Four charged in guard’s death

TACOMA – Prosecutors filed murder charges Thursday against four people in a robbery in which an armored car guard was shot to death at a Wal-Mart.

Two of the four, including the man accused of pulling the trigger, also face aggravated first-degree murder charges, which could carry the death penalty.

Prosecutors allege a female Wal-Mart employee planned the robbery with her boyfriend and Calvin Finley, 34, the man police say shot the guard. Tonie Marie Williams-Irby, 42, reportedly told Odies D. Walker, 41, and Finley that “hundreds of thousands of dollars could be had from the armored car,” charging papers said.

Police have recovered more than $40,000. After the Tuesday afternoon heist, prosecutors say, Williams-Irby and Walker went on a shopping spree and spent $175 on a dinner at Red Lobster.

Finley and Marshawn Turpin, 20, were charged with aggravated murder, as well as first-degree murder, first-degree assault and robbery. They were held on $5 million bail each.

Williams-Irby and Walker were charged with first-degree murder and first-degree robbery. They were held on $2 million bail.

Deputy Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said the defendants entered not guilty pleas during a hearing in Pierce County Superior Court.

Loomis security guard Kurt Husted, 39, was shot in the head while leaving a bank branch inside a Wal-Mart in the south Tacoma suburb of Lakewood. The same bullet wounded a customer.