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    Garry Joseph Gupton Sentenced to LWOP in 2014 NC Murder of Stephen Patrick White


    Victim Stephen Patrick White, 46, and suspect Garry Joseph Gupton


    Police: Army veteran severely beaten by man he met at a bar dies; was badly burned in attack

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – An Army veteran beaten by a man he met at a bar died Saturday afternoon, nearly a week after being hospitalized with burns so bad that parts of both arms had to be amputated, police and his partner said.

    Veteran Stephen Patrick White, 46, died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, authorities said.

    Greensboro Police spokeswoman Susan Danielsen confirmed the death when contacted by The Associated Press. She said a 26-year-old man, Garry Joseph Gupton, has now been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the beating last Sunday. A Greensboro city employee, Gupton had initially been charged with aggravated assault with intent to kill, according to police.

    Danielsen has said there was no indication the incident was motivated by the sexuality of the victim.

    "We believe this was a consensual encounter between the two of them, and at some point Mr. Gupton began acting incredibly irrational," Danielsen had said recently.

    Alex Teal, White's longtime partner, had previously told AP White had most of both arms amputated after he was severely burned in a hotel room that caught fire during the Nov. 9 attack.

    He said White, who had been listed in critical condition, had made some small improvements earlier in the week.

    "Yesterday, he had a good day ... I gave him applesauce. He drank water, and he was doing good. His blood pressure was fine. Everything was fine Friday, everything was fine," Teal told AP by phone late Saturday.

    But Teal said White's health deteriorated early Saturday, when he had to be put on a ventilator, and that White died about 3 p.m.

    Jim Olive, a bartender at the Chemistry Nightclub in Greensboro, had said earlier in the week that he had seen White and Gupton leave together in a cab around closing time early on Nov. 9. About 4:30 a.m. that Sunday, an employee at Greensboro's Battleground Inn called 911 to report a man screaming. Around the same time, the fire alarm also was tripped.

    Police said Gupton was arrested and the hotel had to be evacuated. Firefighters found White unconscious and badly burned in a fourth-floor room.

    Public Defender Wayne T. Baucino said he met Gupton for the first time Friday. He declined to comment on the case.

    Gupton had not entered a plea earlier and an earlier $250,000 bond has been revoked, according to Gilford County jail records posted online late Saturday. His next scheduled court appearance is Dec. 10.

    Guilford County Assistant District Attorney Howard Newman said recently that it appeared White was struck with a telephone, television and another small piece of furniture. He said the fire appeared to have been intentionally set.

    Chemistry and another bar were holding fundraisers Saturday night to help cover White's treatment. But following White's death, organizers said the proceeds would be given to the man's family.

    Teal said White served in the Army during the late 1980s, then spent several years with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Federal Air Marshal Service. He worked as a security contractor in Iraq in 2005 when he suffered severe injuries in a blast, Teal said.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/15...dly-burned-in/
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    Greensboro fires man charged in vet's hotel death


    GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The City of Greensboro has fired the man charged with murder in connection with the fatal assault of an Army vet at a hotel.

    The News & Record of Greensboro reports
    that city spokesman Donnie Turlington says 26-year-old Garry Joseph Gupton was fired from his job in the water resources department on Sunday.

    Turlington said Gupton had worked for the city since April 2012 and was hired fulltime last year.

    Gupton is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Stephen Patrick White. The 46-year-old veteran died Saturday afternoon, nearly a week after being hospitalized with burns so bad that parts of both arms had to be amputated.

    http://www.armytimes.com/story/milit...eath/19210679/
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    Man Indicted In Murder Of Greensboro Soldier Stephen White

    GREENSBORO, N.C. -- One month after a Greensboro Veteran died from injuries sustained in an attack at a Triad hotel, the man police believe is responsible was indicted by a grand jury.

    A Guilford County grand jury indicted Garry Joseph Gupton on charges of Felony First Degree Murder and First Degree Arson on Monday.

