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Levi Norwood Murders 2 In Virginia

Levi Norwood was a seventeen year old teen killer from Virginia who would murder his mother and brother

According to court documents Levi Norwood would fatally shoot his mother Jennifer Norwood and his six year old brother Wyatt Norwood. Levi would attempt to murder his father Joshua Norwood however he would miss. Joshua Norwood would commit suicide two months later

Levi Norwood would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison however is eligible for parole after twenty years

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Personal Information Leviathan Henry Norwood Alias: Levi Norwood

Not Available Age/Race/Sex

20/White/Male

Location Wallens Ridge State Prison

Inmate I.D.# 2098439

Release Date Single Life Sentence

Levi Norwood Case

Levi Norwood has been sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years for the 2020 Valentine’s Day murders of his mother and 6-year-old brother in Fauquier County.

In August, Norwood pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of his mother, Jennifer, and a reduced charge of second-degree murder in the death of his brother, Wyatt.

Under Virginia law, Norwood, who was 17 at the time of the crimes, will be eligible for parole after 20 years, under Virginia’s recent law prohibiting life in prison with no chance of parole for juveniles.

During sentencing, prosecutors played a 70-minute clip recorded in a holding cell, after Norwood had been arrested by police in Durham, North Carolina. Sitting by himself, Norwood held a quiet monologue, on a variety of topics — often speaking about his girlfriend.

Norwood’s public defender, Ryan Ruzic, told Circuit Court Judge James Fisher that his client had been physically abused by his father, who was also shot and wounded by Norwood.

Ruzic said Norwood’s father told him “he’d kill him if he ever dated a Black girl.” Norwood was dating a Black teen at the time of the shooting.

Fauquier County Commonwealth’s Attorney Scott Hook told Fisher, “This is about a girl,” and that Norwood was angry that his father was trying to prevent him from dating his girlfriend.

”Mom and dad wanted to remove [the girlfriend], so they had to go,” said Hook, repeating what Norwood said on hard-to-hear video. “I killed my brother and mother to punish my dad.”

Hook told Fisher that claims Norwood’s father, Joshua, was abusive and racist only surfaced after Norwood was arrested

In his closing statements, Hook read Norwood’s 17th birthday card, in which both parents expressed pride and love for their son.

Joshua Norwood was found dead in the family’s home in April 2020, an apparent suicide.

When asked if he wanted to say anything before sentencing, Levi Norwood declined.

Fisher sentenced Norwood above the sentencing guideline recommendation of 32 years: “I believe Mr. Norwood is a danger to himself, others, and society, and that would continue.

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Thomas Porter Murders Police Officer In Virginia

Thomas Porter was a man from Virginia when he would murder a police officer and would be sentenced to death

According to court documents Thomas Porter was involved in a loud argument with his girlfriend when Officer Reaves would come to investigate. The two parties would meet in the parking lot and Porter would pull out a gun and fatally shoot the Officer three times

Thomas Porter would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death however Virginia would end capital punishment in 2021 and Porter would be resentencced to life without parole

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Thomas Porter is incarcerated at Red Onion State Prison

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Thomas Porter is serving a life sentence

Thomas Porter Case

At approximately 3:30 p.m. on October 28, 2005, Thomas Porter and Reginald Copeland traveled in Porter’s Jeep to the Park Place apartment complex located at 2715 DeBree Avenue in the City of Norfolk to inquire about purchasing marijuana. Porter was carrying a concealed, nine-millimeter Jennings semi-automatic pistol. The two men entered the apartment of Valorie Arrington, where several people were present, including Valorie and her daughters, Latoria and Latifa; Valorie’s cousins, Monica Dickens and April Phillips; Valorie’s sister, Monique Arrington, also known as Monika; and Monique’s daughter, Lamia.

