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    Death Penalty Trial Set for Roderick Deshun Lewis in 2022 AR Slaying of Correctional Officer Jeremiah Story


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    Correctional officer fatally shot inside Arkansas jail, state police say


    By Elisha Fieldstadt
    NBC News

    A corrections officer was fatally shot Wednesday night inside an Arkansas jail, according to state authorities.

    </section></section></article>While it isn’t clear what prompted the gunfire, Arkansas State Police said a 37-year-old man who was in the process of being booked into the Perry County Jail after an unrelated arrest was being held in connection with the shooting.

    Authorities have not released the name of that man or the slain officer.

    “State police special agents were called to the jail by local sheriff’s department authorities to begin the investigation which is continuing this morning,” state police said, adding its criminal investigation division was leading the probe into the “circumstances of the apparent homicide.”

    Officials said more information will be released later Thursday.

    This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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    Correctional officer shot, killed booking suspect into Perry County Jail

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    PERRYVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas State Police is investigating a shooting that killed a correctional officer inside the Perry County Jail.

    It happened late Wednesday night.

    The Perry County Sheriff’s Office called ASP special agents to begin the investigation.

    The suspect is a 37-year-old man who was in the process of being booked into the jail after his arrest, according to State Police.

    Investigators have not released the name of that suspect or the officer.

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    Police: Victim, suspect identified in fatal shooting at Arkansas jail

    Police said that 21-year-old Jeremiah Story was fatally shot overnight at a Perry County Jail by a man being booked into the jail

    By THV11 Digital News

    PERRY COUNTY, Arkansas — Arkansas State Police are investigating a shooting inside the Perry County Jail that left one correctional officer dead.

    The incident occurred late Wednesday night, June 22 in Perryville, taking the life of 21-year-old Jeremiah Story.

    According to reports, Story was fatally shot by 37-year-old Roderick Lewis who was being booked into the jail.

    Police have said that Story was shot as he stood in a restroom where Lewis was changing from civilian attire into clothing issued by the jail.

    Authorities said that Lewis shot Story with a pistol before being disarmed by a witness of the shooting.

    Lewis was reportedly being detained at the Perry County Jail on drug charges, but was transferred to the Faulkner County Detention Center following the fatal shooting.

    The Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation is leading the probe into the circumstances of the apparent homicide.

    We will update this article with more information as it becomes available.

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    ASP says suspect in Perry County jail deadly shooting will face capital murder charge

    By Bill Smith
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    PERRY COUNTY, Ark. – Officials with the Arkansas State Police said late Thursday afternoon that the suspect accused of shooting and killing a Perry County jailer will face a charge of capital murder.

    In a release, ASP officials said charges were filed against 37-year-old Deshawn Lewis of North Little Rock Thursday afternoon.

    Investigators said Lewis was being booked into the Perry County Jail in Perryville Wednesday night on charges of drug and paraphernalia charges when he shot Detention Officer Jeremiah Story. The investigators added that Lewis is believed to have had the gun with him when he arrived at the jail in the custody of sheriff’s deputies.
    <aside>
    </aside>Story was shot as he stood inside a bathroom with Lewis as Lewis was changing into his jail-issued attire. Story was taken to a hospital in Conway where he later died.

    After the shooting Lewis was taking to the Faulkner County Jail where he remains in custody.
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    </aside>State police officials said the investigation by special agents with the Criminal Investigation Division is ongoing.

    https://www.kark.com/crime/asp-says-...murder-charge/
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    Man accused of killing Perry Co. jailer was out on bond, was convicted of capital murder in ’02

    By Mitch McCoy
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    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The North Little Rock man facing capital murder charges in the shooting that killed a Perry County jailer has been convicted of before of the same crime.

    Court records reveal Roderick Lewis, 37, started having run-ins with law enforcement in 2000, when he was just 15.

    Lewis was 17 when he was convicted of capital murder. Records show he shot and killed someone in North Little Rock.

    The teen was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in that case, but a decade later, the United States Supreme Court ruled that offenders 17 years old or younger cannot be sentenced to life without parole.
    <aside>
    </aside>The court’s opinion applied to Lewis since he was 16 when the killing happened and 17 when he was convicted.

    After a negotiated plea, Lewis was released on parole in 2020. He finished that parole in August of 2021.

    About three months later in November, though, Lewis was charged with aggravated assault on a family or household member, endangering the welfare of a minor and interference with emergency communication.
    <aside>
    </aside>He pled not guilty to those charges and posted a $50,000 bond. Prior to the arrest and shooting in Perry County, he was awaiting trial.

