Amish youngsters gone bad ... what's the world coming to? [/sarc off
Posted on 07/02/2009 5:56:48 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Slaying an afterthought to LR robbery, police say
Teens’ accounts of killing differ in affidavit
BY JACOB QUINN SANDERS ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
All that the four teenage boys wanted to do, Little Rock police say, was rob the old man and scare him a little.
Killing him, police said, was an afterthought. According to an arrest warrant affidavit unsealed Wednesday, the four boys, who ranged in age from 14 to 16, met Tuesday afternoon at the corner of Eddy Lane and Lark Place in a quiet, older neighborhood just south of Base Line Road, just to hang out.
One asked if the others wanted to “hit a lick” — slang for a quick robbery — at a wellkept, two-story house at 4 Lark Place.
The accounts that three of the boys gave police were muddled from there. Two boys told detectives that they were the lookouts and didn’t go inside Maurice “Beau” Clark’s house. There is no agreement in the three boys’ accounts about who carried the rifle into the house or who was in the house when shots were fired.
Police say attackers forced their way into Clark’s house through a side door off the carport. Clark, 67, died after being shot in the head. Someone stole a flat-screen television and several guns from his house.
Within 15 minutes of the shooting, police found three youths running from a black Chevrolet Cavalier stolen from Clark’s house. Another youth, Antonio Demetrius Terry, 16, was arrested at 5 p.m. Wednesday at an apartment complex at Cantrell Road and Chenal Parkway, said detective Lt. Dana Jackson.
Little Rock District Judge Alice Lightle set bail at $1 million Wednesday morning for each of the three boys in custody at that time. All were charged as adults with capital murder, theft of property and fleeing in the case.
One of the boys identified the gunman as Terry, whom police arrested on a warrant charging him with aggravated robbery in a theft that occurred Tuesday before Clark’s death, according to the affidavit.
Just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, a 45-year-old woman reported that a black male with a shotgun took her wallet after she had closed the gate to her driveway and got into her vehicle outside her home on Durham Drive. Fingerprints taken from her car identified Terry as the suspect, police said.
Terry was later charged with capital murder, aggravated robbery and theft of property in Clark’s death, said Sgt. Cassandra Davis, a police spokesman. He is scheduled to be arraigned today in Lightle’s courtroom.
A teenage boy taken into custody for questioning Tuesday afternoon was released that night after detectives determined that he was not involved in the Clark shooting and did not know the other three boys.
One by one Wednesday morning, the three teenage boys charged in Clark’s death — all cousins — stepped before Lightle, each wearing a charcoal-blue Pulaski County jail jumpsuit and in shackles.
The first was Thomas Caffrey, 16.
Then 14-year-old Mashaun Kendrick.
Craig Woods, 15, with tears tracking down his face, was last.
None spoke.
Kendrick’s mother and Woods’ mother sobbed loudly in the courtroom as the boys were led in and out by armed guards.
Caffrey’s mother did not attend the hearing.
“How you going to miss something like this and not support your child?” Kimberly Kendrick shouted into her cell phone outside the Little Rock District Court building, referring to Caffrey’s mother. “I can’t believe she’d do him like that.”
In an outfit that included a red button-down shirt and heels, Kendrick paced on the sidewalk with her hands at her temples.
“Man, a million dollars for the bail,” she said. “A million dollars. That means I got to put up $100,000. I can’t raise that. I can’t get that. What am I supposed to do?”
Before the hearing, public defender Joe Tobler warned Kimberly Kendrick and Woods’ mother, Sherrell McGee, not to discuss the case with their sons while they were in jail because the jail records all phone calls.
At the Pulaski County jail on Wednesday, the boys were three of 17 prisoners being held in a 36-capacity pod reserved for youthful offenders to keep them segregated from the adult population.
“We’re doing what we can to keep them separated,” sheriff’s office spokesman John Rehrauer said. “It’s unusual that we’d have this many involved in a case this serious.”
