WCC killer confesses
By News-Argus Staff
Published in News on April 15, 2015 1:46 PM
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Kristie Lane Cisneros, sister of the late Ron Lane, hugs one of his colleagues, Majena Howell, left, upon seeing the memorial of flowers and letters made in his honor at the center of Wayne Community College's campus on Tuesday.
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Kenneth Stancil III makes his first appearance in a Florida courtroom.
Kenneth Stancil III waived his right to remain silent in a Florida court proceeding Tuesday, taking the opportunity to, instead, confess to the murder of Ron Lane and to accuse his victim of child molestation.
Police say Stancil, 20, shot and killed his former print shop work-study supervisor at Wayne Community College Monday with a pistol grip pump shotgun, but have yet to confirm a motive.
Stancil, though, indicated what his motive might have been -- telling a judge he was defending his younger brother.
"All right, I just want you to know I ridded one less (expletive) child molester from the (expletive) world, that (expletive) with my little brother, you know what I'm saying?" Stancil said. "Doing time is the easy (expletive) part, know what I'm saying?"
The Goldsboro Police Department is investigating the murder as a hate crime.
An extradition hearing held Tuesday set in motion the process of bringing Stancil back to Wayne County to face trial. He could arrive as early as Thursday -- Friday at the latest -- officials at the Wayne County Courthouse said.
At a press conference held in Goldsboro Tuesday afternoon, police Sgt. Jeremey Sutton filled in the details surrounding Stancil's capture.
The sergeant said Stancil fled Wayne Community College immediately after killing Lane and that there was never a hostage situation inside the college -- the alleged killer left Wayne County on a motorcycle and switched methods of transportation in Lumberton before heading farther south to Florida. He was being tracked the whole time and it was not a coincidence Stancil was found on the beach in Florida, Sutton said.
""We would be getting tidbits of information that we had sightings of him and we were following him down (Interstate) 95 through that," Sutton said.
Search warrants served on the Stancil home and property turned up several pieces of evidence, including computer-based data that still has to be combed through, Sutton said.
"We are currently working on that as part of our investigation. Our evidence techs are going through that evidence as we speak," he said.