In early August, Sherer busted out of the Winston County Jail, where he was apparently being held for burglary charges and writing bad checks. In the meantime, he managed to kill his uncle on August 24 and got caught at the Atlanta Motor Speedway last week.
Sherer, before being caught, was the lucky owner of a 22 caliber pistol and a great desire to see the Emory Healthcare 500 Race which took place this Sunday in Atlanta. Somehow, he decided the best way to get tickets, given the zero dollars he had in his pocket, was to trade in the gun.
A ticket seller fell for it and gave Sherer two tickets for the gun. By then, however, police was on to him, as other ticket sellers alerted them of the man walking around with a gun for sale.
“As soon as I pulled out onto Highway 19/41, I saw him walking back toward the Waffle House," police officer Eric Hayes was quoted as saying by wsbtv.com.
The officer approached the suspect and questioned him. Sherer used the name of the man he had killed as his own, but the lack of coherence in his words rang some bells in the officer's mind.
“Sherer kept stumbling with a date of birth, so just from our experience and training, we knew something was going on. It was pretty obvious,” the officer said.
Sherer has been taken back behind bars, with murder and escape charges added to his sheet.
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