From slurs to a shooting: How the Red Rose incident unfolded
Chad Merrill died early Saturday morning after being shot once in the chest in the parking lot of the Red Rose Restaurant and Lounge. (Submitted)
(Hellam Township) — James Saylor allegedly had already cracked off a shot from his .45-caliber handgun, the bullet ricocheting off the Red Rose’s exterior, when Chad Merrill appeared at the driver’s side window of his truck.
“He was literally two feet from the vehicle,” Hellam Township Police Chief Doug Pollock said of Merrill.
Saylor, 24, had been inside the Red Rose Restaurant and Lounge early Saturday morning,