Three adults are in police custody on capital homicide prices associated to an 18-year-old woman being kidnapped, raped, shot, and left for useless alongside the aspect of the highway in Mississippi.
On Friday, the Jackson police division held a press briefing confirming that Dewitt Anderson, 34, Cedric Banks, 37, and Kaymia Blackmon, 19 had been all in police custody, WLBT experiences. Amya Carey was recognized because the physique on the coroner’s workplace on March 24.
“They had been the final ones that had been seen along with her, and so that’s the place our investigation began,” Jackson Police Division Deputy Chief Deric Hearn mentioned.
Carey’s physique was riddled with bullets close to Clay Avenue on Feb. 15. A member of the family says the teenager was choosing up her pal, Blackmon, who was along with her boyfriend, Anderson.
Ultimately, Anderson’s brother, Banks, joined the group they usually went to a number of areas throughout the night time. Blackmon, Anderson, and Banks had all reportedly tried to interact in sexual exercise with Carey however she turned down their advances.
After turning down the trio, Carey acquired right into a combat with Blackmon and that’s when Anderson picked up a gun and shot the teenager. Whereas critically injured, Carey was positioned within the backseat of her automobile the place somebody raped her.
Carey was shot two extra instances earlier than her physique was dumped out of the automobile and left on the aspect of the road.
“She was severely wounded,” Hearn mentioned. “They positioned her in a automobile and as they had been driving to Forest Avenue, the place they dumped the physique, that they had intercourse along with her within the automobile.”
On March 30, Blackmon and Anderson had been taken into custody for questioning, the place they recounted the night time’s occasions. All three suspects appeared in courtroom on Thursday, March 31 the place that they had their bond denied, WJTV experiences.
It stays unclear if the suspects have obtained authorized illustration.