    Gupton, a former Greensboro city employee, is accused of assaulting 46-year-old Stephen White in a room at the Battleground Inn on November 9. White died from his injuries on November 15.

    The indictment for Felony First Degree Murder reads, "The jurors for the State upon their oath present that on or the date of offense shown and in the county named above unlawfully, willfully and feloniously did of malice aforethought kill and murder Stephen Patrick White."

    The indictment for First Degree Arson reads, "The jurors for the State upon their oath present that on or about the date of offense shown and in Guilford County the defendant named above unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously did maliciously burn the dwelling house inhabited by Stephen Patrick White, located at 1517 Westover Terrace, Greensboro, North Carolina. At the time of the burning, Stephen Patrick White was in the dwelling house."

    A hotel employee called 911 around 4:30 a.m on November 9 to report a man screaming in the hotel. At the same time, a fire alarm in the hotel went off.

    When authorities arrived, they identified the screaming man at 26-year-old Gupton. White was found unconscious in a room with serious injuries including burns on 50-percent of his body.

    He was taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem where he died one week after the attack.

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    DA to ask judge for death penalty in case of man found burned in hotel

    If a judge approves, the Guilford County District Attorney’s Office intends to seek the death penalty in a high-profile slaying of a former city worker accused of setting fire to a hotel room with a man inside.

    Garry Joseph Gupton, 27, of 1312 Wiley Lewis Road, is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson in the death of Stephen Patrick White, 46, of 1722 Aftonshire Drive.

    The district attorney’s office announced in court filings that it will seek the death penalty in the case on two factors, according to Howard Neumann, chief prosecutor with the district attorney’s office. The factors are that the slaying was especially heinous, atrocious and cruel and the death was committed during an arson.

    The hearing to determine whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Gupton will be scheduled during the week of May 16 in Guilford County Superior Court.

    Gupton and White met at Chemistry nightclub Nov. 8, 2014 in Greensboro, then went to the Battleground Inn at 1517 Westover Terrace, police said. White was found assaulted and burned in a fourth-story room of the hotel in the early hours of Nov. 9. He died from complications of his injuries at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center on Nov. 15, 2014.

    According to court documents, Gupton activated the fire alarm at the Battleground Inn, then ran screaming throughout the hotel. When responding police officers arrived to talk to Gupton they saw smoke coming from a room officers later learned had been rented by White, documents stated.

    In a publicly released 911 call made by a hotel employee, the caller says a man, later identified as Gupton, is running around the hotel shirtless and, “just flipped out.” He can be heard in the background yelling obscenities.

    During the investigation, Gupton told police, “he believed he was possibly given an unknown drug that altered his mental state,” according court documents. He had his blood drawn at Wesley Long Hospital and sent to the N.C. State Crime Lab for testing. It's not known publicly what the results are.

    Responding officers tried to enter the hotel room where White was unconscious, but the smoke was too heavy, according to court documents. Firefighters went in and found White on the floor of the room with severe burns.

    Firefighters said, “There were items, possibly items of furniture, laying on top of (White) when they found him,” court documents state. White had significant trauma to his head.

    Neumann has said it appeared White had also been struck with a telephone, TV and other furniture.

    White was initially brought to Moses Cone Hospital for his injuries, then taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Both of his arms were partially amputated because of his wounds.

    Gupton was initially charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill for White’s injuries. When White died on Nov. 15, 2014, the charge was upgraded to first-degree murder. The district attorney’s office has since dismissed the assault charge due to the murder charge, according to court documents.

    The case has garnered wide interest in part because Gupton was employed by the city of Greensboro in the water resources department. The city fired him on Nov. 16, 2014. The case has also generated national interest from the gay community. Police and the district attorney's have determined White's death was not a hate crime.

    http://www.greensboro.com/news/crime...30704d856.html
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    Judge: DA can seek death penalty in 2014 beating, burning of Greensboro man

    By Sarah Newell Williamson
    News & Record

    GREENSBORO — Three aggravating factors have moved the Guilford County District Attorney’s Office to pursue the death penalty against a Greensboro man for a 2014 slaying.

