Page 1 of 3 123 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 28

Thread: Brice Jamar Rhodes Sentenced to LWOP in 2016 KY Triple Murder

  1. #1
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875

    Brice Jamar Rhodes Sentenced to LWOP in 2016 KY Triple Murder


    Larry Ordway, 14, and his half-brother Maurice "Reece" Gordon, 16



    Brice Rhodes AKA ganster rapper "Rambo"


    June 3, 2016

    Cop: Teens' killer feared they'd 'snitch'

    By Beth Warren
    The Courier-Journal

    Brice Rhodes lured two brothers, 14 and 16, to their deaths so they couldn't "snitch" to police after seeing him fatally shoot a man weeks earlier, a detective told a judge Friday.

    Honor student Larry Ordway, 14, and his half-brother Maurice "Reece" Gordon, 16, once thought 25-year-old Rhodes was going to make them famous after they appeared in his rap video but then they began to fear him, relatives said.

    Both teens witnessed Rhodes fatally shoot a man May 4, Louisville Metro Police Det. Aaron Tinelli testified during a preliminary hearing on Friday in Jefferson County District Court. But when Rhodes and two other teens, 15 and 17, appeared at the family's doorstep the night of May 21, Larry and Reece left with them – the last time they were seen alive, Tinelli said.

    Rhodes worried the brothers might become witnesses against him in the death of Christopher Jones, 40, so he drove them from their family's Beechmont neighborhood to a Clifton Heights apartment he and his mother shared in the 700 block of North Hite Avenue off Brownsboro Road, near Clifton Heights Christian Church, the detective testified.

    There, Rhodes and his accomplices stabbed the brothers to death before putting their bodies in a different car and driving them to an abandoned house in the West End, according to Tinelli's testimony.

    The teens' bodies were dumped in a backyard in the 4000 block of River Park Drive before someone tried to set them ablaze. The detective said a witness saw someone trying to start a fire, but it was the wee hours of May 22 so it wasn't possible to identify the culprit in the darkness.

    The victims' frantic mother, Elizabeth Wren, called one of her sons to check on them. They were already dead, police said, but someone answered the phone and promised to have Larry or Reece call home soon.

    Rhodes gave a statement to investigators after his arrest but denied having anything to do with the slayings.

    Rhodes did say he "was probably there on the night this occurred in the vicinity of the victims' home," Tinelli testified.

    Tinelli, the lead detective in the double murder, said investigators found blood and other physical evidence inside Rhodes' apartment and car and that an eyewitness saw someone who looked like Rhodes at a dumpster engulfed in flames May 22. Investigators found blood and trace evidence, shoes and clothing inside the dumpster - items that are being tested and are believed to be a link to the victims, Tinelli testified. That includes a blanket - part found in the dumpster and part left with the bodies, he said.

    The detective testified Rhodes' car and apartment appeared to have been cleaned with bleach, but police found blood in both. One of the cars' backseats was missing when police investigated, and a backseat was discovered at the site of the dumpster fire. Forensic tests on the backseat and other items are pending.

    "All of this evidence was not only all-encompassing, but it showed a path, pattern of Mr. Rhodes," Tinelli told District Court Judge Amber Wolf, who found probable cause that Rhodes committed both murders along with the murder of Christopher Jones.

    Several courthouse observers went to court Friday curious to see how Rhodes would behave following his defiance on Monday, when he allegedly spat on Brendan McLeod, his former attorney, in a holding cell adjacent to the courtroom and then shouted an insult and threat at McLeod in court.

    On Friday, Rhodes remained calm and attentive, sometimes looking at the floor or witnesses and other times smiling.

    He told the judge on Monday he wants to hire his own attorney, but he has not yet paid to retain private counsel. He was flanked Friday by two public defenders, who are temporarily representing him.

    Aaron Dyke asked the judge to reduce his bond in half - from a $2 million cash bond. The judge declined.

    The judge also found probable cause Rhodes committed two unrelated domestic violence assaults, one incident involving his mother in 2014 and one from 2015 involving his former girlfriend, the mother of Rhodes' 1-year-old. Rhodes was on probation for two earlier domestic violence convictions, so the judge revoked the probation on both, ordering him to serve the original sentences of 180 days for one and 90 days for the other.

    Wolf ordered the time to be served consecutively, before he would be eligible for release on bond.

    Prosecutors are scheduled to present the case against Rhodes to a grand jury July 22.

