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    Saraya Atkins Sentenced to LWOP for 2014 AL Slaying of Robert Perry


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    20-year-old Saraya Shakai Atkins, left, and 25-year-old
    Kymberli Elizabeth Lindsay, right, are charged with robbery
    and capital murder after a fatal shooting in Coden.



    Capital Murder Charges Sought for Coden Shooting Suspects

    By Allen Carter
    WKRG

    Two women accused of shooting a man to death in Coden Tuesday could face the death penalty for the crime.

    District Attorney Ashley Rich confirmed her office has upgraded charges to capital murder against Kymberli Lindsay and Saraya Atkins.

    Mobile County Sheriff’s investigators say the two followed 66-year-old Robert Perry and his daughter home to try to rob them. After a confrontation on Bayou Jonas Dr. in Coden detectives say Perry was gunned down in his car.

    The suspects apparently scouted out their victims after observing them cash a check at Wal-Mart. Investigators say the victim and suspect were not known to each other, saying the shooting was a random act.

    Lindsay and Atkins are set to appear before a judge Thursday morning for a bond hearing.

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    Death Penalty Trial Set for Kymberli Lindsay in 2014 AL Slaying of Robert Perry


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    20-year-old Saraya Shakai Atkins, left, and 25-year-old
    Kymberli Elizabeth Lindsay, right, are charged with robbery
    and capital murder after a fatal shooting in Coden.



    Capital Murder Charges Sought for Coden Shooting Suspects

    By Allen Carter
    WKRG

    Two women accused of shooting a man to death in Coden Tuesday could face the death penalty for the crime.

    District Attorney Ashley Rich confirmed her office has upgraded charges to capital murder against Kymberli Lindsay and Saraya Atkins.

    Mobile County Sheriff’s investigators say the two followed 66-year-old Robert Perry and his daughter home to try to rob them. After a confrontation on Bayou Jonas Dr. in Coden detectives say Perry was gunned down in his car.

    The suspects apparently scouted out their victims after observing them cash a check at Wal-Mart. Investigators say the victim and suspect were not known to each other, saying the shooting was a random act.

    Lindsay and Atkins are set to appear before a judge Thursday morning for a bond hearing.

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    Accused Coden roadside killers deserve to hang, victim's brother says

    By Michael Dumas
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    MOBILE, Alabama – The father killed while defending his stepdaughter during a roadside robbery was a good man who would give anything to anyone who asked. And it’s unthinkable he would die because someone wanted to take something from him, his brother said Monday.

    Robert Perry, 66, was shot to death near Bellingrath Road on March 11 after the car he and 42-year-old Stephanie Finney were riding in was forced off the road.

    According to prosecutors, it was Kymberli Lindsay, 25, and Saraya Atkins, 20, who rammed their car after following them 15 miles from a Walmart in Tillman’s Corner. Moments later, Perry was dead.

    The defendants were before Circuit Court Judge Michael Youngpeter for a preliminary hearing on Monday, and are charged with robbery and capital murder.

    “He was a good fella,” the victim’s younger brother, Terry Perry, said afterward. “He’d do anything for you, help you in any way.”

    According to a detective’s testimony on Monday, Lindsay and Atkins laid in wait outside a check-cashing counter in the store looking to “hit a lick,” or rob someone, hopefully with the proceeds from a tax-refund check.

    Detective Clifton Holifield told Judge Michael Youngpeter that there’s video evidence recovered from the store showing Lindsay sitting outside the check-cashing area.

    He said the two were looking for a woman without children to minimize the chance of resistance. The two followed Finney and Perry from the store, all the way onto Bayou Jonas Drive in Coden, where he lived, before they blocked his car in with their own, the detective said.

    Atkins held a .327-caliber pistol on the victims during the robbery, during which $1,900 was taken from Finney, according to testimony. When Perry went for the gun – which Holifield said belonged to Lindsay’s boyfriend – he was shot in the arm. The bullet went through his arm and severed the jugular vein in his chest.