    Garry Joseph Gupton, 27, of 1312 Wiley Lewis Road, is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson in the death of Stephen Patrick White, 46, of 1722 Aftonshire Drive, who died following a fire in a hotel room.

    Prosecutor Robert Enochs said he would pursue the death penalty because White’s death was especially heinous, atrocious and cruel; the crime was committed during the secondary crime of arson; and the crime committed at great risk of death to other people by starting a fire in a hotel.

    After listening to Enochs, Superior Court Judge David Hall announced there are at least two aggravating factors in the case and that it qualifies for capital punishment. The case was continued to an unspecified date. Gupton remains jailed without bail.

    Gupton and White met at Chemistry Nightclub on Nov. 8, 2014, then went to the Battleground Inn at 1517 Westover Terrace, police said.

    In court Monday, Enochs said Gupton beat White while he was still alive and started a fire in the hotel room with a lighter.

    White had burns on more than half his body, and his right arm below his elbow and his left arm below the shoulder were amputated in an effort to save him, Enochs said.

    White died from his injuries at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center on Nov. 15, 2014.

    Gupton, then an employee with the city, was fired from his job the next day.

    Gupton, now with closed-cropped hair, showed little reaction during his court hearing, other than to greet Hall when he first came into the courtroom.

    Three of White’s family members attended the hearing but declined to comment.

    http://www.greensboro.com/news/crime...f8fe59cc6.html
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    Jury selection may prove difficult in Greensboro death penalty case

    By Danielle Battaglia
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    GREENSBORO — Jury selection is a difficult enough process on a first-degree murder trial, but coupling that charge with sensitive topics and a possible death sentence may make seating a panel more difficult next week.

    On Monday, 29-year-old Garry Gupton of Greensboro faces the death penalty if convicted in the Nov. 15, 2014, death of 46-year-old Stephen White.

    Police said Gupton met White at Chemistry Nightclub — a gay bar and lounge — and took him to the Battleground Inn at 1517 W. Wendover Terrace in Greensboro. Gupton is accused of assaulting White and then setting his body on fire in a fourth-floor hotel room.

    On Wednesday, Gupton told Superior Court Judge Michael Duncan that his attorneys Ames Chamberlin and Wayne Baucino have his permission to admit to some of the accusations, but plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

    In a last-minute effort to save their client from a death sentence, Chamberlin and Baucino filed a motion asking Duncan to rule the death penalty as unconstitutional. Duncan denied that motion.

    Duncan, Chamberlin, Baucino and Assistant District Attorney Robert Enochs spent the majority of Wednesday afternoon figuring out how best to choose an impartial jury for Gupton’s trial, which is expected to last between three to five weeks.

    They all agreed that it will be a difficult case to seat a jury because it deals with mental health issues, homosexual relationships and the possibility of sentencing someone to death — topics many people have strong opinions about.

    “I think that someone who believes that all homosexuals are sinners and should be sent off somewhere can’t be fair and impartial,” Baucino told the judge.

    Court officials agreed to give the jury pool a questionnaire to fill out Monday morning with questions about their views on homosexual relationships, mental health and alcoholism, among other things.

    The rationale was to allow potential jurors to openly discuss their views of these topics without putting them on the spot in front of their peers.

    After finishing the questionnaire, the jury candidates will then be divided into pools. The first pool of 24 people will be questioned to see whether they can be fair and impartial to both sides. As candidates for the jury are whittled out, 12 more people will come to the courtroom to be asked the same series of questions until a full jury panel is selected.

    The Guilford County Clerk of Courts office anticipates 180 people showing up for jury selection Monday morning.

    http://www.greensboro.com/news/crime...d8f319e9b.html
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    Death penalty trial starts Monday in Greensboro

    By Danielle Battaglia
    Greensboro News & Record

    In May 2016, Assistant District Attorney Robert Enochs announced he would seek the death penalty against Gupton because his alleged actions were especially heinous, atrocious and cruel; that the killing was committed during the secondary crime of arson and that it was committed at a great risk of death to other people in the hotel.