    Within two days of the brothers' murders, members of Louisville police's Ninth Mobile Division arrested Rhodes on a fugitive warrant for a pending assault case in Indiana. He is due back in a Louisville courtroom next week in that case.

    http://www.courier-journal.com/story...ourt/85212330/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  2. #2
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    September 1, 2016

    Brice Rhodes pleads not guilty to three counts of murder

    By Sharon Yoo
    raycomgroup.worldnow.com

    LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - After being indicted by a grand jury the man charged with killing one man and two teen brothers was arraigned in Jefferson Circuit Court. Brice Rhodes pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder.

    After a disagreement with his former attorney from the last time he appeared in court, Rhodes appeared in court represented by public defenders. Rhodes is charged with killing brothers, Larry Ordway and Maurice Gordon.

    The teens were found stabbed and burned to death at an abandoned home off River Park drive in May - all this after the two allegedly witnessed Rhodes kill another man, Christopher Jones, earlier that month.

    If found guilty, Rhodes could face the death penalty.

    His bond still remains at $2 million and he is due back in court on September 20.

    http://raycomgroup.worldnow.com/stor...er?config=H264
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  3. #3
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    Accused killer spits on a man while leaving court

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Brice Rhodes was facing a new charge Thursday of assaulting an inmate at metro corrections.

    Rhodes is also accused of spitting on a man while leaving the courtroom.

    He is already accused of killing three people in two separate incidents.

    Christopher Jones was shot on 41st Street in May.

    And 16-year-old Maurice Gordon, and 14-year-old Larry Ordway were stabbed and their bodies set on fire on River Park Drive about two weeks later.

    Rhodes faces multiple charges including three counts of murder and abuse of a corpse in those cases.

    http://www.wlky.com/news/Accused-kil...court/41684810
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  4. #4
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    Cops: Triple-murder suspect threatened judge

    By Beth Warren
    The Courier-Journal

    Triple-murder suspect Brice Rhodes, who spat on his attorney and another inmate, is now charged with threatening to kill a judge and her family.

    Deputies took extra precautions, strapping Brice Rhodes in a restraint chair by his wrists and ankles, covering his mouth with a spit mask and wheeling him into court for a Friday afternoon arraignment, yet he still managed to get into more trouble when he repeatedly threatened to track down the judge and kill her and her family, shouting: "What, you don't think that we can't find out where you live at?"

    As extra deputies stood nearby, along with three corrections officers wearing gloves, Rhodes — upset about the restraints and mask — continued his rant: "I don't give a (expletive). You got family. I'll be out."

    That netted Rhodes additional charges of terroristic threatening and intimidating a participant in the legal process.

    The victim, District Court Judge Amber Wolf, cut Rhodes some slack during a previous hearing in June on the murder charges when he pulled back as deputies were escorting him from the courtroom and shouted a question at her about his bond. The judge could have ordered him returned to the defense table to address her properly, but she answered his question without an admonishment. Wolf recently gained national attention for showing compassion to two defendants after video of her actions in court in two unrelated cases went viral.

    In the latest incident, Rhodes was in Wolf's courtroom Friday for an arraignment on charges of attacking and injuring one inmate on Aug. 31 and spitting on another on Sept. 15 at Metro Corrections. In the first incident, Rhodes knocked the inmate to the floor and threatened "to kill the victim like he did the others," according to the arrest warrant. The victim suffered a knot to the back of the head, a laceration on his forehead and a sore neck, with jail staff photographing his injuries. Both that incident and the spitting incident were captured on the jail's video surveillance.

    During Friday's arraignment, Rhodes repeatedly said he was not guilty of the charges against him and shouted a couple more expletives. When the judge asked if he wanted a public defender, he interrupted again, "Take me back to my cell."

    The judge retorted: "I'm not taking you anywhere. They can," looking at the corrections officers.

    Rhodes also is awaiting trial in Circuit Court, accused of luring two brothers, ages 14 and 16, from their family's home in the Beechmont neighborhood to their deaths so they couldn't "snitch" to police after they supposedly saw him gun a man down in the street weeks earlier.

    Lt. Todd Kessinger, head of Louisville Metro's Homicide Unit, has said the two teens were doing well until they began hanging out with the much older and street-savvy Rhodes.

    Honor student Larry Ordway, 14, and his half-brother Maurice "Reece" Gordon, 16, once thought the 25-year-old Rhodes was going to make them famous after they appeared in his rap video but then they began to fear him, relatives said.

    Louisville Metro Police Detective Aaron Tinelli testified during a preliminary hearing in June that both teens saw Rhodes fatally shoot 40-year-old Christopher Jones on May 4. But when Rhodes and two other teens, 15 and 17, appeared at the family's doorstep the night of May 21, Larry and Reece left with them – the last time they were seen alive, Tinelli said.

