From the cat box liner:
A Deadly Year in Charlotte
2019 ended with 107 people in Charlotte killed, the highest number of homicides in a single year for the city since 1993. Charlotte’s homicide rate is the highest it’s been in more than a decade.
More than half of the roughly 75 people charged with murder in Mecklenburg County in 2019 had prior weapons charges. Prosecutors dismissed most of those charges. For 13 of those murder suspects, a conviction on an earlier weapons charge — rather than a dismissal — would have put them in prison at the time of the killing.
Prosecutors say they often have to dismiss cases due to insufficient evidence, including witnesses who aren’t credible, who can’t be found or who refuse to testify.
Here are the suspects:
Suspect: Algia Clark
Algia Clark Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 12
Number dismissed: 9
Number pending: 2
Number guilty: 1
Date of homicide: Aug. 20, 2019
Who he is charged with murdering: 20-year-old A’mari McCaskill
Details: In 2017, prosecutors dismissed Clark’s armed robbery charge, winning a conviction on a lesser charge. Clark got out of prison in November 2018. A month later, he was charged with another robbery. Prosecutors dismissed that charge as well. A conviction on either armed robbery charge would have landed Clark in prison for more than three years. Clark is charged with shooting and killing McCaskill in August.
Suspect: Edward Garner
Edward Garner Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 6
Number dismissed: 3
Number pending: 3
Date of homicide: Aug. 12, 2019
Who he is charged with murdering: 28-year-old Aiesha Shantel Summers and an unborn child
Details: In 2017, police charged Garner with discharging a weapon into occupied property. A year later, Mecklenburg prosecutors dropped the charge. Had he been found guilty of discharging the weapon, Garner likely would have been sentenced to at least 20 months in prison because he had prior felony convictions — a factor that judges must consider in sentencing.
Suspect: Eddie Doh
Eddie Doh Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 13
Number dismissed: 2
Number guilty: 2
Number pending: 9
Date of homicide: July 10, 2019
Who he is charged with murdering: 48-year-old Darnell Harris
Details: In 2011, police found 17-year-old Aerial Patterson dead in front of a vacant home in southwest Charlotte. Doh, then 23, was charged with first-degree murder. In 2013, prosecutors dismissed the murder charge and Doh was found guilty of accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. He was released from prison in January about five months before being charged with killing Harris.
Suspect: Richard Grier
Richard Grier Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 10
Number dismissed: 2
Number guilty: 5
Number not guilty: 1
Number archived: 1
Number pending: 1
Date of homicide: May 18, 2019
Who he is charged with murdering: 32-year-old Andrew Tyrelle Allen
Details: By 2013, Grier had been convicted of 19 felonies. Those convictions would have increased his prison time if he had been convicted in 2013 of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.
Suspect: Donte Clements
Donte Clements Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 7
Number dismissed: 5
Number guilty: 1
Number pending: 1
Date of homicide: May 25, 2019
Who he is charged with murdering: 26-year-old Monica Smith
Details: Clements has been charged with more than 40 crimes since 2006. Prosecutors dismissed two armed robbery charges against Clements in 2018. Had he been convicted on either of those charges, he would have been imprisoned for more than four years. On May 25, 2019, police found Smith inside a west Charlotte apartment, suffering from a gunshot wound that proved fatal. Police charged Clements and two other suspects in the killing.
Suspect: Javier Concepcion-Perez
Javier Concepcion-Perez Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 6
Number dismissed: 4
Number pending: 2
Date of homicide: May 1, 2019
Who he is charged with murdering: 22-year-old Donqwavias Davis
Details: In 2017, prosecutors dismissed three armed robbery charges against Concepcion-Perez. Had he been convicted on any of those charges, he would have been sentenced to more than three years in prison. In May, police arrested him in connection with the fatal shooting of Davis at an apartment complex near UNC Charlotte.
Suspect: Corey Vega
Corey Vega Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapon charges: 9
Number dismissed: 6
Number guilty: 1
Number pending: 2
Date of homicide: Nov. 17, 2019
Who he is charged with murdering: 27-year-old Ebony Harrison
Details: Mecklenburg prosecutors dismissed armed robbery charges against Vega in 2017 and in October 2019. In November 2019, police said Vega shot and killed Harrison on the 5100 block of Reagan Drive in northeast Charlotte.
Suspect: Juan Escalante
Juan Escalante Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapon charges: 8
Number dismissed: 2
Number pending: 6
Date of homicide: April 30, 2019
Who he is charged with murdering: 42-year-old Domingo Venancio-Tapia
Details: Less than a month after Mecklenburg prosecutors dismissed an armed robbery charge, Escalante and a co-defendant were charged with murdering Venancio-Tapia outside a South Boulevard restaurant. Two days after the shooting, police took Escalante into custody following an eight-hour SWAT standoff.
