Son tells accused shooter in double homicide ‘I love you’ during hearing

Williamsport, Pa. — Moments after Troy Bailey Jr. confirmed his father used his Social Security number without permission, he asked to speak to the man accused of gunning down two people in Williamsport.

“What’s up, old man?” Bailey Jr. asked his father. Bailey Jr., who is also behind bars for a 2019 murder in Philadelphia, attended Tuesday's hearing via Zoom.

Before the hearing ended, Bailey Jr. asked the judge if he could talk to his father. “I just want to tell him I love him," he said.

Bailey Sr. said, “I love you too” as Judge Christian Frey moved 24 counts filed over for trial. Those charges include 12 counts of forgery and another 12 of identity theft. Frey dismissed several counts during an earlier hearing. At issue was the fact Bailey Jr. didn’t give his father consent to use his Social Security number for a job.

After identifying his father over Zoom and giving his Social Security number, prosecutors asked Bailey Jr. if he ever gave his father the number for employment. Bailey Jr. denied he did, saying, “No, to file my taxes. That’s it.”

Bailey Jr. was then told he could sign off, but requested to speak with his father first. Judge Frey granted Bailey Jr. 30 seconds to speak to his father in open court.

Bailey is accused of using his adult son's Social Security number to get employment, while collecting government benefits under his own name.

In another case, Bailey is charged with the murder of Ronald Dailey and Alishia Seese, who were found shot to death near Lycoming Engines in January.

Bailey is being charged with two counts each of murder of the first degree, murder of the second degree, recklessly endangering another person, kidnap to facilitate a felony, kidnap to inflict terror, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, and robbery. He is also being charged with stalking, robbery of a motor vehicle, theft by unlawful taking, tampering with evidence, retaliation, possession of a firearm prohibited, firearms not to be carried without a license, conspiracy to commit kidnapping for ransom, and possession of a weapon.

Fueled by a Protection From Abuse order and accusations of sexual assault, Bailey claimed he was “at his wits end due to trouble he was having with (Alicia Seese)” during conversations with people leading up the shooting.

Dailey, who was in the front driver's seat, suffered a gunshot wound to his face and another in the back of his head. Seese was shot multiple times in the back of the head and once in the arm and was outside of the vehicle near the passenger side, according to police.

Bailey, Muhammad Davis, and Sandy Camille Perez were all charged in connection to the double homicide. All three cases have progressed past the preliminary hearing stage.

Troy Bailey, Jr. was convicted of shooting a 40-year-old transgender woman in Philadelphia and sentenced to 25-50 years in state prison for the murder, according to court records.

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