Domino's Pizza Delivery Person stabbed 50 times

[rockin'robin]

Some people are just pure evil...don't give a damn about anything, even a human life. ...Could be the culprits wanted the money for drugs...

 

[DeafTim]

We had a young man pizza delivery driver murdered on a delivery recently. The killers took the food order from him, shot him in cold blood, and went home to eat the food. That's what they wanted. It was terrible.

I believe that b/c a lot of people are hungry.

What I don't understand is why murder when knowing that it would result lifetime permanent resident in maximum security prison, is it really worth it?

Maybe poor people live better in prison. A lot of them have no idea what they're doing before it's too late.

Around 7 yrs ago, a young male shot and killed papa johns delivery driver not to far from my town..I mean the next town where it happened. He was a troubled kid just wanted to rob him to impress his gf. She was there as well. The male shooter got spooked.

EDIT: Just last Friday, even a farmer got robbed at gunpoint less than 3 miles from my house. The driver in stolen relative vehicle asked the farmer for directions and he came back with the stolen rifle in the truck. The farmer was forced to give up his wallet. The driver got gas in my town and went on a police chase in short time. He crashed into a tree. The sheriffs were respondin to the call when saw red truck on road. He was from out of town...was booked in jail after hospital released him...saw his mugshot..he had mop hair.. smh

 

[Foxrac]

What I don't understand is why murder when knowing that it would result lifetime permanent resident in maximum security prison, is it really worth it?

Some people want free room, free food, free heating, free jumpsuit or scrub and free hot shower for rest of their life.

That's very sad.

 

[Foxrac]

I believe that b/c a lot of people are hungry.



Maybe poor people live better in prison. A lot of them have no idea what they're doing before it's too late.

Around 7 yrs ago, a young male shot and killed papa johns delivery driver not to far from my town..I mean the next town where it happened. He was a troubled kid just wanted to rob him to impress his gf. She was there as well. The male shooter got spooked.

EDIT: Just last Friday, even a farmer got robbed at gunpoint less than 3 miles from my house. The driver in stolen relative vehicle asked the farmer for directions and he came back with the stolen rifle in the truck. The farmer was forced to give up his wallet. The driver got gas in my town and went on a police chase in short time. He crashed into a tree. The sheriffs were respondin to the call when saw red truck on road. He was from out of town...was booked in jail after hospital released him...saw his mugshot..he had mop hair.. smh

In bold, it seems true for some people and the prison in Alabama is #1 most overcrowded so California is next, I think so.

 

[CrazyPaul]

I believe that b/c a lot of people are hungry.

They ordered pizza but had no money to pay for it but why 50 stabs?

So I am saying they were evil. I don't care if they were hungry or poor. I hope they (even 15 yrs old boy) will get a death penalty that they deserve.

 

[Reba]

Just plain evil.

A teenager accused in the killing of a pizza delivery driver shared with detectives a damning statement from another teen he named as the triggerman:

“Stephawn said, ‘I’m gonna get that boy,’ ” 18-year-old Jontae Davis told investigators.

Stephawn is Stephawn Brown, the 19-year-old alleged gunman in the March 9 attack. “That boy” is 20-year-old Maraleius Birdsong, a Domino’s Pizza delivery driver and a student at Trident Technical College.

A preliminary hearing for Brown on Monday morning revealed new details from the case against him. After hearing the facts, North Charleston Municipal Judge Thad Doughty found probable cause on each charge and moved the case forward to a grand jury.

Someone called in an apparently bogus Domino’s order to the Appian Way Apartments in North Charleston. The people who answered the door to Birdsong turned him away and suggested he try another apartment, where no one answered the door.

Someone shot Birdsong in the back of his head as he walked back toward his car. Authorities believe Brown fired that shot and ran away with chicken wings and cinnamon sticks.

Brown appeared Monday in an orange-striped jail jumpsuit and glanced briefly at Birdsong’s mother and aunt. North Charleston police Detective Candy Johnson said investigators traced the Domino’s order to a cellphone registered to Brown’s mother.

Brown’s mother told police that the phone belonged to her son, Johnson said. Police found Brown lying in the back seat of his mother’s SUV in the parking lot at Appian Way, his body covered with a blanket.