Once inside, Thomas Porter began arguing with the women, brandishing his gun, and threatening that he might shoot one of them if provoked. Copeland left the residence, but Porter remained behind, locking the door so Copeland could not reenter. After being locked out of Valorie’s apartment, Copeland walked away from the apartment complex and happened upon three uniformed police officers a block away, including Norfolk Police Officer Stanley Reaves. Copeland reported Porter’s behavior to Officer Reaves and directed him to Valorie’s apartment.

Officer Reaves drove his police cruiser to the front curb of the apartment building, parked the car, and walked across the grass towards the sidewalk leading from the street to the apartment door. As Officer Reaves approached the apartment, Thomas Porter left Valorie’s apartment and began walking away. Officer Reaves confronted Porter, grabbed Porter’s left arm, and instructed him to take his hands out of his pockets. Porter then drew his concealed weapon from his pocket and fired three times, killing Officer Reaves. Porter took Officer Reaves’ service pistol and then fled in his Jeep.

Several eyewitnesses, along with Porter, testified at trial and provided various descriptions of the events leading up to and immediately following Officer Reaves’ death. Copeland testified that he was standing in a parking lot on the afternoon of Officer Reaves’ death when Porter approached him. They decided to get into a Jeep Grand Cherokee that Porter was driving and go to Valorie’s apartment to purchase marijuana.

Copeland testified that he and Thomas Porter entered Valorie’s apartment because she was Copeland’s friend and because he had smoked marijuana with her before. Once inside, they met Valorie and the other women who informed Copeland and Porter that they did not have any marijuana. The group then talked about various subjects, including a child’s birthday party, but at some point in the conversation Porter began arguing with one of the women.

Copeland “didn’t know what to do” but left the apartment and “ran down [to the next block] and told [Officer Reaves, ‘]Look, there is a man up in the house with some girls, and he shouldn’t be in there.’ ” Copeland described the apartment building to Officer Reaves, and Officer Reaves drove his patrol car to the building with Copeland “running behind” the vehicle. Officer Reaves arrived at the building before Copeland, and as Copeland approached he saw “Officer Reaves in the car and Porter was coming out [of] the building.” Copeland identified Porter to Officer Reaves, and Officer Reaves instructed Copeland to stay back and then approached Porter. Moments later, Porter and Officer Reaves disappeared from Copeland’s viewpoint behind a parked van, but Copeland “heard gunshots and started running,” and he “ran and told the [other] officers what happened.”

Melvin Spruill, Jr., owner of the apartment complex, testified that he was picking up trash in the yard, when he “noticed a police car sitting on the corner” parked directly behind his van. Spruill entered his van and was preparing to leave when he noticed Officer Reaves talking with Thomas Porter. “[O]ut of the corner of [his] eye” Spruill saw Porter’s hands drop down, raise up again with a gun, and then he heard a gunshot. Spruill ducked and “heard another shot ․ [, m]aybe two shots,” and then saw Porter run away. Spruill testified that he never saw Officer Reaves holding a gun, nor did he hear arguing between the two men before Porter shot Officer Reaves.

Simone Coleman testified that she was walking on the sidewalk near the apartment complex when she saw Officer Reaves’ patrol car arrive. Coleman watched as Officer Reaves stepped out of his patrol car, and she saw Porter walking across the grass from the apartment, coming to “within a few feet” of her. She testified that Porter’s hands were “[i]n his pockets” as Coleman passed by, and she “was looking back” to watch the confrontation between Officer Reaves and Porter. Coleman heard Officer Reaves instruct Porter to “take his hands out of his pockets,” and then Officer Reaves “ grabbed Mr. Porter’s left arm.” Coleman testified that Officer Reaves “didn’t have a gun out,” and that Porter, in response to Officer Reaves grabbing his arm, pulled a gun out of his pocket, pointed the gun at Officer Reaves’ head, and pulled the trigger. Coleman watched Officer Reaves collapse to the ground, and she testified that Porter then shot Officer Reaves two more times. Coleman identified Thomas Porter in court as the man who killed Officer Reaves.