    Detectives say Rhodes and his two young accomplices took the brothers to a Clifton Heights apartment he and his mother shared in the 700 block of North Hite Avenue off Brownsboro Road, the detective testified.

    There, the brothers were stabbed to death before being dumped in the backyard of an abandoned house in the West End, according to Tinelli's testimony. The teens' killers also tried to set them ablaze.

    Rhodes remained calm and attentive, sometimes smiling, as Tinelli detailed the allegations against him. But during a previous hearing a few days earlier, he spat on Brendan McLeod, his former attorney, in a holding cell adjacent to the courtroom and then shouted an insult and threat at McLeod in court. When McLeod told the judge that the public defender's office would need to represent the defendant due to a conflict of interest, Rhodes yelled at McLeod across the room, "You're a coward, and I'll see you when I get out."

    http://www.courier-journal.com/story...udge/91110342/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  5. #5
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    Teen connected to three May murders takes plea deal

    Carter is one of four people charged in connection to the murders of two teen brothers

    By Emily Maher
    WLKY Louisville News

    LOUISVILLE, Ky — A teen charged in connection with three murders will have to testify against his co-defendants.

    Anjuan Carter, 15, took a plea deal from the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office on Wednesday.

    Carter pleaded guilty to facilitation of the May murders of Christopher Jones, 40, and teen brothers Maurice Gordon, 16, and Larry Ordway, 14.

    Louisville Metro Police said Jones was shot to death at the beginning of May.

    Two weeks later, the bodies of Gordon and Ordway were found stabbed and burned in an overgrown lot behind a vacant home.

    Carter will stay in a juvenile detention facility until he turns 18.

    At that point, he will be re-sentenced in Jefferson County Court.

    The Commonwealth is recommending Carter either serve 10 years in prison or 20 on parole.

    During a police interview recorded this year, Carter told investigators Brice Rhodes, 26, a co-defendant in the case, forced him and another teen, Jacorey Taylor, 18, to help stab the brothers to death.

    Carter told investigators Rhodes wanted the brothers killed because they witnessed him shoot and kill Jones two weeks earlier.

    Carter said Rhodes was worried the brothers were going to snitch.

    Part of the deal requires Carter testify against co-defendants Rhodes, Taylor and Tieren Coleman, 19 when the case goes to trial.

    Police have not said what role Coleman had in the murders.

    Carter didn’t say much on Wednesday in the courtroom before accepting the plea deal.

    “He felt this was the right thing to do and wanted to get this case resolved,” said Ryan Vantrease, Carter’s attorney.

    Carter’s grandparents watched on during the proceedings.

    He pointed to them as he walked out of the courtroom in handcuffs.

    “It’s not an easy situation for anybody,” Vantrease said.

    Commonwealth’s Attorney Elizabeth Jones Brown said Carter’s anticipated testimony in court will help prosecute the other defendants.

    “We wanted to talk to and have the jury hear from somebody who was in that apartment that night,” she said. “So the jury knows who exactly did what.”

    Jones Brown said Carter and his lawyers have been working with her office on the plea deal for a while.

    She said Carter has been cooperative throughout the process.

    http://www.wlky.com/article/teen-con...a-deal/8385052
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  6. #6
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    Jail slaps Brice Rhodes with escape charge

    By Justin Sayers
    The Courier-Journal

    Triple-murder suspect Brice Rhodes, already accused of threatening a judge, spitting on his own attorney and throwing urine on a jailer, has been charged with more felony crimes in jail.

    Rhodes, 26, of Louisville, allegedly dug out a hole in his jail cell where police found an unknown metal object in it, according to an arrest citation. He was charged with one count each of first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree escape and tampering with physical evidence, all felonies.

    Around 6:15 p.m. Thursday, a Metro Corrections officer noticed the hole had been dug out from under the cinder blocks in his cell, the citation said. As officers attempted to confiscate the metal object, Rhodes grabbed it and flushed it down the toilet. No other information was provided in the post-arrest complaint.

    Rhodes is awaiting trial in three murders and remains jailed in Metro Corrections on a $1 million bond. He is charged with fatally shooting Christopher Jones, 40, on May 4 in front of friends and later beating and stabbing two of those friends — 14-year-old Larry Ordway and his 16-year-old brother Maurice “Reece” Gordon — because he feared they might "snitch" to police.

    Louisville Metro Police Detective Aaron Tinelli has testified that the brothers were last seen leaving their mother's home in Beechmont on May 21 with Rhodes and two other teens, then ages 15 and 17, who also are charged with the brothers' murders.

    A fourth teen was arrested in late November.

