Once again, unfortunately, we’re talking about North Carolina. Fortunately, it’s not Charlotte’s light rail this time, although that’s cold comfort to both the victim’s family and anyone who cares about public safety. This time, however, the alleged killer would be a repeat murderer.
Yes, that’s right: even in slightly red North Carolinayou can commit murder, get out and kill again in a few years. It is said.
According to WPDE TVCheyenne Woods, 36, has been charged with first-degree murder after authorities say he fatally shot 74-year-old Marie Locklear following a chase in a hijacked ambulance vehicle.
Police say first responders were dispatched to a property in Maxton, North Carolina on Saturday for a medical emergency. While it is unclear what the details of the medical emergency were, Woods was being transported to the hospital in an ambulance when he allegedly brandished a firearm and commandeered the paramedics’ vehicle. He then fled the scene.
Later, while I was still driving the ambulancePolice say he crashed into a car driven by Locklear. He then got out of the car and shot her. She was taken to hospital but later died from her injuries.
“This is yet another senseless act of murder committed by a repeat criminal whose criminal history includes a prior murder conviction,” Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said.
“The facts of this case are deeply disturbing. The suspect was armed, requested medical attention, stole an ambulance, crashed it and then opened fire on an innocent elderly woman without provocation.”
Locklear’s husband of 52 years was also shocked.
“I was at a Christmas dinner. I had finished eating. And I was told that my wife had been shot in the arm. And I just couldn’t believe what was going on at that moment,” Ronnie Locklear said, adding that his wife had spent most of the day with her terminally ill sister, who was in the hospital.
The victim’s son, Donald Locklear, had a chance to talk to his mother at the hospital before she died.
“She was in a lot of pain. Of course. She couldn’t understand what had happened. She was in a lot of pain,” he said.
And now, of course, we come to Mr. Woods’ extensive criminal background, which should have already landed him behind bars for the rest of his life.
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Ural TV reported that his history with the law began with a 2008 murder and robbery of Jessica Cahoon in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was only convicted of the robbery with a dangerous weapons charge in 2012. He was released in 2016.
In 2017, he was incarcerated again after being convicted of second-degree murder stemming from a 2010 slaying. Despite serving a 13-year prison sentence with a minimum of 10 years, he was released in 2022 after serving just five years. Officials said this may have been due to recognition of time served and good behavior – which, given that he had spent the four years prior to his conviction in prison, other charges, doesn’t hold weight exactly.
This comes after a number of high-profile cases involving repeat offenders, both in North Carolina and elsewhere in the United States, which may be linked to at first glance insane progressive criminal justice policy.
A man had been arrested in Chicago no fewer than 72 times faces federal terrorism charges, among othersafter allegedly setting a young woman on fire aboard CTA trains there. In Charlotte we now had both August stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutskaallegedly by a mentally ill career criminal, and the December stab of a Good Samaritan on board the same system, allegedly by an illegal immigrant who was drunk and harassing passengers.
In America we have largely abolished three-strikes laws. This is unfortunate because the evidence is that they work, that they generally do not entrap innocent individuals, and that they reduce repeat offenders. A paper published by the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University called the effect of incarceration “modest,” by which they meant “in the neighborhood of two to five serious crimes per year of incarceration.”
I guarantee this isn’t modest if you’re on the receiving end of one of these crimes, but that doesn’t matter; the same paper stated that the criminal justice system “should focus on releasing individuals who are at the lowest risk of offending.” If you have been in prison kill someone and previously served time in prison for a crime which one killed someonethere’s a ridiculously good argument that you shouldn’t do that get a third strikeand certainly not just 13 years after your first conviction. This is an over-repeated outrage that America must put an end to, and quickly.
This article originally appeared on The Western Journal.
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