Chauncey Askew was sentenced to to life sentences this morning (Jan. 25) for the killings of Jerome Parott and Trooper Kevin Conner.
Askew was on trial for the 2016 shooting of Parrott in a Green Acres home that was used as a pool room. At the conclusion of that trial, he was scheduled to be tried for the 2018 killing of Conner.
Since he was 16 at the time of the first murder, Askew could not face the death penalty. District Attorney Jon David was pursuing capital punishment for Askew’s second murder.
Askew was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for Parrott’s death, and life without parole for shooting Conner. He also received a 17 to 30 month sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Askew and Raheem Davis were driving a stolen pickup truck when Conner stopped them for speeding in the New Light community on U.S. 701 South. Askew fled to South Carolina after the shooting, and Davis was captured in Fair Bluff later that morning when he wrecked the truck on a railroad crossing.
Askew was arrested several days after by U.S. Marshals. He was charged in Parrott’s murder in February 2019. Davis was initially charged with murder, but that charge was later reduced.
Askew was convicted in 2017 of possession of a firearm by a felon and identity theft in Cumberland County, and in August 2017 was found guilty of felony breaking and entering. Prison records show he was released Aug. 31, 2017. Askew was then arrested after a series of assaults and robberies in Chadbourn in October 2017.
Court documents show Davis was on probation for a 2017 conviction on felony charges of firing into an occupied vehicle at the time of Conner’s killing.
Raheem Davis and Houston Edward Scott, both of whom were 18 at the time, were convicted of shooting a .22 rifle and a .40 handgun at two couples across Brown Street in Chadbourn on June 15, 2016. Bob and Sue Skelton were traveling through Chadbourn en route to Myrtle Beach when Davis and Scott’s gunfire struck their minivan. Neither Skelton was injured, but the vehicle sustained broken windows and multiple bullet holes.
Davis received a 22-month suspended sentence and he served three months in prison after several arrests for violation of parole. Davis was arrested Dec. 7, 2017, and sent to prison Jan. 10. He was released April 10.
He was charged with multiple counts of failure to appear on misdemeanor charges, several of which are still pending trial.
Parrott also had an extensive criminal record, including an arrest in 2005 for two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury. In that case, Parrott fire multiple rounds from a stolen 9mm Ruger handgun into a vehicle and wounded two men. When he was arrested, he was found hiding under a bed in a Nakina home, with the stolen handgun.
That shooting came months after he was released from prison on a conviction stemming from a 1998 shooting in Green Acres, where he wounded two other men. He was arrested in April 2004 by a Highway Patrol Trooper after a traffic stop revealed Parrott was carrying crack cocaine, counterfeit money, and a stolen .380 handgun.
