Posted on 11/24/2015 4:22:54 PM PST by SaveFerris
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two young men charged in the shooting death of an Indianapolis pastor's pregnant wife gave brief answers to a judge's questions Tuesday during their first court appearance since their arrest.
Marion County Superior Court Judge Grant Hawkins entered not guilty pleas for 18-year-old Larry Taylor Jr. and 21-year-old Jalen Watson and appointed attorneys for the Indianapolis men during their initial hearing on murder, burglary, theft and several other charges. The judge also set a Jan. 8 pretrial conference for both men.
Taylor, who authorities allege fatally shot 28-year-old Amanda Blackburn earlier this month, appeared distracted, swiveling back and forth in his chair. Hawkins told Taylor more than once that he needed to respond clearly and audibly to each of his questions about whether he understood the charges, rather than only "yeah." Watson, however, said "yes" and "yes sir," throughout.
Prosecutors said Taylor and Watson entered through the unlocked front door of Blackburn's home shortly after her husband, Pastor Davey Blackburn, left for the gym about 6 a.m. Nov. 10. A probable cause affidavit says Taylor shot Amanda Blackburn three times, including once in the back of the head.
Watson faces a murder charge because Blackburn was killed during a home burglary and prosecutors allege that he was involved in it.
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said Monday it was not clear whether Blackburn, who was 13 weeks pregnant, had been sexually assaulted; she was found partially nude. Prosecutors have filed a request with the court that seeks to enhance the murder charge Taylor faces, citing that she was pregnant at the time of her killing.
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May justice be served ping.
#StopBlackViolence
Outmoded harvesting equipment.
Such a senseless crime. May God ensure they never hurt another person.
I think the key words explain much.
And to think that Judge who has a show on FNC suggested hours after the first report the husband should be a suspect. She believed it was a paid hit by the husband.
I’m sure he is torturing himself enough for not locking the front door.
Yeah they made a point of saying he didn’t lock the door....
....seriously!
These three thugs were breaking into homes...
...locked or unlocked they would have gone in!
Yeah, well that would have been interesting, but instead it’s just two more n-——s murdering a white woman. And sadly, that ain’t news.
Take if from an old New Yorker: LOCK YOUR DOORS PEOPLE.
Saw that too Judy. Quite presumptuous of them.
Then again they can be speculative with a white Christian pastor.
May justice be served, indeed. Amen.
Why did her husband leave the door unlocked?
WAPO says he returned from the gym and sat in his car talking to a friend or texting on his cell phone until 8:20 am.
People were accusing her husband but it doesn't seem like he was involved. If it weren't for the other break-ins nearby, I thought maybe they were people whom they may have met in their ministry.
I guess it was random, just don't understand why they spared the sleeping couple and not her. Maybe because she could identify them. She must have felt forced to give them her pin #.
They should know if she had been sexually assaulted or not. It would have been a hideous way to go in such a manner, sexual assault or not, for a Christian.
And Trump gets howled down when he Tweets out about black on white crime.
What I said. That would be an awful way for any female to die.
Works for me.
But the next face she saw was really amazing!
“But the next face she saw was really amazing!”
I’m sure!
Has Indianapolis been burned to the ground yet?
I hope these three hoodlums get what’s coming to them.
I think the third may have been a juvenile.
Thugs are running the asylum...for now. God sees all
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