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    Death Penalty Trial Set for Derick Irisha Brown in 2019 AL Abduction and Slaying of Kamille McKinney


    Kamille "Cupcake" Stallworth





    Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney’s body believed found in dumpster

    By Carol Robinson
    AL.com

    Remains believed to be those of Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney, abducted 10 days ago from a Birmingham birthday party, were recovered Monday night.

    Birmingham police and FBI agents found the remains in a dumpster. The discovery may have capped a tragic end to a massive search that began Saturday, Oct. 12, and has kept the Birmingham-area community and beyond on edge ever since.

    Police plan to charge Patrick Stallworth, 39, and 29-year-old Derick Irisha Brown in Kamille’s death, said Police Chief Patrick Smith.

    The day after Kamille’s abduction, police arrested Stallworth and impounded his Toyota SUV after he was identified as a man seen in surveillance footage at an Avondale store near the time of Kamille’s abduction. His Toyota
    Sequoia matched the description given by other children in the area at the time who said a man had been handing candy to kids at Tom Brown Village.

    Stallworth has been charged with seven counts of child porn after police found images on his cell phone during the abduction investigation.

    He is out of jail on $500,000 bond and has not been charged with any crime in connection with Kamille’s disappearance. Birmingham police returned to his rented Woodside Condominiums home Monday evening to carry out a search warrant of the condo, which has been padlocked by the owner.

    Property management said police have been there almost every day, including over the weekend when they searched apartments that are now uninhabitable following an September fire there.

    Brown remains held without bond after authorities filed a motion Tuesday to revoke her bond in a 2018 case in which Brown is accused of abducting her three children from DHR custody. Brown also uses the name Quentesa Jackson, and she and Stallworth are in a dating relationship.

    Tuesday morning, a team of police officers stopped a white Nissan Altima after receiving a 911 call from a man who thought he spotted Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney inside the sedan on 19th Street in Irondale.

    Police responded to the scene and then began a search for the vehicle. They found it a short time later on Crestwood Boulevard near the Irondale-Birmingham city limits.

    Officers surrounded the vehicle only to learn that the driver had just dropped her own daughter off at daycare.

    Less than two hours later, Birmingham police responded to a Center Point parking lot. A woman said she had tip for investigators regarding the ongoing probe into the Oct. 12 disappearance of the 3-year-old little girl who was last seen wearing a pink and leopard-print Minnie Mouse t-shirt and no shoes.

    On day 10 of the search for Kamille, Tuesday’s tips and reported sightings are among hundreds that have poured in. Still, there is no sign of the girl and no clear motive as to why she was taken in the first place, and where she could be after all this time.

    Kamille vanished while at a birthday party in Birmingham’s Tom Brown Village public housing community. Police on Friday released surveillance footage that showed two small children – one of them believed to Kamille – playing when one man walked past them.

    Moments later, a man with a distinctive limp approached the children and they followed him out of the view of the camera.

    Police said the man with the limp is a suspect in the case. They have not said whether they have identified or located him. They asked that the other man come forward as a witness in the case.

    https://www.al.com/news/2019/10/kami...een-found.html
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    Kamille 'Cupcake’ McKinney: 2 charged with capital murder of child

    By Carol Robinson
    AL.com

    A 39-year-old Birmingham man and a 29-year-old woman have been charged with capital murder in the high-profile disappearance and slaying of Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney.

    Birmingham police detectives on Thursday presented their evidence against Patrick Devone Stallworth, and his girlfriend, Derick Irisha Brown, to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.

    District Attorney Danny Carr, in a 4 p.m. announcement, said his office has issued warrants against Smith and Brown for capital murder of a child under the age of 14. If convicted, both could face the death penalty.

    “Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the family as they grieve the loss of Kamille,” Carr said.

    Carr thanked investigators and the community for their work in recovering Kamille’s body and bringing about the arrests. He declined to comment further.

    Birmingham police continue to investigate, said Chief Patrick Smith.

    “If appropriate, we will seek additional charges on both individuals involved,” Smith said. “We refuse to stop until prosecution is completely upheld and the light of day is limited to one hour for both.”

    Alabama Death Row inmates are only allowed to be in the prison yard one hour a day, weather permitting.

    Kamille’s body was recovered Tuesday afternoon in a Santek dumpster that had been parked near the Center Point apartment complex where Stallworth and Brown lived. The dumpster had been transported to a landfill near Warrior, where Birmingham police and FBI agents recovered Kamille’s body and pronounced her dead at 5:16 p.m.