    The defendants then fled, but when their car became mired in mud, they ran off on foot. They were in nearby woods when deputies apprehended them, Holifield said.

    Terry Perry said the circumstances of his brother’s death was “a tragedy for both families,” but that he’s clear on what he feels should happen if Atkins and Lindsay are convicted.

    “I think they should be hung, just like they did in the old days,” he said.

    The defendants are currently being held without bond in Mobile County Metro Jail. On Monday Judge Youngpeter found sufficient evidence to send their cases to a grand jury. The two could face the death penalty if convicted.

    Robert Perry has started a support fund for those he left behind. Details can be found here.

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    Accused Coden roadside killers deserve to hang, victim's brother says

    By Michael Dumas
    AL.com

    MOBILE, Alabama – The father killed while defending his stepdaughter during a roadside robbery was a good man who would give anything to anyone who asked. And it’s unthinkable he would die because someone wanted to take something from him, his brother said Monday.

    Robert Perry, 66, was shot to death near Bellingrath Road on March 11 after the car he and 42-year-old Stephanie Finney were riding in was forced off the road.

    According to prosecutors, it was Kymberli Lindsay, 25, and Saraya Atkins, 20, who rammed their car after following them 15 miles from a Walmart in Tillman’s Corner. Moments later, Perry was dead.

    The defendants were before Circuit Court Judge Michael Youngpeter for a preliminary hearing on Monday, and are charged with robbery and capital murder.

    “He was a good fella,” the victim’s younger brother, Terry Perry, said afterward. “He’d do anything for you, help you in any way.”

    According to a detective’s testimony on Monday, Lindsay and Atkins laid in wait outside a check-cashing counter in the store looking to “hit a lick,” or rob someone, hopefully with the proceeds from a tax-refund check.

    Detective Clifton Holifield told Judge Michael Youngpeter that there’s video evidence recovered from the store showing Lindsay sitting outside the check-cashing area.

    He said the two were looking for a woman without children to minimize the chance of resistance. The two followed Finney and Perry from the store, all the way onto Bayou Jonas Drive in Coden, where he lived, before they blocked his car in with their own, the detective said.

    Atkins held a .327-caliber pistol on the victims during the robbery, during which $1,900 was taken from Finney, according to testimony. When Perry went for the gun – which Holifield said belonged to Lindsay’s boyfriend – he was shot in the arm. The bullet went through his arm and severed the jugular vein in his chest.

    The defendants then fled, but when their car became mired in mud, they ran off on foot. They were in nearby woods when deputies apprehended them, Holifield said.

    Terry Perry said the circumstances of his brother’s death was “a tragedy for both families,” but that he’s clear on what he feels should happen if Atkins and Lindsay are convicted.

    “I think they should be hung, just like they did in the old days,” he said.

    The defendants are currently being held without bond in Mobile County Metro Jail. On Monday Judge Youngpeter found sufficient evidence to send their cases to a grand jury. The two could face the death penalty if convicted.

    Robert Perry has started a support fund for those he left behind. Details can be found here.

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    Jury Selection Begins In The Capital Murder Trial Of Saraya Atkins

    The capital murder trial of Saraya Atkins, a 22-year-old from Mobile, begins this week at Government Plaza in Mobile County with jury selection starting Monday.

    Atkins and another woman are accused of the murder of Robert Perry back in March of 2014. The other woman is Kimberli Lindsay, a 27-year-old also from Mobile, whose trial is scheduled to begin in May of 2017.

    According to investigators with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, Perry and his stepdaughter had left their home to go look at a car listed for sale on Craigslist. While looking at the vehicle, they encountered the two suspects who acted like they were interested in the same car. Once Perry and his stepdaughter left, they were followed by the two suspects. An altercation ensued once the two suspects tried to force their way into Perry’s car, and that’s when the shots were fired.

    The shooting occurred on Bayou Jonas Drive in Coden.

    Atkins has been in jail since the shooting. A judge denied her bond back in 2014.