    White served in the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg and the Joint Security Force in Korea. He also worked for the U.S. Border Patrol, Federal Air Marshal Service and Blackwater Security, according to his obituary.

    Friends and family remembered White as a wonderful person, with a strong work ethic, kind soul, caring heart and warm personality, according to an online memorial page. His family declined an interview ahead of the trial.

    Gupton has remained in the Guilford County jail since his arrest in November 2014.

    On Wednesday, Gupton’s attorneys Ames Chamberlin and Wayne Baucino said they plan to admit guilt on Gupton’s behalf to some of the charges. However, the attorneys said their client will plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

    Guilford County Chief Assistant District Attorney Howard Neumann said prosecutors have had to wait until this week to bring Gupton to trial because he was undergoing testing for his insanity plea. Neumann said Gupton was determined to be competent to stand trial.

    If convicted, he would be the first person from Guilford County since 2011 sent to death row. There are 145 people on death row in North Carolina.

    The Guilford County Clerk of Courts office anticipates at least 180 residents to appear in court today for jury selection. Court officials anticipate that jury selection will take at least a week in what is expected to be a three- to five-week trial.

    The attorneys and the judge have concerns about making sure they select a fair and impartial jury because of some of the topics that will come up in evidence.

    One of the main concerns is that White and Gupton met the night of the attack at the Chemistry Nightclub, a gay bar and lounge in Greensboro.

    “I think that someone who believes that all homosexuals are sinners and should be sent off somewhere can’t be fair and impartial,” Baucino told Superior Court Judge Michael Duncan during last week’s hearing.

    Baucino and Chamberlin compiled a questionnaire to gauge jurors’ feelings about mental health issues, homosexuality and the death sentence. Potential jurors will fill out the questionnaire before being divided into groups to be brought into the courtroom for questioning. The questioning will help determine if the jurors can be fair and impartial to both the defendant and the victim.

    http://www.greensboro.com/news/crime...148cfd32e.html
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    Excuses, excuses: Nature of Greensboro death penalty case makes jury selection tough

    By Danielle Battaglia
    Greensboro News & Record

    GREENSBORO — Finding 12 people who can be impartial on a highly publicized death penalty case that involves homosexual activity and mental health issues is not the easiest thing to do.

    Since Oct. 2, a prosecutor and two defense attorneys have been trying to whittle down more than 80 people to serve on a jury in the first-degree murder case against 29-year-old Garry Gupton.

    Greensboro police said that in November 2014, Gupton met 46-year-old Stephen White at the Chemistry Nightclub, a gay bar and lounge, before the pair traveled to the Battleground Inn where they had sexual contact. After that, Gupton allegedly set White on fire, killing him.

    Gupton’s attorneys, Wayne Baucino and Ames Chamberlin of Greensboro, said their client will admit to some of the accusations and plans to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

    One potential juror questioned on Monday why he should believe what Gupton says on the stand.

    “If he’s insane, how can I trust his testimony?” he asked.

    That juror was dismissed after telling Guilford County Assistant District Attorney Robert Enochs that if he believes Gupton is guilty he would not consider a life sentence, but death.

    He wasn’t alone.

    “I believe the justice I would want is the death penalty,” another potential juror added. “I’m just being honest with you.”

    Others in the jury pool disagreed.

    “I’ll probably have a hard time with the death penalty,” one said. “I’m not a proponent of the death penalty and that would be a sticking point for me. I could not vote for the death penalty and sleep at night.”

    He, too, was dismissed.

    Then there was the issue of homosexual relationships — which seemed to be less problematic for jurors.

    The majority of those questioned on Monday said they didn’t agree with homosexuality, but it wouldn’t affect their views of the victim or defendant.