Selethia Anderson, who lived across the street from the apartment complex, was sitting on her front porch when she saw Officer Reaves arrive. Anderson testified that she watched Officer Reaves exit his vehicle and walk towards Porter as Porter was leaving the apartment complex. She described how Officer Reaves confronted Porter and “used his right hand to grab [Porter’s] left hand,” and then Thomas Porter immediately reached into his hoodie pocket with his right hand, pulled out a gun, and shot Officer Reaves in the head. Anderson testified that after Officer Reaves fell, Porter shot him twice more “between the back of the head and neck.” According to Anderson, Porter knelt over Officer Reaves’ body after the shooting, and when Porter left the scene, he was carrying a “bigger gun” than the one he had used to shoot Officer Reaves. Anderson identified Porter in court as the man who shot Officer Reaves.

Valorie testified that she was in her apartment that afternoon when Copeland arrived with Thomas Porter. According to Valorie, the two men “came for some marijuana” but the women did not have any, and asked the men to leave. Copeland agreed to leave, but Thomas Porter stayed inside, locked the door and kept Copeland outside. Valorie testified that she felt scared because Porter had “locked us in our own house.” Valorie asked Porter why his hands were in his sweatshirt pocket, and Porter responded by pulling out his gun and asking, “[s]o are you going to give me the bag of weed or what?” Valorie testified that she uttered a prayer, and when Porter realized she was a Muslim, he told the women that they were “lucky” and he put away the gun. When Thomas Porter realized a police car had arrived, he left the apartment and ran “like some horses going down the stairs.” Moments later, Valorie heard gunshots.

Latoria’s testimony confirmed that Porter entered Valorie’s apartment along with Copeland, and that Copeland left the apartment but Thomas Porter remained inside, locking the door. Latoria testified that Porter threatened that he would “get to clapping” if any of the women made a sudden move, and she explained that “clapping” was a term for “shooting.” She testified that she looked out the window, noticed Officer Reaves arrive in his patrol car, and asked, “Why is Reggie [Copeland] talking to the police officer?” Latoria testified that Thomas Porter then immediately exited the apartment, and she watched through the window as Officer Reaves approached Porter, grabbed Porter’s arm, and then Porter “reach[ed] into his right pocket and he pull[ed] out his gun and he shot him.” Latoria testified that Officer Reaves did not have a weapon drawn when Porter shot him.

Dickens’ testimony confirmed Valorie’s and Latoria’s accounts of the confrontation in Valorie’s apartment between Thomas Porter and the women. Dickens testified that Porter threatened to “get to clapping” if any of the women began “talking smack.” Dickens explained that she “was just real afraid right then for my whole family.” Dickens testified that Porter left the apartment immediately when he learned that a police car had arrived, and she went to the window to watch what was happening. Dickens watched Officer Reaves approach Porter, grab Porter’s arm, and then Thomas Porter “put the gun to his head” and shot Officer Reaves.⁴

Monika also testified that Porter entered Valorie’s apartment with Copeland but stayed inside and locked the door after Copeland left. Monika confirmed that Porter threatened to “get it clapping in here with all y’all” and explained that “ ‘[c]lapping’ means you shoot somebody.” Monika testified that when Porter learned that a police vehicle had arrived outside, he left the apartment immediately and began walking away. Monika testified that she watched out the window as “[t]he police officer grabbed Porter’s arm,” and Porter “pulled the gun out of his pocket and put it to [Officer Reaves’] forehead,” and pulled the trigger. Monika testified that Officer Reaves “never drew his weapon. He got out of his car and walked over to Porter as if he just wanted to talk to him and that was it.”

Robert Vontoure, a Navy seaman who lived across the street from where the shooting occurred, testified that he arrived home from work and noticed a Jeep which he did not recognize parked outside his home. Vontoure explained that he was in his home, “sitting there watching TV and ․ heard gunshots.” Vontoure looked outside the window “and saw a gentleman coming running across our lawn, jump into the Jeep and leave.” Vontoure identified Porter in court as the man who fled the scene in the Jeep vehicle.