    Since her stay in Mobile Metro Jail, Atkins has earned her GED. News 5 reported back in July 2016, that Atkins and four other inmates were apart of a graduation ceremony inside Mobile Metro Jail where they earned their GEDs.

    Atkins’ co-defendant, Kymberli Lindsay is scheduled for trial in May of 2017.

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    Jury Selection Begins In The Capital Murder Trial Of Saraya Atkins


    The capital murder trial of Saraya Atkins, a 22-year-old from Mobile, begins this week at Government Plaza in Mobile County with jury selection starting Monday.

    Atkins and another woman are accused of the murder of Robert Perry back in March of 2014. The other woman is Kimberli Lindsay, a 27-year-old also from Mobile, whose trial is scheduled to begin in May of 2017.

    According to investigators with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, Perry and his stepdaughter had left their home to go look at a car listed for sale on Craigslist. While looking at the vehicle, they encountered the two suspects who acted like they were interested in the same car. Once Perry and his stepdaughter left, they were followed by the two suspects. An altercation ensued once the two suspects tried to force their way into Perry’s car, and that’s when the shots were fired.

    The shooting occurred on Bayou Jonas Drive in Coden.

    Atkins has been in jail since the shooting. A judge denied her bond back in 2014.

    Since her stay in Mobile Metro Jail, Atkins has earned her GED. News 5 reported back in July 2016, that Atkins and four other inmates were apart of a graduation ceremony inside Mobile Metro Jail where they earned their GEDs.

    Atkins’ co-defendant, Kymberli Lindsay is scheduled for trial in May of 2017.

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    Saraya Atkins plotted to rob and kill her victims, prosecutors say

    By Prescotte Stokes III
    AL.com

    Opening statements and testimony began today in the trial against 22-year-old Saraya Atkins, who is charged with capital murder in the 2014 shooting death of of Robert Perry, 66.

    Police say Atkins and another woman, Kymberli Lindsay, 27 robbed and then killed Perry.

    Opening statements by Mobile District Attorney Ashley Rich laid out a well thought out robbery and murder by Atkins. Defense Attorney James Vollmer sought to convince jurors that while the robbery was thought out, the intent to kill Perry was not.

    Just after 9:45 a.m. in the courtroom of Judge Michael Youngpeter, eight family members of Perry filed into first row benches on the left hand side of the room behind Rich, while six family members of Atkins filled the benches behind Vollmer on the right side of the room.

    Atkins walked in with her head down in a white jumpsuit with her hair braided in slim cornrows from top to bottom. After judge Youngpeter swore in the jurors, Rich began laying out her case to jurors.

    She started with the the events of March 11, 2014 in chronological order.

    Perry had been asked by his stepdaughter Stephanie Finney, 45, to take her to look at a used car she wanted to purchase from a man on Craigslist. Perry, who Rich described as very tired after going through a round of radiation treatment for cancer that day, drove his wife's red Toyota Prius to Finney's home on Bayou Jonas Drive to pick her up.

    Rich then held up a large poster board with an aerial shot of the Wal-Mart location Perry drove Finney to that day.

    Finney had planned on cashing her $1,900 income tax check at the money store in the Wal-Mart on Bellingrath Road in Tillman's Corner. She also had planned to meet the seller of the used car at that same Wal-Mart location that day.

    Rich told jurors at the same time, Saraya Atkins had been facing some personal troubles of her own that lead her and Lindsay to cross paths with Perry and Finney that day.

    "She owed $600 dollars to Alabama Power and was about to be evicted from her apartment for non-payment of that bill," said Rich.

    Rich also said Atkins had a title loan on her white Chevrolet vehicle at the time that was also due and her family did not want to loan her any money.

    "She didn't have any money and she was going to get the money she needed," said Rich.

    Rich also said Atkins had recently been fired from her job and kicked out of college for non-payment of tuition.

    Rich said Atkins and Lindsay decided to ride to the Bel-Air Mall and find a license plate to steal off another white Chevrolet vehicle that matched her own. Rich said video surveillance at the Dillard's store shows both women unscrewing the license plate off a woman's vehicle and putting it on Atkins car.