Johnson said he didn’t move when they called to him but that, when they pulled him out, they found pre-packaged marijuana. Investigators discovered 11.5 grams of weed under Brown, Johnson said, and another 7.9 grams separated into small plastic bags inside a medicine bottle.

Inside his mother’s apartment, investigators discovered two chicken wings around Brown’s bedroom dresser and another two wings in the microwave, according to Johnson. They found Domino’s napkins and “residue” from cinnamon sticks.

The order consisted of three eight-piece cinnamon sticks, one 14-piece hot wings, one 14-piece mango-habanero wings and a 20-ounce Sprite.

Police found an insulated Domino’s delivery bag and a ski mask along the wood line near the apartments, along with a black ski mask. Johnson said DNA on the ski mask matched Brown.

Police also collected Brown’s DNA from the grip, clip and trigger on a gun found at the apartments, Johnson said. The gun remains with state investigators for processing.

Police arrested Brown on charges of murder, armed robbery, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession with intent to distribute marijuana within a half-mile of a school. Fort Dorchester High School is across the street from Appian Way apartments.

Brown’s attorney, Mark Leiendecker, noted that no witnesses saw his client or Davis with a gun that day, and that no one saw them with masks. Leiendecker pointed out that police searched Birdsong’s car early in the investigation and found a handgun inside.

South Carolina residents who do not have a felony conviction can carry guns in their cars, so long as they keep the weapons in a secure place, such as a trunk or glove compartment. Police found a gun under the driver’s side seat in Birdsong’s car.

Leiendecker also asked Johnson about a “second victim” mentioned in a report and “presumptive marijuana.” Johnson said investigators found no drugs in Birdsong’s car, and authorities have said that Brown and Davis didn’t know Birdsong.

Leiendecker pointed out that his client made no statements to police. Davis spoke to investigators the day after the shooting and then returned three days later.

Davis named Brown as the gunman but, in doing so, implicated himself by putting himself at the crime scene, according to Johnson. Davis remains at the Dorchester County Detention Center on a murder charge.

Birdsong’s aunt, Julianna Cruz, said after Brown’s hearing that she and her sister relive the details of the crime with each trip to court. She wondered aloud about Brown’s alleged statement to Davis the day of the attack.

“ ‘I’m gonna get him?’ Why?” Cruz asked. “He was just delivering food.”

Defendant says pizza driver Maraleius Birdsong was targeted; case moves to grand jury | The Post and Courier | Charleston SC, News, Sports, Entertainment

The killers weren't starving or living on the streets. They lived in a nice apartment complex.

 

[kokonut]

An update...the woman murdered may also have been pregnant. If true then that's two murders.

Family members state that Hutcheson may have been pregnant at the time of the murder. If the autopsy reports indicate that Hutcheson was pregnant at the time of the murder, the suspects will be charged with fetal homicide.

The fifteen-year-old male juvenile will be tried as an adult according to Polk County District Attorney Robert Brooks.

The juvenile was arrested Friday afternoon along with Cadedra Lynn Cook on Lafayette Street in a field located on the property of the old Hale Manufacturing Plant.

When arrested, Cook suggested that a possible motive for the murder was a gang initiation; however police have not confirmed that to be true at this time. There are no more suspects believed to be involved with the murder.

More details on the murder of pizza delivery worker Elizabeth Hutcheson - Atlanta Crime | Examiner.com

Gang initiation? Oy. We'll know more as facts are collected. Regardless, the stabbings and murder(s) were uncalled for. Such monstrous acts.

 

[Reba]

Evil.

 

[kokonut]

Yes, evil. Inhuman acts of depravity.

 

[DeafTim]

They ordered pizza but had no money to pay for it but why 50 stabs?

So I am saying they were evil. I don't care if they were hungry or poor. I hope they (even 15 yrs old boy) will get a death penalty that they deserve.

I was responding to Reba's story,man...


EDIT: or replyin

 

[caz12]

inhuman to do this......maybe america get priority right instead man hours spent on looking for alcataz escapee's use money pay para medics more and get victims to hospital without giving victim a bill to pay for doing so...

 

[Reba]

Just plain evil.


