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Post by Aggie One on May 1, 2014 13:30:39 GMT -5
Two arrested in fatal shooting of A&T football player
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Two Greensboro men have been arrested and charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a North Carolina A&T football player, police confirmed in a news release on Thursday. Jermane Clark, a student and football player at A&T, was shot and killed outside of his off-campus apartment on Stedman Street Tuesday night. The shooting happened around 11 p.m. on April 29 at the 400 block of Stedman Street. Greensboro Police say the incident happened when a transaction over a quarter pound of marijuana turned into a robbery. Clark appears to have been selling the marijuana, according to police. Police found Clark, 22, suffering from a gunshot wound. Emergency Medical Services personnel performed advanced first aid on Clark, however, he was pronounced deceased at Moses Cone Hospital. Kendrick Louis Robinson, 22, of 619 Sharing Terrace, Greensboro, was arrested at his home around 6:30 a.m. Thursday. Lemiah Wyatt Sanders, Jr., 20, of Winston-Salem, was arrested at a home at 905 Benjamin Benson Street, Greensboro, around 7 a.m. Thursday. For the rest of the story: myfox8.com/2014/05/01/arrest-made-in-fatal-shooting-of-at-student/
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Post by oleschoolaggie on May 1, 2014 13:48:51 GMT -5
hope they got the right guys, and if so, i hope they rot in hell...
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on May 1, 2014 14:20:05 GMT -5
I wonder if they are fellow Aggies (doubt it big time). Everytime I hear stuff like this, I think about School Daze......the schoolboys vs the boys on the block. I'm glad arrests were made - it ain't always easy to get the responsible offenders. Prayers to the Clark family, the football team and the Aggie students for at least some type of closure
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Post by Aggie77 on May 1, 2014 14:43:14 GMT -5
If convicted, life in jail for a quarter pound of marijuana, huh! That's a long time for a 20+ years old. What's a quarter pound of weed worth these days? Can't be worth life in jail at 20 years old. What a waste of three lives.
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Post by Aggie One on May 1, 2014 14:48:38 GMT -5
Neither are students of anything but extensive criminal history. One is already facing another murder charge, other numerous pending charges and convictions for assault and robbery and the other a convicted drug dealer with an assault on a LEO.
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Post by marchingband1969 on May 1, 2014 15:26:43 GMT -5
I hope they put those guys away forever. Career thugs with long criminal records. What a waste.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on May 1, 2014 18:05:50 GMT -5
Hey guys, The news stated this was a marijuana deal gone bad......with the football player being the dealer. This is another occasion where we have a football player dealing drugs. I don't like this at all. It's embarassing to the team and the university. I know Broadway and the staff ain't everybody's daddy, but it's getting pretty ridiculous. Personally, I think the Chancellor (and the A.D.) need to sit down with the coaches and athletes and let them know this cannot be tolerated. I don't want drug dealers on our football team, whether it be weed, crack, prescription pills, etc. Furthermore, there need to be internal reprimands (I don't have to know what they are).
Personally, I also think football players who knew about his weed dealing (and yes, I believe there are some) need to be suspended or kicked off the team. And frankly, if we have more cases of football players moonlighting as drug dealers, coaches' jobs need to also be in jeopardy.....from the head coach on down. They are responsible for who is allowed to be an Aggie football player. They just aren't doing a satisfactory enough job of screening which players are bad news.
I don't want any student (athlete or not) being called an Aggie if he's a dope dealer; hell, why even come to an institution of higher learning if you wanna be a damn dope dealer. I have ZERO TOLERANCE on this issue. I feel sorry for his family and don't wish this outcome on any person.....but this has to be used as a learning example to male Aggie athletes that bad decisions lead to bad outcomes.
