Suspect, 14, offers to tell all in West Palm Beach rape:
One of the suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape case is trying to cut a deal with prosecutors. 14-year-old Avion Lawson is trying to say that his life was threatened by one of the other suspects if he didn’t help rape the victim.
Lawson, who was arrested July 3, denied involvement in the crime before DNA evidence on a condom linked him to the June 18 rape. In his letters he said he, too, was a victim and blamed the attack on another suspect, Tommy Lee Poindexter, 18.
“He had a gun to my head and I couldn’t do nothing,” Lawson wrote. “If I would of ran I would of got shot or be dead. So I had no choice. He put it to my head and said ‘Do it.’ And when I stopped I tried to leave. He told me to get back down or he’ll kill me.”
Lawson was apologetic in one of the letters to Belohlavek and said it was “stupid of me doing that.”
“If you would of seen what happened, it’s like your worst nightmare,” Lawson wrote. “Especially what happened to the boy. And it seems like they were having fun. They were laughing and videoing.”
Lawson wants to go home. He said in letters that he is only allowed three showers a week and stays in his jail cell 23 hours a day.
“I cry every night,” he wrote. “I just want to go home. I just want to go home.”
You should have thought of that before you and your friends decided to break in to that woman’s home.
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