    Next, they went to a male friend of Lindsay's, Terry James, to get his revolver to use in the robbery. Rich put on a pair of lavender latex gloves as she grabbed the revolver from the evidence pile and held it up for jurors.

    "They were going to sit outside the money store and pick and wait for a victim," said Rich.

    Rich said video surveillance shows the plot played put in real time. When the two women got to the Wal-Mart location, Atkins parked in a fire lane while Lindsay went inside to get diapers, wipes and to look for a potential victim.

    After spotting Finney in the store, Lindsay sits on a bench at 2:41 p.m. and talks to Atkins for a little more than eighteen minutes picking out a person to rob.

    As soon as Finney leaves the store, Lindsay follows her to see what vehicle she gets into before getting back in the car with Atkins. Perry and Finney drive to the back side of the Garden Center at Wal-Mart and meet the seller of the used car. Atkins and

    Lindsay pull into a parking space at a distance and watch.

    "They know now they didn't give him any money and they are ready," said Rich.

    Finney decides not to buy the car after checking it out with Perry and they decide to head home. Atkins and Lindsay realize this and follow the pair, 15 miles away, to Bayou Jonas Drive. Once they get about half way up the street, Atkins speeds up and cuts Perry off forcing him to slam on his brakes and hit the rear of Atkins car in the wet weather.

    "She gets out the car with that loaded revolver screaming, 'Give me your wallet," said Rich.

    Perry rolled down the window and tried to give her his wallet and Atkins screams again.

    "I don't want your wallet, I want her wallet," said Rich to the jurors.

    Finney hands her wallet to Atkins, who reaches inside the driver side window with the revolver to get the wallet. Perry tries to grab the gun and the wallet falls. He told Finney to run before the first gunshot went off and missed Perry going through the open passenger door as Finney tried to escape.

    During the struggle for the gun, Perry gave up and tried to slide out the passenger side of the car. The second shot struck Perry in the left arm and pierce his jugular vein and exited his right side. The third gunshot went into the driver seat and into the gas tank.

    "She opens the car door as he's dying and takes the wallet and flees," said Rich.

    Rich said Lindsay never got out the car and that Atkins did not realize that Bayou Jonas Road was a dead end street as they sped off. The two women got out of the vehicle and ran into the woods for about two miles before getting caught by Mobile County

    Sheriff's Office deputies. The $1900 in cash wasn't found until after the two women were booked inside metro jail.

    "The $1,900 dollars in cash was found in their vaginas and the revolver was found in the floorboard of the Chevy," said Rich.

    She closed her statements by saying to jurors the state only has to prove three charges against Atkins. Capital murder, first degree robbery and theft of property with the intent to murder Perry.

    Defense Attorney James Vollmer got up in an unbuttoned charcoal suit, white shirt and burgundy tie with thin clear glasses covering his eyes with a short statement for the jury.

    "This is not capital murder, it's felony murder," said Vollmer. "As difficult as this may be to say, but she intended to rob someone but not to kill someone."

    He said audio of Atkins statements to police detectives after being arrested will clearly show that.

    "Once she learned of his death from detectives later that night she was horrified," said Vollmer.

    He described Atkins to jurors as a 20-year-old girl from Michigan who had just moved to Mobile after meeting a guy. College didn't work out, so she dropped out of school and she met Lindsay at her most recent job.

    "Within six months, she finds herself broke out of work and out of options," said Vollmer to jurors.

    He said there is no witness that can tell jurors beyond a reasonable doubt what her intent was that day.

    "She had an intent to commit robbery and she was just a lost girl," said Vollmer.

    After a brief huddle with Youngpeter, Rich called her first witness to the stand, Stephanie Finney.

    Finney recalled the day and the sequence of events Rich had just described in opening statements. Finney struggled to get through her testimony, shedding tears constantly, Rich slowly guided her through the testimony.

