TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: Tommie Poindexter

  • Dunbar Village suspect trying to cut a deal

    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.

  • Update on Dunbar Village suspects

    DNA evidence led to teens in Dunbar Village rape:

    One of the suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape has confessed to his involvement once the police confronted him with the DNA evidence that placed him at the crime scene.

    During a six-hour interview with police, Avion Lawson, 14, the first to be charged in the case, confessed his involvement after being told his DNA was inside a condom found in the victim’s home. En route to the Juvenile Assessment Center, Lawson called some friends and did not sound remorseful, according to police. His lawyer, Bert Winkler, declined to comment on the evidence.

    Next up is one of his accomplices, Nathan Walker…

    The next to be charged was Nathan Walker, a 16-year-old who dropped out of the seventh grade after three attempts to pass. Walker’s latent fingerprint was found at the scene along with his DNA on the outside of the same condom linked to Lawson, according to the documents.

    Walker became so agitated at the police station that he had to be placed in handcuffs and leg restraints after he began throwing chairs at the walls and door, according to documents. His lawyer, Robert Gershman, has asked for a mental health evaluation of his client.

    How the hell did his DNA get on the outside of the same condom that Lawson used? Scratch that. I don’t really want to know.

    And now the best part if there can be a best part in this twisted saga. 15-year-old Jakaris Taylor caught hell from his mother over his involvement.

    Jakaris Taylor, 15, was arrested July 12. A resident of Dunbar Village, he said his brother played with the 12-year-old victim, though Taylor denied ever being in the apartment. His mother, Jacqueline Minor, encouraged Taylor to give police a DNA sample. Lab results showed Taylor’s latent print inside the home, near Lawson’s and Walker’s.

    Minor was livid at her son, according to police.

    “Jacqueline yelled at Jakaris and told him she hoped he would never get one night of sleep and that he sees [the victims] every night when he tries to sleep,” a report stated.

    Such a refreshing change from the usual “not my kid” syndrome.

  • Status of Dunbar Village victim

    Boyfriend of Dunbar gang rape victim speaks out:

    The boyfriend of the mother who was one of the victims in the Dunbar Village gang rape speaks out and tells us the condition of the boy who was forced to have sex with his mother.

    The victim of a reported gang rape is working hard to deal with what happened, but her 12-year-old son is not faring quite as well, according to the woman’s boyfriend.

    “She goes to counseling with the little boy,” the 36-year-old said. “The boy, he’s still grieving. He cannot accept that he had sex with his mama. Nobody can talk to him. He feels like nobody loves him. I don’t think there’s no way that little boy is ever going to forget that.”

    He and the child’s mother have been trying to prepare the 12-year-old for the seventh grade, which starts today

    “He wanted his mama to go to school with him,” he said. “He’s afraid to be by himself. He’s going to go to school, but he’s just not happy.”

    I can’t even imagine the trauma this poor boy is going through. Whatever punishment the animals that did this to them receive will never be enough to make up what they did to this family.

  • Possible motive in Dunbar Village rape

    Untold details of horror unfold in new report on Dunbar attack:

    Here is allegedly the motive as to why a gang of thugs gang-raped a mother and forced her to have sex with her son…

    “She believed they were targeted because she called the police some time ago because three people threw garbage around her apartment complex,” according to the report.

    That, and she would not allow her son to associate with residents of another apartment in her building.

    Take this whatever way you want but these thugs are nothing more than savages that should be removed from society anyway possible.

  • 4th suspect in Dunbar Village gang rape

    4th teen indicted in West Palm Beach gang rape of mom, son:

    18-year-old Tommy Lee Poindexter has been arrested and indicted as the fourth suspect in the horrendous Dunbar Village gang rape.

    “He has denied any involvement but the physical evidence we have from the scene speaks to the contrary,” police spokesman Peter Robbins said Friday. “We’re certainly developing more suspects and anticipate more arrests.”

    Poindexter’s mother, Harriet Rogers, 44, said her son was home with her on the night of the attack.

    “My son didn’t have anything to do with that stuff,” Rogers said.

    And a mother has never lied for her criminal son before I’m sure.