Jonathan Finkelman shot dead by Dontae Terrell Moore over 'drug deal'

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Jonathan Finkelman

Investigators Believe Several People Witnessed Shooting

POSTED: 10:45 am CST January 13, 2006
UPDATED: 4:39 pm CST January 13, 2006

HOUSTON -- A family asked the public for help finding the person who fatally shot a Bellaire teen at a southwest Houston park nearly two weeks ago, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.

Jonathan Finkelman, 16, was shot and killed at Godwin Park on Dec. 27 during what police have described as a drug deal.

Investigators said Finkelman received a call from a friend on the night he was killed to sell 250 lorcet pills, a prescription pain reliever.

Finkelman went to Godwin Park, where one of two men the teen met produced a gun during an altercation. The Bellaire High School junior died from a gunshot wound to the

head.

"While the victim in this case was involved in an illicit transaction, it does
not mean that it was a death penalty offense. He was executed. That shooter fired three times," Crime Stoppers director Kim Ogg said.

Finkelman's friend, 15-year-old Warren Payne, was shot once in the stomach. He survived the shooting.

"Please, anybody that knows anything, please, come for the reward, come to get these people off the street so that your children aren't at risk as well," Finkelman's Godfather, Jeff Joachim, said.

Investigators and Finkelman's family believe there were a lot of witnesses to the killing.

Police said they do not have a good witness of the men Finkelman met at the park, but said two men left the scene in a dark Chevrolet Malibu or similar car.

Crime Stoppers has offered a $5,000 reward and Finkelman's family is offering a $20,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and the filing of charges
in t
his case.

Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at (713) 222-TIPS.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/6058146/detail.html

 

[cltncblondeeagle]

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That Finkelman is a jew. The nose is a dead giveaway.

 

[TxTiger]

Primate on Trial for Killing White Teenager - Houston

Suspect in Bellaire student's murder on trial
07:31 AM CDT on Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Jonathan Finkleman

The Houston teenager charged with murdering a Bellaire High School student will be in court Wednesday morning.

Dontae Terrell Moore, 18, is charged with the capital murder of Jonathan Finkleman.

Finkleman was found dead at Godwin Park two days after Christmas 2005.

Police say Finkelman and a friend went to the park to meet 15-year-old Warren Payne and Moore to complete a drug transaction in Finkelman’s car.

Investigators said the boy was selling prescription painkillers, which had become popular in schools.

On the first day of the trial Tuesday, witnesses said Finkleman may have been shot during a botched drug deal becuase Moore and several others felt they'd been shorted a $2 prescription pain pill.

Police said Moore produced a handgun and demanded Finkelman and his friend’s personal property. A struggle ensued and Finkleman was shot once in the left side of the head.

When Payne and Finkleman’s friend got out of the car, Moore shot Payne in the abdomen, according to police.

Payne was critically wounded and Finkleman was pronounced dead at the hospital.

dontae moore
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[TxTiger]

Re: Primate on Trial for Killing White Teenager - Houston

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Teen given 18 years in Bellaire football player's murder
06:16 PM CDT on Thursday, June 7, 2007

It was an emotional day in court Thursday when a 17-year-old was sentenced in connection with the murder of a Bellaire High School football player.

Alton Warren Payne agreed to a plea deal of aggravated robbery. A judge sentenced him to 18 years in prison.

Payne was involved in a botched drug deal with 16-year-old Jonathan Finkleman.

Payne’s accomplice Dontae Moore, 18, was convicted of killing Finkleman and is serving a life sentence.

A third suspect in the incident, Jeffrey Lopez, is awaiting trial

.

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou070607_tj_footballmurder.25a5f64b.html

 

[Whitebear]

Re: 16yo Jonathan Finkelman shot dead by Dontae Terrell Moore

Jonathan Finkelman and Dontae Moore

April 20, 2007

Black defendant says he only meant to scare Bellaire teen


Dontae Moore, the 19-year-old man charged with capital murder in the Dec. 27 shooting of Bellaire High School student Jonathan Finkelman, testified Thursday that he only meant to scare Finkelman by holding a loaded gun to his head during what Moore said was intended to be a robbery. Finkelman, 16, was found in Godwin Park with a gunshot wound to the head; information later emerged that Finkelman and a friend were at the park meeting Moore and Warren Payne, then 15, to complete a drug deal in Finkelman's car.

Payne, testifying Wednesday, said he wanted to rob Finkelman because Finkelman — who reportedly sold prescription painkillers — had shorted him by one $2 pill in an earlier deal. Payne said he, Moore and two other men went to Godwin Park with $250 to buy 250 pills from Finkelman, but then they found out that Finkelman wanted $500 for the pills — so Moore said he got a revolver from one of the other men, Jeff Lopez, and pointed it at Finkelman. "I put the pistol to his head and he tried to grab it, and the pistol went off," Moore told jurors. Payne and Finkelman's friend, Mark Taormina, testified that three shots were fired during the struggle; after the shooting, Moore said he got out of the car and fired the remaining bullets into the air. Moore didn't admit that he also shot Payne, whose spleen and gall bladder had to be removed, until he was being cross-examined. And under questioning by prosecutor Mia Magness, Payne admitted that he had lied to police out of fear in earlier videotaped statements. "You're willing to lie out of fear?" Magness asked Moore.
Moore's defense is based on the concept that the sho


[SIZE=+2]Bellaire student certified as adult for murder trial

[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]December 7, 2006

[/SIZE] A 16-year-old Bellaire High School student will face charges as an adult in the slaying last year of schoolmate Jonathan Finkelman, an incident investigators now say was prompted by a $2 prescription pain pill.