    The heart-wrenching discovery capped an exhaustive 10-day search for Kamille, who was abducted while at a birthday party in Birmingham on Saturday, Oct. 12. The abduction happened about 8:30 p.m. at Tom Brown Village public housing community off Messer-Airport Highway. Kamille was with her mother, April Thomas, and other family members at the birthday party in a parking lot off 41st Place North.

    Children attending the party said a man got out of an SUV and put Kamille in the vehicle.

    The Birmingham Police Department established a command post a couple of blocks from the abduction site. About 3 ½ hours after the abduction, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency issued an Amber Alert.

    Birmingham police spent the next day going door to door at the Tom Brown Village complex, handing out flyers with Kamille’s picture and released store surveillance photos from a nearby Shell station depicting a person of interest and the suspect vehicle – a Toyota Sequoia.

    Just 24 hours after Kamille’s disappearance, residents at a Center Point condominium complex called 911 after finding the Toyota Sequoia parked outside. Stallworth and Brown were taken into custody as persons of interest. Stallworth was the man captured on store surveillance video, police said.

    Two days later, Birmingham police charged Stallworth with seven crimes - possession of child pornography and possession with intent to distribute child pornography.

    The images were discovered on his phone during the investigation into the abduction. Authorities said there were no images of Kamille found on his phone. He was released from jail after posting $500,000 bond.

    Only 10 percent of that bond - $50,000 - has to actually be posted and court records show six different people contributed to that effort.

    AL.com reached several of those contributors and family members but they declined to comment. A motion filed in court Thursday shows those contributors no long want to back his bail.

    Brown was held as well after authorities filed a motion to revoke her bond in a case in which Brown is accused of abducting her three children from DHR custody.

    The case made the news last year when Brown led lawmen on chase before crashing into an innocent motorist and then into a sheriff’s SUV. Brown’s three children were in the vehicle during the pursuit and crash but were not injured.

    The incident happened July 13, 2018 and Brown was charged then with three counts of kidnapping, second-degree assault, attempting to elude and four counts of reckless endangerment.

    Deputies learned that the night before the kidnapping, DHR had removed the children from the custody of their mother as part of a safety plan while an investigation was conducted into abuse allegations.

    While being questioned in connection with Kamille’s case, investigators learned she had tried to reach out to the victims in the 2018 case. A judge then revoked her bond. She remains held in the Jefferson County Jail.

    Adam Danneman, a public defender whose office represents Brown, previously said the woman “adamantly denies” knowing anything about the abduction and was "horrified” by the girl’s disappearance. Following news of Kamille’s death, he said he could not comment further.

    Stallworth’s lawyer, Emory Anthony, prior to the discovery of the body, said his client had an alibi and was not involved in the abduction. Anthony declined to comment after the discovery and has requested to withdraw as Stallworth’s attorney.

    The case took a major and tragic turn Tuesday when the child’s remains were found at the landfill.

    Moments after Kamille’s remains were found, a team of police already in position carried out a search warrant at a home in Midfield where Stallworth was taken into custody on suspicion of capital murder and kidnapping. He remained held in the Birmingham City Jail - on suicide watch - overnight Tuesday and Wednesday into Thursday.

    Little is known about Stallworth.

    He has family members in the area and once lived at the family home where he was arrested in Midfield Tuesday night. He also lived for a time in the mid-2000s in Pensacola, but Florida records show no criminal history for him there.

    In Alabama, he also has no significant prior criminal record. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge in Butler County in 2004. He was arrested again in 2013 on a felony marijuana possession charged but it was dismissed.

    It wasn’t immediately clear how long he lived at Woodside Condominiums – where he was initially arrested – but management there said he had lived in one building until it burned in September and then moved to his current rental apartment which was padlocked after his arrest.

    Both will be held without bond in the Jefferson County Jail.

    https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2...-of-child.html
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    They just brought him from Birmingham to the the lockup. I just spent the last two hours watching the live broadcast. Took two hours for him to make his perp walk

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    Court records show 3-year-old Kamille died from asphyxiation

    By WBRC News Staff

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Toddler Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney was killed by asphyxiation. That is according to a discussion between prosecutors and Judge Clyde Jones during the first court appearance for suspects Patrick Stallworth and Derick Brown.

    Brown and Stallworth are both charged with capital murder.

    They were both in court Friday morning on the charge.

