wildcard
2nd September 2010, 07:57 AM
Another elderly white person taken out by an animal.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/09/mobile_police_arrest_suspect_i_2.html
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MOBILE, Alabama -- Mobile police late Tuesday arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the killing of Zoa White, a 69-year-old community leader who was found dead in her home at 1906 Spring Hill Ave. on June 28, spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said.
The man, Carlos Edward Kennedy, was charged with murder and taken to Mobile County Metro Jail shortly after midnight, Levy said.
Levy said Kennedy was picked up at his residence in the 100 block of Mobile Infirmary Drive, which is about two blocks from White’s home.
White, a former campaign worker for Gov. Bob Riley and a retired real estate agent, was found dead inside the two-story home just west of Silverwood, where she lived alone.
Police arrived at the home about 10 a.m. when White’s grandson found the back door of the home open. Her body was found inside shortly afterward.
Police later said White died of “blunt-force trauma to the head,†a term that typically refers to a type of physical trauma caused by impact or physical attack.
The slaying of White was the second of two high-profile homicides that had alarmed residents of Midtown in recent months.
Kyser Myree, 23, was shot at a home on Macy Place on April 16 and died the next afternoon. Four men were arrested July 25 and 26 and have been charged with capital murder in Myree’s case, which police said was a home invasion robbery. Their cases have been bound over to a grand jury.
White’s home is about three-quarters of a mile northwest of the scene of Miree’s death.
While police at the time did not say whether anything was taken from White’s home, Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. said on the day White was found, “There’s pretty good evidence of a burglary here.â€
Besides her work as Riley’s Mobile campaign headquarters manager in 2006, White served as director of Mentor Alabama, was a member of the governor’s Drop-Out Prevention Task Force and was the disabilities coordinator for Riley’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
She also worked as the director of special projects for the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.
Before White became a community activist, she had a successful career as a real estate agent for Dauphin Realty.
Cindy Hayes, a receptionist at the agency, told the Press-Register in June that White was “an extremely nice person, and she would help anybody.â€
White often won awards for her work, sometimes outselling younger agents. In monthly contests, she was recognized as a top agent and for having the most outgoing referrals at the corporate office.
Police said White’s grandson discovered the open door at White’s house after his mother, who is White’s daughter, sent him there to look in on her after she did not answer phone calls. The grandson did not enter the house, police said at the time.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/09/mobile_police_arrest_suspect_i_2.html
http://media.al.com/live/photo/carlos-kennedy-mugshotjpg-b39371df3c2d2d8f.jpg
http://media.al.com/live/photo/zoa-white-portraitjpg-defcd182755b6492.jpg
MOBILE, Alabama -- Mobile police late Tuesday arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the killing of Zoa White, a 69-year-old community leader who was found dead in her home at 1906 Spring Hill Ave. on June 28, spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said.
The man, Carlos Edward Kennedy, was charged with murder and taken to Mobile County Metro Jail shortly after midnight, Levy said.
Levy said Kennedy was picked up at his residence in the 100 block of Mobile Infirmary Drive, which is about two blocks from White’s home.
White, a former campaign worker for Gov. Bob Riley and a retired real estate agent, was found dead inside the two-story home just west of Silverwood, where she lived alone.
Police arrived at the home about 10 a.m. when White’s grandson found the back door of the home open. Her body was found inside shortly afterward.
Police later said White died of “blunt-force trauma to the head,†a term that typically refers to a type of physical trauma caused by impact or physical attack.
The slaying of White was the second of two high-profile homicides that had alarmed residents of Midtown in recent months.
Kyser Myree, 23, was shot at a home on Macy Place on April 16 and died the next afternoon. Four men were arrested July 25 and 26 and have been charged with capital murder in Myree’s case, which police said was a home invasion robbery. Their cases have been bound over to a grand jury.
White’s home is about three-quarters of a mile northwest of the scene of Miree’s death.
While police at the time did not say whether anything was taken from White’s home, Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. said on the day White was found, “There’s pretty good evidence of a burglary here.â€
Besides her work as Riley’s Mobile campaign headquarters manager in 2006, White served as director of Mentor Alabama, was a member of the governor’s Drop-Out Prevention Task Force and was the disabilities coordinator for Riley’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
She also worked as the director of special projects for the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.
Before White became a community activist, she had a successful career as a real estate agent for Dauphin Realty.
Cindy Hayes, a receptionist at the agency, told the Press-Register in June that White was “an extremely nice person, and she would help anybody.â€
White often won awards for her work, sometimes outselling younger agents. In monthly contests, she was recognized as a top agent and for having the most outgoing referrals at the corporate office.
Police said White’s grandson discovered the open door at White’s house after his mother, who is White’s daughter, sent him there to look in on her after she did not answer phone calls. The grandson did not enter the house, police said at the time.