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23yo Engineer shot in head while pleading for his life
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | MOBILE, Ala. -- After hearing a knock, Christopher Kyser Miree opened the front door of his midtown Mobile home, and four men barged inside and demanded money, according to court testimony Wednesday.
Three of those four men later told police that Miree slipped and fell onto the floor, and he was "crying and stating that he didn't have anything," said Mobile police Detective Charles Bagsby.
Miree was "on his back with his hands up in a defensive position," Bagsby said, and "he was begging them for his life."
Michael Jerome Lee, 19, then shot Miree once in the head, the detective said.
That account of what happened at 4 Macy Place the night of April 16 was recited during a preliminary hearing in the capital murder cases against Lee and three other young men: Bo Ellis Taylor, 18; Jamal Breon Lang, 20; and Ernest Teryl Wiggins, 19.
Each of them has pleaded not guilty to capital murder.
During the hearing, court police increased security, moving the proceedings to a separate courtroom and using metal detectors as people entered the room.
At one point, Lee was escorted out of the courtroom -- apparently for talking during the detective's testimony -- and he punched a wall on the way out. He was not brought back in.
Bagsby said Lee refused to answer questions by police after his arrest, but the other three men confessed their roles in the nighttime robbery and shooting.
Miree, a 23-year-old Vanderbilt University graduate and Birmingham native, worked as an engineer at the Chevron Corp. refinery in Pascagoula. He lived on Macy Place with a roommate, Curtis Wright, police said.
The night of the shooting, a friend of Wright's went to a Wachovia Bank ATM near Bel Air Mall before driving to the Macy Place house to pick up Wright and head downtown, Bagsby said.
The four defendants were driving around, looking for people to rob, and they followed the friend from the ATM to the house, Bagsby said.
While the foursome parked nearby, Wright and his friend left, leaving Miree home alone, Bagsby said. The four men then walked over to the house and knocked on the door, he said.
Meanwhile, Miree's girlfriend noticed that Miree stopped responding to phone calls and text messages about 11 p.m.
She called Wright -- who is her brother -- and they drove over to the house to check on him, Bagsby said.
"When they got there and entered the residence, they discovered the victim ... shot on the floor and laying in a puddle of blood," Bagsby said.
During the investigation, a Mobile woman told police that she knew the four men, and while they were at her house, she heard them making up a story that the shooting was an accident, in the event police questioned them, the detective said.
Lee told her that he struck Miree with the gun, and it fired accidentally, Bagsby said.
Lee's girlfriend also told investigators that Lee confessed to the shooting and claimed it was an accident, Bagsby said.
A forensic scientist has ruled, based on the evidence, that the shot had to have been fired a minimum of 1 foot away, making the accident story impossible, Bagsby said.
Mobile County District Judge Michael McMaken sent the case to a grand jury.
After the hearing, Lee's attorney, James Byrd, said he wasn't sure why his client was taken out of a hearing in a case in which he faces the death penalty.
"I'd be upset, too," Byrd said.
All four defendants face the death penalty or life without parole, if convicted. |
Source: http://blog.al.com/live/2010/08/kys...d_for_life.html
I wish the worst punishments on these ridiculous excuses for human beings. All because 4 mouth-breathing neanderthal idiots wanted to rob a white boy to go buy some crack or something. Makes me want to ing vomit. I wonder if the money they were going to steal was worth a murder and 4 death-penalties. ing s. |
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| MeLLyMeL |
that is a terrible story.
I really do hope for the worst. Poor guy was so young and to go out that way. He was begging for his life. |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
that is a terrible story.
I really do hope for the worst. Poor guy was so young and to go out that way. He was begging for his life. |
Just graduated college, got a nice job, probably a cute girlfriend and had a great future set up for him. For it to be ended like that at the expense of some ing dumbasses trying to steal some cash because they can't get ing jobs like everyone else makes me lose faith in humanity.
Ugh. :mad: |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Did you make this thread just so you could rage out and type a certain word that rhymes with "triggers?" |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Did you make this thread just so you could rage out and type a certain word that rhymes with "triggers?" |
I was pretty sure he was talking about those ing "maggots". |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Did you make this thread just so you could rage out and type a certain word that rhymes with "triggers?" |
:p
I wanted to rage, yes, but the story speaks for itself with regards to those naggers.
Edit: If I wanted to actually type it out, I would have to do the bolding trick so that the word filter doesn't get me :p |
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| leph555 |
| Thats why you have to keep a stockpile of KFC in the fridge |
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| ziptnf |
| I didn't actually say the word, but to avoid a ban (don't want a repeat of last time), I'm removing all references to the word filter being used. |
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| Ian |
| what a bunch of ****s. Still, if it was in the UK they'd be out in 12 years if that, so at least they have the chance to get the DP. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
I didn't actually say the word, but to avoid a ban (don't want a repeat of last time), I'm removing all references to the word filter being used. |
So, does this article neatly dove-tail into a racially tinged confirmation bias or is this just shock at the brutality of a crime which could have been committed by white people, as well? |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
So, does this article neatly dove-tail into a racially tinged confirmation bias or is this just shock at the brutality of a crime which could have been committed by white people, as well? |
No intents for racial bias, as I would likely be just as upset if it were 4 hillbillies murdering a young black man in his home. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
No intents for racial bias, as I would likely be just as upset if it were 4 hillbillies murdering a young black man in his home. |
That's too bad, because I had a self-serving, pious lecture peppered with self-righteous hectoring diatribe, about how blood is all the same color and our differences are only skin-deep, lined up and ready to go but now I'll have to save it. :p |
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