    Tinelli testified that the brothers were killed inside a Clifton Heights apartment Rhodes and his mother shared in the 700 block of North Hite Avenue off Brownsboro Road and their bodies were dumped in the backyard of an abandoned house in the West End.

    Rhodes was arraigned for Thursday's charges in Jefferson District Court on Friday.

    http://www.courier-journal.com/story...arge/96240094/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  7. #7
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    Attorneys seek death penalty for Brice Rhodes

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – A man who is accused of killing two brothers in May 2016 could now face the death penalty.

    WHAS11 News talked with the Commonwealth Attorney’s office Tuesday and they say they intend to pursue capital punishment against Rhodes.

    Rhodes faces two counts of murder and other charges in the stabbing deaths of brothers Maurice Gordon and Larry Ordway.

    Rhodes also faces murder charges in the death of Christopher Jones.

    Since he has been in jail, Rhodes has racked up assault charges, accused of beating up another inmate and face charges for threatening Judge Amber Wolf.

    Police also say Rhodes tried to escape from Metro Corrections by digging through the cinder blocks.

    Rhodes is expected back in court May 11 for a pre-trial hearing.

    http://www.whas11.com/news/local/att...odes/438352041
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  8. #8
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    Second defendant in Brice Rhodes murder case takes plea deal

    By Matthew Glowicki
    The Courier-Journal

    The second of four defendants in the Brice Rhodes murder case has taken a plea deal.

    Tieren Coleman, 19, admitted to his involvement in the slayings of teen brothers Maurice "Reece" Gordon, 16, and Larry Ordway, 14, in May 2016.

    Prosecutors offered Coleman 10 years in prison or 15 years if placed on probation. A judge is set to sentence him Sept. 7.

    Plea documents say Coleman "facilitated" the murder of the brothers as well as the movement of their bodies to the backyard of an abandoned home in the Shawnee neighborhood.

    Originally charged with complicity murder, Coleman pleaded guilty to two facilitation counts, a change that Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Elizabeth Jones Brown noted in plea documents "more accurately reflects the defendant's role."

    He also pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and two counts of abuse of a corpse.

    Coleman was released on home incarceration upon signing the plea agreement.

    The case of co-defendants Rhodes and Jacorey Taylor is still pending.

    A fourth defendant, then 15-year-old Anjuan Carter, entered a guilty plea in late 2016 to facilitation murder charges.

    As part of Carter's plea deal, he agreed to testify against his co-defendants. There is no such stipulation in Coleman's plea.

    When interviewed days after the brothers' deaths, Carter told police that Larry and Reece were killed by Rhodes because they witnessed him fatally shoot a man, Christopher Jones, weeks prior.

    Rhodes mistook Jones for a man he wanted to kill who had a price on his head, according to Carter's plea deal.

    Carter also told investigators he and Taylor were forced to help Rhodes kill the two brothers and clean up the murder scene, according to a video interview included in court records.

    Prosecutors announced in May their intent to pursue the death penalty for Rhodes.

    Taylor and Rhodes are due back in court in September. No trial date has been set.

    http://www.courier-journal.com/story...eal/452003001/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  9. #9
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    ​Related:

    10 years prison for man who helped in slaying of teen brothers


    By Matthew Glowicki
    The Courier-Journal

    Grandmothers of teen brothers who were brutally stabbed to death then set on fire last summer pleaded with a judge Thursday to send one of the men involved to prison.

    "We no longer have our grandsons," said Debbie Wren, holding framed school pictures of Maurice "Reece" Gordon and Larry Ordway. "All we have are two urns with ashes."

    Jackie Partee followed, recalling seeing the news on her television in May 2016, not knowing the two burnt bodies discovered behind an abandoned home in the Shawnee neighborhood were her grandchildren.

    "If you were there and didn't stop anything, if you was that scared, you shouldn't have been there," Partee said.

    Tieren Coleman, 20, pleaded guilty in July to amended charges of facilitation murder for the deaths of the two brothers, ages 16 and 14, as well as tampering with evidence and two counts of abuse of a corpse.

    Prosecutors left it to Circuit Judge Mary Shaw to choose 10 years in prison or 15 years of supervised probation.

    Defense attorneys Ted Shouse and Annie O'Connell asked the judge for probation, saying Coleman had no prior criminal history, a supportive wife and a young daughter to care for.

    As Shaw announced her decision to send him to prison, Coleman hung his head.

    "With the serious nature of what happened here, I think you need to go to prison and see what it's like and make sure that's not the life you want to live," Shaw said.

    To the grandmothers, Shaw noted that there are others in the case who hold more culpability and could see more prison years than Coleman. And to Coleman, she said he would be eligible for shock probation, and with no criminal record, his chances were good.