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Post by aggierattler on May 1, 2014 19:05:42 GMT -5
Hey guys, The news stated this was a marijuana deal gone bad......with the football player being the dealer. This is another occasion where we have a football player dealing drugs. I don't like this at all. It's embarassing to the team and the university. I know Broadway and the staff ain't everybody's daddy, but it's getting pretty ridiculous. Personally, I think the Chancellor (and the A.D.) need to sit down with the coaches and athletes and let them know this cannot be tolerated. I don't want drug dealers on our football team, whether it be weed, crack, prescription pills, etc. Furthermore, there need to be internal reprimands (I don't have to know what they are). Personally, I also think football players who knew about his weed dealing (and yes, I believe there are some) need to be suspended or kicked off the team. And frankly, if we have more cases of football players moonlighting as drug dealers, coaches' jobs need to also be in jeopardy.....from the head coach on down. They are responsible for who is allowed to be an Aggie football player. They just aren't doing a satisfactory enough job of screening which players are bad news. I don't want any student (athlete or not) being called an Aggie if he's a dope dealer; hell, why even come to an institution of higher learning if you wanna be a damn dope dealer. I have ZERO TOLERANCE on this issue. I feel sorry for his family and don't wish this outcome on any person.....but this has to be used as a learning example to male Aggie athletes that bad decisions lead to bad outcomes. I agree with you 100% in that. When I was at SC State, I had a teammate (basketball) who was dealing the same crap. There was a drug bust on campus and two students were shot during the raid. Having the Chancellor & AD sit down with these kids is certainly a good idea.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 19:24:12 GMT -5
Do our football players get stipends?
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on May 1, 2014 20:39:56 GMT -5
wca, For this discussion, I just don't think that question (and the discussion generated from it) is appropriate. "We don't get stipends, so I have to sell weed to make ends meet" is just as pathetic an excuse as "I can't find a job anywhere so I have to deal drugs to make ends meet."
The whole college athlete stipend controversy going around should not be interjected in this case. The dude was carrying on like a common drug dealer.
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Post by noexcuses on May 1, 2014 20:45:35 GMT -5
Do our football players get stipends? ################## This is Certainly TRAGIC-WHAT do Stipends have to do with a student-athlete dealings DRUGS...that's what is Wrong with US now-not Owning Up TO and "calling out"(as a Community)OUR OWN thugs, drawers showing "young men", politicians, and students that display and engage in criminal/unacceptable behavior. You think NO ONE from football "family" knew that this fellow was a DEALER...The one(s)that did and DID nothing, are probably feeling Especially Bad now. At some point WE have to Take our Community BACK.It is so Sad that we keep losing Mayors,Illinois Congressmen and students,Much too Often. Oh yea I forgot-it's Charlie's fault.
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Post by outsidethinker on May 1, 2014 21:50:49 GMT -5
Not sure how too respond to the issue. Was what he was doing wrong? no brainer, yes. But to fault coaches and asking for reprimands and extreme punishments is a little harsh. I'm pretty sure everybody on this board were pure saints while in undergrad as Aggies. I'm also pretty sure all your friends were too, so there was nothing going on that made you feel at that time you should step up to break apart the unity with your people (referencing "the teammates should have snitched him out). Some things you just can't predict with a young student no matter how much research you do.
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Post by Aggie One on May 2, 2014 6:08:08 GMT -5
Audio/video: Latest details on shooting of A&T student
By Sarah Newell Williamson/News & Record sarah.williamson@news-record.com | Posted: Thursday, May 1, 2014 2:00 pm
Updated 10:36 p.m.