After killing Officer Reaves, Porter traveled to New York City where he was apprehended one month later in White Plains, New York. The murder weapon was found in his possession at the time of his arrest. Officer Reaves’ gun was eventually located in Yonkers, New York.

The autopsy report revealed that Officer Reaves suffered three close-range wounds to his head: one to the forehead, one to the left back of the head, and a flesh wound near the right ear. “The cause of death was two separate close range gunshot wounds to the head.”

Thomas Porter did not dispute that he shot Officer Reaves, but his version of the events differed from that of the eyewitnesses. Porter testified in his own defense that he drove to Valorie’s apartment with Copeland “[t]o get a bag of marijuana” because Copeland was his “means of getting marijuana.” Porter parked the vehicle outside the apartment, and he “grabbed the gun out of the glove compartment box” before leaving the vehicle “[b]ecause the area ․ is a bad area.” Porter testified that he gave Copeland $10 to purchase marijuana, and that he waited outside while Copeland went inside to make the purchase.

Thomas Porter testified that after a few minutes had passed, Copeland emerged from an upstairs apartment and invited him inside. Porter confirmed that Copeland left the apartment, but Porter denied locking the door and keeping Copeland outside. Porter also denied brandishing his gun inside the apartment or making a statement about shooting any of the women. Thomas Porter claimed that he left the apartment when he learned from the women that Copeland had not paid them for marijuana, and he denied that any of the women knew about Officer Reaves’ arrival because “[w]asn’t nobody even looking out the window.”

Thomas Porter testified that he left the apartment and was walking to his vehicle “when Officer Reaves stepped in front of me and grabbed me.” Thomas Porter and his counsel then had the following exchange:

Q. Did anything else happen when he did that?

A. Yes. I seen him pulling his gun.

Q. What do you mean, you saw him pulling his gun?

A. Well, when he grabbed me with his left arm on my left arm, we were still standing face to face. I seen him pulling his gun. That’s when I put my hands up in the air and backed up, looking at him, like, “What [are] you doing?”

Q. You just described that you put your hands up in the air?

A. Yes.

Q. And at that point, what happened?

A. Well, I got my hands in the air when he finally gets the gun out and point it at me. I take my hands down and pull my gun and started shooting.

Q. Why did you do that, Mr. Porter?

A. Because I was scared. I thought he was going to kill me because he looked angry at the time, so I was just worried for my safety.

Porter testified on direct examination that he could not remember how many times he pulled the trigger, but after he shot Officer Reaves, he bent down, picked up Officer Reaves’ gun and ran. Porter explained that he left the scene because he “was scared” because he realized he “just killed an officer.”

Porter testified repeatedly on cross-examination that he “never wanted to kill anybody” but he also admitted that he “pulled out the gun” and “shot [Officer Reaves] in the forehead.” Porter and opposing counsel had this exchange on cross-examination:

Q. You meant to hit Stanley Reaves with a bullet, didn’t you?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. All right. And you took aim-therefore, you took aim at him, correct?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. You took aim at a part of his body, correct?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. And the part of his body that you took aim at and then before pulling the trigger from less than six inches away was directly into his forehead, correct?

A. Yes, sir.

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Q. And you agree that you knew you were aiming at his head, correct?

A. Yes, sir.

Porter also had this exchange on cross-examination:

Q. You admit that you ․ pulled your gun out?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. And that you shot him in the head?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. You admit that you stole his gun?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. So according to your version of events, you claim that Officer Reaves pulled his gun, correct?

A. Yes.

Q. And the only thing about the crime that’s alleged you committed, the capital murder of Officer Stanley Reaves, using a gun to commit that murder and stealing Officer Reaves’ gun, the only part of the crime that we’re here that you’re on trial for that you dispute, really, is the reason why you shot Officer Reaves; is that correct?