    Investigators say 3-year-old Kamille was kidnapped from a birthday party on Saturday, October 12 at Tom Brown Village.

    https://www.wbrc.com/2019/10/25/cour...-asphyxiation/
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    Gag order issued in Kamille McKinney trial

    By Carol Robinson
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    Stallworth and his girlfriend, Brown, are charged with capital murder of a child under the age of 14. If convicted, both could face the death penalty.

    Kamille died by asphyxiation by suffocation on Oct. 12, the same day she went missing from Tom Brown Village, according to court documents.

    Both suspects were in court Monday, where Stallworth was appointed an attorney to represent him. Veteran defense attorney Derrick Collins, who already had been appointed to defend Stallworth on child pornography charges filed shortly after Kamille’s abduction, said his client has told him he is innocent.

    Stallworth and his girlfriend, Brown, are charged with capital murder of a child under the age of 14. If convicted, both could face the death penalty.

    Kamille died by asphyxiation by suffocation on Oct. 12, the same day she went missing from Tom Brown Village, according to court documents.

    Both suspects were in court Monday, where Stallworth was appointed an attorney to represent him. Veteran defense attorney Derrick Collins, who already had been appointed to defend Stallworth on child pornography charges filed shortly after Kamille’s abduction, said his client has told him he is innocent.

    “He did tell me he’s innocent and that’s why he wants to defend himself,’’ Collins said. “He wants everyone to follow the law and give him the presumption of innocence.”

    “It’s a bad situation for him. He’s very distraught. He’s just confused,’’ he said. “He’s trying to accept the situation he’s in and learning to try to deal with where he’s at.”

    Brown is represented by Adam Danneman of the Jefferson County Public Defenders Office. He declined to comment Monday but has previously said Brown is also innocent.

    Collins said he will consider requesting a change of venue in the case. “If you look at public opinion, it seems he’s already been convicted at this point,’’ he said. “By the charge alone and the fact that a young child is deceased, people want to come to an opinion, and they want someone to pay for it.”

    “There’s a question of whether he can get a fair trial anywhere in this state because this case is so publicized,’’ he said.

    A preliminary hearing in the case is set for Dec. 10.

    https://www.al.com/news/2019/11/gag-...ney-trial.html
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    New details emerge about kidnapping, killing of Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney

    By WVTM 13 News Staff

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Jefferson County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday ruled he has found enough probable cause to send the capital murder case of Patrick Stallworth, the man accused of kidnapping and killing 3-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney, to a grand jury.

    Stallworth and Derick Brown are each charged with capital murder in Cupcake's disappearance and death.

    Investigators said levels of meth and trazodone were ingested into the little girl's body, which, according to prosecutors, sat in a construction dumpster at a Center Point apartment complex for ten days.

    Prosecutors said the DNA of Stallworth, Brown and McKinney was found in blood stains on a plastic sheet around a mattress laying in the living room of Brown's apartment.

    Detective Jonathan Ross also testified that Stallworth bought nearly $20 worth of candy from a gas station only minutes before approaching teens looking for a girl near Tom Brown Village the day of Cupcake's disappearance.

    Ross admitted that Brown's hints of McKinney's body being left in a nearby dumpster helped a specialized FBI unit to find her remains after emptying a large construction trash bin out in a Jefferson County landfill.

    According to Ross, Stallworth originally lied about knowing anything about McKinney's disappearance.

    However, after her body was found, he admitted to offering children candy at the Tom Brown Village the night she vanished and his chilling account of watching the young girl die.

    After returning to Brown's apartment, Ross said Stallworth told them he first saw the child with Brown on the couch watching television.

    When Stallworth told Brown the girl was not her's, Ross said Brown responded that she wanted to keep her.

    Ross went on to say that Stallworth claimed Brown, 'told him to do something sexual to the child,' but he refused.

    That same night, there was evidence presented to Judge Clyde Jones that Stallworth drove to a gas station to buy an energy drink and a sexual performance pill.

    An autopsy report showed no signs that the child was sexually assaulted, thought prosecutors said the level of decomposition of McKinney's body could have impacted the ability to prove abuse.

    The detective also said Stallworth watched Brown, 'place her hands over Cupcake's nose and mouth' and the girl was asleep.

    When police asked Stallworth what he meant by asleep, he clarified that she was dead.

    Under cross examination, Detective Ross told Stallworth's attorney Derrick Collins that his client had cooperated that the suspect never remembered seeing the girl in the Toyota Sequoia the couple had been seen riding in.