    Investigators said Lewis had been arrested on suspicions of drug and drug paraphernalia procession and was being booked into the Perry County Jail late Wednesday night when he pulled a gun and then shot and killed Detention Officer Jeremiah Story.
    <aside>
    </aside>A judge denied Lewis bond during a court hearing Friday. The prosecutor told the judge that Lewis stated to officers during his arrest that he refused to go back to prison, before killing the jailer.
    <aside>
    </aside>According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, Story is the first line of duty death at the Perry County Sheriff’s Office since 1892. He was 21 years old.

    https://www.kark.com/news/working4yo...-murder-in-02/
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    Sad, dispicable, entirely preventable.
    The arresting staff failed to thoroughly-and-completely shake this suspect down for weapons.

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    Perry County jail needed 3 people, 2 stun gun shots to subdue suspect in jailer’s shooting, affidavit says

    Details in killing of jailer emerge

    By John Lynch
    The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    The 37-year-old North Little Rock convicted killer accused of fatally shooting Perry County jailer Jeremiah James Story on Wednesday night shrugged off two stun-gun blasts before deputies, assisted by a jail inmate, could subdue him, an arrest affidavit states.

    Roderick Deshawn Lewis' gun jammed after he shot the 21-year-old correctional officer from Oppelo, according to the sworn statement by Arkansas State Police Special Agent Scott Luter.

    A funeral for Story, a 2020 graduate of Bigelow High School who had served in the Army National Guard, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Perryville Baptist Church. The service will be livestreamed on YouTube, according to the obituary from Harris Funeral Homes of Morrilton.

    Lewis, now charged with capital murder, is being held in the Faulkner County jail without bond.

    The arrest affidavit indicates law officers encountered Lewis by chance about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday when Perry County Sheriff's Deputy Denise Youngblood, returning from completing a prisoner transport, came across Lewis in a silver Ford Taurus parked on Arkansas 10 just inside the county.

    Talking to Lewis, the deputy reported smelling marijuana on him and from inside from the car. Youngblood checked Lewis' background and discovered that he had been convicted of capital murder, prompting her to call for backup.

    With the arrival of a second deputy, John Wilson, Lewis was removed from the car and found to be intoxicated. Lewis was handcuffed and transported in Youngblood's patrol car to the Perry County jail while Wilson stayed with Lewis' vehicle to wait for a tow truck. A third deputy, Sonny Clifford, followed Youngblood to jail.

    The affidavit notes that several times during the trip to jail, Lewis asked Youngblood whether the vehicle following them was a police car.

    At the jail, Clifford asked Lewis "if he had anything on him he shouldn't have," although the affidavit does not describe how Lewis responded to the question or whether he was searched. Lewis was taken into the jail and handcuffed to a bench.

    A short time later, Story and jail trusty George White took Lewis into the restroom to put him in a jail uniform. The affidavit states that while they were attempting to undress him, Lewis began to scuffle with the other men before pulling a 9mm handgun from his shorts and shooting Story in the chest. Investigators said the slaying occurred about 10:20 p.m. Wednesday.

    Hearing the shot, Clifford entered the room and found Story on the floor, with White pinning Lewis to the wall. A stun gun was used on Lewis but it did not subdue him, according to the affidavit.

    As White and Clifford were trying to restrain Lewis, Youngblood came in and also used her stun gun, which did not affect Lewis, the affidavit states.

    The inmate and deputies were able to overpower Lewis and lock him in the drunk tank. When Clifford examined Lewis' pistol, he found that the spent shell casing had jammed in the ejection port, which kept the gun from firing more than once, the affidavit states.

    In 2002, Lewis was 17 when he was twice sentenced to prison, receiving a 10-year term for an aggravated robbery conviction for holding up a man at gunpoint in North Little Rock in February 2000, then receiving a life sentence for killing a 35-year-old father of six in August 2001 in North Little Rock.

    Lewis' life sentence was nullified in 2016 by an Arkansas Supreme Court ruling based on a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found no-parole life sentences to be unconstitutional for teenagers, and he was subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison in September 2019.

    The reduced term left 22 months on his sentence and made Lewis immediately parole eligible. He was approved for release in August 2020. Court records show he received a traffic ticket in Little Rock in December 2020.

    In November 2021, Little Rock police arrested Lewis on a felony domestic-violence charge, accusing him of choking his girlfriend. He spent two nights in jail before posting $50,000 and had been free until Wednesday's arrest.

    https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/...le-2-stun-gun/
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    Suspect in Perry County jailer’s shooting death facing additional charges for attacking jailers

    By John Lynch
    The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    Roderick Deshun Lewis, the convicted killer and armed robber charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a Perry County jailer last year, was charged Tuesday with three counts of second-degree battery over accusations he bit, punched and pepper-sprayed Faulkner County deputies and jailers in their detention center.

