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your support. Alrighty, so an update on just a horrific
tragedy in Charlotte. Another in a ever growing list of
innocent people murdered. This time it was a four year
old boy down in the Steel Creek area in southwest Charlotte.
Four people now facing murder charges in connection with the
shooting death of a four year old boy. It happened
early Wednesday morning, according to a Charlotte mcklenburg Police AFFID David.
Officers were responding to a report of a stolen vehicle
on Cigar Court just after six am. Then a second
nine to one to one caller reported that a child,
later identified by neighbors as a four year old, had
been shot inside his home. The child was asleep at
the time of the shooting and was pronounced dead at
the scene. This is the report at WCNC dot com
reporter Emma Corinte, and she goes on to quote the Affidavid.
This is from the police investigators. They submit their affidavits
for the pressing of the charges. The Affidavid alleges that
the shooting happened during a multi county crime spree involving
multiple stolen vehicles. Surveillance video showed multiple people showing up
in a stolen Dodge Durango and attempting to steal a
Dodge charger from the neighborhood on Cigar Court. According to
the Affi David, shots were fired into the home before
the suspects ran off. Investigators recovered multiple shellcasings near the Durango,
which was left at the scene. So it's kind of
it's kind of a bizarre getaway plan there that you
show up in the stolen Durango, which is an suv
of sorts, right, and you I guess it is, and
you try to steal a Dodge charger and in the
process of doing so, I've seen it reported that a
light came on. Somebody turned on a light in the
house that was then shot at. So when you turn
on the light in the process of them stealing the car,
they shoot at you and then they run. That's like,
why not just get into the stolen vehicle and drive away,
but they did not, apparently some ran. The affidavit alleges
that the crime spree began earlier that morning with vehicle
thefts in other counties. Police say the Durango was stolen
from Gabaris County, and there's surveillance footage from York County
showing two males stealing a Chevrolet Camaro, and detectives identified
two of the suspects, that being Angelo Lamont Hudson and
Jordan Chandler Davis. They identified these two at a BP
gas station in Mecklemburg and because they were identified because
of their clothing. They were wearing similar clothing as was
described at the scene of the shooting, and they were
also spotted driving a stolen Jeep. So what are we
up to Now, You've got the Durango, you got the jeep,
You've got the Dodge charger. So they were pulled over
in the jeep. They tried to escape again. Hudson was
taken into custody after he ran and after being placed
into custody, he apparently admitted to participating in the Durango
theft and admitted to being present at the shooting. Hudson
said someone inside the Durango, so not him. Somebody inside
the Durango shot at the house. Hudson allegedly told officers
he was with two other suspects, Marquise Garriere and Davis,
at all of the crime scenes. There is a fourth
suspect identify as eighteen year old Anthony Abel, who was
arrested in Raleigh yesterday morning. He's also been charged with
first degree murder eighteen years old, and I think he
may have the longest rap sheet. CMPD Major Ryan Kendall
said the shots were fired directly into the home. He
said for reasons unknown, but there are reports that a
light came on and so that would indicate that they
were shooting at the house in order to try to
scare away any witnesses that may have heard the breaking
into the vehicle. W CNC Charlotte has also learned from
neighbors at the scene that the child and his siblings
were living with their grandmother because their mother had died
just a really sad story all the way around from
WSOCTV listing the four listing the four defendants Jordan Davis
twenty three, Marquise Garriere twenty four, Angelo Hudson twenty and
Anthony Abel eighteen. Now I went over to the Mecklenburg
County Sheriff's Office website to try to pull rap sheets
on all four of these individuals, and I don't know
what's going on with their website. Sometimes it turns up
no results. Sometimes it gave me a page of results,
and then when I would go back, is like it's
a very clunky operating website, so like it gives you
the it gives you like you type in one person's name,
if I were to type in Pete Callender, and let's
say I've got a rap sheet, as long as some
of these guys do, it's going to give you like
seven photos of all the different times they had their
mugshots taken on intake, and then you have to click
on each one of them to pull up the reports
