Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 25, 2014 at 4:30pm
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What should have been a routine traffic stop turned into an unjustified shooting of a citizen in Columbia, South Carolina.
Prosecutors just released dash cam footage of the incident that happened on September 4th. State Trooper Sean Groubert pulled in behind 35-year old African American Levar Jones, who had stopped at a Circle K convenience store. After Jones exited his vehicle, Groubert asked to see his license.
Sean Groubert
Jones turns around and reaches inside his vehicle for his I.D. At that point Groubert screams "get out the car," twice before firing four shots
“I just got my license. You said get my license,” Jones says. “I grabbed my license. Right there, that’s my license.”
“Put your hands behind your back,” Groubert tells him, as he walks over to cuff the innocent man.
“What did I do? What did I do, sir?” Jones asks.
Groubert asks him if he is hit.
“I think so, I can’t feel my leg," the injured man replied. "I don’t know what happened. I just grabbed my license. Why did you shoot me?”
“Well, you dove headfirst back into your car,” he said.
According to WLTX, Groubert was fired on September 19 by the South Carolina Department of Public Safety after a review of the State Law Enforcement Division report. DPS Director Leroy Smith said Groubert did not follow protocol when he shot Jones.
Sean Groubert mug shot
Groubert, 31, was arrested Wednesday, September 24, and booked into Richland County Detention Center. Bond was set at $75,000.
He's been charged with felony assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. He has since bailed out of jail.
Groubert will appear in court on October 24. He's facing up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Jones is said to be recovering from a shot to the hip.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 21, 2012 at 11:00am
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After setting records in his NFL rookie season for most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback and most passing yards for a rookie, it was expected the endorsements would start rolling in for Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton.
Under Armour beat out Nike to sign Cam to a deal worth more than $1 million a year to endorse their shoes and apparel.
Check out their first commercial which also features super producer AraabMuzik as Cam's DJ.
Cam Newton did it all this season for the NFL's Carolina Panthers. The quarterback set a rookie record with 4,051 passing yards and a QB record for rushing touchdowns with 14.
Cam enjoyed some well deserved down time on Friday (January 20) as he partied at Club Reign in Atlanta with Young Jeezy and the event's host, Common.
According to TMZ, the star player didn't even have a sip of alcohol. Instead the former Auburn Tiger drank bottled water all night.
The QB will be busy on the football field this Sunday (January 29) as he joins Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees in Honolulu, Hawaii as one of the quarterbacks on the NFC Pro Bowl team.
Check out the pics from the party below courtesy of TMZ.
The lovely Isabel Aurora was in Monroe, North Carolina last week to get an interview with Project Pat at his Club Mambo show when all hell broke loose.
All it took is for a couple of troublemakers to start running their mouths. The next thing you know chairs, fists and tables start flying.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 11, 2010 at 3:45pm
Raleigh, NC -- Rapper, Petey Pablo, was arrested Saturday morning at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
According to warrants and an airport spokeswoman, security found a gun in his luggage. Airport spokeswoman Mindy Hamlin says the 37-year-old was arrested around 6:00am after a Smith & Wesson 639 was found in his carry-on.
Pablo, whose real name is Moses Barrett III, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a stolen firearm.
According to a Wake County magistrate, Pablo was trying to catch a flight to Los Angeles for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. He posted $50,000 bond and gave the jailers some of his CDs before he left, according to jail officials.
His first court appearance is Monday.
Pablo lives in Knightdale, northeast of Raleigh. In 1993 he was arrested in Raleigh on armed robbery charges and sentenced to 14 years.
He is best known for his hit songs "Raise Up" and "Freek-a-Leek."
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Video After The JumpBENNETTSVILLE — A brawl erupted in a Marlboro County courtroom Tuesday when the family members of a slain woman attacked a man charged in her death, according to court officials.
George Anthony Cousins, 46, is charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, 42-year-old Tammy Locklear Norris, and appeared in court Tuesday morning for a bond hearing on the charges, 4th Circuit Solicitor Will Rogers said.
Just before the hearing started, two of Norris’ children lunged for Cousins.
Cousins was apparently punched in the eye during the brief scuffle, but no serious injuries were reported and the fight was broken up quickly by deputies, Rogers said.
Joshua Norris, 20, Laurinburg, N.C., and Nathaniel Dale Norris, 21, are charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and contempt of court.
Deander Locklear, 37, is charged breach of peace after authorities said he caused a disturbance outside the Marlboro County Courthouse on Tuesday, Rogers said.
Joshua and Nathaniel Norris will have to appear before 3rd Circuit Court Judge Howard King, who presided over Cousins’ bond hearing, later because it was he who held them in contempt of court. King later denied bond for Cousins’ release.
Cousins was arrested when deputies responded to the shooting in Tatum at 5 a.m. on July 17 when the suspect called 911.
Tammy Norris later died at a Charlotte hospital and the suspect’s charge was upgraded to murder.
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There's no way to know for sure if Fantasia Barrino's suicide attempt was real or a publicity stunt. But her actions following her release from the hospital call into question her true motives.