    Ross also testified that Stallworth's DNA was not found on McKinney's body.

    Brown's preliminary hearing is scheduled for Friday morning before Judge Jones.

    https://www.wvtm13.com/article/patri...-jury/30185414
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    Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney suspect said she saw child’s sexual assault

    By Carol Robinson
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    The second suspect in the abduction and killing of Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney told police she saw her boyfriend forcing the 3-year-old child to perform oral sex on him at their Center Point apartment.

    Derick Irisha Brown’s statements to police were made public Friday in her preliminary hearing. Her boyfriend, Patrick Stallworth, had his preliminary hearing earlier this week. Testimony from both hearings indicates the couple is pointing fingers at each other as being responsible for Kamille’s death while maintaining their own innocence.

    Stallworth, 39, Brown, 29, are charged with capital murder of a child under the age of 14. If convicted, both could face the death penalty. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Clyde Jones is presiding over the cases.

    The case is being prosecuted by District Attorney Danny Carr and assistant district attorneys Misty Reynolds and Peyton “Neal” Zarzour. Brown is represented by Jefferson County Public Defender Adam Danneman.

    Representatives from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Birmingham, as well as federal public defender Glennon Threatt, have sat through both hearings. Their presence indicates federal kidnapping charges could be filed against one or both of the suspects.

    Kamille was abducted Oct. 12 while at a birthday party in Tom Brown Village. Stallworth and Brown were arrested the following night after police released a store surveillance photo of Stallworth and multiple tipsters identified him.

    Stallworth was charged with multiple counts of possession of child pornography found in his phone during the investigation. The images were not of Kamille. He was released from jail on bond several days later and rearrested Oct. 22, the night Kamille’s remains were recovered.

    Brown remained in jail the entire time because of previous kidnapping charges against her.

    According to testimony by Birmingham police homicide Det. Jonathan Ross, investigators interviewed Brown three times, during which she said she did not have any knowledge about Kamille’s kidnapping or subsequent death.

    Brown told police the couple had been together all day, including at Tom Brown Village from where Kamille was abducted, but said she was not aware of the child’s presence until they stopped at a Jet Pet after leaving the public housing complex on their back to their apartment at Woodside condominiums.

    It wasn’t until Monday, Oct. 21 – nine days after Kamille’s disappearance and the day before child’s remains were found in a trash dumpster at a Jefferson County landfill – that Brown first acknowledged knowing anything about the girl.

    From the Jefferson County Jail, Brown reached out to detectives and told them she wanted to talk. She was taken to police headquarters, where she then told her version of the events that transpired the day Kamille vanished.

    She said she first became aware that the child was in her Toyota Sequoia at the Jet Pep, though no testimony was given Friday about how that came to be.

    Ross testified that video from the store showed Brown getting out of the SUV, going inside to pay for gas and buying a strawberry drink. Under questioning by the prosecutor, Ross said Brown’s demeanor did not indicate anything was amiss. “She seemed fine to me. She’s walking fine. Seemed normal,’’ Ross said.

    Brown told detectives that after stopping at Jet Pep, the couple went back to their apartment. This is where the stories given by Stallworth and Brown begin to differ.

    Testimony from Stallworth’s hearing Tuesday indicated he told detectives that he walked into the couple’s apartment and saw his girlfriend sitting on the couch with Kamille and said, “That’s not your child.”

    He said Brown indicated that she wanted to “keep” Kamille and then suggested Stallworth “do something sexual to the child,’’ Ross said. Stallworth said he refused and went outside to smoke a cigarette. Later, Stallworth said, “Brown put her hands over Cupcake’s nose and mouth.” He described to the detective that Kamille was then “asleep.”

    Stallworth also said Brown had removed the girl’s hair bows and clothes and given her a bath. He said the next thing he knew, he woke up the next morning with Brown next to him in their bed.

    Brown, however, told detectives that once at the apartment, she stayed outside to smoke. When she went inside, she said she went into the bathroom and Stallworth was in there as well. It was then she saw a “shadow” pass by the door, and “thought she was tripping.” Brown had reportedly used Ice – or meth – that day as well as Trazodone, an anti-depressant sometimes used as a sedative.

    Brown said she went back outside to smoke and when she came in, she made a sandwich and then went into the bedroom where she fell asleep. At some point she got back up to use the restroom again and said she saw Kamille sitting, with her legs dangling off the sofa. Stallworth, she said, was kneeling on the sofa in front of Kamille forcing the girl to perform oral sex on him.

