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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...
No one was hurt but a home on Wright Road was damaged by gunfire early Tuesday (today). Th sheriff’s office reported that someone opened fire on the home of Tamia Bellamy and Taniya Graham just after 2 a.m. The door of the home was damaged by the gunfire. Deputies recovered several spent shell casings at the scene, but did not have a description of a vehicle or suspects....
A fight on Quail Drive led to a shooting Sunday. The sheriff’s office reported that a man called 911 after another man he knows came to his home and began arguing. The dispute between two men came to blows, with the victim hitting the resident “multiple times,” the report said. The resident told deputies he repeatedly warned the shooting victim to leave the property, or he “was going...