on them. And then they of course use all sorts
of codes in the intake report, and they don't give
you a key as to what the codes mean. So
it'll say something like status and or disposition I should say,
and it will be the letter I or A or
sometimes even more letters than that, and it's like, I
don't know what any of these mean because it doesn't
say what these codes are for. They don't give you
dates on all of the incidents and all of the arrests,
so you don't get dates for every single one of
the arrests. And then when you try to go back
to the page that had the seven the seven pictures
of me up there, and then you try to go
back to that, now there's no search results left. It
gets wiped out, so then you've got to reload it,
and then you got to do a search again, and
now nothing comes up. There are also, like, for example,
Jordan Davis. When you do a search on that name,
it shows up some woman who has been arrested like
half a dozen times for various charges and stuff. But
the guy who is in custody right now is not
listed on the site. So it's very difficult to find
the rap sheets for these people. Now. The one that
I did find and I could ascertain was the eighteen
year old and this guy, Anthony runte Abell possession of
a stolen motor vehicle, larceny of a motor vehicle, felony, felony, conspiracy,
possession or possession of a stolen motor vehicle. Another one
larceny of a motor vehicle, felony, felony, conspiracy, possession of
a stolen motor vehicle. That's all under the date of
five fourteen, twenty twenty five, but all the different charges
don't have any other dates, so it's hard to say,
and they have different they have different case numbers, so
if I'm just following the case numbers, it looks like
he's got two priors from May of this year. One
another set of those larceny motor vehicle, possession of the
stolen motor vehicle, and the felony conspiracy that's from a
separate car theft you got June twenty twenty five. September
of twenty twenty five, his name pops up for a
DUI and a probation violation that was September twelfth, so
a week ago. This guy has charges on him, and
by the way, he was released in every single one
of these codes, he was released on minimal bonds. The
guy has a rap sheet that goes back to his
childhood and he was allowed to be out yet again
to steal more vehicles, and this time it ended with
the murder of a four year old kid. And then
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and get Richard on the program. Hello, Richard, how are
you hey?
Speaker 2: How's it going?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: I hate to bring this up.
Speaker 1: But yet you called. That was your own choice, Richard,
I didn't call you.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. It's a very sensitive and very sad thing.
As a black man, it's just so frustrating to me.
There's a pattern here in the black community of a
culture of violence that really needs to be discussed. I
don't care on a national level, local level. Now, I
understand it's a severe breakdown in the African American community,
but this culture of violence is in the streets, it's
in the schools, and we're allowing it and perpetuating it
by letting people out of jail. This needs to be discussed.
Speaker 1: So why do you think that this culture of violence exists?
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, in my estimation, sadly, they are attached to
one political party and have been indoctrinated by that party
and have been used by that party, and they continuously
vote for their own destruction and the destruction of others,
as that young girl on that train or that bus whatever.
Speaker 1: It was, right, But why where do you think that
comes from it? Because I don't. I don't think that them,
I don't think that. I don't think the voting patterns
are the reason why there is this. I call it,
you know, the celebration of criminality, a culture of criminality,
and it's in the Yeah, so I think we're saying
the same thing, So like, where does that come from?
Speaker 2: Though it's it's it definitely Unfortunately, I would say in
the eighties, let's say, latched onto the gangster rap and
that wasn't checked at all. It's almost like I don't
know Italians who are getting an exorbitant amount of uh
the Godfather John Dottie. This this, this glorification of criminality
has gone way out of control. But again, when you
have the breakdown of the family, you have a poor
school system, it just it gets And of course we
have politicians that exacerbate this by coddling to the lowest
common denominator.
Speaker 1: So I definitely agree that there is a political uh
dynamic to this, right, and your point earlier initially about
you know, voting for Democrats that that keep this perpetuating.
