DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOMICIDES IN NORTH CAROLINA
from January 1 - December 25, 2006 (80 Murders)

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1. Date of Murder: January 1, 2006
   Victim: Karen H. Crawford, 48
   Perpetrator: Peter Matson, 48
   Weapon: Strangulation
   County: Chatham
    
2. Date of Murder: January 1, 2006
   Victim Name: Deana Prince, 36
   Alleged Perpetrator: Thurman Burns, 40
   Relationships: victim’s children’s father
   Town: Cumberland
   Murder Weapon: gun
    
3. Date of Murder: January 2, 2006
   Victim Name: Malachai Loftin, 52
   Alleged perpetrator name: Lakane Murphy, 34
   Relationship: ex-boyfriend of murder victim’s friend
   Town: Pender
   Murder Weapon: gun
    
4. Date of Murder: January 8, 2006
   Victim Name: Dwayne Jenkins
   Alleged perpetrator name: Tamika McMillian
   Relationship: live-in girlfriend
   Town: Fayetteville
   Murder Weapon: knife
    
5. Date of Murder: January 17, 2006
   Victim Name: Rosenda Albino Prudente-Rodriguez, 25
   Alleged perpetrator name: Jose Valverde-Liborio, 28
   Relationship: husband
   Town: Winston-Salem
   Murder Weapon: gun
    
6. Date of Murder: January 28, 2006
   Victim Name: Colonel Roberts
   Alleged Perpetrator Name: Ernestine Williams
   Relationship: live-in girlfriend
   Town: Granville
   Murder Weapon: knife
    
7. Date of Murder: January 30, 2006
   Victim Name: Christina Palmer, 29
   Alleged perpetrator name: Stevie Ray Palmer, 32
   Relationship: estranged husband
   Town: Forest City
   Murder Weapon: knife
    
8. Date of Murder: February 1, 2006
   Victim Name: James Aaron Tant, 30
   Alleged perpetrator name: Jacqueline Rudder Tant, 42
   Relationship: estranged wife
   Town: Charlotte
   Murder Weapon: gun
    
9. Date of Murder: February 3, 2006
   Victim Name: Myra Wilkes, 42
   Alleged perpetrator name: Brad Wilkes, 36, committed suicide
   Relationship: husband
   Town: Thomasville
   Murder Weapon: gun
    
10. Date of Murder: February 15, 2006
    Victim Name: Hugh Edward Walters, 57
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Louis Joseph “Joey” Scates, 39
    Relationship: Father in law
    Town: Lincoln County
    Murder Weapon: 22-caliber rifle
     
11. Date of Murder: March 3, 2006
    Victim Name: Misarachi (Sara) Miranda, 8
    Alleged Perpetrator: Gilberto Miranda Cuellar, 36
    Relationship: father
    Town: Charlotte
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
12. Date of Murder: March 3, 2006
    Victim Name: John Charles Miranda, 5
    Alleged Perpetrator: Gilberto Miranda Cuellar, 36
    Relationship: father
    Town: Charlotte
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
13. Date of Attempted Homicide: March 22, 2006
    Victim: Survivor of attempted homicide
    Perpetrator: (suicide) Joel Anderson, 53, committed suicide
    Relationship: live-in boyfriend
    Town: Scotland Neck
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
14. Date of Murder: March 17, 2006
    Victim Name: Christopher Tony Dial
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Patricia A Hunt
    Relationship: live in girlfriend
    Town: Robeson County
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
15. Date of Murder: March 24, 2006
    Victim Name: Earl Thierry Brown, 42
    Alleged Perpetrator: Camellia Boyd Norton Brown, 47
    Relationship: ex-wife
    Town: Raleigh
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
16. Date of Murder: March 25, 2006
    Victim Name: Torie Carpenter, 22
    Alleged Perpetrator: Michael Leon Wilkerson, 23
    Relationship: ex-husband
    Town: Selma
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
17. Date of Murder: March 26, 2006
    Victim Name: Terry Donnell Waddell
    Alleged Perpetrator: Gary Lee Parrish, Jr.
    Relationship: Victim was in a relationship with perpetrator’s female friend
    Town: Brunswick County
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
18. Date of Murder: Unknown, Perpetrator reported boyfriend
    dead in February
    Victim: Tony Thomas
    Alleged Perpetrator: Michelle Cabbagestalk
    Relationship: girlfriend
    Town: Edgecombe County
    Murder Weapon: strangulation
     
19. Date of Murder: March 29, 2006
    Victim Name: Betty Skipper Godfrey, 41
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Harold Lloyd Phillips,
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Gaston
    Murder Weapon: arson
     