A. Yes.

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Anthony Juniper Murders 4 In Virginia

Anthony Juniper is a man from Virginia who would murder four people including two children and would be sentenced to death

According to court documents Anthony Juniper would murder Keshia Stephens; her brother Rueben Harrison III; and two of her daughters, Nykia Stephens, 4; and Shearyia Stephens, 2.

Apparently the murders took place after Keshia Stephens would break up with him

Anthony Juniper was sentenced to death however Virginia would get rid of the death penalty in 2021 so he was resentencced to life in prison without parole

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Anthony Juniper is incarcerated at Wallens Ridge State Prison

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Anthony Juniper is serving multiple life sentences

Anthony Juniper Case

On the afternoon of January 16, 2004, Keshia Stephens, her younger brother Rueben Harrison, III,³ and two of Keshia’s daughters, Nykia Stephens and Shearyia Stephens,⁴ were killed in Keshia’s apartment in the City of Norfolk. When police arrived, they found that the door to Keshia’s apartment had been forcibly opened. All four victims were discovered in the master bedroom; each had died as a result of gunshot wounds.

Keshia was stabbed through her abdomen, shot three times, and grazed by a fourth bullet. One bullet went through her intestine, kidney, and spine, causing spinal shock and leg paralysis. Another bullet also passed through her intestines and then proceeded to her abdominal aorta and inferior vena cava, causing extensive bleeding.

The stab wound did not fatally wound Keshia, but tore through the muscle of her abdominal wall. There was a great deal of blood accompanying the wound, however, which led the medical examiner performing the autopsy to conclude that the stab wound was probably the first injury inflicted on Keshia. The stab wound was consistent with a wound that would have been caused by the knife blade found at the scene of the crime.

Two-year old Shearyia was shot four times while in her mother’s arms. Two bullets entered Shearyia’s body in the shin of her left leg, fractured the bone, and exited through her calf. A third bullet entered and exited Shearyia’s body through her thigh. The fourth bullet entered the crown of her head and passed through her brain, causing bone fragments to chip off.

Rueben Harrison was shot three times. One bullet struck his pelvic bone, and ricocheted through his body into his abdomen, liver, heart and lung, finally coming to rest in his armpit. A second bullet hit his hip bone, and exited through the front of his leg. A third bullet broke his femur bone, and exited his body at his front thigh. The medical examiner testified that the broken bones would have caused excruciating pain and immediately disabled Rueben.

Four-year old Nykia was shot one time behind her left ear. The bullet moved through her skull and cerebellum to the base of her skull, into her esophagus and trachea, causing substantial damage and bleeding, before exiting her chest. The medical examiner testified that the bullet’s path was consistent with Nykia ducking her head and body toward the shooter prior to being shot. In addition, the presence of blood in Nykia’s lungs indicated that she had taken one or two breaths between being shot and dying. Her body was found lying on top of her uncle’s body.

Evidence presented at trial showed that Anthony Juniper and Keshia had been involved in an on-again, off-again tumultuous relationship for approximately two years. On the morning of the shootings, Anthony Juniper telephoned his friend, Renee Rashid, from his mother’s house where he was living at the time. Juniper asked Rashid to drive him to Keshia’s apartment so that he could retrieve some of his belongings. A short time later Rashid picked up Juniper at his mother’s house and drove him to Keshia’s apartment.

Both Anthony Juniper and Rashid entered Keshia’s apartment, which was on the second floor of the apartment building. Rashid saw four individuals in the apartment: Keshia, Rueben, who was asleep on the couch, and two of Keshia’s children, Nykia and Shearyia, who were preparing to take a bath. After helping Juniper disconnect a DVD player, Rashid was talking to the two girls, but overheard Juniper and Keshia arguing in another room. Keshia repeatedly made comments such as, “[T]here’s nobody but you. I told you I’m not seeing anybody but you.”

