With the Snakes are in town Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Arizona. Then
it's off to Milwaukee, Los Angeles and the Cubs. But until then,
of course, so there was announcements yesterday from Melissa Powers, the Hamlety County
prosecutor, about the indictments of Croissan Dixon, Ryan Brown, and Damario Williams,
the three individuals that were involved in the murder of Demaia about ten days
ago, two weeks ago joining us. Now is that same Melissa Powers.
Melissa, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And before we get into
the actual facts of this case, I know you've spent many years as a
Hamlety County judge. You spent before that many years in the Prosecutor's office as
an assistant. Now you are the prosecutor. And one thing I've noticed is
that when you were a judge, quite often you did not, in a
sense take a lot of work home with you because you had some things to
read. But now as the prosecutor, you're on call twenty four to seven.
And when you heard about the case of getting in a sense murdered on
some sort of a retaliation deal. As a mother, yourself This had to
strike a little bit at your heart strings, am I correct? Yeah?
Absolutely? Why? This was a beautiful young girl, innocent, had nothing
to do with the situation. She's in the safety of her own home and
gets murdered and doesn't even know what happened. She and her friend there was
a sweepover at her grandmother's house. They were dancing and videoing themselves for TikTok
videos and before they even knew what happened. I mean, she's dead.
Awful stuff. Let's walk through the charges. Some asked a couple of days
ago on the cases of Ryan Braun and Quissan Dixon. These are so called
the trigger man that wasn't there a death penalty speck available? And I said,
probably not. But nonetheless, why is this not a death penalty case?
Well, the facts do not fit any of the specifications to make this
a death penalty case. And then basically the reason is they would have to
have that fired intentionally, try trying to kill with purpose, trying to kill
um Demaya stay shot into a home indiscriminately, not even knowing who was in
the home, And that's why it's not a death penalty case. This is
a case though it's an aggravated murder case. Both of them were indicted.
The shooters were indicted more aggravated murder, and they faced the maximum possible sentence
of life in prison without the possibility of parole. So it's the best that
we can do for this heinous crime. Kind of walk us through as citizens.
How does this thing originate? Who did what when? What was the
role of Dixon, Brown, and Williams. Can you talk go back a
little bit in time as to how this event began. So in July tenth,
Dixon and Brown drove to Plainfield Road, Silverton, and the suspect fired
twenty eight shots into the home on flank Bille Road. And this was the
grandmother's home. Her name is Lutitia Copeland, and her nine year old granddaughter
and then the granddaughter's friend were inside the home for a sleepover. They were
doing. They were not even in the front of the house. They were
in the back of the house. So these these the gun shots went through
the front of the house into the next room over or behind it, and
that's where the girls were located. Demaiah died instantly, she was shot in
the chest. The other girl, a little girl, was grazed by a
bullet. She's going to recover from her injuries. And the grandmother she was
not harmed at all. But I just can't imagine the trauma that the grandmother
as well as the other little girl a friend, what they're experiencing after you
know, here they are, I don't think they'll ever feel safe again.
Everyone should feel safe in their own home. Here they are in their home,
and then before you know, in a split second, one of the
little girls is murdered. As far as Demario Williams, some called him early
on he was the driver, it appears that is not the case. What
was the involvement of Demario Williams, age twenty two in this well. Williams
was invited for tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, caring concealed weapon,
the vehicular assault, and fairy to stop after an accident. So if he's
convicted on all those charges, he faces a possible sentence of ten years in
prison. He was the driver. The following day met with Dixon tried.
He carried the firearm, the actual rifle, and a gun case out to
the car place in the trunk. Also located in the car was the glock,
the handgun the firearm, and both of both firearms were recovered. They
were under surveillance by the investigators and detectives from the Sheriff's department, and so
they were watching them and they watched to walk out of the house with Dixon
go into the car. He was the driver of the vehicle. He also
was the one that placed the rifle into the truck or trunk of the car.
And Prosecutor Melissa Powers kick, can you tell us between Dixon and Brown
do we know yet which one fired the so called fat fatal shot. I
haven't received the Corners report, so I don't want to make any comment on
that. Also, I want to protects the invest the integrity of the case
at this point, and I don't want to disclose too much information at this
time. As far as the drone technology, well, what role did drones
play in the apprehension of these characters. Um, I don't have that information
to discuss at this time. Again, it's protecting the integrity at the case.