    The detective became visibly emotional while testifying about the alleged sexual abuse and had to take a brief moment to compose himself.

    He said Brown then said she went back to sleep and woke up the following day. She said she asked Stallworth about Kamille’s whereabouts, and said Stallworth told her, “You have been tripping.”

    She said Stallworth had a trash bag and was leaving the apartment. He asked her were the lighter fluid was and she told them it had been left in their previous apartment.

    Ross testified that Brown told detectives, “Her boyfriend put the baby in a trash bin with old furniture.” She indicated it was in the dumpster at the adjacent apartment complex, he said.

    Under questioning by Brown’s attorney, Ross testified that fingernail clippings from Kamille’s left hand showed the presence of Stallworth’s DNA, but not Brown’s DNA. Danneman admitted into evidence a photograph of a shirtless Stallworth taken at the city jail that showed a faint scratch on the right side of his chest.

    New testimony also showed that after the Amber Alert in Kamille’s disappearance was issued at 10:39 p.m. that Saturday, there were seven telephone calls from Stallworth’s cell phone to his mother’s phone. Also, Ross testified under questioning by Danneman, two Jefferson County Jail inmates came forward with information about Stallworth, one of whom said Stallworth told him he had accidentally killed the child.

    “Is it fair to say no one you interviewed said Miss Brown killed the child?” Danneman said. Ross said is correct, except that Stallworth told them Brown killed Kamille.

    Danneman argued to the judge that the case against Brown did not meet the criteria for her to be charged with capital murder, but rather felony murder. “We’re not here to talk about whether Miss Brown is a good person,’’ her attorney said, “that would be a very short conversation.”

    Brown made news last year when she led lawmen on a chase before crashing into an innocent motorist and then into a sheriff’s SUV. Brown’s three children were in the vehicle during the pursuit and crash but were not injured.

    The incident happened July 13, 2018 and Brown was charged then with three counts of kidnapping, second-degree assault, attempting to elude and four counts of reckless endangerment. Her lawyer argued that she could not be charged with kidnapping because there was no court order mandating she not have her children.

    The kidnapping charges were dismissed by a judge in November 2018, but were reinstated in January 2019 when a grand jury indicted her on the three felony kidnapping charges. That trial has been set for August 2020.

    Authorities said Brown had lost custody of her children because she had put them in a clothes dryer as punishment.

    The judge, however, disagreed. “It’s clear to me one or both of them sexually abused this child,’’ and went on to kill her and dispose of her body, Jones said. “This woman (Brown) did not come forward,’’ he said. “She could have easily went to law enforcement.”

    The judge said it was clear they were “acting in concert” and deemed there was “more than enough evidence” to forward the case to the grand jury for indictment consideration.

    Previous testimony showed that on the day of Kamille’s disappearance, the couple had been together the entire day and night. Video surveillance showed Stallworth at the Shell station near Tom Brown Village buying $18.91 worth of candy. Minutes later, two preteen girls said they were stopped by a couple in a blue Toyota Sequoia, where they were told “I’m looking for a girl that looks like you.”

    The girls said they were offered candy, became apprehensive and fled.

    Initially, Stallworth denied knowing anything about Kamille’s disappearance but did admit to approaching the two preteen girls near the middle school. He also admitted that he had bought candy at the Shell and admitted he was at Tom Brown Village that Saturday night. However, Stallworth said he saw a group of young children playing with a mouse trap and told them they shouldn’t be doing that and then said he walked away.

    Stallworth said that after they left Tom Brown Village, the pair went to the Jet Pep on Center Point Parkway. Store video confirmed they had been there. They went home and Stallworth later went back out to a Chevron where he bought an energy drink and a pill for “sexual dysfunction,’’ Ross testified.

    Ross said that tracking of Stallworth’s phone showed “a lot of movement” between Woodside Condominiums and Parkway Villa apartments, which are adjacent to Woodside and have a worn pathway in the wooded area between the two complexes.

    Ross later indicated that it was Brown who pointed them to a construction trash dumpster at Parkway Villas, which is mostly vacant, in the search for Kamille. That dumpster was taken to a landfill and examined by a specially-trained team of FBI agents, who recovered Kamille’s decomposed remains on Oct. 22.

    An autopsy conducted by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office showed Kamille had died asphyxiation by suffocation. The exam also turned up toxic levels of methamphetamine and Trazodone. The levels of the drugs indicated Kamille had ingested the drugs, and not just been exposed to them.