Defendant says pizza driver Maraleius Birdsong was targeted; case moves to grand jury | The Post and Courier | Charleston SC, News, Sports, Entertainment

The killers weren't starving or living on the streets. They lived in a nice apartment complex.

Update:

Slain son lives in gift of life: heart transplant bonds two families

The mother of a young man who was shot to death while delivering pizza pressed her head against the chest of the man who now has his heart.

She stayed there a while, quietly crying and listening.

Maraleius Gardner-Birdsong was shot to death in March while delivering pizza. His organs have saved the lives of four people.
Teresa Gardner meets with Timothy Jordan of Darlington, who is the transplant recipient of her son’s heart.

“I reached right up and felt his heart beating,” Teresa Gardner said at the emotional meeting Monday. “I felt very blessed that my son is still here with us, just in another dimension.”

Her son, 20-year-old Maraleius Gardner-Birdsong, was shot to death in March while delivering a pizza in a North Charleston apartment complex. Two teens have been charged in his death.

His organs saved the lives of four people, according to LifePoint, which coordinated the donations.

Timothy Jordan, 42, of Darlington received his heart. He and his family drove to LifePoint’s North Charleston office to meet his donor’s mother for the first time.

“I was happy that I was going to receive a heart to prolong my life, but it was sad that someone had to pass away for me to live on,” Jordan said through tears. “That was the hardest thing for me.”

Gardner-Birdsong was a straight-A student at Trident Technical College with plans to get an engineering degree at The Citadel. He chose to designate himself as an organ donor on his driver’s license.

Jordan was a supervisor at Georgia Pacific when he was struck down by a blood infection that shut down his organs and destroyed his heart. He got Gardner-Birdsong’s heart in March and has been gradually regaining strength.

A floragraph, a photo-like image of Gardner-Birdsong made from flowers and plant parts, will be on a float in the Rose Parade Jan. 1, along with those representing 71 other organ donors. The Donate Life float, big enough for 30 riders, is a colorful series of looping hearts.

The floragraph was made mostly by volunteers from One Legacy-California. Gardner-Birdsong’s family and friends will put the finishing touches on it this morning at LifePoint.

The two families said they forged a connection Monday that’s hard to express with words.

“I feel like … I’m part of her now and she’s a part of me,” Jordan said.

“This is a bond … that’s never going to broken,” Gardner said. “We’re always going to be tied together now.”

Slain son lives in gift of life: heart transplant bonds two families – The Post and Courier

 

[Bottesini]

Update:



Slain son lives in gift of life: heart transplant bonds two families – The Post and Courier

That's so sad. It's really nice the mother got to see who her son saved.

 

[Reba]

Update:

St. George — It was random that Maraleius Birdsong would be the pizza delivery driver who unknowingly walked into his own death almost a year ago. He was working that night for Domino’s Pizza’s Coosaw Creek store.

Birdsong had no idea he was being stalked like prey. He didn’t know that the two teenagers dressed in black had ordered food they had no intention of paying for, according to testimony.

Birdsong was 20 years old when he was robbed and killed March 9. This week, the teens accused of his murder faced a jury. Before the trial could begin, one turned on the other and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

In exchange for a lighter sentence, the defendant would testify against his once friend and co-defendant, accused of being the triggerman in Birdsong’s killing.

On Tuesday morning, while the jury waited in a back room to be escorted into the courtroom for opening statements, Jontae Davis, 18, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and armed robbery and accepted a deal that will put him in prison for 20 years. He then testified against his co-defendant, Stephawn Brown, 19, who is now being tried alone in the case. Brown is charged with murder and armed robbery and faces a possible life sentence, if convicted.

“I decided I just needed to own up for what we’ve done,” said Davis when he testified against Brown Tuesday afternoon. “I felt like the family needed to hear the truth.”

Birdsong’s mother, Teresa Gardner, was sitting in the front row of the Dorchester County Circuit courtroom.

She wiped away tears as Davis described the final moments of her son’s life.

“He was very afraid. He did everything he was told,” Davis said. “When he didn’t give up his phone, Stephawn got mad. He (Birdsong) started to run, and as he was running, Stephawn shot him.”

