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    Shawn Derrick Bonnett aka Tyrone Williams - North Carolina


    Shawn Derrick Bonnett aka Tyrone Williams



    Facts of the Crime:

    Shawn Derrick Bonnett was found guilty of first-degree murder of Robert Hardison and for robbery with a dangerous weapon. According to court records, on January 4, 1996, Bonnett and codefendants, Christopher Moore, Richard Smith, and Jimmy Smith, drove specifically to Hardison's General Merchandise to rob it. Prior to the actual robbery the group discussed that they would have to "smoke" the owner Robert Hardison.

    At about 7:30 p.m. they pulled into the store's parking lot, and Bonnett handed a gun to Jimmy Smith. Richard Smith stayed in the car. Moore and Jimmy Smith went to the beer cooler while Bonnett stood next to the counter. Smith placed a beer on the counter and when Robert Hardison approached in order to ring up the sale, Smith pulled out the gun and shot Hardison three or four times, killing him. Moore then took the Hardison's gun from his back pocket and took the money box. Later in the evening the four divided up the money in a motel room.

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    On July 9, 1998, the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld Bonnett's death sentence on direct appeal.

    http://www.aoc.state.nc.us/www/publi...8/471-96-1.htm

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    NC death row inmate resentenced to life in prison

    WILLIAMSTON, N.C.
    — A judge in Martin County on Thursday resentenced a North Carolina death row inmate to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in an 18-year-old murder case.

    Shawn Derick Bonnett
    , 43, was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Robert Stancil Hardison during a store robbery just outside the town of Williamston.

    In 1998, the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld his conviction, but the local district attorney recently agreed to take Bonnett off death row because of sentencing inequities in the case.

    According to The Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham, Bonnett was one of four people tried for the crime. But he was not the shooter, and some of his co-defendants who had greater culpability received lesser sentences for their roles.

    Calls to Bonnett's attorneys were not immediately returned Thursday evening.

    He was still listed Thursday afternoon as being among the 151 inmates on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh as of Thursday afternoon.

    A spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, however, said once the prison receives official notice, Bonnett's status will be changed and that he will be moved to another unit and eventually reassigned to another prison.

    http://www.wral.com/nc-death-row-inm...ison/14246447/
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    Man charged in fatal arson has troubled past

    By James Halpin
    The Citizens' Voice

    LAFLIN — The man arrested Monday on charges alleging he set fire to a borough home, killing his ex-girlfriend’s children, has a history of alleged criminal activity — and hails from a family with a troubled past.

    Preston Daquen Bonnett, 26, of 173 Jones St., Wilkes-Barre, is charged with two counts of criminal homicide and three counts of arson over the fire that broke out at 60 Oakwood Drive the night of Oct. 25.

    According to investigators, Bonnett, who is originally from New York, comes from a troubled past, having both a father and brother who had been shot. He also has an uncle who is a convicted murderer, according to his Facebook page.

    Bonnett’s own criminal history includes a misdemeanor theft conviction that came after he met Susan Major, the children’s mother, through a Craigslist personal ad and they began shopping with fraudulent debit cards. They pleaded guilty and were sentenced to a year of probation.

    Bonnett is also awaiting trial in another credit-card fraud case after Major, trying to kick him out of her house this summer, found him in possession of a device used to make fraudulent credit cards and called the police, investigators say.

    Bonnett previously found himself charged in May 2014 with fraud for alleging he tried to buy a PlayStation 4 with counterfeit cards. The outcome of that case was not immediately clear Monday.

    While Bonnett’s criminal history appears to largely contain theft offenses, some of his close family members have been linked to violence.

    His brother, identified on Bonnett’s Facebook page as Charles Williams, was gunned down in Queens in September 2015, according to media reports.

    WABC-TV reported that Williams, 26, of Brooklyn, New York, had a .38-caliber revolver in his possession. Prosecutors say Williams fired three times at a Long Island man outside a hookah bar before the man grabbed his own gun and returned fire, killing Williams, according to a report in the New York Times.

    The shooting was later deemed justifiable, the paper reported.

    Bonnett’s Facebook page also pays homage to his deceased father, who authorities say was shot by an off-duty police officer.

    “Happy B day to my dad I love and miss u,” Bonnett wrote in November 2011. “I use to cry about it but I realized god just wanted us to meet in a better place. So until we meet again Happy birthday big P.”

    While Bonnett refers to his father as “big P,” a commenter identifies him as also having the name of Preston.

    An article published in the New York Times in August 1991 says a retired police officer shot and killed a Preston Bonnett, 18, of Queens, along with another man after they tried to rob him. At the time, Bonnett would have been 8 months old.

    On his Facebook page, Bonnett also rejoiced in December 2014 when his uncle got off death row.

    “After 20 plus years my uncle finally off death row,” Bonnett wrote, using the hash tag “godneverstopsworking.”

    WRAL-TV, a station in Raleigh, North Carolina, reported that the uncle, Shawn Derick Bonnett, was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder for the shooting death of a man during a store robbery.

    Initially sentenced to die, Shawn Bonnett’s sentence was changed to life without parole because he was not the shooter and others involved in the crime got lighter sentences, the station reported.

    ERIC MARK, staff writer, contributed to this report.

    http://citizensvoice.com/news/man-ch...past-1.2261861
    "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."
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    "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

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