    Following the discovering of Kamille’s body, Stallworth was arrested again and both he and Brown were formally charged in Kamille’s slaying. After his arrest, Stallworth summoned detectives to the jail, saying he wanted to talk to them again, Ross said. It was then he placed the blame on Brown.

    Testimony from both hearings also showed investigators removed a plastic covering from a mattress that was in the living room. That covering showed blood in several places and testing of that blood showed a mixture of DNA belonging to Stallworth, Brown and Kamille.

    https://www.al.com/news/2019/12/kami...l-assault.html
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    Suspects in Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney murder, kidnapping case facing federal charges

    By Drew Taylor
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    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A man and woman who had been charged with the kidnapping and killing a 3-year-old girl are now facing federal charges.

    On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama announced that Patrick Devone Stallworth, 40, and Derick Irisha Brown, 29, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim.

    On Oct. 12, 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney was taken during a party at the Tom Brown Village housing community in Birmingham. Ten days later, McKinney’s body was found in a dumpster at an apartment in Center Point.

    Not long after McKinney first went missing, Stallworth and Brown were developed as suspects in the case and arrested. They are currently facing kidnapping and murder charges in Jefferson County.

    “The kidnapping of a child is one of a parent’s biggest fears,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Lloyd C. Peeples said. “Despite their best efforts, federal, state, and local law enforcement were not able to bring the 3-year-old victim home to her family. However, we hope that today’s charges will be a step towards bringing justice for her and her family.”

    If it is proven that McKinney’s death resulted from the kidnapping charges from the federal indictment, Stallworth and Brown could face a minimum sentence of life in prison or the death penalty.

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    Suspects in Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney’s murder plead not guilty to federal kidnapping charges

    By Howard Koplowitz
    AL.com

    The two suspects in the disappearance and murder of 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal kidnapping charges, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Alabama told AL.com Friday.

    Patrick Stallworth, 39, and his girlfriend, Derick Irisha Brown, 29, face federal kidnapping charges and state capital murder charges in the October 2019 disappearance of Kamille, who was abducted while at a birthday party in Tom Brown Village in Birmingham.

    They pleaded not guilty to the federal charges during their arraignment in Birmingham federal court.

    Stallworth and Brown were arrested the the night after Kamille’s disappearance after police released a store surveillance photo of Stallworth and multiple tipsters identified him.

    Stallworth was charged with multiple counts of possession of child pornography found in his phone during the investigation. The images were not of Kamille. He was released from jail on bond several days later and rearrested Oct. 22, the night Kamille’s remains were recovered.

    Brown remained in jail the entire time because of previous kidnapping charges against her.

    According to testimony in Jefferson Count Circuit Court by Birmingham police homicide Det. Jonathan Ross, investigators interviewed Brown three times, during which she said she did not have any knowledge about Kamille’s kidnapping or subsequent death.

    Brown told police the couple had been together all day, including at Tom Brown Village from where Kamille was abducted, but said she was not aware of the child’s presence until they stopped at a Jet Pet after leaving the public housing complex on their back to their apartment at Woodside condominiums.

    It wasn’t until Monday, Oct. 21 – nine days after Kamille’s disappearance and the day before child’s remains were found in a trash dumpster at a Jefferson County landfill – that Brown first acknowledged knowing anything about the girl. Brown also allegedly told police that she saw Stallworth sexually abusing Kamille.

    Both Stallworth and Brown face the death penalty if convicted of the state charges.

    https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2...g-charges.html
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    Death penalty possible in federal case over Kamille McKinney kidnapping

    By Stephen Gallien
    WBMA News

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBMA) — Federal court records show all proceedings are on hold for two suspects in the kidnapping of three-year-old Kamille McKinney in Birmingham as prosecutors make a decision on seeking the death penalty.

    A federal grand jury indicted Patrick Stallworth and Derick Irisha Brown in July. They each pleaded not guilty.

    Now, court records show a federal judge ordered all proceedings are continued in the federal kidnapping case as the U.S. Attorney General makes a final decision regarding on seeking a death sentence.

    Stallworth and Brown already face a possible death penalty case on state capital murder charges.

    They remain in the Jefferson County jail without bond following their arrest in 2019 for the murder of the little girl many called Cupcake and the following 10-day search that captivated the area.

    That search ended after 10 days in October 2019 when authorities recovered her remains from a Jefferson County landfill.

    https://abc3340.com/news/local/death...ney-kidnapping
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    - 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.”
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