Just one day after getting out of the hospital for an aspirin overdose, the singer is seen with the married man she is accused of having an affair with. A camera crew was with them. It's believed they were being filmed for a segment on Fantasia's VH1 Behind The Music special, which happens to air on the same day her new album, 'Back To Me' is being released.
Fantasia insists the suicide attempt was real. She's quoted in a story that appears today on PEOPLE.com as saying:
"I didn't have any fight in me. I didn't care about anything. I just wanted out. At that moment, I wanted out. I wanted it to be over with – all of it, all of that [expletive]. I just sat in the closet and looked at the mirror and took all the pills in the bottle. I wanted to go to sleep and just be at peace. I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills. I was tired of people doing me wrong, constantly, over and over again, dealing with my family – my father, dealing with men and their [expletive] – I was tired. My head was hurting me. I was over it."
Maybe Fantasia's head was hurting because she is facing a possible lawsuit from Paula Cook. The wife of Antwaun Cook, the man who's been breaking Barrino's back for a hot minute now.
"[Paula Cook] has threatened via her lawyers to me to sue Fantasia," the singer's lawyer, Gena Morris, told PEOPLE.North Carolina is one of seven states that allows the "other man" or "other woman" to be sued for alienation of affection and criminal conversation.
In March a woman named Anne Lunquist was ordered to pay $9 millions dollars to Cynthia Shackelford of North Carolina for breaking up her marriage under that very law.
Fantasia and Antwuan Cook With Camera Crew One Day After Her Release From Hospital For "Overdose"
So if Fantasia wasn't faking a suicide attempt, it could be the possibility of losing everything she has motivated her to end it all or at least seek sympathy.
"I remember waking up in the hospital [and thinking], 'It didn't work, I'm still here in this hellhole. Still here with all this drama going on,'" she now says.
Fantasia better hope Paula Cook decides to take it easy on her or that "hellhole" she thinks she's been living in is going to get a whole lot hotter.
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Former "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino was hospitalized last night (August 9) in Charlotte, NC for a medication overdose according to a WCNBC report.
This comes right on the heels of news that the singer was recently named in a lawsuit by Paula Cook, claiming Barrino wrecked her marriage.
Among other things, Cook alleges Barrino made a sex tape with her husband.
On Monday, Barrino's manager, Brian Dickens released a statement to TMZ, saying Barrino was "certain that she is not responsible for the deterioration of the Cook's marriage."
The statement also went on to say, "Fantasia will weather this storm with the dignity and grace that she has exemplified throughout a life in which she has repeatedly overcome obstacles and challenges. Fantasia's faith in God, herself and family remain as strong as ever."
Right now, Barrino doesn't appear to be "weathering the storm" all that well. Hopefully she will pull through this and emerge ok.
Newberry County deputies are still trying to determine what led to a death the sheriff called a “brutal homicide” after a man was shot and then dragged behind a truck.
The coroner used fingerprints and tattoos to identify the victim as Anthony Lamont Hill, 30, of Winnsboro.
Sheriff Lee Foster said, “We were able to determine through the post mortem exam he had been shot a single time in the head. The dragging was post mortem. Regardless, it’s still a terrifically horrible thing, even though the individual was dead when he was dragged.”
Anthony Hill
Foster said Hill’s body was dragged 10.7 miles until the rope snapped.
He said, “Dragging a body for ten miles -- what would possess someone to do such a thing?”
A motorist found Hill's body in the road on Highway 176 near Highway 773 just before 5 a.m. Wednesday. Deputies said it was immediately apparent that the injuries were much more severe than those typical in a crash.
Foster said it as one of the top three worse crimes he's seen in his 30 years in law enforcement
Deputies and investigators said they followed a trail of evidence to a mobile home located on Orchard Park Drive in Newberry.
At the residence, the deputies said they saw evidence on a pickup truck parked in front of the home that linked the vehicle to the body..
Deputies said a man who was in the home ran into a backroom and refused to respond to officers.
Foster said deputies learned the man inside was possibly heavily armed, so members of the Newberry County Sheriff’s Office Critical Incident Response Team and the State Law Enforcement Division SWAT team responded to the scene.
For about three hours, negotiators tried to get the man to surrender.
Officers then fired tear gas into the residence and after a few moments, Gregory Ashton Collins, 19, of Orchard Park Trail in Newberry, came out of the home and surrendered.
While Collins did not have any weapons on him, Foster said Collins had an empty pistol holster on his side when he was arrested.
Foster said the FBI is helping with the investigation. Foster said they are looking at the homicide as a possible hate crime.
Foster said, “If you kill somebody, its hate. But it has to meet certain criteria to fall under a federal hate crime. We wanted to go ahead and get the FBI involved on the front end. We didn't want to develop information later that said this was a hate crime and then have them have to go back over it.”
Investigators said Collins and Hill may have been friends or acquaintances, and they are not sure yet of the motive for the killing.
Foster said, “Just because we know each other doesn’t mean I can’t commit a hate crime on you. That’s part of the investigation -- but we won’t rule out that it’s a hate crime because they knew each other. Socializing together -- that does not rule that out.”
Collins is charged with murder but additional charges are pending.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-888-CrimeSC.