Authorities originally said Finkelman was killed in a botched drug deal but said Wednesday that Warren Payne hatched a phony drug deal to rob Finkelman — as payback for being cheated out of one pill. But the plan went awry.

Payne was charged in juvenile court with capital murder in Finkelman's death.

He showed no emotion as state District Judge John Phillips announced his ruling to certify the teen as an adult.

The Payne family directed questions to its attorney, George Parnham.
"Warren was not the instigator," Parnham said. "It's not as it appears."
Prosecutor Terrance Windham said Payne deserves to be tried as an adult because he lured Finkelman to the sham drug deal at Godwin Park, where he was killed a year ago this month.

Windham said Payne apparently didn't want Finkelman killed, but he should have known his actions could lead to the death.

"He's the brains behind it," Windham said. "He set it up. He set up the deal."
Payne, a freshman at Bellaire at the time of the shooting and son of a local patent attorney, is the third suspect charged in Finkelman's death.

Dontae Terrell Moore, 19, is charged with capital murder, and Jeffrey Rene Lopez, 21, is charged with aggravated robbery.

New revelations

Initially, investigators considered the death to be linked to a drug deal gone bad.

But witnesses, including Payne, revealed more circumstances surrounding the shooting, investigators said Wednesday.

During Wednesday's hearing, Houston police officer P.J. Guerrero, the lead investigator, testified that evidence he uncovered shows Payne had bought nine Loricet painkillers for $20 from Finkelman Dec. 27.

However, he said, Payne received only eight pills and was upset because he thought Finkelman deliberately shortchanged him.

He said Payne and Lopez discussed robbing Finkelman. Lopez said Moore and another man, whom police have been unable to identify, would help.
Payne arranged to meet Finkelman at Godwin Park. Some of Payne's friends, prosecutors said, knew about the plan and went to the park to watch the robbery.

One person authorities claim knew about the plan, Brandon Powell, 16, refused to testify at Wednesday's hearing, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Finkelman drove his 1999 Mitsubishi Diamante to the park with a friend and parked on the wrong side of the street, next to a curb in the 5000 block of Dumfries.

Payne, Moore and the unidentified man climbed in the back seat and began discussing the drug sale with Finkelman and his friend, police said.
Investigators said Lopez stood outside the car with a shotgun as a guard.
Within minutes, Moore pulled a gun and demanded everything the others had. Finkelman struggled with Moore. Three shots were fired inside the car.
The first missed Finkelman; the second or third stuck him in the left side of his head, police said.

Payne jumped out and ran across the park. Moore shot him. The bullet pierced his liver and went through his lung before exiting, police said.
The gunman fled in another car.

Police said 250 Loricet pills were found in two medicine bottles inside Finkelman's car.
Police said the pills were worth between $300 and $500.
Defendant says he only meant to scare Bellaire teen
Dontae Moore, the 19-year-old man charged with capital murder in the Dec. 27 shooting of Bellaire High School student Jonathan Finkelman, testified Thursday that he only meant to scare Finkelman by holding a loaded gun to his head during what Moore said was intended to be a robbery. Finkelman, 16, was found in Godwin Park with a gunshot wound to the head; information later emerged that Finkelman and a friend were at the park meeting Moore and Warren Payne, then 15, to co ...

Teen gets 18 years in death of student - Houston Chronicle - A Bellaire High School student who arranged for his friend to be robbed in a drug deal was sentenced to 18 years in prison Thursday. Jonathan Finkelman was shot to death in the drug deal turned robbery that was set up by Alton Warren Payne on the ...

Teen gets 18 years in prison in connection with friend's killing

 

[William of the White Hand]

When you play with niggers you get burned or shot or whatever....

 

[Rule .308]

Consorting with niggers for any reason is always dangerous for whites.

Mix dope dealing in and you are almost guaranteed a trip to the morgue.

 

[Heinrich Himmler]

It's a sad story, but in the end, drug problems are in the white community as well as the black. He should have known not to have any dealings with niggers. It got me thinking, I know there are white drug dealers, but I don't hear to many of them killing people.

 

[Rasp]

Teen killed in shooting laid to rest

Mourners asked to remember not how he died but how he had lived

Jonathan Finkelman

was surrounded by family and friends Thursday — just as he was in life.

Hundreds attended his funeral, many of them teenagers, exchanging smileless greetings, silent embraces and tears.

They spilled out from beneath a green tent at Beth Yeshurun's synagogue cemetery where his parents and brothers sat in the front row. Before them, Finkelman lay enclosed in a plain pine coffin adorned with a Star of David.

Frankly, I didn't the old pine box was stll an option; stingy is as stingy does.