After Rashid announced that she was leaving, Anthony Juniper followed her to the door of the apartment. Hearing the door shut, Rashid assumed Juniper was behind her as she began to descend the apartment building steps. But as she was going down the stairway outside Keshia’s apartment, Rashid heard a “loud boom” that she described as “sound[ing] like the door being kicked in.” Not stopping to look behind her, Rashid hurried to her car. While waiting in her car outside the apartment, Rashid heard Keshia crying and repeating her statement that she was not seeing anyone but Juniper. Rashid sounded her horn to alert Juniper that she wanted to leave. Juniper yelled at Rashid to “Go ahead” so she began to drive away. As she drove away from the apartment she heard four “booms,” which she described as “sound[ing] like gunshots.”

Rashid did not stop, but proceeded to Juniper’s mother’s house, and expressed her concern that Juniper had remained at Keshia’s apartment. Juniper’s friend, Keon Murray, was there when Rashid arrived. Juniper called his mother’s house and Murray talked to him on the telephone. Murray observed that Anthony Juniper was calling from Keshia’s apartment because the Caller ID number matched Keshia’s telephone number. Juniper told Murray that “They gone,” and that Keshia’s apartment was surrounded. He also stated that he “killed them,” although he did not name particular individuals.

Murray then called Tyrone Mings, a friend who lived near Keshia’s apartment building, and asked him to check Keshia’s apartment. Mings walked to the apartment and observed that the front door appeared to have been kicked in. Upon entering Keshia’s apartment, Mings testified that he saw Juniper standing in the living room with a white substance on his face and holding an automatic pistol. When Mings asked Anthony Juniper about Keshia, Anthony Juniper directed Mings to the back of the apartment. Upon entering the master bedroom, Mings saw Rueben and a young girl lying on the bed. Mings did not see Keshia and asked Juniper where she was. Juniper told Mings she was “between the bed and the dresser.” Mings returned to the bedroom and called to the people in the room, but no one answered. Mings departed Keshia’s apartment, leaving Juniper in the living room, still holding the pistol. Upon returning to his apartment, Mings called the police.

In the meantime, Rashid and Murray picked up Juniper’s cousin (“Little John”) and drove to Keshia’s apartment. Murray and Little John went to look for Juniper, while Rashid stayed in the car. They returned to the car with Juniper, who sat in the front passenger seat next to Rashid, the driver. Rashid described Juniper as being “jittery” and “breathing real hard.” Anthony Juniper kept looking in the mirrors, saying, “they’re behind us” throughout the car ride. Murray stated that Juniper “look[ed] nervous,” “[l]ike he was in shock,” and that he had a powdery substance like cocaine on his face. Juniper held a black and chrome automatic pistol in his right hand, resting on his lap.

The police first arrived at Keshia’s apartment complex at 12:50 p.m., after receiving a telephone call reporting possible gunshots. The responding officer walked around the apartment building and spoke with two residents, but did not go up the stairway to Keshia’s apartment. After conferring with a second police officer who had arrived on scene, both officers left the apartment complex believing the call to have been a false report.

Mings observed the officers leave and called the police a second time. Near 2:20 p.m. police officers again arrived at the apartment complex and this time went up the stairway to Keshia’s apartment. Officer W.G. Snyder testified the “whole center part of the door was completely knocked ․ inward into the apartment, and wooden debris from the door was lying inside the apartment.” The officers entered the apartment, and observed Nykia’s body lying across Rueben on the bed in the master bedroom. They then observed Shearyia’s body lying across Keshia’s body on the floor beside the bed. The officers received no response from any of them.

Police investigators recovered a cigarette butt from the floor by the front door of Keshia’s apartment. From the master bedroom where the bodies were located, investigators recovered a knife blade, a knife handle, and shell casings. Shell casings were also found in a bathroom adjoining the master bedroom.