    Family members on both sides sniffled and put their hands over their mouths when Rich entered into evidence a picture of Perry's body hanging out the passenger door of the Red Toyota Prius. With tears in her eyes, Finney told jurors:

    "He didn't move so I ran in the woods," said Finney. "I knew the street was a dead end if I would've stayed I was afraid she'd try to kill me."

    Defense Attorney Greg Hughes stood by and took notes right behind Rich at the podium before cross examining Finney. He focused on a statement he claimed she made to police that two women approached the car during the robbery.

    Finney denied those statements and told jurors she never remembered saying that to any police detectives.

    Judge Youngpeter called for a short break after her testimony. District Attorney Ashely Rich said she expects the case to be done in a week.

    Testimony will continue Tuesday morning in jYoungpeter's courtroom.

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    Saraya Atkins plotted to rob and kill her victims, prosecutors say

    By Prescotte Stokes III
    AL.com

    Opening statements and testimony began today in the trial against 22-year-old Saraya Atkins, who is charged with capital murder in the 2014 shooting death of of Robert Perry, 66.

    Police say Atkins and another woman, Kymberli Lindsay, 27 robbed and then killed Perry.

    Opening statements by Mobile District Attorney Ashley Rich laid out a well thought out robbery and murder by Atkins. Defense Attorney James Vollmer sought to convince jurors that while the robbery was thought out, the intent to kill Perry was not.

    Just after 9:45 a.m. in the courtroom of Judge Michael Youngpeter, eight family members of Perry filed into first row benches on the left hand side of the room behind Rich, while six family members of Atkins filled the benches behind Vollmer on the right side of the room.

    Atkins walked in with her head down in a white jumpsuit with her hair braided in slim cornrows from top to bottom. After judge Youngpeter swore in the jurors, Rich began laying out her case to jurors.

    She started with the the events of March 11, 2014 in chronological order.

    Perry had been asked by his stepdaughter Stephanie Finney, 45, to take her to look at a used car she wanted to purchase from a man on Craigslist. Perry, who Rich described as very tired after going through a round of radiation treatment for cancer that day, drove his wife's red Toyota Prius to Finney's home on Bayou Jonas Drive to pick her up.

    Rich then held up a large poster board with an aerial shot of the Wal-Mart location Perry drove Finney to that day.

    Finney had planned on cashing her $1,900 income tax check at the money store in the Wal-Mart on Bellingrath Road in Tillman's Corner. She also had planned to meet the seller of the used car at that same Wal-Mart location that day.

    Rich told jurors at the same time, Saraya Atkins had been facing some personal troubles of her own that lead her and Lindsay to cross paths with Perry and Finney that day.

    "She owed $600 dollars to Alabama Power and was about to be evicted from her apartment for non-payment of that bill," said Rich.

    Rich also said Atkins had a title loan on her white Chevrolet vehicle at the time that was also due and her family did not want to loan her any money.

    "She didn't have any money and she was going to get the money she needed," said Rich.

    Rich also said Atkins had recently been fired from her job and kicked out of college for non-payment of tuition.

    Rich said Atkins and Lindsay decided to ride to the Bel-Air Mall and find a license plate to steal off another white Chevrolet vehicle that matched her own. Rich said video surveillance at the Dillard's store shows both women unscrewing the license plate off a woman's vehicle and putting it on Atkins car.

    Next, they went to a male friend of Lindsay's, Terry James, to get his revolver to use in the robbery. Rich put on a pair of lavender latex gloves as she grabbed the revolver from the evidence pile and held it up for jurors.

    "They were going to sit outside the money store and pick and wait for a victim," said Rich.

    Rich said video surveillance shows the plot played put in real time. When the two women got to the Wal-Mart location, Atkins parked in a fire lane while Lindsay went inside to get diapers, wipes and to look for a potential victim.

    After spotting Finney in the store, Lindsay sits on a bench at 2:41 p.m. and talks to Atkins for a little more than eighteen minutes picking out a person to rob.