    Court filings show the new charges against Lewis, each a Class D felony with a six-year maximum, stem from a Sept. 7 incident in the Faulkner County jail where Lewis is being held for Perry County authorities on capital murder and drug charges.

    Jailers were investigating a disturbance involving other inmates in Lewis' holding area who were accusing him of trying to pick fights. Detention officer Kody Kelly and Cpl. Shelby Loggins went to Lewis' cell, telling him that they were removing him from his cell for his own safety and taking him to booking so "we could figure out what the situation was," Loggins reported.

    Told that he would be handcuffed, Lewis refused, stating he "didn't have any issues with anyone," denied doing anything wrong and refused to submit while continuing to argue, according to charging papers. Loggins warned that if Lewis did not submit to the cuffs in five seconds, he would be pepper sprayed.

    "Detainee Lewis stated, 'Oh, so you are going to pepper spray me?' I responded with 'yes.' Detainee Lewis then stated, 'OK, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.' I stated OK and administered a steady five-second burst of pepper spray," Loggins reported.

    Lewis then lunged at Loggins and punched her, knocking the deputy face-first into some metal on the ground and knocking the spray out of Loggins' hands. When she got up, Loggins said she saw Kelly and another detention officer, Tammy Hendricks, grappling with Lewis to handcuff him. Loggins reported she then deployed her electric stun gun but was pepper sprayed and then kicked in the face by Lewis before they could subdue him.

    Lewis bit both Kelly and Hendricks and sprayed them during the struggle before Kelly was able to get the spray away from Lewis, charging papers show. The incident was recorded on jail security cameras.

    In Perry County, Lewis, 38, of North Little Rock, is charged with capital murder, accused of killing jailer Jeremiah James Story, in the jail where Lewis was being booked on methamphetamine and fentanyl charges. Prosecutors have not said whether they'll seek the death penalty. He's being held without bail.

    Lewis is next due in court in Perry County on March 7, with his attorneys petitioning for a change of venue that would see him tried in Pulaski County. They've also asked that Lewis be allowed bond.

    According to an arrest affidavit, Story and a jail trustee were in the restroom with Lewis to put on his jail uniform. When they attempted to undress him, Lewis began to scuffle with them, then pulled a 9mm pistol from his pants and shot Story in the chest. The gun was jammed by the shell casing not completely ejecting so Lewis could not shoot again.

    A deputy who heard the shot went into the restroom and found Story on the floor with the trustee, George White, pinning Lewis against the wall. A stun gun did not affect Lewis who continued to fight even after a second deputy joined the struggle and used her stun gun before Lewis could be subdued.

    Lewis had been arrested about an hour before the slaying when a Perry County deputy encountered him in a silver Ford Taurus parked on Arkansas 10, just inside the county. Questioning Lewis, the deputy smelled marijuana, checked his criminal history and called for backup when she learned Lewis had been convicted of capital murder at age 17. The officers determined that Lewis was intoxicated, took him to jail and had his car towed.

    At the time, Lewis was awaiting trial in Pulaski County on domestic violence charges, accused of attacking his girlfriend in front of the woman's young son at the couple's Little Rock home in November 2021.

    The woman told police that Lewis got mad at her when she refused to have sex with him, repeatedly choking her and throwing her around the house. She escaped, leaving her son behind, and called police, who arrested Lewis after a brief standoff. He spent two nights in jail before posting $50,000 bond.

    Lewis was convicted of capital murder at trial in July 2002 and sentenced to life in prison for killing a 35-year-old father of six in North Little Rock two weeks before Lewis turned 17. But his sentence was nullified by a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that barred no-parole life sentences for killers who were under 18. Resentenced to 20 years in prison, Lewis was approved for parole in August 2020 about one year before his new sentence expired.

    Authorities say Lewis killed Samuel "Cameo" Lunnie, shooting him once in the chest and four times in the back, with the older man dying as he tried to crawl away from Lewis as the teen emptied his gun into him.

    Court records show that Lunnie and Lewis had gotten into a confrontation in the doorway of the North Little Rock home where Lunnie's girlfriend and her baby lived. Lewis tried to force his way into the home while Lunnie was trying to push the door close. But Lunnie slipped and fell and Lewis started shooting, running away before police arrived. He surrendered when he learned police were looking for him.

    Lewis's capital murder conviction was his second prison sentence. In May 2002, Lewis was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated robbery for stealing $1,300 from a man at gunpoint in North Little Rock, with police reporting that he pointed the firearm in Ricky Brewer's face and pulled the trigger three times. Authorities did not know whether the gun he used in the February 2000 holdup was real.

    Prosecutors said that Brewer had driven to the 900 block of Magnolia Street to buy drugs where he encountered Lewis selling them. Police found Brewer's money in Lewis' shoes.

    https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/...hooting-death/
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    Death penalty trial set for April 25, 2024

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