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    Bartholomew Romidas Scott Sentenced to 7 to 10 Years in 2014 NC Manslaughter of 33-Year-Old Lew Hahn Hood


    Lew Hahn Hood, 33


    Defense attorney Matt Suczynski, left, and murder defendant Bartholomew Romidas Scott


    Chapel Hill police make arrest in fatal shooting

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    http://www.thedurhamnews.com/2014/06...9/586/928/930/

    CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -Chapel Hill Police Department said a 35-year-old man was arrested in connection with a shooting Friday near Fordham Boulevard and south of the University of North Carolina campus.

    The Chapel Hill Police said that around 11:54 a.m., officers were dispatched to a residence on Christopher Road about a report of a breaking and entering and someone being shot.

    Upon arrival, officers found a man who had been shot on the scene. Chapel Hill police identified the victim as 33-year-old Lew Hahn Hood. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

    Police arrested Bartholomew Romidas Scott Friday and charged him with first-degree murder. He is being held at the Orange County Jail without bond, police said.

    Two nearby schools, St. Thomas More Catholic School and Glenwood Elementary, were on lock down for part of the day. Police said there was never a direct threat to the schools, but school officials chose to shut them down as a precaution.

    "The first thing is you're concerned about the safety of your kids and all the kids in the building," said Bob Mackinnon. He has two sons that attend the school. "But also there is a confidence of how they handle things at St. Thomas More."

    http://www.wncn.com/story/25652423/c...ol-on-lockdown
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    Brandon Shamar Townsend


    Second Man Charged in Chapel Hill Murder

    CHAPEL HILL (WTVD) -- Chapel Hill police have charged a second person in a May 30 shooting that left a man dead outside a home in the 100 block of Christopher Drive.

    Twenty-one-year-old Brandon Shamar Townsend is charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.

    He was captured Wednesday morning in Durham by US Marshals.

    Police already had 35-year-old Bartholomew Romidas Scott in custody for the death of 33-year-old Lew Hahn Hood.

    Hood was shot multiple times. Investigators have not explained the relationship between the men.

    http://abc11.com/news/second-man-cha...murder/121691/
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    Man arrested in Chapel Hill murder had been suspect in Shakanah China case

    Just weeks after charged were dropped for one murder, a Durham man is back in jail and charged with another.

    Brandon Shamar Townsend, 21, of Durham, is charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in connection with the death of 33-year-old Lew Hahn Hood on May 30.

    Townsend had been released in April after 682 days in jail for the murder of 13-year-old Durham girl Shakanah China. Durham District Attorney Leon Stanback said just before Townsend was to stand trial that the charges were dropped for a number of reasons, including DNA evidence arriving late from the SBI.

    Demetriss China, the mother of Shakanah, told WNCN Thursday, “Hopefully I hope that justice will be served. Even though it's not going to bring my daughter back and it's not going to bring that person back or nothing like that right there, but justice should be served."

    At the time Townsend was released, Townsend's attorney, Scott Holmes, said, “It says to me that they had to admit at that point that they had no case. That they lacked evidence against my client and they didn't even have enough evidence to try to explain to a judge why this case should continue."

    Holmes said Thursday he no longer represents Holmes.

    Shakanah’s mother, Demetriss, said Townsend “shouldn’t have gotten out from the first get-go.”

    “If they would have kept him in there, I think that person would still be living," she said.

    Police said Hood was found shot to death at the scene of a breaking and entering at 102 S. Christopher Road.

    Bartholomew Romidas Scott was previously charged with first-degree murder in Hood's death.

    http://www.wncn.com/story/25811464/2...enttype=mobile
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    Warrants divulge Chapel Hill shooting details

    BY TAMMY GRUBB
    The Chapel Hill News

    CHAPEL HILL — Suspected cocaine and an argument about money may have fueled the fatal shooting of a Durham man May 30, warrants show.

