Wheat indicted for capital murder in video store slayings

ANNISTON, ALABAMA - A man arrested after a two-state crime spree has been indicted on capital murder charges in the killing of four people in a Blockbuster Video store last month in Anniston, Alabama. <br> <br> Forty-eight-year-old Donald Ray Wheat was accused in the fatal shootings of Doug Neal Junior and Austin Joplin, both store employees, and brothers Joseph and Michael Burch, who were customers. The indictment was returned Thursday. <br> <br> Wheat, already in custody on murder charges filed by police, could be sentenced to death if convicted. <br> <br> Wheat does not have a lawyer, but relatives have described him as being incapable of the killings. <br> <br> The slayings, which occurred May 15, capped a 12-week robbery spree that also left a Georgia man dead and two Alabama women injured. <br> <br> Forty-three-year-old Tina Hooper Duke, identified by authorities as Wheat&#39;s girlfriend, is also jailed in two of the holdups. Authorities said a pistol left at the scene of the Blockbuster slayings was traced to Duke.