    As soon as Finney leaves the store, Lindsay follows her to see what vehicle she gets into before getting back in the car with Atkins. Perry and Finney drive to the back side of the Garden Center at Wal-Mart and meet the seller of the used car. Atkins and

    Lindsay pull into a parking space at a distance and watch.

    "They know now they didn't give him any money and they are ready," said Rich.

    Finney decides not to buy the car after checking it out with Perry and they decide to head home. Atkins and Lindsay realize this and follow the pair, 15 miles away, to Bayou Jonas Drive. Once they get about half way up the street, Atkins speeds up and cuts Perry off forcing him to slam on his brakes and hit the rear of Atkins car in the wet weather.

    "She gets out the car with that loaded revolver screaming, 'Give me your wallet," said Rich.

    Perry rolled down the window and tried to give her his wallet and Atkins screams again.

    "I don't want your wallet, I want her wallet," said Rich to the jurors.

    Finney hands her wallet to Atkins, who reaches inside the driver side window with the revolver to get the wallet. Perry tries to grab the gun and the wallet falls. He told Finney to run before the first gunshot went off and missed Perry going through the open passenger door as Finney tried to escape.

    During the struggle for the gun, Perry gave up and tried to slide out the passenger side of the car. The second shot struck Perry in the left arm and pierce his jugular vein and exited his right side. The third gunshot went into the driver seat and into the gas tank.

    "She opens the car door as he's dying and takes the wallet and flees," said Rich.

    Rich said Lindsay never got out the car and that Atkins did not realize that Bayou Jonas Road was a dead end street as they sped off. The two women got out of the vehicle and ran into the woods for about two miles before getting caught by Mobile County

    Sheriff's Office deputies. The $1900 in cash wasn't found until after the two women were booked inside metro jail.

    "The $1,900 dollars in cash was found in their vaginas and the revolver was found in the floorboard of the Chevy," said Rich.

    She closed her statements by saying to jurors the state only has to prove three charges against Atkins. Capital murder, first degree robbery and theft of property with the intent to murder Perry.

    Defense Attorney James Vollmer got up in an unbuttoned charcoal suit, white shirt and burgundy tie with thin clear glasses covering his eyes with a short statement for the jury.

    "This is not capital murder, it's felony murder," said Vollmer. "As difficult as this may be to say, but she intended to rob someone but not to kill someone."

    He said audio of Atkins statements to police detectives after being arrested will clearly show that.

    "Once she learned of his death from detectives later that night she was horrified," said Vollmer.

    He described Atkins to jurors as a 20-year-old girl from Michigan who had just moved to Mobile after meeting a guy. College didn't work out, so she dropped out of school and she met Lindsay at her most recent job.

    "Within six months, she finds herself broke out of work and out of options," said Vollmer to jurors.

    He said there is no witness that can tell jurors beyond a reasonable doubt what her intent was that day.

    "She had an intent to commit robbery and she was just a lost girl," said Vollmer.

    After a brief huddle with Youngpeter, Rich called her first witness to the stand, Stephanie Finney.

    Finney recalled the day and the sequence of events Rich had just described in opening statements. Finney struggled to get through her testimony, shedding tears constantly, Rich slowly guided her through the testimony.

    Family members on both sides sniffled and put their hands over their mouths when Rich entered into evidence a picture of Perry's body hanging out the passenger door of the Red Toyota Prius. With tears in her eyes, Finney told jurors:

    "He didn't move so I ran in the woods," said Finney. "I knew the street was a dead end if I would've stayed I was afraid she'd try to kill me."

    Defense Attorney Greg Hughes stood by and took notes right behind Rich at the podium before cross examining Finney. He focused on a statement he claimed she made to police that two women approached the car during the robbery.

    Finney denied those statements and told jurors she never remembered saying that to any police detectives.

    Judge Youngpeter called for a short break after her testimony. District Attorney Ashely Rich said she expects the case to be done in a week.

    Testimony will continue Tuesday morning in jYoungpeter's courtroom.