Suspect: Khdaius Marshall
Khdaius Marshall Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 7
Number dismissed: 3
Number guilty: 2
Number pending: 2
Date of homicide: April 28, 2019
Who he was charged with murdering: 30-year-old Tyrena Inman
Details: Two months after prosecutors in Mecklenburg dropped an armed robbery charge, Marshall was charged with shooting and killing Inman in a southwest Charlotte hotel near the Billy Graham Parkway.
Suspect: Anthony Walker
Anthony Walker Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 11
Number dismissed: 9
Number pending: 2
Date of homicide: April 28, 2019
Who he was charged with murdering: 40-year-old Daimeon Terrell Johnson
Details: Walker never went to trial on any of his nine gun charges from 2012 through 2018. All were dismissed. Those charges included three armed robberies in 2017, according to court documents. Had Walker been convicted of any of those armed robbery charges, he would have been incarcerated the day Johnson was shot and killed in Charlotte’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood.
Suspect: Jamarkus Crawford
Jamarkus Crawford Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 12
Number dismissed: 9
Number guilty: 3
Date of homicide: Feb. 20, 2019
Who he was charged with murdering: 52-year-old Titus Campbell
Details: Since 2010, police have charged Crawford with 11 weapons crimes, including felony possession of a firearm last year. Prosecutors dismissed that charge. Had Crawford been convicted, he would have been in prison in February, when he was charged with killing Campbell in west Charlotte.
Suspect: Kaila Carlissa Robinson
Kaila Robinson Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 5
Number dismissed: 1
Number guilty: 1
Number pending: 3
Date of homicide: Jan. 12, 2019
Who she was charged with murdering: 38-year-old Jermaine Moore
Details: In 2017, Mecklenburg County prosecutors dismissed Robinson’s armed robbery charge. Less than a year and a half later, Robinson was charged with murder.
Suspect: Tyler Jordan Hokes
Tyler Hokes Mecklenburg Sheriff
Number of weapons charges: 16
Number dismissed: 7
Number guilty: 2
Number pending: 7
Date of homicide: Jan. 1, 2019
Who he is charged with murdering: 53-year-old Carnis Ferdinand Poindexter
Details: Hokes was charged with armed robbery last October. But prosecutors dismissed that charge in December — less than a month before Poindexter’s death.
Cedar's Take:
I've been saying this for the last five years.
The African American Community has become a culture of violence, embracing criminality and gun play as a lifestyle choice.
As the Observer story points out more than 1/2 of those charged with murder have prior weapons charges. What the Observer fails to point out is that many of the victims are from the same "lot". They too have countless weapons charges and many of these people would still be alive had they been incarcerated for their crimes.
In other words we could cut the homicide rate in half if the people we elected both judiciary and city, county, and state officials would just do their job. The soft on crime "hug a thug" mentality is just not working. We have elected on the recommdation of the Charlotte Observer ineffective judges, mayors, sheriffs and city council members who are simply soft on crime and criminals.
There is no reason that repeat violent offenders are not sentenced to permanent incarceration. But the only way to fix our crime and violence problem is to throw the liberals out of office.
31 comments:
Racist! Posting a story on only people of color just proves you are racist bigot! White folks kill too and I'm sure there are many white folks with prior weapons charges who were released from McFadden's Residence Inn who ended up being charged with murder you cop loving racist.
I'll find a dozen or more stand by....
Hold on I'm still looking...
My computer is just a little slow today....
Whell I know there are plenty just give me a moment.....
Oh fuck it you wouldn't believe me anyway!
Wait a minute!
I thought what we had to worry about were skateboarding, PC-gaming white males committing mass shootings! I read that a lot of times on WBT threads on Facebook!
Back in the day most of these MOFO's would need to see a doctor long before they saw a jail cell. Much a Charlotte's crime could be taken care of on a long summer weekend if the white shirts would just look the other way. All that is needed is 72 hours and let the "jump out boys" go back to work. It would do a lot to fix things in Charlotte.
That is exactly the problem. Too much sensitivity training today and not enough "policing". The majority of these shits would have been treated to what we used to refer to as a good "tuning up" prior to a trip under the tunnel for those who have been around long enough to remember. It was definitely educational for them and they typically remembered it well when the thought of doing some dumb shit crossed their minds again. But, let's keep giving them hugs and ankle monitors and let the thuggery continue. Either get used to it or do what I did and get yourself and your family outta Charlotte. I proudly live in "White" ville now and the typical breaking news story of the day is a church fund raising BBQ or lost horse. Go ahead and call me a racist bigot if you like but when I leave my home now there is no danger of being robbed or shot by a hood rat. Just a simple fact.
Foster nailed it when she said where are the protests when black kids kill other black kids? Plenty of protestors when a police officer has to shoot someone but silence from the black community all the rest of the time. She even used Cedar's words "a culture of" and rather than saying "violence" she says "no snitch" which is pretty damn much the same thing. Meaning it is just accepted as a way of life. Didn't like her, don't like her, won't ever like her but she was on point.
