Devon Dunham, oppressed black man

Jasper County, where this happened, was just 43% white in 2010.

Presumably, it’s gotten worse since.

The Island Packet:

Although Devon Dunham confessed to fatally shooting former Hardeeville volunteer fire chief Ernest Martin Stevens in a public parking lot in 2017, a Jasper County jury found him not guilty of murder Thursday.

Dunham breathed an audible sigh of relief through his face mask after hearing the verdict and softly fist-bumped his attorney.

The jury deliberated less than two hours.

Stevens, 77, was shot to death just before 9 a.m. Aug. 10, 2017, while sitting in the driver’s seat of his Ford F-150 truck in the Argent Square parking lot near his home off Ulman Street in Hardeeville.

Dunham, 28 and living at Hardeeville at the time, was arrested related to the killing a day later in Savannah. His trial started Tuesday in Ridgeland on charges of murder and possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

Because he was not found guilty of murder, he could not be found guilty of the latter charge.

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The closing arguments

During closing arguments on Thursday, 14th Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone wove together a story of a frustrated Dunham searching for a ride when he came across Stevens.

“… He sees a target,” Stone said. “A 77-year-old man alone with a running truck. What great fortune for Devon Dunham, a vulnerable elderly man by himself.”

Stone alleged Dunham walked up to Stevens, told him to give him the truck, then unloaded all eight rounds in his 9 mm handgun when Stevens tried to drive away.

“He shot Mr. Stevens because he was losing his ride,” Stone claimed, adding here’s no argument of the facts because “most of what I told you Devon Dunham told you” in his admission to police.

Dunham’s defense attorney, Beaufort-based Jeffery Stephens, said Dunham wanted a ride but felt threatened by Stevens, and that’s when he began firing shots.

Ernest Martin Stevens, oppressor white man

He also said Dunham “is not the best communicator,” which may have affected how he explained what happened to Hardeeville officers after his arrest. By the time Dunham admitted to shooting Stevens, he had been handcuffed to a wall in the interview room for six hours and was “sleep deprived,” his attorney said.

The defense began arguing that race, Dunham being a Black man and Stevens being white, could have played a part in the incident, but Stone objected and the judge agreed to not allow the theory.

Dunham’s lack of “intent to harm means it’s not murder,” Stephens said.

This is clearly a black man being let off on a murder charge because he’s black.

The idea he thought the 77-year-old man he approached with a gun was going to attack him is just silly. No one believes that.

But there is a sense now that blacks are above the law and that they are allowed to kill white people.

The jury system isn’t really designed to be able to handle the concept of “holy people,” which is what the blacks now are.

Kevin Byerly and Candi McKee.

While blacks often commit violent crimes against strangers, this level of chimpiness is usually reserved for mudsharks who “disrespected” them.

Could Ms. McKee have had a past relationship with this prehistoric specimen?

KTXS:

Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman said Tuesday morning that the suspect in the murder of a woman from the Old Salem Community in Newton County, had confessed to the murder. Newman’s statement came during an interview during the 8:00 news on KJAS.

Kevin Andrea Byerly, 55, of Newton had appeared before Jasper County Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Mike Smith early Tuesday and was charged with murder in connection with the death of Candi McKee, 43. After hearing the circumstances surrounding the case, Judge Smith set bond on Byerly at $1 million.

Officers believe Byerly killed her on County Road 588, just off of Farm to Market Road 1004, near Call on Monday morning, before setting her car on fire and dumping her body in the Sabine River at the Burr Ferry Bridge on Highway 63, between Burkeville and Leesville.

A body believing to be that of McKee was recovered from the Louisiana side of the river shortly before 5:00 on Monday afternoon in a joint effort between the Jasper and Newton County Sheriff’s Departments along with the Vernon Parish Sheriff’s Department in Leesville.

Newman said Tuesday that an autopsy was being performed at the Jefferson County Morgue in Nederland in an attempt to not only positively identify the body, but also determine the cause of death.