A firearm and toolmark examinations expert testified that bullet casings found in the apartment and the bullets recovered from the victims’ bodies were fired from a single nine-millimeter, Luger semi-automatic pistol.⁵ The expert also analyzed the recovered knife blade and knife handle and determined that the blade and handle were originally joined.

A latent fingerprint expert testified a fingerprint found on the knife blade had “a minimum of 23 matching characteristics” to Juniper’s right thumbprint. In addition, an expert in forensic serology and DNA analysis testified that Juniper’s DNA profile matched DNA from the knife handle ⁶ and the cigarette butt.⁷

The police obtained warrants for Juniper’s arrest and he surrendered voluntarily on January 26, 2005. While incarcerated at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail awaiting trial, Anthony Juniper admitted to a fellow inmate, Ernest Smith, that he committed the murders. Smith testified that while the two were together in the medical pod at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail, Anthony Juniper confessed to shooting the four victims. Smith testified that Anthony Juniper told him that he had killed the children because “he didn’t want to leave any witnesses at the scene of the crime.”

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David Eisenhauer Murders 13 Year Old Girl

David Eisenhauer was an eighteen year old that would murder a thirteen year old girl in Virginia

According to court documents David Eisenhauer thought that he had got thirteen year old Nicole Lovell pregnant. He would tell the arresting officers that he had drank a lot and blacked out so could not remember whether or not he had sex with Nicole. Regardless David would stab Nicole repeatedly causing her death. The body of Nicole Lovell would be found days later

David Eisenhauer would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to fifty years in prison

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A former student and track star at Yakima’s Riverside Christian School who was convicted of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old girl was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years in prison.

David Eisenhauer was an 18-year-old freshman engineering student when he developed a relationship with Nicole Lovell, a seventh-grade student from Blacksburg, Va.

Prosecutor Mary Pettitt said Eisenhauer and Lovell communicated online for months before meeting at least once in person. Pettitt said they met again in January 2016, when Eisenhauer lured Lovell out of her family’s apartment with the promise of a “secret date,” then killed her because he was afraid she would expose their relationship

Before the sentence was handed down by Judge Robert Turk, Eisenhauer apologized.

“I am sorry for the pain my actions have caused Nicole Lovell and her family. It is my deepest regret, and I’m aware my actions have serious consequences. Nothing can ever undo what was done, and for that I’m deeply, sincerely and forever sorry,” he said.

Prosecutors asked for a life sentence, while Eisenhauer’s lawyers asked for something within sentencing guidelines that call for a prison term of between about 24 years and nearly 40 years.

Natalie Keepers, a friend of Eisenhauer’s whom prosecutors have identified as his accomplice, is scheduled to stand trial in September on charges of being an accessory before the fact and concealing a body. Prosecutors have said that Keepers told police Eisenhauer told her he feared Lovell could be pregnant. Keepers said Eisenhauer told her he may have had sex with Lovell at a party, but couldn’t remember because he blacked out and later woke up in a ditch.

Eisenhauer pleaded no contest to first-degree murder, abduction and concealing a body in Lovell’s death.

Before the sentence was imposed, Lovell’s parents described how their daughter’s killing has affected them.

Her father, David Lovell, said he’s been diagnosed with severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder since his daughter’s death.

“There is nothing that will happen in this courtroom that will fix it,” he said.

Lovell’s mother, Tami Weeks-Dowdy, said she sees a grief counselor and still has trouble sleeping. She said she celebrated what would have been her daughter’s 16th birthday last month at her gravesite.

Eisenhauer’s lawyers called two teachers and a former classmate of his from Yakima, where he lived before moving to Columbia, Md., with his family.

Both teachers from Riverside Christian School said he was a smart and kind student but appeared to have trouble following social cues.

Kathryn Anne Stoothoff, who taught Eisenhauer in a 10th-grade English class and a bible class, said he was bright but “needed clear rules to be successful.” She said he would “follow someone off a cliff if they convinced him it was the right thing to do.”

