First Attacks
Pough started his killing spree in the night of June 17 at about 12:50 a.m. Armed with his M1 carbine wrapped in a blanket he walked up to a group of men standing at a street corner in the northwest section of Jacksonville, not far from his home, killed Louis Carl Bacon, a pimp, with two shots in the chest and left. A couple of minutes later he attacked prostitute Doretta Drake, who was chatting with two other women in a vacant parking lot just two blocks from the first crime scene. After hitting Drake with his car, throwing her on the sidewalk, Pough stepped out of his Buick and killed her with a single shot to the head, again from the M1 Carbine, before driving away. Police assumed that the reason behind these killings was a failed sex-for-money deal. A short time later Pough also shot and wounded two youths, 17 and 18 years of age, after asking them for directions.
Later that morning Pough entered a convenience store, threatened the clerk with a pistol and, stating that he doesn't have anything to lose, demanded all the money. After getting what he had asked for he left again.
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