Nightclub employee claims couple accused of murder pulled gun on him

July 24, 2002 12:00 am

The Associated Press
(Undated-AP) -- A witness statement confirms one of the suspects in the murders of a Virginia couple visiting Ocean City over the

Memorial Day weekend pulled a gun on another person just days after the alleged killings.

In a statement, a nightclub employee says he saw Benjamin Sifrit trying to break into an A-T-M on May 29th. When he approached

Sifrit to ask what he was doing, Sifrit's wife, Erika, threatened him with a handgun hidden in her purse and said "I will kill you."

The Sifrits are accused of killing Martha Crutchley and Joshua Ford of Fairfax sometime late on May 25th or early May 26th. Police

say the couple was shot to death inside the Sifrits' rented Ocean City condominium.