20. Date of Murder: March 30, 2006
    Victim Name: Connie Lynn Newton, 37
    Alleged perpetrator name: Douglas Daryl Newton, 38
    Relationship: estranged husband
    Town: Anson County
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
21. Date of Murder: April 2, 2006
    Victim Name: Sara McCormick, 32
    Alleged perpetrator name: Tyrone Lancaster, 34
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Lumberton
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
22. Date of Murder: April 6, 2006
    Victim Name: Rebecca Grogan Hicks, 24
    Perpetrator Name: Jerald Chapman, 36, committed suicide
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Taylorsville
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
23. Date of Murder: April 6, 2006
    Victim Name: Keara Lynn Hart, 30
    Alleged perpetrator name: Deamego Demon Lee, 32
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Chapel Hill
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
24. Date of Murder: April 9, 2006
    Victim Name: Delores Anderson, 49
    Alleged perpetrator name: Hubert Lee Anderson, 56,
    committed suicide
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Oxford
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
25. Date of Murder: April 18, 2006
    Victim Name: Rhonda Barnes, 38
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Dennis Wayne Shaw, 37
    Relationship: ex-boyfriend of murder victim
    Town: Clayton
    Murder Weapon: blunt force trauma
     
26. Date of Murder: May 7, 2006
    Victim Name: Nakia Antione Harper, 31
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: name not released
    Relationship: girlfriend
    Town: Durham
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
27. Date of Murder: May 27, 2006
    Victim Name: Shaundra Dayle, 37
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Timothy Dayle, 41
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Franklin County
    Murder Weapon: strangulation
     
28. Date of Murder: May 27, 2006
    Victim Name: Velman Busch, 62
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Donald J. Young, 36
    Relationship: daughter’s ex-boyfriend
    Town: Greensboro
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
29. Date of Murder: May 28, 2006
    Victim Name: Shirley Arrowood
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Phil Arrowood, committed suicide
    Relationship: husband
    Town: McDowell County
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
30. Date of Murder: June 6, 2006
    Victim Name: Ashley Garner, 19
    Alleged Perpetrator: Jeff Neal Garner, 27
    Relationship: estranged husband
    Town: Winston-Salem
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
31. Date of Murder: June 10, 2006
    Victim Name: Andrea Scott, 17
    Alleged Perpetrator: Michael McDonald, 18
    Relationship: ex-boyfriend
    Town: Fayetteville
    Murder Weapon: unknown
     
32. Date of Murder: June 10, 2006
    Victim Name: Monica Gacutan, 38
    Alleged Perpetrator: Michael McDonald, 18
    Relationship: ex-boyfriend of daughter
    Town: Fayetteville
    Murder Weapon: unknown
     
33. Date of Murder: June 11, 2006
    Victim Name: Hopeton Cardannius Davis, 19
    Alleged Perpetrator: Justafaa Jihad Dublin, 19
    Relationship: deceased sister’s boyfriend
    Town: Selma
    Murder Weapon: pocket knife
     
34. Date of Murder: June 11, 2006
    Victim Name: Andy Lawson
    Alleged Perpetrator: Tracy Braxton Lawson
    Relationship: wife
    Town: Snow Camp
    Murder Weapon: fence post driver
     
35. Date of Murder: June 14, 2006
    Victim Name: Ryan Minor, 10
    Perpetrator: Mark Minor, 44, committed suicide
    Relationship: father
    Town: Union County
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
36. Date of Murder: June 17, 2006
    Victim Name: Tammy Diane Wilson, 39
    Alleged Perpetrator: Gerald Todd Spease, 36
    Relationship: ex-boyfriend
    Town: Winston-Salem
    Murder Weapon: fire
     
37. Date of Murder: June 23, 2006
    Victim Name: Joey Antonio Nesmith, 26
    Alleged Perpetrator: Talathia Brown, 18
    Relationship: girlfriend
    Town: Mecklenburg
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
38. Date of Murder: June 23, 2006
    Victim Name: Annjannette Lloyd, 31
    Alleged Perpetrator: Darin Jackson, 40
    Relationship: ex-boyfriend
    Town: Guilford County
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
39. Date of Murder: June 28, 2006
    Victim Name: Carolyn Perkins Jordan, 72
    Perpetrator: Algie Long, 74, committed suicide
    Relationship: ex-husband
    Town: Burlington
    Weapon: hand gun
     
