Sister of murdered woman said she will never get answers if he dies
On Sept. 22, Gary Farrell called the police and told them that he had killed a woman and left her body in a car in the St. Charles Parish Hospital parking lot. He then barricaded himself in his home on Luling Avenue and forced a six-hour standoff with police before allegedly shooting himself in the head.
Since then, he has been in a hospital in Jackson, Miss. in a vegetative state, according to Alyce Mongrue, the sister of the woman Farrell told police he killed.
“The monitors show that he can feel pain, but he’s a prisoner in his own world,” Mongrue said. “A lot of people think that he died – he didn’t. A lot of people think that he’s living on a machine – he’s not. He’s breathing on his own.”
Farrell, 42, had been friends with the victim, Ginger Allen, 50, for years and she often helped him out by driving him to get groceries or to the convenience store.
Mongrue said that she was “blown away” by her sister’s death and never thought Farrell would do something like that.
“I’m still freaking out over it. I still have my bad days,” she said.
Mongrue said that she did know Farrell to have manic depression, or bipolar disorder. She said that he had also been romantically interested in her sister, but that Allen was never interested and the two had never dated.
After her sister’s death, Mongrue said there were many questions left unanswered by police. Now she is afraid she will never get those answers.
“(Farrell’s) pretty much a vegetable,” she said. “If he dies, it’s over and done with. The trial can’t be done…I still never got the answers I wanted.”
Mongrue wants to know why Farrell killed her sister. She also wants to know what happened to her sister’s purse, which she says was never recovered.
Sgt. Dwayne LaGrange with the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Farrell is in a medical facility, but could not discuss his medical condition.
“If he is ever able to pull through the situation and understand the charges against him, we do have a warrant to arrest him for first degree murder,” LaGrange said.
Mongrue said that Farrell is still alive and breathing on his own, but he cannot move or speak.
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