Davis told the jury that Birdsong told Brown he didn’t have his cellphone on him after Brown demanded it. Davis said the deliveryman turned around to run away and Brown shot him. Later, Davis would learn Birdsong was shot in the back of the head, he said.

“I asked him why he did it. He said because the guy wouldn’t give him the cellphone,” Davis said. “He said he shouldn’t play with him like that.”

Birdsong, who was paying his way through school at Trident Technical College, was delivering an order of wings and cinnamon sticks to the Appian Way apartments in North Charleston. He knocked on the door of the apartment listed on the order, but they told him they hadn’t ordered any food, according to testimony. Birdsong tried another apartment but couldn’t find the person who had called in the order that night around 7:40 p.m. So he started to walk back to his car, while Brown and Davis, waited and watched, according to Davis’ testimony.

Davis told the jury he and Brown had begun making plans to rob someone after school that day. The pair attended Fort Dorchester High School and lived next door to each other, according to Davis.

Later that afternoon, Brown came up with the idea to rob a pizza deliveryman, Davis testified. He watched Brown make the call to the Domino’s Pizza.

While Mark Leiendecker, a public defender for Brown, questioned Davis on the stand, he pointed out that his testimony is the fourth version of the story he’d given. Davis had told the jury he’d lied to police in earlier statements, minimizing his involvement.“You lied in order to save your butt,” Leiendecker said.

During his testimony, Davis admitted he helped plan the armed robbery and was present for the shooting, which contradicts some earlier statements he had made to police.

Co-defendant sentenced to 20 years in pizza deliveryman’s slaying – The Post and Courier

 

[Grummer]

smiliar thing happened here in New Zealand, the killer was a 12 year old scumbag, he is in for at least 15 years, and its the youngest convected killer in the country.
The country’s youngest killer is Bailey Junior Kurariki who took part in the fatal stabbing of 40-year-old pizza delivery man Michael Choy when he was just 12. He was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.

Read more: Youngest murderer jailed for 18 years - Story - NZ News - 3 News


NZ's youngest killer back in prison - National - NZ Herald News

Bailey Junior Kurariki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Grummer]

this sort of thing, makes me want capital punishment be returned. why keep them alive, why feed the scumbags., Better yet chuck them in , and dont feed them it would be slow , painful and righteous death to them!

 

[sonocativo]

Sad to say, I had a good friend in High School that didnt graduate with us. He started delivering Pizzas a couple weeks before school was out and someone robbed him and shot him multiple times while he was still in the car. The area I used to live and grew up in was getting pretty bad then, now it is over run by thugs. I wouldnt give anyone a second thought if they walked up to me, that they are up to no good.... always have your guard up !

 

[Lukin]

Sad to say, I had a good friend in High School that didnt graduate with us. He started delivering Pizzas a couple weeks before school was out and someone robbed him and shot him multiple times while he was still in the car. The area I used to live and grew up in was getting pretty bad then, now it is over run by thugs. I wouldnt give anyone a second thought if they walked up to me, that they are up to no good.... always have your guard up !

Which part does Festus belong in Missouri? I'm guessing somewhere near St. Louis for some reason

 

[diehardbiker]

No, I disagreed with it. Its too easy for convicts.

What I want see the most is one stays in "Alcatraz on the rockies" Style til they die naturally. "Alcatraz on the rockies" is known as ADMAX which meaning administrative maximum. Its pretty much like ultra supermax security prison where escape is next to impossible. All prisoners stays in cell 23/7, there never more than 1 prisoner coming out of cell in specific block at same time. This is to prevent from having two prisoners trying to take over the guards or assist other prisoner. Also, it is impossible for any prisoners talking with other prisoners. One remains alone 23 hours each day minimum. This kind of punishment will put one to the edge and found themselves unable to escape from that edge and waiting for death to come can beat shyt out of murderer head, (Like 100% solitary confinement).

The reason I support this is because if one takes a life away from somebody, then why do this person needs to be around with other soul?

this sort of thing, makes me want capital punishment be returned. why keep them alive, why feed the scumbags., Better yet chuck them in , and dont feed them it would be slow , painful and righteous death to them!

 

[PowerON]

See? They didn't use gun but a knife! And nobody complain. Geez