Wisezah Buckman Murders 4 In Prison Escape

Wisezah Buckman was sentenced to death by the State of North Carolina for the murder of four people during a prison escape attempt

According to court documents Wisezah Buckman was attempting to escape from Pasquotank Correctional Institution in 2017 along with other inmates including Mikel Brady. During the attempt four prison workers would be murdered: prison sewing plant manager Veronica Darden, prison maintenance worker Geoffrey Howe and correctional officers Justin Smith and Wendy Shannon

Mikel Brady was convicted and sentenced to death

Wisezah Buckman would be convicted and sentenced to death

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Offender Number:1120630                                          
Inmate Status:ACTIVE
Probation/Parole/Post Release Status:INACTIVE
Gender:MALE
Race:BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN
Ethnic Group:NOT HISPANIC/LATINO
Birth Date:11/12/1987
Age:35
Current Location:GRANVILLE CI
 

Wisezah Buckman Case

Following a month-long trial, Wisezah Buckman, was sentenced to death in Dare County Superior Court on Nov. 2 on first degree murder charges for the killings of four Pasquotank Correctional Institution employees during a failed 2017 escape attempt.

Buckman was charged in the case along with Seth J. Frasier, Mikel Brady and Johnathan M. Monk. Other than Buckman, the only other defendant to be tried thus far is Brady, who was convicted in 2019 and sentenced to death.

According to the Coastland Times, Buckman’s defense teams plans on appealing both the verdict and the sentence.

On Nov. 3, District Attorney Jeff Cruden released the following statement.

In a trial that began on October 4, 2023, a Dare County jury yesterday returned sentences of death for defendant Wisezah Buckman in the murders of Justin Smith, Wendy Shannon and Geoffrey Howe. The same jury returned a sentence of life, without the possibility of parole in the murder of Veronica Darden. The trial was presided over by Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Jerry R. Tillett.

District attorney Jeff Cruden stated: “There are no winners in this case. The families of the victims had to relive again the brutal slayings of their loved ones, but they have been resolute from the beginning to ensure that justice is served in each case. I am especially proud of my prosecution team, Assistant District Attorney’s Kim Pellini and Alexis Massengill and Legal Assistant Hannah Gilroy. Their tireless effort, coupled with the exemplary work from the law enforcement community, ensured that the jury would have the information they needed to make this difficult decision. I commend the jurors for their willingness to serve and trust in the justice system to return the ultimate punishment for the murder of another human being.”

Wisezah Buckman News

One of four suspects charged in the deadly 2017 Pasquotank, North Carolina prison break was given the death penalty Thursday after a jury convicted him last month.

Wisezah Buckman was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder. Five years ago, Buckman and three other inmates tried to break out of the Pasquotank Correctional Institution. Four prison workers were killed after the inmates violently attacked them.

None of the inmates succeeded in escaping.

Buckman’s trial was originally planned for March 2020 but got pushed back because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Dare County court clerk tells 13News Now that Buckman was convicted in October, following a nearly month-long trial. On Thursday, he was sentenced to death for three of the murder convictions, and life without parole on the fourth conviction.

He is the second inmate to be convicted for his role in the deadly prison break attempt. Another inmate, Mikel Brady, was also sentenced to death after being found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder back in 2019.

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Mikel Brady Murders 4 In Prison Escape Attempt

Mikel Brady was sentenced to death by the State of North Carolina for the murders of four prison workers

According to court documents Mikel Brady was in prison serving a lengthy sentence for shooting a police officer when he made an escape attempt that left four prison workers dead. Mikel would murder prison sewing plant manager Veronica Darden, prison maintenance worker Geoffrey Howe and correctional officers Justin Smith and Wendy Shannon in a failed escape attempt

Mikel Brady would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Mikel Brady is currently incarcerated at ADX Florence, the US supermax prison

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MIKEL BRADY
Offender Number:1403339                                          
Inmate Status:ACTIVE
Gender:MALE
Race:WHITE
Ethnic Group:NOT HISPANIC/LATINO
Birth Date:03/11/1989
Age:34
Current Location:OUT OF STATE

Mikel Brady Case

Convicted murderer Mikel Brady is now incarcerated at the highest-security “supermax” prison in the country, District Attorney Andrew Womble said Tuesday.

Brady is currently awaiting execution for his role in the deadly prison escape attempt from the Pasquotank Correctional Institution in 2017 at the U.S. Penitentiary Florence ADX prison in Colorado.

After being sentenced to death, Brady was incarcerated on North Carolina’s Death Row at Central Prison in Raleigh. But the convicted murderer was transferred to U.S. Penitentiary Big Sandy in Inez, Kentucky, on Nov. 21, 2019, as a safety precaution.

Womble, who led the prosecution of Brady, said the convicted murderer was transferred from Big Sandy to Florence ADX last summer but that he did not know the reason for the move.

“(Brady) has been in there for a while,” Womble said. “I am very interested to find out if he had another incident with a guard. But that is just pure speculation on my part, I have no idea.”

Media reports describe Florence ADX as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies” and it currently houses such notorious criminals as Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, convicted drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Oklahoma City Federal Building bomber Terry Nichols as well as several convicted al-Qaida terrorists.

Reportedly, inmates at Florence ADX are kept in a 7 x 12-foot cell for 23 hours a day.

“Unless they are going to reopen Alcatraz, I just don’t see that it can get any worse,” Womble said. “(Brady) has federal time to serve but he ought to be sitting on death row in North Carolina, quite honestly.”

Brady was convicted on Oct. 21, 2019, in Dare County Superior Court on four counts of first-degree murder and 10 other felonies for his role in the Oct. 12, 2017 prison escape attempt at PCI in Elizabeth City.

The same jury sentenced Brady to death a week later for the killings of prison sewing plant manager Veronica Darden, prison maintenance worker Geoffrey Howe and correctional officers Justin Smith and Wendy Shannon.

Brady has appealed his death sentence and it is likely he will spend some time in the federal prison system as it will take several years for his appeals to make their way through the state court system.

The three other inmates charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the prison slayings — Wisezah Buckman, Seth Frazier and Jonathan Monk — are all awaiting trial.

Womble would like to try Buckman next but said that no trial date has been set. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a huge backlog of cases across the state. Womble would like to try Buckman in one of the seven counties in the First Judicial District but said the trial could be moved outside the district.

“We are trying to schedule any one of the next three as fast as possible,” Womble said.

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