Teen, 16, among three indicted in death, robbery
By Nick Hiltunen
Published in News on February 13, 2008 1:55 PM
Police believe the three men implicated in the February 2007 death of Karemond Abdullah Spells, 30, were trying to steal two pounds of marijuana, according to court records.
Those three men, including Michael Jamal Allen, 18, of Canterbury Court, Marcus Antwan Graham, 16, and Davon Samuel Cobb, now 20, both of Clint Drive, Dudley, were among 60 indicted this month by a Wayne County grand jury.
All three are charged with armed robbery, discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and first-degree murder, court records show.
Cobb and Graham are former students of Southern Wayne High School in Dudley.
The affidavit of Goldsboro police Investigator Dave Cloutier reveals that Allen allegedly confessed to investigators that he pulled the trigger and hid the gun.
A Goldsboro officer found Spells shot in the head in the parking lot of the Westhaven Apartments on Astor Court, court records show.
Spells was inside a 1985 burgundy four-door Nissan Maxi-ma, according to court records.
Spells was still alive and was transported to the hospital, but later died at Pitt Memorial in Greenville, according to police.
A .380-caliber handgun was used to inflict the fatal wound, the affidavit shows.
That chrome, black-handled weapon would be found wrapped in a red bandanna under some wood to the right of a barn door in Cobb's back yard, according to Cloutier's affidavit to obtain a search warrant for Cobb's home.
Allen left the gun at the residence and had no contact with it after the early February 2007 shooting, Cloutier said in the affidavit.
Others indicted by true bill during a Feb. 4 session of the Wayne County Grand Jury include:
*Joshua Monterrio Artis, 17, Hereford Drive, Dudley, possess a weapon on campus or other education property.
*Sam McCullough, 18, South John Street, forgery, uttering a forged instrument.
*John Perry Blakely, 54, Stevens Mill Road, possess controlled drug on premises of penal institution.
*Owen L. Davis, 16, Slaughter Street, possess with intent to sell or deliver a controlled drug.
*Shenika Lavon Best, 32, North Kornegay Street, two counts possess controlled drug, maintaining a vehicle or dwelling of the use of a controlled drug.
*Eric Eugene McClary, 48, West Mulberry Street, felony-level impaired driving, habitual felon.
*Ronnie Lee Jones, 24, Loop Road, larceny, possess stolen goods.
*John Fitzgerald Johnson, 54, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, obtaining property by false pretense, forgery, uttering a forged instrument.
*Richard Lee Williams, 28, Durham Lake Road, Dudley, breaking and entering, larceny after break or enter, possess stolen goods, habitual felon.
*Derman Murchison, 16, Aycock Street, breaking and entering, larceny after break or enter, possess stolen goods, resist, delay or obstruct.
*Joseph Irwin Knight, 25, East Walnut Street, first-degree murder.
*Matthew Anthony Casterlow, 32, Peachtree Street, first-degree burglary, larceny after break or enter, possess stolen goods.
*Timothy Earl Darden, 28, Brentwood Drive, breaking and entering a motor vehicle, two counts forgery, two counts uttering a forged instrument, habitual felon.
*Samuel Devon Cannon, 30, Brock Street, first-degree burglary, assault on a handicapped person, two counts armed robbery, second-degree kidnapping.
*Patrick S. Blount, 30, Arrington Bridge Road, first-degree burglary, assault on a handicapped person, two counts armed robbery, second-degree kidnapping.
*Dorian Jorel Powell, 23, Hines Drive, larceny, possess stolen goods, habitual felon.
*Murat Sazil, 32, Holmes Lane, two counts second-degree burglary, two counts larceny after break or enter, two counts possess stolen goods.
*Elais Hernandez, 30, U.S. 70, two counts second-degree burglary, two counts larceny after break or enter, two counts possess stolen goods.
*Nikki Renae Thompson, 36, Hugh Street, obtaining property by false pretense.
*Abraham Garcia Rodriguez, no age recorded, Alton Drive, Seven Springs, financial identity fraud.
*Paulette Nicole Champion, 29, North Carolina Street, two counts possess with intent to sell or deliver a controlled drug, maintaining a vehicle or dwelling for use of a controlled drug, three counts possess with intent to sell and deliver a prescription, non-controlled drug, possess for sale or sale of alcoholic beverages without permit or revenue licenses, operate or possess a slot machine.
*Kamiyla Faatima Lofton, 20, West Oak Street, embezzlement, larceny by employee.
*Richard Eugene Norris, 40, Quail Drive, two counts malicious conduct by prisoner, assault with a firearm on law enforcement officer, two counts assault on government officer, resist, delay or obstruct, injury to personal property, assault on a female, communicating threats.
*Semonica Donise Atkinson, 33, North Center Street, possess a controlled drug.
*Ashley Nicole Wiggins, 23, West 5th Street, larceny, possess stolen goods.
*Danielle Cheree Carlton, 23, West Fourth Street, Greenville, larceny, possess stolen goods.
*Ann Marie Meinecke, 39, DW Circle, possess a controlled drug.
*Marquailus Haywood Bryant, 19, Astor Court, possess stolen goods.
*Herbert Lee James Jr., 37, Dewey Street, attempted first-degree burglary, possess burglary tools, two counts resist, obstruct or delay, injury to personal property, habitual felon.
*Tony Haywood Lancaster, 36, Old Kenly Road, armed robbery, second-degree kidnapping, habitual felon.
*William Pridgen, 52, Denmark Street, obtain property by false pretense.
*Samuel Lee Thompson, 31, Bryant Street, possess stolen goods.
*Kevin James Smith, 29, West Ward's Bridge Road, larceny, possess stolen goods, possess burglary tools.
*Bradley Scott Smith, 27, North Berkeley Boulevard, three counts possess with intent to sell or deliver a controlled drug, possess a controlled substance, maintain a vehicle or dwelling for a controlled drug.
*Tracey Ellis Battle, no age recorded, Wilson, forgery of an endorsement, uttering a forged endorsement.
*Kenneth Blain Ward Jr., 22, Watershed Road, LaGrange, first-degree burglary, larceny after break or enter, possess stolen goods.
*Michael Lee Borkowski, 27, Marlette Drive, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
*Marquis Antwan Blackman, 29, Tinderwood Drive, first-degree burglary, breaking and entering a motor vehicle, attempted breaking and entering a motor vehicle, habitual felon.
*Lenny Lamore Gardner, 52, Thoroughfare Road, forgery, uttering a forged instrument.
*James Larry Woodard, 53, Peedin Road, two counts financial identity fraud.
*Travis Lamont Davis, 31, Walnut Street, possess with intent to sell or deliver a controlled drug.
*Edwin Bernard Patterson, 22, Cheryl Drive, Dudley, crime against nature, statutory sex offense with 14-year-old.
*Richard Lee Williams, 28, Durham Lake Road, breaking and entering, larceny after break or enter, possess stolen goods, habitual felon.
*Equan Jerrell Bowden, 16, Woodside Circle, possess a weapon on campus or other education property.
*Douglas Lee Wallace, 26, Red Hill Road, Mount Olive, larceny from the person.
*Richard Lee Swinson, 29, Hillsboro Street, possess firearm by convicted felon.
*Steven Mark Farmer, 16, East Dickerson Street, second-degree burglary, larceny after break or enter, possess stolen goods.
*Tony Ray Farmer, no age recorded, East Dickerson Street, second-degree burglary, larceny after break or enter, possess stolen goods,