    The case of co-defendants Brice Rhodes and Jacorey Taylor is still pending. They're due back in court Sept. 21. No trial date has been set.

    Prosecutors announced in May they intend to pursue the death penalty for Rhodes.

    Coleman is the second of four defendants in the case to take a plea deal.

    Then 15-year-old Anjuan Carter entered a guilty plea in late 2016 to facilitation murder charges.

    As part of Carter's plea deal, he agreed to testify against his co-defendants. That stipulation is not in Coleman's plea.

    In an interview with detectives, Carter said Larry and Reece were killed by Rhodes because they were with him when he fatally shot a man, Christopher Jones, weeks prior.

    Rhodes mistook Jones for a man he wanted to kill who had a price on his head, according to Carter's plea deal.

    Carter also told investigators he and Taylor were forced to help Rhodes kill Reece and Larry and clean up the murder scene, according to a video interview included in court records.

    Coleman's exact role in the brothers' murder is unclear.

    Plea documents say Coleman "facilitated" the murder of the brothers as well as the movement of their bodies.

    Originally charged with complicity murder, Coleman pleaded guilty to facilitation charges, a change that Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Elizabeth Jones Brown said "more accurately reflects the defendant's role."

    Jones Brown confirmed Thursday that Coleman was present in the apartment where the boys were stabbed to death but declined to provide further specifics.

    "He was there and witnessed it," Wren said after the sentencing, still holding her photos. "He's just as guilty."

    The pictures of her grandsons normally sit in her living room where she talks to them every day.

    "I let them know justice is going to be served," she said. "And it was today."

    http://www.courier-journal.com/story...enc/667186001/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  10. #10
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    With defendant's guilty plea, Brice Rhodes is now the lone defendant facing trial for murder

    By Matthew Glowicki
    The Courier-Journal

    The mother of two teen brothers stabbed, set on fire and dumped behind an abandoned house in May 2016 told a judge Friday she wasn't satisfied with the latest plea deal in the case.

    "I just don't agree with this at all," said Elizabeth Wren, the mother of Maurice "Reece" Gordon and Larry Ordway, 16 and 14.

    "It's not fair, losing two children at the same time. And I don't feel like nobody understands unless they see their sons the way my sons were murdered."

    At a table across the courtroom from Wren sat Jacorey Taylor, now 19.

    Taylor accepted the prosecution's offer for either 10 years in prison or 20 years of probation, a decision that will be left to the discretion of Circuit Judge Charlie Cunningham at sentencing.

    Taylor pleaded guilty to three counts of facilitation murder, amended from murder, and tampering with evidence, all Class D felonies, said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Elizabeth Jones Brown.

    While probation is an option under the plea deal, Jones Brown told Cunningham she objects to it.

    “To me, they all should get life without the possibility of parole,” Wren told the judge. “My life is gone. I suffer every day.”

    Taylor chose to be sentenced at a later date and will be kept in solitary protective custody away from co-defendant Brice Rhodes until then.

    He is the third of four defendants in the case to take a plea deal, making Rhodes the only person in the case still facing trial.

    In an interview with detectives, co-defendant Anjuan Carter said Larry and Reece were killed by Rhodes because they — along with Carter and Taylor — were with Rhodes when he fatally shot a man weeks prior, and he feared they would snitch.

    Rhodes mistook the man he shot, Christopher Jones, for a man he wanted to kill who had a price on his head, according to Carter's plea deal.

    Carter also told police he and Taylor were forced to help Rhodes stab the brothers and clean up the scene of the murder, according to a video interview in court records.

    Fifteen at the time of the killings, Carter entered a guilty plea in late 2016 to facilitation murder charges and tampering with evidence.

    He will remain at a Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice facility until he turns 18, at which time a judge will either order him to serve the remainder of a recommended 10-year sentence or put him on probation for five years. If Carter were to break the law while on probation, he would face a recommended 20-year sentence, per his plea agreement.

    As part of their deal with prosecutors, Carter and Taylor have agreed to testify against Rhodes.

    Another defendant, 20-year-old Tieren Coleman, pleaded guilty in July 2017 to amended charges of facilitation murder for the deaths of the two brothers as well as tampering with evidence and two counts of abuse of a corpse. He was sentenced in September to 10 years in prison.

    Prosecutors announced in May 2017 they intend to pursue the death penalty for Rhodes, who has pleaded not guilty and is next due in court Jan. 26.

    No trial date has been set.

    https://www.courier-journal.com/stor...al/1026265001/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

Page 1 of 3 123 LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •