Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Stepson charged in death of Raleigh man
Photo of negro Christopher Bryant at link.
RALEIGH -- A stepfather died on his birthday, and his stepson was arrested Friday morning, ending years of strife that neighbors compared to arguments many parents have with teens. Only Christopher Alvin Bryant never grew out of that stage.
Bryant, 37 and a convicted felon, was charged with murder and was being held without bail Friday at the Wake County jail.
Police said emergency personnel found Joshua W. Cooper, who turned 49 Friday, unconscious with multiple s
ab wounds on the floor of his home at 1737 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., on the south side of town.
The two men had argued when Bryant came home just after 5 a.m. from a night spent celebratin
g his own birthday, which was the day before, said S
gt. J.C. Perry of the Raleigh Police Department.
Cooper went outside and started talking to a neighbor when his stepson appeared with a butcher knife and attacked him, Perry said. Cooper's wife, Phyllis, locked the door and called 911 after he stumbled into the house while fleeing his attacker about 5:30 a.m.
Police had visited the home twice in the past four years about altercations between the two men. Each time, reports show that the argument was over Bryant's drinking, Perry said.
"They never did get along," said Peggy Bryant, 56, Christopher Bryant's aunt. She said she would sometimes buy her nephew lunch when he approached her for cash. "But I thought after he had pulled time that everything got
better."
Joshua Cooper, known as "Mr. Josh" in the neighborhood and by his handle "Sharecropper" to the citizen-band radio community, was described as a retir
ed e
lectrician who saw his wife off to work at 6 each morning. He sipped coffee on the front porch and did favors f
or friends. Two huge antennae rose above the roof of his small single-story home, one for his television, the other for his CB.
On Friday afternoon, no one answered the Coopers' green front door, which was still splattered with blood.
Across the street, a handful of neighbors gathered on the sidewalk to share what little they knew about Cooper's death.
"He'll be sorely missed," said Pauline Johnson, 60, who lives across the street.
Lisa McAllister, 36, Johnson's daughter, said the slaying was the first among the small group of original settlers to what decades ago was a dead-end street named Eastern Boulevard and has since been renamed after the civ
il rights leader.
Her brother, Gregory, 37, said he and other children grew up collecting tadpoles from the creek, riding their bicycles and playing football in the street. Chris Brya
nt and h
is family moved in when Gregory was in his middle teens, and the neighborhood boys formed a little gang, Gregory McAllister said.
"Wed go down to the store and steal stuff, fight people, get girls," McAllister said. "I'm too old for that now, gave it up in my 20s."
Gregory McAllister, who said he is on disability for a drug-induced schizophrenia and lives with his mother, has a clean arrest record. Bryant's record shows a long list of arrests starting in 1986 for breaking and entering. He has been convicted of possession of stolen goods, assaulting a government official, resisting a public officer and discharging a weapon into occupied property. He was last released from prison in 2002, after serving 13 months for breaking and entering, according to th
e Department of Correction.
Most of their childhood friends "moved away, got locked up, died of AIDS or went crazy and are out on the str
eet," G
regory McAllister said. "Chris never gave it up. He walked like he was a gangster."
Lisa McAllister said the Coopers were a private family but that there were times when arguments between the son and the stepfat
her would spill into the street.
"Usually it's [Bryant] flying out the door, walking down the street," she said.
The most recent incident she knew of was during her parents' front-yard luau party two months ago. The arguments seemed to be about rules Joshua Cooper tried to set for Bryant, she said.
"You never know what makes a person turn," Lisa McAllister said. "Being raised to know right from wrong. ... I mean I wouldn't think they were any more or less strict than the next parent. We all had rules growing up."
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Rules are made so negroes can break them, blame YT, and hollar discrimination.
T.N.B.
Stepson charged in death of Raleigh man
Photo of negro Christopher Bryant at link.
RALEIGH -- A stepfather died on his birthday, and his stepson was arrested Friday morning, ending years of strife that neighbors compared to arguments many parents have with teens. Only Christopher Alvin Bryant never grew out of that stage.
Bryant, 37 and a convicted felon, was charged with murder and was being held without bail Friday at the Wake County jail.
Police said emergency personnel found Joshua W. Cooper, who turned 49 Friday, unconscious with multiple s
ab wounds on the floor of his home at 1737 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., on the south side of town.
The two men had argued when Bryant came home just after 5 a.m. from a night spent celebratin
g his own birthday, which was the day before, said S
gt. J.C. Perry of the Raleigh Police Department.
Cooper went outside and started talking to a neighbor when his stepson appeared with a butcher knife and attacked him, Perry said. Cooper's wife, Phyllis, locked the door and called 911 after he stumbled into the house while fleeing his attacker about 5:30 a.m.
Police had visited the home twice in the past four years about altercations between the two men. Each time, reports show that the argument was over Bryant's drinking, Perry said.
"They never did get along," said Peggy Bryant, 56, Christopher Bryant's aunt. She said she would sometimes buy her nephew lunch when he approached her for cash. "But I thought after he had pulled time that everything got
better."
Joshua Cooper, known as "Mr. Josh" in the neighborhood and by his handle "Sharecropper" to the citizen-band radio community, was described as a retir
ed e
lectrician who saw his wife off to work at 6 each morning. He sipped coffee on the front porch and did favors f
or friends. Two huge antennae rose above the roof of his small single-story home, one for his television, the other for his CB.
On Friday afternoon, no one answered the Coopers' green front door, which was still splattered with blood.
Across the street, a handful of neighbors gathered on the sidewalk to share what little they knew about Cooper's death.
"He'll be sorely missed," said Pauline Johnson, 60, who lives across the street.
Lisa McAllister, 36, Johnson's daughter, said the slaying was the first among the small group of original settlers to what decades ago was a dead-end street named Eastern Boulevard and has since been renamed after the civ
il rights leader.
Her brother, Gregory, 37, said he and other children grew up collecting tadpoles from the creek, riding their bicycles and playing football in the street. Chris Brya
nt and h
is family moved in when Gregory was in his middle teens, and the neighborhood boys formed a little gang, Gregory McAllister said.
"Wed go down to the store and steal stuff, fight people, get girls," McAllister said. "I'm too old for that now, gave it up in my 20s."
Gregory McAllister, who said he is on disability for a drug-induced schizophrenia and lives with his mother, has a clean arrest record. Bryant's record shows a long list of arrests starting in 1986 for breaking and entering. He has been convicted of possession of stolen goods, assaulting a government official, resisting a public officer and discharging a weapon into occupied property. He was last released from prison in 2002, after serving 13 months for breaking and entering, according to th
e Department of Correction.
Most of their childhood friends "moved away, got locked up, died of AIDS or went crazy and are out on the str
eet," G
regory McAllister said. "Chris never gave it up. He walked like he was a gangster."
Lisa McAllister said the Coopers were a private family but that there were times when arguments between the son and the stepfat
her would spill into the street.
"Usually it's [Bryant] flying out the door, walking down the street," she said.
The most recent incident she knew of was during her parents' front-yard luau party two months ago. The arguments seemed to be about rules Joshua Cooper tried to set for Bryant, she said.
"You never know what makes a person turn," Lisa McAllister said. "Being raised to know right from wrong. ... I mean I wouldn't think they were any more or less strict than the next parent. We all had rules growing up."
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Rules are made so negroes can break them, blame YT, and hollar discrimination.
T.N.B.