Va. set to execute multiple murderer in May

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On Friday, a judge in Richmond, Va. set a May 20 execution date for Darick Demorris Walker, 37, who was convicted of two separate murders, several years ago.

According to trial records, on Nov. 22, 1996, Walker broke into the apartment of Stanley Beale, pointed a gun at him and asked: “What you keep coming up to my door? What you looking for me for?” Beale told Walker he did not know him, Walker then shot beale to death in front of his 13-year-old daughter.

The other murder occurred on June 18, 1997, when Walker forced his way into the home of Clarence Elwood Threat, after the man’s girlfriend turned Walker down for a date. Walker shot Threat seven times.

Throughout his lengthy appeals process, Walker has made various claims including that he is mentally disabled.

Recently, a federal appeals court rejected Walker’s case, which cleared the way for his execution.

The execution will be Virginia's 107th since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the resumption of the death penalty. Only Texas has carried out more executions with 451.

In Virginia, the condemned are given the choice of death either by lethal injection or the electric chair. On March 18, convicted murderer, rapist Paul Warner Powell chose the electric chair, making him only the third to do so since the Commonwealth began using lethal injection as a means of execution in 1994.

 

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Nude, armed elevator rider now sits in jail

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On Friday night, Franchesca D. Edwards, 25, of Norfolk, was arrested at the Richmond Hilton Hotel & Spa, after causing an unusual disturbance at the hotel.

According to police, the incident occurred about 8:30 p.m., when a hotel maintenance worker heard screaming coming from an elevator.

The police report states: “When the doors opened, a lone female was standing in the elevator completely nude with her purse.”

The woman became angry and told the hotel employee to leave, when he refused, she allegedly pointed a gun at him.

The weapon turned out to be a cap gun. She was taken into custody shortly thereafter in the parking lot.

Edwards remains in the Henrico County Jail on charges of brandishing a weapon and exposure, her trial is set for May.

 

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Illegal alien gets six months in prison for killing roommate

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On Wednesday, a judge in Petersburg, Va. sentenced Norman Jose Carcamo-Arias, 25, to 10 years in prison with nine years and six months suspended. In December 2009, he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his roommate, Josiel Venturi Garcia-Orbina, 24.

Since Arias, a Honduran national, has already been in jail for a year, local law enforcement are now just waiting for him to be picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.

Petersburg Senior Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Kenneth Blalock told the Richmond-Times Dispatch: “They said they were going to come down and pick him up to deport him back to Honduras.”

On Jan. 8, 2009, police arrived at the apartment responded Arias and Orbina, shared, along with three others. There, they found Orbina’s body with a fatal shotgun blast to the neck.

Two of his roommates claimed that they came home and found Orbina dead, and had no idea how he was killed.

When police caught up to Arias, he told them that the homicide was the result of a bad drug deal, and that an unidentified black male shot Orbina.

Eventually, all of them recanted their stories and admitted that Arias shot Orbina, after the two had apparently been playing with a shotgun, pointing it at one another.

Blalock described Arias’ actions: “He apparently pulled the trigger and nothing happened, he then cocked the gun and pulled the trigger again. The second time the gun fired.”

When Orbina fell dead, his four roommates ran from the apartment, bringing the gun with them.

Blalock said: “When they left, they gave the gun to someone on the street. Then they took Carcamo-Arias to Richmond and let him out of the car before returning to the apartment and calling police.”

All of the roommates are in the country illegally.

 

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