    Baucino told those in the jury pool that White was openly gay and Gupton was struggling with his sexuality. Baucino said that although their contact in the hotel began as consensual, Gupton will accuse White of sexually assaulting him prior to White being set on fire.

    Baucino also warned prospective jurors that they will have to view photographs depicting burns so severe that White’s bones can almost be seen.

    “For a lot of people those photographs will be very disturbing,” Baucino said.

    The attorneys got a reprieve as they tried to pick their 12th juror. One woman was so impartial she seemed perfect.

    All that remained was the search for three alternates to serve in case something happened to one of the jury members.

    One potential alternate juror added some humor to a long day when he told Enochs he could serve — even if it meant he’d be late to help set up for his rehearsal dinner Friday.

    “They can be without one man for the morning,” the juror explained.

    “You’re kind of an important man,” Enochs quipped.

    Because the state and the defense are flying in witnesses to testify, they agreed not to begin opening statements until Wednesday morning.

    http://www.greensboro.com/news/crime...a96f57c71.html
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    Testimony: Battleground Inn attack left victim burned to the bone

    By Danielle Battaglia
    Greensboro News & Record

    GREENSBORO — Paramedics rushed through the emergency room doors at Moses Cone Hospital wheeling a John Doe on a stretcher with burns so severe his bones were exposed.

    That John Doe turned out to be 46-year-old Stephen White, a Greensboro man and Army veteran who was set on fire inside the Battleground Inn.

    Jurors heard details of White’s injuries Friday during the first-degree murder trial of Garry Gupton in Guilford County Superior Court. The 29-year-old defendant and Greensboro city employee could face the death penalty if jurors find him guilty of White’s death.

    Friday was the 10th day of a trial expected to last at least three weeks.

    Jurors heard from paramedics, firefighters, police officers and doctors who described injuries sustained by Gupton and White. Most of Friday’s session focused on White’s injuries.

    Gupton and White met on Nov. 8, 2014, at the Chemistry Nightclub, a gay bar and lounge in Greensboro.

    They left the nightclub together as the business closed and took a cab to the Battleground Inn.

    From attorneys, jurors learned that White and Gupton agreed to have oral sex in Room 417 of the hotel — but something happened during their encounter that caused Gupton to allegedly snap.

    The two men fought. Gupton left the room. White didn’t.

    Video from surveillance cameras showed jurors that less than two hours after checking into the hotel, Gupton ran into the hotel lobby and began screaming about bombs and terrorists.

    Gupton then went outside, where he waited for police to arrive. Inside, the hotel’s fire alarm sounded.

    Greensboro police officers broke down the room’s door, but the smoke was too thick, causing them to retreat downstairs. Firefighters had to crawl into the room.

    One firefighter headed toward the bathroom. A second went toward the back wall. Firefighter Arthur Waddell crawled toward the bed.

    That’s where his hand landed on a foot.

    “I think I’ve got something over here,” he shouted at his colleagues.

    Illuminated by flashlights, the firefighters could barely make out through the smoke a naked person lying face down. That person, who would later be identified as White, was between the bed and a wall that divided the bedroom from the bathroom.

    A pile of furniture and appliances were on top of the body from the waist up, Waddell testified.

    Waddell also testified that as firefighters began to move the items off White, he began to move and tried to breathe.

    The firefighters were able to free White and carried him downstairs. They had to get extra firefighters to help — the amount of blood on White made his body slippery.

    As the firefighters left the building, the cold November air caused smoke to rise from White’s body. Firefighters put him in the grass and paramedics began pouring water on him to try and stop further burning.

    He was then transferred to a stretcher.

    Guilford County paramedic Zachary Shelton testified that White’s body was “very hot” to touch.

    Inside the ambulance, paramedics got their first indication of how badly White was injured.

    “He was not responsive at all,” Shelton testified.

    Most of the fingers on White’s right hand had been burned away. More than 50 percent of his body had third-degree burns or worse.

    To prevent dehydration, paramedics tried putting an IV into White’s arm, but his veins were gone.