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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.”
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    Saraya Atkins guilty of capital murder in 2014 robbery, shooting

    A jury in Mobile County has found 22-year-old Saraya Atkins guilty of capital murder, robbery and theft in the 2014 shooting death of Robert Perry, 66.

    Police say Atkins and another woman, Kymberli Lindsay, 27 robbed and then killed Perry.

    Perry was shot to death on March 11, 2014.

    Perry had been asked by his stepdaughter Stephanie Finney, 45, to take her to look at a used car she wanted to purchase from a man on Craigslist. Perry, said Mobile District Attorney Ashley Rich earlier in the trial, drove his wife's red Toyota Prius to Finney's home on Bayou Jonas Drive to pick her up.

    Finney had planned on cashing her $1,900 income tax check at the money store in the Wal-Mart in Tillman's Corner and meet the seller of the used car at that same Wal-Mart.

    Perry had been asked by his stepdaughter Stephanie Finney, 45, to take her to look at a used car she wanted to purchase from a man on Craigslist. Perry, said Mobile District Attorney Ashley Rich earlier in the trial, drove his wife's red Toyota Prius to Finney's home on Bayou Jonas Drive to pick her up.

    Finney had planned on cashing her $1,900 income tax check at the money store in the Wal-Mart in Tillman's Corner and meet the seller of the used car at that same Wal-Mart.

    Rich told jurors Atkins had been facing some personal troubles of her own that led her and Lindsay to cross paths with Perry and Finney that day.

    "She didn't have any money and she was going to get the money she needed," said Rich.

    Rich said Atkins and Lindsay decided to ride to the Bel-Air Mall and find a license plate to steal off another white Chevrolet vehicle that matched her own. Rich said video surveillance at the Dillard's store shows both women unscrewing the license plate off a woman's vehicle and putting it on Atkins car.

    As soon as Finney left the store, Lindsay followed her to see what vehicle she gets into before getting back in the car with Atkins. Perry and Finney drove to the back side of the Garden Center at Wal-Mart and meet the seller of the used car. Atkins and Lindsay pull into a parking space at a distance and watch.

    Finney decides not to buy the car after checking it out with Perry and they decide to head home. Atkins and Lindsay realize this and follow the pair, 15 miles away, to Bayou Jonas Drive. Once they get about half way up the street, Atkins speeds up and cuts Perry off forcing him to slam on his brakes and hit the rear of Atkins car in the wet weather.

    "She gets out the car with that loaded revolver screaming, 'Give me your wallet," said Rich.

    Perry rolled down the window and tried to give her his wallet and Atkins screams again.

    "I don't want your wallet, I want her wallet," said Rich to the jurors.

    Finney hands her wallet to Atkins, who reaches inside the driver side window with the revolver to get the wallet. Perry tries to grab the gun and the wallet falls. He told Finney to run before the first gunshot went off and missed Perry going through the open passenger door as Finney tried to escape.

    During the struggle for the gun, Perry gave up and tried to slide out the passenger side of the car. The second shot struck Perry in the left arm and pierce his jugular vein and exited his right side. The third gunshot went into the driver seat and into the gas tank.

    "She opens the car door as he's dying and takes the wallet and flees," said Rich.

    Rich said Lindsay never got out the car and that Atkins did not realize that Bayou Jonas Road was a dead end street as they sped off. The two women got out of the vehicle and ran into the woods for about two miles before getting caught by Mobile County Sheriff's Office deputies. The $1900 in cash wasn't found until after the two women were booked inside metro jail.

    "The $1,900 dollars in cash was found in their vaginas and the revolver was found in the floorboard of the Chevy," said Rich.

    Defense Attorney James Vollmer had maintained the homicide was not planned.

    "This is not capital murder, it's felony murder," Vollmer said during opening statements. "As difficult as this may be to say, but she intended to rob someone but not to kill someone."

    He said audio of Atkins statements to police detectives after being arrested clearly shows that.

    "Once she learned of his death from detectives later that night she was horrified," said Vollmer.

    http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/in...s_verdict.html

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