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Hampton man charged in deadly attack
By ERIKA REIF, Pilot Online
c May 15, 2002
Quesada La Costa Clements
A man who narrowly escaped being shot during his alleged role in the beating of another man outside a party Sunday was arrested and charged late that day with assault and battery, police said today.
Police charged 18-year-old Quesada La Costa Clements late Sunday after interviewing him and others, police spokesperson Cpl. Jimmie Wideman said. Clements lives in the first block of Holiday Drive in Hampton, he said.
Clements' alleged accomplice in the attack, 18-year-old Dwight Seion Phillip of Essex Park Drive in Hampton, was shot and killed by the man police say they were pummeling.
The shooter -- whom police will identify only as a 22-year-old man from Hampton -- has not been charged. Preliminary results indicate that the shooting was in self-defense, Hampton Commonwealth's Attorney Linda Curtis said today.
The shooting occurred after the two suspected attackers called a man out to talk during a party at a home in the 3000 block of Bending Oak Drive. The man stepped outside to meet the other two.
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The three began arguing about a woman, and the conversation became violent, Wideman said. The 22-year-old was knocked to the ground and was being beaten when he pulled out a gun and fired multiple shots, police said.
Phillip was hit once in the torso. He ran, wounded, across the street and into a neighbor's back yard, where he collapsed and died.
Clements, who was not hit, dashed away but returned after police arrived on the scene, Wideman said. He was taken to the police station for questioning before being arrested and charged with the Class 1 misdemeanor.
Dozens of witnesses corroborated this account of the events, pointing to the shooting as self-defense, Wideman said.
The commonwealth's attorney will make the final determination about whether the shooting was justifiable homicide or homicide. The commonwealth's attorney's office is waiting for final autopsy results, which could take more than a month, and for the police investigation to be concluded, Curtis said.
"We have determined that it would be inappropriate to charge at this point, unless we get some other information," Curtis said.
Detectives recovered a semi-automatic handgun at the scene.
Erika Reif covers the Peninsula for Pilot Online. Reach her at 757-850-8728 or ereif@pilotonline.com
http://www.pilotonline.com/peninsula/pn0515ham.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Hampton man charged in deadly attack
By ERIKA REIF, Pilot Online
c May 15, 2002
Quesada La Costa Clements
A man who narrowly escaped being shot during his alleged role in the beating of another man outside a party Sunday was arrested and charged late that day with assault and battery, police said today.
Police charged 18-year-old Quesada La Costa Clements late Sunday after interviewing him and others, police spokesperson Cpl. Jimmie Wideman said. Clements lives in the first block of Holiday Drive in Hampton, he said.
Clements' alleged accomplice in the attack, 18-year-old Dwight Seion Phillip of Essex Park Drive in Hampton, was shot and killed by the man police say they were pummeling.
The shooter -- whom police will identify only as a 22-year-old man from Hampton -- has not been charged. Preliminary results indicate that the shooting was in self-defense, Hampton Commonwealth's Attorney Linda Curtis said today.
The shooting occurred after the two suspected attackers called a man out to talk during a party at a home in the 3000 block of Bending Oak Drive. The man stepped outside to meet the other two.
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The three began arguing about a woman, and the conversation became violent, Wideman said. The 22-year-old was knocked to the ground and was being beaten when he pulled out a gun and fired multiple shots, police said.
Phillip was hit once in the torso. He ran, wounded, across the street and into a neighbor's back yard, where he collapsed and died.
Clements, who was not hit, dashed away but returned after police arrived on the scene, Wideman said. He was taken to the police station for questioning before being arrested and charged with the Class 1 misdemeanor.
Dozens of witnesses corroborated this account of the events, pointing to the shooting as self-defense, Wideman said.
The commonwealth's attorney will make the final determination about whether the shooting was justifiable homicide or homicide. The commonwealth's attorney's office is waiting for final autopsy results, which could take more than a month, and for the police investigation to be concluded, Curtis said.
"We have determined that it would be inappropriate to charge at this point, unless we get some other information," Curtis said.
Detectives recovered a semi-automatic handgun at the scene.
Erika Reif covers the Peninsula for Pilot Online. Reach her at 757-850-8728 or ereif@pilotonline.com
http://www.pilotonline.com/peninsula/pn0515ham.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Every month, American Rifleman publishes about a dozen news stories from around the country describing the justified use of a gun to stop a crime. Not their own writing, you understand, but news reports cut out and submitted by the members, and boiled down to a dozen paragraphs. And these are just a sampling.
This guy is just lucky he was carrying at the time he was "invited outside to talk." It's a tough way for bullies to learn a lesson, but that's why an armed society is a polite society.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878