    Chapel Hill police officers found Lew Hahn “Ron” Hood, 33, of Durham, lying in the driveway with a gunshot wound to the head, an investigator reported in the warrant. Police responded to 102 S. Christopher Road shortly before noon after receiving a 911 call about a breaking and entering at the house.

    Bartholomew Romindas Scott, 35, and Brandon Shamar Townsend, 21, both of Durham, have been charged with first-degree murder. Townsend also is charged with attempted first-degree murder.

    The charge suggests there may have been another victim, and warrants show a fourth man was present during the shooting. Police have not released details or a motive for the crime.

    The suspects are being held in the Orange County Jail.

    In the warrant, Chapel Hill investigators report seizing a Samsung cell phone belonging to Scott on May 30. The home’s owner, Scott Campbell, later told police that Scott had texted him at 12:13 p.m. to say he “needed an attorney quick.”

    The warrant does not say where Campbell was at the time. It does, however, describe what police learned after the shooting.

    People at the house had been fighting all morning, neighbors told police. According to the warrant, Scott told the 911 operator he shot someone during the break-in and was afraid other people who had been there might come back.

    Police only found Scott and the victim at the house, the warrant said. His attorney said in a June court hearing that the call is the only evidence prosecutors have against his client.

    Police searched the house, finding bullet holes in the glass front door, the warrant said.

    Several small-caliber shell casings were found in a stairwell leading upstairs and shotgun shells were scattered around the house, it said.

    Police also found a “white powder substance on the kitchen counter next to a cigarette that appeared to be cocaine,” the warrant said.

    Scott was not immediately arrested but went with an officer to the Chapel Hill Police Department to talk about what happened, the warrant said. He texted someone several times during the interview, it said.

    Scott later was found to have been texting Townsend, according to a separate warrant for a DNA sample from Townsend. The messages included directions to the house and details about where to find a weapon, the warrant said. Police also discovered that a man was seen driving a burgundy S-10 pickup truck – similar to one owned by Townsend’s mother – near the house and shortly after the 911 call.

    Police also talked with another man, whose name is not being released because of concern for his safety, prosecutors said.

    The man told police he went with Hood to the house that morning, according to the warrant.

    Scott was there, the witness said, and Hood was complaining that Scott owed him money. The witness said he saw a man wearing a black mask pointing a gun at his face. Scott started backing up, the witness told police, and the masked man pulled the trigger.

    The gun jammed, and he ran, the witness said. He hid in a closet but escaped through a window and ran into the woods when he heard more shots, the witness said.

    Police found a black mask later, while searching Scott, a warrant said. The warrant did not say which man was wearing the mask during the shooting.

    Scott’s next appearance in a Hillsborough courtroom is scheduled for Aug. 19; Townsend will appear in court Aug. 11.

    In 2012, Townsend was charged with murder in the 2011 Durham drive-by shooting in which 13-year-old Shakanah China was killed while playing in front of her home. Durham County’s district attorney dismissed the charge against Townsend because DNA results were not back yet from the SBI.

    The charge could be reinstated if the results show Townsend was involved.

    Officials think the shooter was aiming at rival gang members playing basketball nearby.

    http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2014/0...9/586/885/887/
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    - 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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    Judge gives Durham man 7 to 10 years for Chapel Hill shooting death

    CHAPEL HILL — Superior Court Judge A. Graham Shirley sentenced a Durham man to between seven and 10 years in prison Monday for the 2014 shooting death of another man at a Chapel Hill home.

    The jury of six men and six women deliberated for several hours over two days before finding Bartholomew Scott, 38, guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Scott fatally shot Chapel Hill resident Lew Hahn “Ron” Hood, 33, on South Christopher Road on May 30, 2014.

    In sentencing Scott, Shirley considered two aggravating factors: that he was armed with and used a deadly weapon in Hood’s death. Scott could have faced a maximum sentence of 13 years and 4 months in prison. He will get credit for nearly three years served in the Orange County Jail.

    The jury found Scott not guilty on charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Jurors had to find Scott acted with malice, premeditation and deliberation to convict him of first-degree murder.

    http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/...151959222.html

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