40. Date of Murder: July 15, 2006
    Victim Name: Amy Devonne Reese, 19
    Alleged Perpetrator: Enrique Hernandez
    Relationship: live in boyfriend
    Town: Sparta
    Weapon: knife
     
41. Date of Murder: July 15, 2006
    Victim Name: Survivor of attempted homicide
    Perpetrator Name: Larry Luther Driggers
    Relationship: ex-wife
    Town: Oak Island
    Weapon: gun
     
42. Date of Murder: July 16, 2006
    Victim Name: Emmali McCrae
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Carlos Keels
    Relationship: mother’s boyfriend
    Town: Robeson County
    Weapon: beaten to death
     
43. Date of Murder: July 17, 2006
    Victim Name: Shannon Ellis Tessnear, 34
    Alleged Perpetrator: Alan Tessnear, 36, committed suicide
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Ellenboro
    Weapon: gun
     
44. Date of Murder: July 18, 2006
    Victim Name: Donald West, 39
    Alleged Perpetrator: Tiffany Ann Bassett, 26
    Relationship: live-in girlfriend
    Town: Johnston
    Weapon: gun
     
45. Date of Murder: July 26, 2006
    Victim Name: Marcus Cureton
    Alleged Perpetrator: Tamika Clark, 27
    Relationship:
    Town: Union County
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
46. Date of Murder: July 26, 2006
    Victim Name: Audrey Chavis, 33
    Alleged Perpetrator: Bobby Lynn Chavis, 44
    Relatioship: husband
    Town: Aberdeen
    Weapon: beaten to death with baseball bat
     
47. Date of Murder: July 27, 2006
    Victim Name: Neal Cochran, 30
    Alleged Perpetrator: Amy Cochran shot her husband in self-defense
    Relationship: wife
    Town: Morganton
    Weapon: gun
     
48. Date of Murder: July 30, 2006
    Victim Name: Kenneth Ray Martin, 55
    Alleged Perpetrator: Patricia Anne Dewispelaere, 41
    Relationship: girlfriend
    Town: Rockingham
    Weapon: knife
     
49. Date of Murder: July 31, 2006
    Victim Name: Patrice Eller Ikard, 36
    Perpetrator Name: Theodorus Roosevelt Ikard, 40,
    committed suicide
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Catawba County
    Murder Weapon: knife, gun
     
50. Date of Murder: July 31, 2006
    Victim Name: Harry Ponds
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Steven Woods
    Relationship: victim was new boyfriend of alleged perpetrator’s estranged wife
    Town: Shalotte, Brunswick County
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
51. Date of Murder: August 26, 2006
    Victim Name: Joy Mills Morgan, 48
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Kurt Lawrence Davis, 38
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Raleigh
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
52. Date of Murder: August 26, 2006
    Victim Name: Ceritha Williams, 34
    Alleged Perpetrator: Cleveland Troy Hendricks, 18
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Greensboro
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
53. Date of Murder: August 27, 2006
    Victim Name: Cassandra Martin
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Christopher Lee Martin, Sr.
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Graham
    Murder weapon: Gun
     
54. Date of Murder: September 5, 2006
    Victim Name: Angela Carmon, 39
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Rudy Carmon
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Greenville
    Murder Weapon: arson
     
55. Date of Murder: September 13, 2006
    Victim Name: Vanessa Martinez Lopez, 22
    Alleged Perpetrator: Limberg Leon Jimenez, 22
    Relationship: ex-boyfriend
    Town: Pitt
    Murder weapon: knife
     
56. Date of Murder: September 15, 2006
    Victim Name: Antoine Marquis Clanton, 24
    Alleged Perpetrator: Markee Laswann McFadden, 18
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Greensboro
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
57. Date of Murder: September 16, 2006
    Victim Name: Latrina Daniels, 34
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Frederick Antonie Givens, 28
    Relationship: ex-boyfriend
    Town: Charlotte
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
58. Date of Murder: September 18, 2006
    Victim Name: Bonnie Woodring,
    Perpetrator Name: John Woodring, 35, committed suicide
    Relationship: estranged husband
    Town: Sylva
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
59. Date of Murder: September 21, 2006
    Victim Name: Sophia McRae, 25
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Dexter Tremaine McRae, 30
    Relationship: estranged husband
    Town: Fayetteville
    Murder Weapon:
     
60. Date of Murder: September 24, 2006
    Victim Name: Gloria Silos Zelaya
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Joel Zelaya Rivera, 25
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Hendersonville, Henderson County
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
61. Date of Murder: September 28, 2006
    Victim Name: Cecil Poythress, 31
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Stephanie Poythress, 32
    Relationship: wife
    Town: Lillington
    Murder Weapon: knife
    Date of Murder: October 9, 2006
    Victim Name: Larry Dierickx, 63
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Penny Dierickx, 54
    Relationship: wife
    Town: Clayton
    Murder Weapon: not yet known
     