I think there is truth to that, uh, this sort
of destructive empathy. This well, you know, we'll just give
you more programs and services and it's not your fault
in all of that. I think it goes to the
breakdown of the family unit. The black family was the
strongest family unit decades ago, and then you know, in
comes the Great society quote unquote uh federal programs and
it you know, the black family disintegrates from there, and
so you have people that look to government for you know,
for uh, well what you used to be considered help
up then became hand out, and you know, the safety
net became a hammock, and so you've got that element.
I think you're also right in the rap music, and
I think that plays a role because it is along
with like Hollywood and you know TV shows that that
celebrate this and elevate this kind of behavior, and it
creates once again a permission structure for this to be acceptable.
You know, the philosopher Chris Rock talked about this in
his first stand up special for HBO, what was that
twenty years ago saying you get more respect coming out
of prison than you do coming out of college. So like,
how do you get at that at a community cultural level.
Speaker 2: Well, I really believe that there needs to be a
moral value system. I happen to be a Christian. That's
number one. Number two, you have to there needs to
be men in the house that are going to handle
their responsibilities when they have babies. The school system, we
all know about that. And every entertainment is not good entertainment.
So the whole rap situation, uh, you know, name it,
biggest walls, tupac, et cetera, et cetera. Next thing, you
know that half of these guys are halftime at the
Super Bowl. This is what's going on. Yeah, it's really bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well and I think, yeah, it speaks to a
degradation of the morality of the entire society at large.
It's I mean, and that's beyond just you know, one
racial demographic. It's across the board, you know, the movies,
the TV shows. It always it was always funny to
me that, you know, the the media always denied any
kind of culpability in the increase in violence or gang
violence or anything like that while making violent movies. Right,
Yet they claimed credit for destigmatizing gay relationships through programs
like Will and Grace for example. Right, So, on the
one hand, they want credit for social progress quote unquote,
but on the other hand, they want to deny any
responsibility they may have in societal collapse. So, Richard, I
appreciate the call, but you have a great weekend. This
is a WBTV reporting one person dead following a shooting
across from Romier beard In Park. Happened yesterday afternoon on
Brevard Court in Uptown outside Latta Arcade. This is that
little sort of alley way, you know, with all like
the cobblestone looking there, like shops and restaurants and stuff,
and it's a really quaint cute reminds me like the
like the French Quarter in New Orleans, not that I'd
ever been there. Wasn't there a place called the French Quarter?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 1: Is it still there? I think I saw the Panthers
lose their first Super Bowl there. Anyway, it happened during
the busy lunch rush yesterday afternoon. CMPD says they're still
determining what led up to the shooting, but they're not
looking for any suspects, telling me that they think they've
got their guy. There are witnesses, there are video cameras,
and that's the other thing too, that everything is on
tape now, like everything is being recorded. There are cameras everywhere.
To think that you're going to be able to get
away with this kind of stuff, it just it blows
my mind. But witnesses told Channel nine WSOCTV they saw
a person taken away in handcuffs. Guy Stamulis, the owner
of Nifeli's Bar, told Channel nine's Glenn Counts that the
victim was a regular customer of his. SWSOC got video
that shows the victim run out into the alley before
the gunman shoots him dead, looks like in the back.
Stamulis says the killing does not surprise him. He says
he could see conditions getting worse there lately. I've seen
a lot of activity with people coming through here, people
on drug stuff like that. Get this. In July alone,
fifteen people were shot in at least six shootings across Uptown.
Some of those shootings were deadly. The city passed a
special tax increase to help businesses hire security, which just
recently went into effect. CMPD says it has taken a
number of steps to improve security in the area, including
boosting officer visibility and hiring private security to patrol romor
Bearden Park. So more visibility works in Uptown. Interesting? Maybe that,
maybe that could guide our reaction to the light rail stabbing.
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from WBTV. A man was arrested after a deadly double
shooting near a homeless camp in East Charlotte early Tuesday morning.
Record show the suspect, identified as twenty nine year old
Francisco Lopez Tadeo, was apprehended issued no bond. He faces
a first degree murder charge. I pulled his wrap sheet nothing.
