In a sense, the robbery and slaying of Loomis armored car guard Kurt Husted was a sophisticated endeavor.

Pierce County prosecutors wrote in court documents that three of the four people now charged with murdering Husted planned the attack for a month, and two of them spent the three days before the robbery at the store where they “timed the movements of the armored car and the guard carrying the money bags.”

“In another sense, it was amateur city,” deputy prosecutor Mark Lindquist said Thursday after the four alleged conspirators were charged with multiple crimes.

The two men who carried out the killing and robbery did nothing to hide their faces from the surveillance cameras trained on the store’s entrance, and they and their accomplices didn’t immediately leave town after the attack.

In fact, according to court records, two of them went out for a $175 dinner at a local Red Lobster that evening.

Their mistakes led to their quick capture Wednesday by multiple police agencies led by the Lakewood Police Department.

On Thursday, the four were charged with multiple felony counts – two of them with the state’s highest crime – in Husted’s death. Aggravated first-degree murder charges were filed against Calvin Finley, 34, and Marshawn Turpin, 20. The two also were charged with first-degree murder, first-­degree robbery and first-degree assault. Finley, already a convicted felon, also was charged with first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.

Judge Frederick Fleming, citing the “grievousness of the alleged crime,” ordered Finley and Turpin each jailed in lieu of $5 million bail during their arraignments in Pierce County Superior Court.

Aggravated first-degree murder is the only crime in Washington punishable by death. Lindquist said a decision on whether to seek the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison without parole – the only other sentence available for an aggravated murder conviction – has not yet been made.

Prosecutors charged the other two suspects – Odies D. Walker, 41, and his girlfriend, Tonie Marie Williams-Irby, 42 – with first-­degree murder and first-degree robbery. They each were ordered held in lieu of $2 million bail.

All four pleaded not guilty.

Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said detectives also are investigating whether any of the four are involved in any unsolved robberies in the area. Finley, who prosecutors believe is the man who shot Husted, has a criminal record in Washington and Wisconsin that includes more than 20 convictions, including felony counts of residential burglary, second-degree assault and violating a domestic-violence protection order.

Lindquist said investigators believe money bags taken in the heist contained about $60,000 in cash and $140,000 in checks. More than $40,000 in cash has been recovered but none of the checks.

Charging documents filed Thursday provide the following information:

Williams-Irby, Walker and Finley hatched the robbery scheme about a month ago.

Until her arrest, Williams-Irby worked as a floor manager at the store and was briefed at meetings about the weekly and monthly income of the store.

“She reportedly told co-­defendants Walker and Finley that ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ could be had from the armored car,” court documents state. The three tried to recruit another man to be the “triggerman” in their plot. He declined.

In the days before the robbery, Finley, a friend of Williams-Irby and Walker, stayed with the couple in their Tacoma home. Finley and Walker also went to the Wal-Mart to scout the area and prepare for the attack.

They also recruited Turpin to help.

Williams-Irby was working Tuesday when the armored car showed up and Husted went inside the store. Walker then drove up in a white Buick and Finley and Turpin got out. The movements were captured on video surveillance tape.

Lindquist said what happened next can only be described as Husted’s execution.

“You can watch two of the defendants walk into the Wal-Mart store, they linger a short amount of time – clearly anticipating when and where the guard will come – then they move instantly toward the guard,” he said at the news conference.

“The amount of time that passes between the time the shooter raises his weapon to the time he pulls the trigger appeared to be less than two seconds,” he said

Husted collapsed.

“Finley then calmly turns and exits the store,” court documents state. “Turpin, who is also armed, swoops down and grabs the money from the guard’s cart on the floor and begins running out of the store behind Finley.”

The two jumped into the Buick as it moved and fled. The three then split up.

Court documents state Walker and Williams-Irby went on a shopping spree in addition to dinner at Red Lobster that night.

In an interview with investigators, Finley appeared calm, according to court records.

“He admitted that he walked up to the guard and shot him in the face, but said the shooting wasn’t intentional,” court documents state.

Turpin initially denied any involvement, but later admitted it.

The charging documents contained part of Turpin’s interview with investigators.

“If you would have gotten away with this,” a detective reportedly asked him, “how would you have felt?”

According to the court records, Turpin replied, “Bad, but, but I would have gotten over it because of the money.”

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