62. Date of Murder: October 23, 2006
    Victim Name: Latashia Toomer, 18
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Nathanial Williams, 22
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Wilmington
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
63. Date of Murder: October 23, 2006
    Victim Name: Priscilla Huffman, 29
    Perpetrator: Phillip Huffman, 30
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Rowan County
    Murder Weapon: butcher knife
     
64. *Date of Murder: November3, 2006
    Victim: Michelle Young, 29
    Perpetrator: Jason Young, 32
    Town: Raleigh County: Wake
    Weapon: Blunt force trauma
     
65. Date of Murder: November 20, 2006
    Victim Name: Wendy Sellers, 31
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Rex Sellers, 45
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Robbinsville
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
66. Date of Murder: November 20, 2006
    Victim Name: Nancy Williams Orr, 53
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Rex Sellers, 45
    Relationship: son in law
    Town Robbinsville
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
67. Date of Murder: November 20, 2006
    Victim Name: John Drew Anderson, 28
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Rex Sellers, 45
    Relationship: brother in law
    Town: Robbinsville
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
68. Date of Murder: November 20, 2006
    Victim Name: Liza Ann Pierce, 35
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Charles Eric Calloway, 43
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Wilkes County
    Murder Weapon: high powered rifle
     
69. Date of Murder: November 27, 2006
    Victim Name: Gloria Cobos, 22
    Alleged Perpetrator: Jonathan Salas Ramirez, 30
    Relationship: ex-boyfriend
    Town: Charlotte
    Murder Weapon: beaten to death with hands
     
70. Date of Murder: November 30, 2006
    Victim Name: Carolyn Jean King Gray
    Alleged Perpetrator: Dominique King
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Pitt County Murder Weapon: knife
     
71. Date of Murder: December 4, 2006
    Victim Name: Sherri Deniese Jackson, 27
    Alleged Perpetrator: Decarlo Rayshaun Bennet, 28
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Greensboro
    Murder Weapon: unknown
     
72. Date of Murder: December 8, 2006
    Victim Name: Julie Rowland Bowling, 45
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Mark Anthony Bowling, 35
    Rose Deloris Vincent, 27
    Relationship: husband and mistress
    Town: Nash County
    Murder Weapon: gun
    Date of Murder: December 9, 2006
    Victim Name: Travis Mabine, 24
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Curtis Lee Thomas, 36
    Relationship: boyfriend of perpetrator’s ex-girlfriend
    Town: Ahoskie
    Murder weapon: gun
     
73. Date of Murder: Body Found on November 2, 2006
    Victim Name: Narskelsky Pastuer, 52
    Alleged Perpetrator: Robert L. Pastuer, 47
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Franklin
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
74. Date of Murder: December 11, 2006
    Victim Name: Phaedra Renee Mcrimmon, 34
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Herbert Reece McNeil Jr.
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Lee County
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
75. Date of Murder: December 16, 2006
    Victim Name: Charles Larry Hauser, 52
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Ozell Joan Dow, 50
    Relationship: girlfriend
    Town: Thomasville
    Murder Weapon: knife
     
76. Date of Murder: December 17, 2006
    Victim Name: Nicole Marie Moore, 24
    Alleged Perpetrator: Gilbert Charles Whitmire, 51
    Relationship: boyfriend
    Town: Henderson
    Murder Weapon:
     
77. Date of Murder: December 17, 2006
    Victim Name: Rebecca Ann Wilson, 24
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Daleray Wilson, 28
    Relationship: husband
    Town: Greensboro
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
78. Date of Murder: December 19, 2006
    Victim Name: Jorie N. Washington, 43
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Samuel Junior Jackson, 55
    Relationship: live-in boyfriend
    Town: Elizabeth City
    Murder Weapon : gun
     
79. Date of Murder: December 19, 2006
    Victim Name: Xavier Z. Washington, 18
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Samuel Junior Jackson, 55
    Relationship: mother’s live-in boyfriend
    Town: Elizabeth City
    Murder Weapon: gun
     
80. Date of Murder: December 25, 2006
    Victim Name: April Dawn Caldwell, 17
    Alleged Perpetrator Name: Juan Carlos Ramirez, 26
    Relationship: ex-boyfriend
    Town: Greensboro
    Murder Weapon: knife