Negro shoots negro police captain's negro son

[Tyrone N. Butts]

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Pittsboro Man Charged With Shooting Death Of Police Captain's Son

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- A Pittsboro man is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a Chapel Hill man Thursday night.

Jimmy Goldston Jr., 24, of Pittsboro, was arrested for first-degree murder at 12:30 a.m. Friday. He is being held in the Orange County Jail without bond.

Chapel
Hill police say Demarcus L. Smith, 24, was shot in the chest around 6 p.m. Thursday outside the Kingswood Apartments on N.C. Highway 54 in Chapel Hill. He was pronounced dead at University of North C

arolina Hospitals.

Demarcus Smith is the son of Capt. Bobby Smith, a 29-year veteran of the force.

Smith is the son of Capt. B
obby Smith, a 29-year veteran of the force. Smith played football and track for Chapel Hill High School in 1998. He was studying to be a barber.

Police said a weapon, possibly used in the killing, was recovered. Authorities say Goldston shot Smith before fleeing from the scene in a car. Both men reportedly knew each other. No motive has been determined.

Chapel Hill police say 12 people were interviewed and their investigation is continuing.

Smith's death is the first homicide in the town since November 2002.

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Why can't you negroes get along wif each utter?

T.N.B.

 

[direwulf]

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One down, one to go. :african:

Tyrone, would you be so kind as to get the display case polished up so we can give dis' heah knee-grow his TNB Golden Toof Award?

Thanks, Bro.

 

[Tyrone N. Butts]

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Slaying suspect turns self in

CHAPEL HILL -- The first officer on the scene recognized the gunshot victim immediately.

Demarcus Lavar Smith, Capt. Bobby Smith's only child, had been around the Chapel Hill Police Department since he was knee-high. There he was, Thursday evening at Kingswood Apartments, just 24 years old, with a fatal bullet wound in his chest.

"This obviously affects the department," Chief Gregg Jarvies said Friday at a news conference outside the police station to announce the arrest of a suspect in the case.

"It didn't affec
the operation at the scene. The investigators and the officers out there handled the scene like they would any other homicide. ... I've seen Demarcus grow up from a young toddler. ... He's a gregar

ious young man with a great sense of humor -- in one sense, the spittin
g image of his dad."

At 12:30 a.m. Friday, a little more than six hours after the shooting, Jimmy Ray Goldston Jr., 24, of 2666 U.S. 64, Pittsboro, turned himself in to police at an arranged Chatham County location. He was charged with first-degree murder.

Smith had been pronounced dead at UNC Hospitals within an hour of the shooting.

On Friday, police continued to try to piece together what happened Thursday night.

Police retrieved a semi-automatic handgun they think was used in the shooting. But they still were not certain of the motive. Details remained sketchy late in the day.

Smith, who was enrolled in barber school, was cutting someone's hair Thursday afternoon inside an apartment in the
R building of the complex off N.C. 54. Several people were inside, police said, when there was a knock at the door. Smith went to see who was there.

He stepped outside, and seconds later, ma
ybe
a minute or two, there was a loud pop -- a single gunshot. One man who had been inside the apartme
nt leapt through a window and fled. He later ended up in a Greensboro hospital, court officials said, seeking treatment for cuts.

Police are not sure precisely where the shooting occurred, but they found one shell casing in the parking lot in front of the R building. There also was a trail of blood. Police on Thursday were following up on reports that a second person had been shot, but Friday they did not think that to be the case.

In court Friday morning, defense lawyers for the suspect alleged that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle.

"A preliminary review of the evidence does not give us any indication that there was a struggle over the weapon," Jarvies responded later.
"However, we have not received specific information from the medical examiner, such as the trajectory of the bullet, the angle of the wound, that could provide more details about that.&
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'A great kid'

Both the suspect and victim had run-ins with the law in recent years -- mostly misdemeano
rs, according to court records. The men were acquaintances, police said, but the nature of their relationship was not clear.

Smith, though, was back in barber school. He had dropped out several times and re-enrolled. He was trying to turn his life around, friends and family said, and to be there for his young son.

The news of Smith's death hit Ben Callahan, a former Carrboro police chief, hard. He recently moved back to the Triangle after spending several years in Cabarrus County. He drove to the Chapel Hill police station Friday morning to find out more.

"It's just unbelievable," said Callahan, a new Durha
m resident. "It just struck me when I heard it. I just thought about, that's Bobby's kid. It could have been mine."

Callahan coached baseball when he lived in
Carrboro.
Smith, who grew up on Neville Road in western Orange County, was one of his players. "He was a great kid," Callahan said. "He was one of my favorites. He was just a kid who'd do whatever
you tell him, and you could tell he loved sports."

Investigators interviewed at least a dozen people Thursday night. The investigation continued Friday. They kept Smith's father posted, the chief said.

"At this time, he's certainly not thinking as a police officer but as a dad," said Jarvies, who joined the police force the same day as Bobby Smith. "Our hearts and thoughts go out to the Smith family. He was their only child, so it's tough."

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How many times have I told you n-ggers to never try to turn your life around. It's like playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic.

T.N.B.