Of the accounts the boys gave to detectives, Woods’ offers the most detail.
Like Kendrick, Woods told police that he was a lookout, according to the affidavit. Kendrick said Caffrey carried the rifle, but Woods said Terry had it, according to the affidavit.
In Woods’ account, according to the affidavit, Terry cracked Clark in the face with the butt of the rifle.
“Mr. Woods stated that the victim fell to the ground and was bleeding,” detective Kevin Simpson wrote in the affidavit. “Mr. Woods stated that the victim then began asking them not to shoot him.”
Terry and Caffrey dragged Clark upstairs and repeatedly demanded money, Woods said in the affidavit. Again and again, Clark told them there was no money, Simpson wrote.
All four of the boys carried the television and Clark’s two guns out to the Cavalier, Woods said in the affidavit.
Caffrey said he went with the other boys to the house and went inside. He offered no further detail and said he did not know who fired the rifle.
Kendrick said in the affidavit that Caffrey, Woods and Terry were inside Clark’s house when he heard two gunshots. Woods told detectives that only Terry was inside when he heard two gunshots, according to the affidavit.
“Mr. Woods stated that he asked Mr. Terry if he shot him,” Simpson wrote, “and he stated that he just scared him.”
Information for this article was provided by Noel E. Oman of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Agree.
We have become far too civilized, and that is now being used against honest, hard working people.
What has had me perplexed for quite a while (not just in this case) is the question of “Why are people accused of violent crimes, murder in this case, even allowed the option of ‘getting out on bail’?”.
How’s that Hopey Changey thing working out for you ladies ?
And with very good reason.
IMHO they are defective products and should be recycled immediately to their manufacturer.
I'm not saying that I *agree* with the SCOTUS's decision but it *is* the law of the land.As I said earlier,maybe they'll get a little (or a lot of) jailhouse justice.
Get rid of them.
Amish youngsters gone bad ... what's the world coming to? [/sarc off
And the guy they killed was white. Maybe they'll get charged with a hate crime, too. HAHAHAHAHA, I crack myself up sometimes!
Why was crime/corruption removed? Looks like crime to me.
Why was it removed from news/activism?
Just wondering what your rationale is...and could you post links on the criteria for the sidebars? Thanks!
DCB
do it the old fashioned way.
Don’t worry about it....no one wants to hear what a state newspaper has to say about an alarming trend in the south with teens and murder.....apparently mods want to recycle this type of crime to a Chat thread.....(where threads go to die).....
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In an outfit that included a red button-down shirt and heels, Kendrick paced on the sidewalk with her hands at her temples.
“Man, a million dollars for the bail,” she said. “A million dollars. That means I got to put up $100,000. I can’t raise that. I can’t get that. What am I supposed to do?”
Two things on the above paragraph:
One:) I would not support my child either if he had robbed and murdered some old guy. I would probably show up in court but I would never "support" him.
Two:)What is this mother supposed to do if she can't raise bail? Simple, leave him in jail. At least he won't be killing any more old men before he goes to trial.
When Sharpton, Jackson and the Congressional Black Caucus starts whining about “reparations,” they should be presented with the bill that the USA has paid for the feeding, education, trials and incarcerations of African-Americans since the Civil War, along with the death count inflicted on our society for which they should pay restitution.
Oh, ok, if that's "all" it was - heck, just boys having good clean fun.
You know they are lying their tails off anyway. They thought if they said they didn't kill him but "the other guy did" and that they didn't mean it, they wouldn't be charged with murder. I guess these geniuses have never heard of the Capital murder laws.
I’ve seen that look before (the guy on the left...Caffrey). It means, “You’re next.” It doesn’t matter how this trial turns out at all. None of them can be executed per the Supreme Court’s ruling.
They look like Acorn Census workers.
Lesson learned!
This was just a self help case in redistributing wealth. Most liberals endorse wealth redistribution and will therefore declare this killing is justified.
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