I didn't find any prior offenses or anything. Thirty five
year old Tavares Pfeiffer is the victim. He is now dead.
He died from the gunshot wounds. There's an unidentified female
who remains in critical condition. The deadly shooting reportedly happened
at about one five am Tuesday behind the Dollar Tree
Plaza shopping center along Albemarle Road. A witness allegedly told
detectives that Lopez Todeo, who goes by the nickname el Sobrino,
which means the nephew of whom I don't know. I
don't know why somebody would get that nickname, but a
witness said that Todayo walked up behind the victims and
shot them. Officer said. A second witness also told detectives
that she heard about three gunshots, looked outside and saw
El Sobrino walking away from where the victims were lying
while at the scene. Detective said they conducted a voluntary
interview with the suspect, who was later identified as a
possible suspect, but he reportedly denied any involvement in the shooting.
After the interview, investigators said they reapproached the second witness,
who identified him as el Sobrino. Sounds like they knew him.
Sounds like he may have been a regular around that
homeless encampment or place where homeless people hang out. That's
what it seems like. I don't know. That was Tuesday,
and then also this was yesterday. I get this press
release from the UH. Is this from the District Attorney
of Mecklenburg County, Spencer Merriweather's office giving me an update
about Zatario Stuart Hang on, before I do this z
Atario Stewart update, here's an ask A request. Charlotte Mecklenburg Police.
When they hold these news conferences and they announce that
they have a suspect in custody, right, which I appreciate
them doing these press conferences and giving us this information,
and they give us the suspects names right what they're
being charged with. That sort of thing, I would really
appreciate them running through all of the arrests that the
suspects have had on or have on their record. I
think that would be very helpful to highlight where the
problem is. CMPD. Right now, you're getting a lot of
talk from Democrats at the state and local level saying
we need more money for cops, we need to hire
more cops. Which, look, this is progress. I'm old enough
to remember when the Democrats were trying to defund all
of the law enforcement agencies and trying to get rid
of cops and demoralize them so they quit and that
sort of thing. So this is progress. At least Democrats
now are on board with having police. Number one, just
having police, so that's progress. Number two, maybe even having
more police. That's even more progress. See, but that's not
that's not the problem here, because the police are making
these arrests. It's the courts that keep turning them loose.
And when I say the courts, I'm including magistrates, I'm
including judges, and yes, I'm including juries. Juries are turning
people loose too. To wit Zetario Stewart, he was found
not guilty of the August twenty twenty shooting death of
twenty seven year old Corey Carpenter. He had a first
degree murder charge and accessory after the fact to first
degree murder. He had a co defendant in this case
who was convicted of the charges related to the murder.
But Zatario Stewart beat the rep what was the story. Well,
I went back and did a little research on this fellow.
Twenty twenty August police have charged two men with the
murder in the shooting death of a man found on
the side of the road in Matthews. On August tenth,
twenty twenty, Matthew's police responded to lake View Circle regarding
a report of an abandoned vehicle. That's when they find
a man dead on the shoulder of the road, identified
as twenty seven year old Corey Deshaun Carpenter of Charlotte,
who himself had a lengthy rap sheet. I went and
pulled his rap sheet going back to twenty fourteen assault
with a deadly weapon in Charlotte, twenty nineteen, a financial
institution crime in rock Hill. He had multiple arrests, doesn't
matter he was murdered. During the crime scene investigation, Matthew's
detectives determined to appear that Carpenter had died from multiple
gunshot wounds. Ruled it as a homicide. Through corroborating evidence
and witness statements collected during the investigation, detectives identified the
individuals believed to be responsible for the crime, Tobias La
Mario McNeil, who was the other co defendant here, and
Zatario Gerard Stewart. Stuart was taken into custody about a
week later. This was twenty twenty three years prior. Three
years prior. Oh, by the way, hang on a second
his rap sheet. Zatario Stewart murder, domestic violence, protective order violation,
assault on a female, possession of a stolen firearm, possession
of a firearm by a felon, domestic violence, protective order violation,
possession of a firearm by a felon twenty seventeen, three
years prior to the murder. Zatario Gerrod Stewart. This is
according to WECT Television, along with another with a woman.
