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.

When the car was searched, police discovered the bodies of Howard's daughters — Brionna, 3, and Markayla, 2 —along with a suicide note in which he admitted to killing them, authorities said.

Investigators declined to say when or how the toddlers were killed.

Howard had two outstanding rape warrants involving a 15-year-old girl at a Clarksville motel last summer. The teen told Clarksville police in August that Howard took her to the Holiday Drive motel on July 4 and forced her to have sex with him against her will, according to a report by Clarksville police Detective Shane Dortch.
 

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"Playing for UT was the best feeling and it is all that it appears to be. The first time I ran through the T, I was really excited and nervous," said Howard. Apparently the nervousness won out because Howard tripped and fell while running through the T.

"My teammates gave me a hard time about that during films," stated Howard.

Howard played at UT for three years before transferring to Carson Newman. Upon graduating with a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Criminal Justice, Howard was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens.

"Ray Lewis is the hardest hitter I ever went up against. During practice he made one of the players on the second team offense quit because he hit him so hard he knocked his face mask sideways. But he was a good guy; he kept the defense hyped and motivated, "said Howard.

During an autograph signing session, Howard contracted Chicken Pox from one of the fans and it weakened his immune system. "I came back too soon, not wanting to miss out or fall behind and not in the best shape and blew out my knee during practice," said Howard.

Although the injury ended Howard's football career he has no regrets. "I accomplished everything I set out to do. I had great success in football winning a state championship in high school, playing for UT, playing in the all-star bowl after transferring to Carson Newman, Playing in the NFL and traveling.

During my time in the NFL I had the opportunity to meet a lot of people and do some positive things. I have always wanted to work with the elderly and handicapped and I was given the opportunity to do that," states Howard.

Transitioning from the NFL, Howard married and worked in security at FT. Campbell (in Clarksville, TN) as a personal bodyguard and later a bounty hunter. Now the single father of two daughters, Brionna-3 and Markayla-2, Howard moved back to Oak Ridge to be near family and does security work in Clinton.
"Now that I'm raising my two daughters I came home so my mom and family could help me raise them." Howard said.
 

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To bad the cop did not notice the bodies when he first stop the car, The girls are the ones I feel sorry for not Mr. Howard.

Makes him look guilty on the rape charges the world will be better without him living in it.

He had no right to kill the girls
 

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Horrible story. Yeah the girls were innocent in this case. He should have left them out of it.
 

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Sad and crazy.

Poor girls, a whole life ahead of them taken away from their own father.
 

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u just never think aobut things like this with kids...you always think they have a whole life ahead of them, and they dont always.....

very sad..
 

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bucsfan67 said:
u just never think aobut things like this with kids...you always think they have a whole life ahead of them, and they dont always.....

very sad..

These storys just get me so upset a parent is suppose to protect their children not murder them.
 

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There are so many people out there with problems and lots of times people don't know where to turn when their backs are against the wall. This is unfortunate and who the heck knows what this guy was thinking when he did all this.
 

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