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Argument, fear of returning to jail motivated man to kill 6 in Memphis
Original Post Date: 28th Sep, 2010 - 6:03pm
If this is the motive, it's absolutely INSANE! If he really wanted to keep out of prison then he should have stayed away from doing crimes!
QUOTE MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jessie Dotson had been out of prison several months when an argument at his brother's house turned violent, authorities said, and he gunned the man down. Desperate not to return to jail, he tried to rid the scene of witnesses — shooting and killing three other adults, then using knives and boards to kill two of his brother's children and seriously injure three others, a prosecutor said at his trial Monday.
A defense attorney countered in his own opening statement that there isn't enough evidence to convict him of one of the city's worst mass killings, and that the brother had gang ties that could have played a role in the killings.
Dotson, 35, has pleaded not guilty to six first-degree murder charges in the slayings at the Memphis house in March 2008. Dotson also is charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Prosecutor Ray Lepone said Dotson shot his brother Cecil Dotson over their argument, then attacked the rest of the people in the house to eliminate witnesses. Authorities said he then fled on a child's bicycle.
"He wasn't going back to jail, ladies and gentlemen, and he did whatever he had to do to get out of that house with no witnesses," Lepone said... Source 5b
A defense attorney countered in his own opening statement that there isn't enough evidence to convict him of one of the city's worst mass killings, and that the brother had gang ties that could have played a role in the killings.
Dotson, 35, has pleaded not guilty to six first-degree murder charges in the slayings at the Memphis house in March 2008. Dotson also is charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Prosecutor Ray Lepone said Dotson shot his brother Cecil Dotson over their argument, then attacked the rest of the people in the house to eliminate witnesses. Authorities said he then fled on a child's bicycle.
"He wasn't going back to jail, ladies and gentlemen, and he did whatever he had to do to get out of that house with no witnesses," Lepone said... Source 5b
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Child who survived attack that killed 6 in Memphis, Tenn. Testifies against uncl
Original Post Date: 8th Oct, 2010 - 2:33pm
This boy is going through so much! And probably the scars of what happened will haunt him for the rest of his life.
QUOTE MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A boy who was left to die in a bathtub with a knife sticking out of his skull testified Wednesday that his uncle was the one who attacked him in a rampage that left six people dead, including his parents and two siblings.
Cecil Dotson Jr., now 11, was stabbed in the neck and head during the March 2008 massacre.
When prosecutor Reggie Henderson asked where the man was who stabbed him, the boy pointed to his "Uncle Junior," defendant Jessie Dotson, and softly said, "Right there."
Jessie Dotson, 35, has pleaded not guilty to six first-degree murder charges and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. The boy's parents and their two adult friends were shot to death while his 2-year-old and 4-year-old brothers were fatally stabbed and beaten. The only survivors were the boy and two other siblings who were stabbed, a 2-month old girl and a 5-year-old.
Prosecutors said Jessie Dotson got into an argument with his brother — the boy's father, Cecil Dotson — and shot him, then tried to kill potential witnesses. Authorities said Jessie Dotson, who served prison time for murder and was released about seven months before the killings, confessed to police and to his mother days after the bodies were found... Source 1y
Cecil Dotson Jr., now 11, was stabbed in the neck and head during the March 2008 massacre.
When prosecutor Reggie Henderson asked where the man was who stabbed him, the boy pointed to his "Uncle Junior," defendant Jessie Dotson, and softly said, "Right there."
Jessie Dotson, 35, has pleaded not guilty to six first-degree murder charges and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. The boy's parents and their two adult friends were shot to death while his 2-year-old and 4-year-old brothers were fatally stabbed and beaten. The only survivors were the boy and two other siblings who were stabbed, a 2-month old girl and a 5-year-old.
Prosecutors said Jessie Dotson got into an argument with his brother — the boy's father, Cecil Dotson — and shot him, then tried to kill potential witnesses. Authorities said Jessie Dotson, who served prison time for murder and was released about seven months before the killings, confessed to police and to his mother days after the bodies were found... Source 1y
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Man guilty of 6 murder counts in Memphis rampage
Original Post Date: 12th Oct, 2010 - 12:29am
He faces the death penalty and I think that's exactly what he will get. What are your thoughts on this case?
QUOTE Jurors took less than two hours Monday to convict a man of murdering his brother and five others, including two young nephews, in a bloody rampage in a Memphis home two years ago. Jessie Dotson, 35, faces the death penalty for one of the city's worst mass slayings. He showed no emotion, looking straight ahead as the verdict was announced. Jurors concluded that Dotson shot and killed his brother, Cecil Dotson, during a 2008 argument and then went after everyone else in the house with his gun and a knife to eliminate witnesses. Three other children were stabbed but survived. One of them, Cecil Dotson Jr., now 11, was found in a bathtub with a 4 1/2-inch knife blade embedded in his skull. He was a key prosecution witness against his uncle. Also killed were 4-year-old Cemario Dotson and 2-year-old Cecil Dotson Jr. II; Cecil Dotson's girlfriend, Marissa Williams; and friends Hollis Seals and Shindri Robinson. Defense attorney Gerald Skahan said his client wasn't happy with the verdict, but understood it, as did the defense team. The defense was disappointed in the speed of the jury, said attorney Marty McAfee. "I don't see how they could have looked at everything in that time," McAfee said. "They might have been thinking about as it was being put forward. Everyone in town expected this to be a whipping. Instead it was a fist fight… Source 5o
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