The extent of Leonard Egland's jealous rage has continued to emerge since last weekend, when his multistate rampage left five people dead, including his estranged wife, her mother, and himself.
On the evening of Aug. 26, authorities say, he shot and killed Carrie Egland, 36; a male friend of hers; and the friend's 7-year-old son in the suburban home the couple owned near Richmond, Va.
The next day, he surfaced in Bucks County with the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Lauryn. He shot his mother-in-law to death in her Buckingham Township house, abandoned Lauryn at a Quakertown hospital, wounded two police officers in a midnight shootout in Doylestown, and killed himself hours later in Warwick Township.
But police say they believe Egland, 37, had even more targets. Among them was a Bucks County man whom Carrie Egland, a Doylestown native, had dated two decades ago, beginning when both were students at Central Bucks High School East.
That man, William Brower, probably "dodged a bullet" when Egland was unable to find him Saturday, District Attorney David Heckler said. "The people [Egland] was looking for up here, he was looking to kill."
Just after 11 a.m. Saturday, Egland had called Brower from a Wawa store on Route 313 in Hilltown Township, trying to confirm his address, police said.
Egland borrowed a store phone to call Brower's cellphone, police said. He claimed to be a Doylestown police officer investigating a hit-and-run accident from the night before.
Egland asked Brower to confirm the address of a house Brower owns about four miles up the road from the Wawa in East Rockhill Township. Brower did so, and Egland said police would call back if they had further questions, Pennridge Regional Police Officer Tim Maloney said.