Both of Charlotte were arrested after leading law enforcement on
a high speed chase in Brunswick County. But wait, there's more.
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we walk so. Zatario Gerard Stuart he beat the rap
on a murder charge and an accessory after the fact
to first degree murder in the twenty twenty shooting death
of twenty seven year old Corey Carpenter. Stuart He was
charged along with another who was convicted on charges related
to that murder. According to the press release from the
District Attorney's office, when you do a search on Zatario
Gerrod Stewart, you come up with a twenty seventeen story,
which would have been three years prior to the shooting
death of Corey Carpenter, that Stuart and a woman, both
of Charlotte, were arrested in Brunswick County after a high
speed chase. The two were suspected in an armed robbery
at a South Carolina pawnshop. He was facing felony charges
of assault with a deadly weapon on a government official,
attempting to flee and delude arrest, possession of a firearm
by a felon, and possession of a stolen vehicle. He
pleaded guilty to possession of a stolen vehicle in Mecklenburg
County back on July thirteenth, twenty ten. So let's go
back to that one, shall we. Twenty ten, June third
story at WCNCTV Charlotte, Mecklenberg police are searching for a
burglary suspect. Oh, well, that's not the same crime at all.
A burglary suspect, This said July thirteenth, stolen vehicle, So
he must have had a stolen vehicle charge in twenty
ten as well as a burglary and police were looking
for him at the time because he cut off his
electronic monitoring bracelet. He was seventeen at the time. He
was out of jail on bond, awaiting trial on burglary charges.
Police A. Stewart's arrest history includes multiple auto thefts, drug charges,
resisting arrest, and assault on police officers. At age seventeen,
This guy was a career criminal before he hit majority age,
and he just walked on a murder charge. That's the
state system. Let's look at the federal system, shall we.
A couple of press releases here from the Department of
Justice under US Attorney Russ Ferguson's office. Unless you think
that I'm only picking these in order to make a point,
these are just the press releases I got within the
last forty eight hours. When there are acquittals, as you
heard from the Mecklemburg DA, they send out a press release.
When there are convictions, they send out press releases. This
is the press release from the US Department of Justice
Russ Ferguson's office. Eric de Jon Desgion, de Zion Tessihon
Dejion Dejaion maybe Eric Tillman, twenty nine of Charlotte sentenced
to seven years in prison followed by two years of
supervised release for assaulting federal officers attempting to arrest him
on outstanding warrants. So he's going away to federal prison
for seven years. He was apprehended by the Carolina's Regional
Fugitive Task Force or the CRFTF, or as I call it,
the KURF and Tillman was wanted on multiple warrants for
crimes committed in Mecklenburg County and a felony probation violation
in South Carolina for strong armed robbery. Conviction. Court record
show November eighth of last year. This past year, members
of the CRFTF apprehension team located Tilman asleep on the
passenger side of a parked vehicle. They ordered him to
get out of the car. He ignored those commands, He
started the vehicle and rammed it into the suv of
the apprehension team in an attempt to escape. He then
ignored further commands, and with his car now unable to
move further, he got out of the car escaped into
a wooded area. They then tracked him down on November thirteenth,
So five days later, he again ran from law enforcement,
refused to comply, but was taken into custody. So he's
now going away a little bit farther up the road.
Dylan James Surrett of Flat Rock, North Carolina sentenced to
eleven years in prison followed by two years supervised release
for illegal firearm possession because he's a felon. See if
you don't drop the hammer on these kinds of crimes.
And you heard it in the other rap sheet of
the local guy, you know, felon in possession of a
stolen firearm. Like, you got two problems there, right, And
if you don't drop the hammer on them for those crimes,
they escalate. It is the pattern of career criminals. This
is all a choice, people, Do we want to keep
living like this or do we demand our local authorities
actually do what they're supposed to be doing here. All right,
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