    So paramedics drilled into the bone below White’s knee and put a catheter directly into his marrow to try and hydrate his body, Shelton explained.

    The ambulance raced to Moses Cone, where Dr. David Yelverton was preparing staff for a severely burned John Doe coming to the emergency room.

    In the trauma center, White’s physical responses indicated serious health problems.

    Doctors also got a better grasp of the injuries White sustained in the hotel room.

    A 3-inch cut was across the back of his head.

    His neck had a mark consistent with strangulation.

    Doctors decided that White needed to be airlifted to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s burn unit in Winston-Salem.

    “I knew there was a good chance he would die,” Yelverton said.

    Court ended early Friday afternoon as police officers were testifying about Gupton’s hospitalization.

    Several officers sat in the gallery for their turn to take the stand.

    Their chance to tell what they saw will come Monday when the trial is scheduled to resume at 9:30 a.m.

    http://www.greensboro.com/news/crime...0887276ab.html
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    New witness comes forward, adds twist to Garry Gupton's murder trial

    By Danielle Battaglia
    Greensboro News & Record

    GREENSBORO — A stunning new witness was introduced today, on the 11th day a capital murder trial, and told detectives that Stephen White died so that no one would find out Garry Gupton "went home with a gay man."

    Guilford County Assistant District Attorney Robert Enochs told Superior Court Judge Michael Duncan about the witness before the trial began Monday morning. Enochs said Brandon Jamison called him at 8:50 a.m., telling him that Gupton confessed to White's death while he and Gupton were housed together in an undisclosed hospital.

    Gupton, 29, has spent the past two weeks on trial for the death of White, 46, on Nov. 15, 2014, six days after he was burned severely when he was set afire in a hotel room.

    Gupton and White met on Nov. 8, 2014, at Chemistry Nightclub, a gay bar and lounge in Greensboro. The two men traveled from the nightclub to the Battleground Inn at 1517 Westover Terrace in Greensboro, where attorneys said the pair agreed to have oral sex before Gupton attacked White and set him on fire.

    Gupton could face the death penalty if convicted in White's death.

    Gupton's attorneys, Wayne Baucino and Ames Chamberlin, have not denied the allegations against Gupton, but Gupton has pleaded not guilty to the crime by reason of insanity.

    Since Oct. 9, 12 jurors and three alternates have listened to testimony and watched surveillance and police body-worn camera videos showing Gupton outside the Battleground Inn screaming that ISIS, Al-Qaeda, C-4 and bombs were inside the hotel. On camera, Gupton cried hysterically and told officers it was a trap when they heard fire alarms go off inside the building.

    Enochs was between testimony from first responders and an officer who processed the crime scene when he learned about the new witness . The prosecutor said he received a call before court from Jamison, a patient with Gupton at an undisclosed hospital.

    Enochs said Jamson told him about the conversation he had with Gupton.

    "Mr. Gupton described going home with a gay man and beating him with a telephone because he didn't want people to know he went home with a gay man," Enochs told the judge, quoting Jamison.

    Enochs said he immediately told Jamison that he would have a detective call him back so that Enochs did not become a witness in the trial he was prosecuting. During the morning court session, Greensboro Det. C. Montgomerie spoke to Jamison and determined he was a credible enough to add to the state's witness list.

    Baucino objected. "We're in the middle of the trial, and we would certainly object to new evidence," Baucino said. "This has substantial impact on our defense."

    Jurors do not know about the new witness. Discussions about Jamison and his information have happened outside their presence.

    Duncan has not ruled on whether he will allow Jamison's testimony. He decided to give Baucino and Chamberlin the lunch break to review notes taken by Det. Montgomerie about his conversation Monday morning with Jamison.

    Enochs said that if Duncan allows Jamison to testify in the trial, he plans to introduce him Tuesday afternoon.

    He said he hopes to wrap up the state's case by Wednesday.

    Gupton has agreed to testify during the trial.

    Court will resume at 2 p.m.

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