“David was a very fine student and a very bright mind, and he needed very clear rules to be successful,” she said. “Outside of that clear structured environment, David found it difficult to know what to do. He didn’t pick up on the normal social cues that everyone else just seemed to know.”

Lovell’s body was found just over the state line in North Carolina. A medical examiner testified that she had 14 stab wounds, including a lethal wound to her neck. Lovell was not pregnant.

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Frank Coppola Executed For Robbery Murder

Frank Coppola was executed by the State of Virginia for a murder committed during a robbery

According to court documents Frank Coppola, who was a police officer at the time, would attempt to rob a business and in the process would beat a woman to death

Frank Coppola would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Coppola would be executed on August 11, 1982 by way of the electric chair. During the execution Frank head and leg would catch on fire

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Frank Coppola Case

Convicted murderer Frank Coppola, a former policeman who preferred death to Death Row, went calmly to his execution Tuesday night in Virginia’s electric chair saying, ‘take care of my family, my children.’

Coppola, who maintained his innocence but said he wanted to be executed to spare his family further embarrassment, died at 11:27 p.m. EDT, state corrections director Ray Procunier said.

Coppola became the fifth convict executed in the United States since 1976 when the Supreme Court lifted the ban on capital punishment and the first to die in Virginia’s electric chair in 20 years.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-2 ruling announced 30 minutes before Coppola’s scheduled 11 p.m. EDT execution, cleared the way for Coppola, 38, to die as he requested in a letter he sent Tuesday to Chief Justice Warren Burger. The high court’s ruling overturned a mid-afternoon stay by a federal appeals court judge.

‘I, Frank J. Coppola, do hereby … seek relief through the U.S. Supreme Court so as to bring about my execution this date,’ Coppola said in the letter.

Through the evening, about 40 curiousity seekers and some people who said they came to pray for Coppola’s soul stood against a wall across from the state Penitentiary.

On a hot, muggy night, many of the onlookers simply stood and talked quietly among themselves.

‘I just came out because it’s something I feel strongly about,’ said James Fralin, 34, a construction worker. ‘This sign says all you can say about it,’ he continued, pointing to a hand-lettered placard bearing the words ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill. There are no exceptions.’

Procunier, who witnessed the execution, said, ‘Pursuant to an order by the Circuit Court of Newport News, Frank J. Coppola was executed at 11:27 p.m. in the manner prescribed by law. Out of respect for the deceased’s family, I will make no further comment on the procedure.’

Procunier was asked if Coppola had any final words and what he had for his last meal, but the corrections chief did not comment.

ABC’s ‘Nightline’ reported that Joe Engle, of the Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons, walked With Coppola to the death ward. The prison activist told ABC that Coppola was calm, saying to him, ‘I love you. Please take care of my family, my children.’

Coppola was convicted of beating a Newport News woman to death in 1978 during a robbery in an attempt to make her tell where money was hidden in her home.

Gov. Charles Robb said, ‘The decision not to interfere with the order of the circuit court of Newport News was the most difficult and emotionally draining decision I have had to make as governor of Virginia.

‘While I respect the beliefs and convictions of those who oppose capital punishment under any and all circumstances, the law of the Commonwealth provides for that penalty under certain, very limited circumstances, and I support the law.’

High-intensity lights from television cameras cast eerie shadows on the white-walled Penitentiary building about 2 miles from the State Capitol.

Warden James Mitchell read the execution order to Coppola, whose head was shaved a shaved head and who wore a Fu Manchu moustache, and then escorted him to the death chamber 30 paces from his cell.

Mitchell inserted a key in a slot in the death chamber, which opened the current and at the same time activated a signal to the executioner to push a button, sending two 55-second bursts of 2,400 volts through Coppola’s body.

At about 11:50 p.m., a single-siren wail pierced the air at the Penitentiary. It was an ambulance taking Coppola’s body to the state medical examiner’s office, said corrections spokesman Gil Miller.

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