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    Corey Futrell Charged in 2008 VA Slaying of Bobby Whiting, Potential LWOP Sentence



    A man accused of murder when he was a juvenile could be tried as an adult.

    Corey Futrell was arrested Saturday on capital murder and other charges for the January 2008 murder of Bobby Whiting.

    “His first appearance was this morning in Juvenile Court because of his age at the time of the offense. We have given notice to transfer to try him as an adult,” Commonwealth’s Attorney Nancy Parr told WVEC.com.

    According to police, Whiting got into a fight with Futrell and two others as he left a convenience store.

    Investigators say Futrell pulled a gun and shot Whiting in the back. Futrell remains in jail and has a preliminary hearing set for March 31.

    “Because he was a juvenile at the time of the offense, we cannot seek the death penalty pursuant to the U.S Supreme Court and statute,” Parr explained.

    http://www.wvec.com/news/local/Man-a...114145769.html

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    Chesapeake murder case will go before grand jury

    A judge on Tuesday ruled there was enough evidence for the capital murder case of Corey Futrell, 18, to go before a grand jury for indictment before it is tried.

    Police arrested Futrell in January and charged him with capital murder, robbery and two charges of using a firearm to commit felonies.

    During Tuesday's preliminary hearing before Judge Eileen Olds in Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, James A. Mack, the leader of a gang to which Futrell belonged, testified about the Jan. 10, 2008, killing of Robert Whiting, 20, in Western Branch.

    Mack testified that Futrell told him he had killed someone during a robbery when "the guy made a sudden move."

    Whiting was killed in the 3500 block of Dunedin Drive when he was confronted by three men after going to 7-Eleven. He was robbed of a dollar and a pack of cigarettes, according to court testimony.

    "He told me he committed a murder," Mack said. "He didn't say the guy's name."

    Mack, a 26-year-old who said he was head of the Bounty Hunter Bloods, is serving a life sentence in prison on a federal racketeering conviction.

    He said he approached Futrell about the killing because he'd heard about it.

    "I didn't need to know the exact details of what took place," Mack testified. "I wanted to make sure he got rid of the gun."

    Whiting's mother, Barbara, and her husband attended the hearing Tuesday to hear several witnesses testify about her son's slaying. She said although her son's killing was, for witnesses, a long time ago, for her, it's as if it happened yesterday.

    If convicted, Futrell faces life in prison because he was a juvenile at the time.

    http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/ches...-go-grand-jury

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    By Scott Daugherty
    The Virginian-Pilot
    © July 10, 2014

    Shooter gets 33 years for fatal Chesapeake robbery

    It was 2011 and things didn't look good for Corey Anthony Futrell.

    The then-18-year-old gang member was charged with capital murder in the death of an innocent man three years earlier. He was looking at the possibility of life in prison. He needed to make a deal.

    And he did.

    Futrell was sentenced Thursday to 33 years in prison after helping prosecutors secure convictions against two others involved in the robbery of 20-year-old Robert "Bobby" Whiting. He also gave detectives information about two other homicides in Chesapeake and Norfolk, according to court testimony and records.

    Whiting's family declined to comment on Futrell's final sentence, which was handed down by Circuit Judge Bruce H. Kushner.

    Under a plea agreement signed almost three years ago, Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney D.J. Hansen agreed to seek no more than 40 years. He asked Thursday for only 35 years because of Futrell's cooperation.

    "He ought to get credit for that," Hansen said in court.

    According to court documents, Futrell told investigators that Deandre Reeves and Johnnie Ross III were also involved in the Jan. 10, 2008, fatal shooting of Whiting. He said they were outside that night looking to rob someone when Whiting walked by. He had just purchased cigarettes from a 7-Eleven in the 3500 block of Dunedin Drive.

    Futrell said he approached Whiting with a "neighborhood gun" he was keeping under his mother's couch and demanded money. Whiting resisted and Futrell shot him.

    "I didn't think that was going to happen," said Futrell, who turned 22 Thursday. "It was unreal to me."

    In the end, Futrell - who pleaded guilty in 2011 to one count of first-degree murder and a related gun crime - made off with $1.

    Reeves and Ross pleaded guilty in 2012 to robbing Whiting but denied being responsible for his death.

    Reeves was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison and Ross to four. Ross received an additional year on charges he sold drugs in 2011 and assaulted a police officer who tried to arrest him.

    More than a dozen people came to court Thursday in support of Futrell. His mother said she tried to keep him out of trouble. She recalled how she sent him to Kansas City for several years to live with family.

    Before eighth grade, Futrell moved back to Virginia, joined a street gang and started getting in trouble. His juvenile record included multiple convictions for felony assault and armed robbery.

    Stephen Givando, Futrell's lawyer, asked the judge to take Futrell's age into consideration at sentencing. He noted that his client was only 15 when he killed Whiting.

    "Kids act differently. They think differently," Givando said. "They often don't think about the consequences."

    Hansen countered that Futrell was involved in another armed robbery after Whiting's death, that he continued to make bad decisions.

    "The magnitude of what he did that night did not deter him," he said.

    http://hamptonroads.com/2014/07/shoo...apeake-robbery
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