GREENSBORO — As Jermane Darnell Clark lay bleeding Tuesday night in front of his home on Stedman Street, the victim of what police are calling a drug deal gone bad, he moaned to a frantic friend on a call to 911 that he was “almost dead.” His girlfriend, Cehsalie Brown, responding to gunshots she said she had heard, looked out a window in the couple’s apartment and saw Clark lying there. “I lost it,” she said. Those gripping details emerged Thursday from the release of transcripts of 10 calls to Guilford Metro 911 and from witness accounts of the fatal shooting of Clark, 22, a former resident of Winston-Salem who played linebacker on the football team at N.C. A&T. Kendrick Louis Robinson, 22, of 619 Sharing Terrace and Lemiah Wyatt Sanders, 20, of 905 Benjamin Benson St. were arrested and charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon in connection with that shooting. Police say they could face additional charges when they make their first court appearance at 2 p.m. Friday. Their arrests came after friends and neighbors rushed to Clark’s aid on Tuesday night. Callers to 911 described Clark as bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest, and one caller described two men fleeing the area of the shootings. In one of those calls, a man tells the 911 operator, “They shot my man. He’s not breathing right now.” A woman can be heard screaming and crying in the background as the operator asks for information. The man with Clark reassures people while he talks to the operator, telling a distraught person and others in the background to breathe. But later the caller starts to lose his composure. “They shot him in his chest,” he tells the operator. “He’s bleeding, bro.” At one point, another voice — Clark’s — can be heard in the cacophony. “I’m almost dead,” he said For the rest of the story:www.news-record.com/news/article_8568ace4-d147-11e3-88ae-001a4bcf6878.html
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Post by oldschool on May 2, 2014 9:22:24 GMT -5
I'm not condoning this young man's behavior or actions ,but I think people throw the word "thug" around to loosely at times . One of our all time greats in basketball James "Bird" Sparrow used to sell weed back in the day , I know this because I was one of his customers . There is a big difference in being a "thug" and selling weed , lets not forget we have two states that now allow pot to be sold legally . I know people from all walks of life , professionals ,doctors , and the like who indulge . They are in no way shape or form "thugs". I understand that it is illegal ,but that does not automatically make one a "thug" . I know this will not go over well with some of you , but I got to keep it real . One minute we are mourning his loss , the next we are demonizing him calling him "thug" .
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Post by oleschoolaggie on May 2, 2014 9:36:50 GMT -5
Not sure how too respond to the issue. Was what he was doing wrong? no brainer, yes. But to fault coaches and asking for reprimands and extreme punishments is a little harsh. I'm pretty sure everybody on this board were pure saints while in undergrad as Aggies. I'm also pretty sure all your friends were too, so there was nothing going on that made you feel at that time you should step up to break apart the unity with your people (referencing "the teammates should have snitched him out). Some things you just can't predict with a young student no matter how much research you do. i totally agree. everything is not always black or white. coaches and universities cannot follow 100 football players around 24/7. i'm sorry, i don't agree that the university nor the coaches should be held responsible for this unless you give them a budget that allows them to hire full time body guards for every football player. you want the coaches to do background checks on every football player they recruit and every player on the team? if so, who's gonna pay for that? i betcha there's not a college football team in the state of north carolina that doesn't have at least 1 drug dealer on the team. i mean, how many times did nccu have basketball players that got busted for dealing drugs? this is not a college problem, this is a society problem. guns are not a college problem, guns are a society problem. folk should not over react just because incidents like this tarnishes our image. levelle moton would've been fired a long time ago if every college fired coaches who have drug dealers on their team. there are probably at least 1 drug dealer residing in every dorm on our campus. this problem is much bigger than a&t, so let's not over react. kids get killed everyday all over the country over drugs and things of far less value. this problem is not unique to a&t. i whole heartedly disagree that coaches should be held accountable for incidents like this "unless" they had full knowledge of drug dealers being on their team (which i can't even imagine coach broadway tolerating anything like that). someone please tell me how coaches are supposed to prevent something like this from happening? how are the coaches supposed to know who deals drugs? certainly the players won't volunteer that information. who's gonna provide the funding for the coaches to put all of the players on lockdown? i mean, nobody is proud of this incident, including me. but the reality of it all is that guns and drug dealing is prevalent amongst college aged students. almost every meac school has had an incident similar to this. no, its not a good thing and we all wish we could do something about it. but let's be real here. this is not an a&t problem...
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