Snitches get stitches
You ever notice that Hyatt Gun Shop always comes up at the bottom of each CP blog post? The sidebar ads change but Hyatt's ad is always at the bottom.
Another shooting and homicide last night. Just a little off the 1/3.5 days pace last year at this time. I'm sure we can make that up before the end of the month.
Foster was right, but why didn't she say this when she was still working and had some authority to do the right thing. You know, instead of mysteriously "suspending" SWAT officers who aren't really suspended, but can't do SWAT stuff....but....they're not being punished...but....they need to stop doing....you know...SWAT stuff??? On top of all her other BSery.
Charlotte has become so bad that there are now a dozen places to stay away from, where just ten years ago it was only West Charlotte and a couple of areas long North Tryon and Central. Charlotte has done a nice job of keeping the reporting of homicides on the down low. Even the CMPD twitter page skips over every third murder and then only reports 10% of the shootings. The spin out of the chief's office is disgusting and the mayor acts like nothing is wrong. But roll into the Chicken King at night and look down South Tryon at any hour between sunset and sun rise and there are blue lights flashing.
Its alwaysssss about N Tryon and Metro on here. You guys are so awesome. I'll just keep sitting on my 10-50 up in North with some cops with common sense. What's the Chicken King?
12:53... You are part of the problem then and common sense you say...no, that would be fear or laziness. Instead of riding numbers get out and do some work. Sunset Rd, Statesville Rd and Northlake Mall need some attention. You may not have a command structure like N. Tryon or Metro that promotes proactive policing but you may be surprised if you all just showed some initiative. Not bashing you brother, just giving you some constructive criticism.
Cool your tits 423, NT command staff doesn’t even let our CRU unit do dynamic entries! I can’t speak for Metro. How are any of us doing proactive stuff in NT when we were having a homicide like every other day?
712...Those Hyatt ads are based on your own searches. Google knows what you're into, and advertisers pay to be promoted only to those likely to click. It's a different set of ads for each of us, based on your online search history. Creepy, but wildly effective.
On that article, sadly nobody saw it. Can't believe the CO even published the article, since they didn't have white folks to blame or even balance out the story. If they had been honest the past 20 years, maybe they would be relevant today. But they aren't. Neither honest, or relevant.
Love it! 'You're part of the problem'. 'you're lazy and fearful'. 'get out and do some work'.
'but I'm not bashing you'.
Now THAT'S a steaming load of passive-aggressive BS if I ever heard it!
🤣🤣🤣
Is every city organization run by black people? Is the homicide/crime rate through the roof? Is CMPD turning into a dumpster fire?
10:08, haven't heard any CRU units doing dynamic entries in the City in a while. Might not be your command staff. Might go a bit higher.
@1123
We had a group of patrol officers certified in high risk warrant serve one dynamically a few months ago during a search warrant.
^^^^OHHHHHHHHH SHITTTTTTT^^^^^
I hope the guy can keep his arm. That was a mess out there.
What was up with that handjob SWAT situation at the auto part store? No arrests?! WTF??!!
I saw that. The guy must have done some ninja stuff..ex. thrown the gunpowder and disappeared.
Probably left the store before the perimeter. Barely any comments in the call.
How much helicopter fuel, manpower hours ($), and other resources used for nothing. A simple property crime? What a waste.
@1123, pretty sure Freedom and Westover CRU’s are hitting houses dynamically
How about the helicopter following 2 dirt bikes all over the city this week? Talk about a waste of manpower and taxpayer money. The fuel cost alone....for what? 2 morons that have a history of running from the Police. Here’s an idea, let’s just follow them from above. They will stop for Police sometime, in another county......Further proof that the inmates are running the asylum. Great job! When will this city wake up and fix this place?
RNC should be fun.
Speaking of RNC, how many officers are planning on leaving the dept before this?
Daylight SWAT Ops and the guy is still out there? Wow. So the de-escalation process is now just let the Noogies escape? Maybe this was just a movie set shoot? 40 minutes of trying to talk the air in to surrendering. That's pretty embarrassing. I guess they could have gone tactically "all in" crashed through a cinderblock wall with an APC and burned the place to the ground with flash bangs. That would have been funny. But at what point does anyone take responsibility for this on going shit storm?
1238. All the way over here in the gas house. Word is he might loose that arm. Any disciplinary action for the female who shot him???
I think that it doesn't matter about the amount of officers leaving this place, since other cities need the money and will send their pawns to stand on the street corners like the DNC.
They send the worst people to support CMPD, since they get paid by the body, not the quality of the person. I bet we pay for 1000 support officers from surrounding counties.
No days off in August 2020. You at CMPD will have a good time and get Comp. time for your extra hours. No Off-Duty. Jody will take care of your women when your gone.
What if (cough cough) the flu comes around in August? Cough cough cough.
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