I don't want to jeopardize it that trial. All this will come out
and trial. Okay. As far as the previous criminal record, Quissan Dixon
was only twenty five and Ryan Brown was only twenty seven and Demario Williams twenty
two. Did any of these characters have previous criminal records, Yes, thank
dad. All of them had contacts, multiple contacts with firearms, weapons under
disability when and convictions and prison sentence that they received from the judges in Hamilton
County. So they served their time on these low level faalonies. Believe it
or not, having if you're a convicted balon illegally possessing a firearm, that's
called a weapons under disability, you're not permitted to have a firearm. And
but they're low level salonies with a presumption of probation. So initially they were
given probation, then by the probation by picking up another charge with the weapons
enter disability, and then they eventually went to prison. And they also have
they also have numerous contacts with drugs. Let's see what else they have here,
but it's anyway, they have a lengthy criminal history and they also have
a number of times that they've report after being released out online. Can you
address yourself to the issue. You've been around Cincinnati almost your entire adult life.
It appears as more drive by shootings, whether it's an OTR or elsewhere.
Is there a reason or is this just happens thence that we have more
of these drive by shootings. I can't explain it though, as to why
these are occurring with such frequency at this time, I just can't. There
isn't an explanation. I haven't received anyone any explanation for it through law enforcement
as of yet. They are collecting the data, they're looking into it.
It may have something to be able to explain it, some way, to
get some kind of intervention earlier so that we can prevent this, But I
have no idea as far as the role of the community in coming forward to
identify these individuals. Normally it takes a long time or never because of retaliation.
What role to the community do you play in this regard and pointing out
who's the guilty parties we had cooperation for to get the information and exactly how
that came through. I'd rather not discussed at this time. Not only protect
them, but also protect the case to make sure that they're available as witnesses
for trial. As far as your level of confidence, you've done this for
many years, as far as and indicting and trying at criminals with what level
of confidence do you have that you have the only three individuals involved. I'm
pretty I would say very strong and very confident that the appropriate parties involved here
were apprehended and now are sitting in jail waiting for trial. Are the bonds
such that these characters won't get out again? The two individuals, the two
men that are charged with aggravated murder and other charges, so shade it with
that um they're not to be no serious of offenses, even though this is
involving a very very serious case. So the bond on that individual, it's
about one hundred and fifty and so it remains to be seen if that's high
enough at this point to hold him. But now he's indicted, it'll get
reviewed by another common Police magistrate and our office will be asking for a higher
bond to keep him in jail. So at this point, relative to Dickson
and Brown, the odds are posting bonds of North at two million dollars are
almost non existent. But as far as De Mario Williams, a relatively low
bond, of course he wasn't. He wasn't one of the murderers. It's
only one hundred and fifty thousand someone could put up fifteen thousand dollars and he
would be out. It's not fair to say exactly with a bondsman. And
it's a surety bond, So a bondsman would post it and that that's feasible.
That's a possibility, And Monday it'll be in front of you know,
it's going to be reviewed again by a magistrates, hopefully with our office emphasizing
the strength, how important this case is and how important, how dangerous this
individual is, that he should remain behind bars because he had no regard for
safety of anybody. He's driving the car recklessly, people are out on the
road, he ends up crashing the car going at high rate to speed,
violing and all kinds of traffic violations and then runs into a crashes into an
innocent driver and cause serious injury. A person like that is not somebody that
was going to cooperate. They fled when they got out of the vehicle,
you know, so, and he didn't have any regard for anybody else but
himself. Hopefully we can get a higher bond. Lastly, Melissa Power is
the beginning. I think September first, the state of Illinois and its wisdom
is getting rid of all cash bonds because of the presumptiveness of innocence. That
there's a thought by the good governor of Illinois and its legislature that it's not
fair to somebody without financial resources to sit in jail awaiting trial as opposed to
someone else that can post a bond, that it's like economic discrimination. Can
you briefly address yourself to the issue as to whether or not a bond would
hold somebody for trial, because in the state of Illinois, Forsam Dixon and
Ryan Braun, the murderers of a child with an extensive previous criminal record,
wouldn't be subject to no cash bond at all because they're presumed to be innocent.
Therefore, why lock up an innocent man? Why is that a bad
idea? Well, a number of things, but we already know these policies,
this thought on crime. There's no bail buying, it's just reeks,
havocs on cities, and failed policies. Basically, I understand their argument,
but at the same time, there's a duty to protect the public. There's
an accountability that needs to be taken, and so hopefully, hopefully our state
never turns into it like Illinois yeah, that's the goal. Well, Prosecutor
Melissa Powers, once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
And I guess all the law enforcement needs to get a tip of the
town's cap for finding these characters so quickly and getting them off the streets.
And Melissa Powers, have a great weekend. And thank you for coming on
the Bill Cunningham Show. Thanks though you two have a great weekend. Thank
you, Take care. All right, let's continue if a line becomes available
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