John Mark Karr, TV producers stopped after Karr seen near school
SAN FRANCISCO - John Mark Karr, a one-time suspect in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, was briefly stopped by police on Friday when the former schoolteacher was spotted wandering near the classrooms of a school where he briefly worked years ago.
Sgt. Steve Mannina said a limousine carrying Karr, 41, and two producers from ABC's "Good Morning America" show was stopped shortly after the reported sighting. Police took the names of Karr and the producers but no one was arrested because no laws were broken.
Police said an employee of the Convent of the Sacred Heart school in San Francisco, where Karr worked briefly as a teacher's aide in 2000, called police when she spotted Karr near the school.
"He stepped out of the limo and stood (outside the school) for two or three minutes, walked down the sidewalk, went up to the door and looked in the window," Mannina said of Karr.
Karr was giving the ABC producers a tour of the neighborhood where he used to live and work when he suddenly exited the limo and approached the school, said Jeffrey Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News.
"His behavior gave us serious pause and ABC decided not to proceed with the interview," Schneider said.
Karr was released from jail Thursday after Sonoma County authorities lost critical evidence in a 5-year-old child pornography case. He was released a little more than a month after DNA evidence cleared him of suspicion in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet, whom he claimed to have been with when she died in Colorado.
SAN FRANCISCO - John Mark Karr, a one-time suspect in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, was briefly stopped by police on Friday when the former schoolteacher was spotted wandering near the classrooms of a school where he briefly worked years ago.
Sgt. Steve Mannina said a limousine carrying Karr, 41, and two producers from ABC's "Good Morning America" show was stopped shortly after the reported sighting. Police took the names of Karr and the producers but no one was arrested because no laws were broken.
Police said an employee of the Convent of the Sacred Heart school in San Francisco, where Karr worked briefly as a teacher's aide in 2000, called police when she spotted Karr near the school.
"He stepped out of the limo and stood (outside the school) for two or three minutes, walked down the sidewalk, went up to the door and looked in the window," Mannina said of Karr.
Karr was giving the ABC producers a tour of the neighborhood where he used to live and work when he suddenly exited the limo and approached the school, said Jeffrey Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News.
"His behavior gave us serious pause and ABC decided not to proceed with the interview," Schneider said.
Karr was released from jail Thursday after Sonoma County authorities lost critical evidence in a 5-year-old child pornography case. He was released a little more than a month after DNA evidence cleared him of suspicion in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet, whom he claimed to have been with when she died in Colorado.
