Son Of Community Activist Killed

Monday January 17, 2005

Police say the son of community activist Robert "Say" McIntosh has been killed.

Little Rock police said they arrested 34-year-old Laffany Laffe Sullivan-McIntosh Monday in the shooting death of her husband, Say McIntosh's 41-year-old son Tommy Fate McIntosh.

Police said Sullivan-McIntosh told police that she accidently shot her husband as she was talking to him about her possibly moving back to Nashville, Tennessee. According to police, she called them after the gun went off and police say she met them on the front porch of the house.

Tommy McIntosh was found lying face down in a hallway of the couple's Little Rock home. Officers found a 38 caliber revolver lying on the floor next to him. He was taken to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Sullivan-McIntosh was taken to jail.

In 1987, Tommy McIntosh was convicted of transporting four point four pounds of cocaine through Crawford County and sentenced to 50 years in prison, plus fined 250 thousand dollars.

He was granted clemency in 1993 by then-state Sen. Jerry Jewell while Jewell was acting governor when Jim Guy Tucker left the state's top office vacant by attending Bill Clinton's inauguration as president.


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