Maye on Death Row; Shot Police Officer breaking into daughters bedroom

The Hattiesburg American | January 23, 2004 | Hattiesburg American

[Mojave]

This man wasn't the target of the arrest.

"There were 2 separate search warrants issued for 2 separate apartments in a wood frame duplex which were located side by side one of which was the apartment Maye was in.

[Mojave]

I've run into more than my fair share of GOB cops/sheriffs.

What does that say about you?

[md2576]

The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers . . .

Police Officer Ron Jones Prentiss Police Department Mississippi End of Watch: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Biographical Info Age: 29 Tour of Duty: 5 yrs Badge Number: P-5 Incident Details Cause of Death: Gunfire Date of Incident: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type Suspect Info: Sentenced to death Officer Jones was shot and killed while attempting to serve a drug warrant on Mary Street with other officers. Officer Jones entered the rear door of a residence and was shot as he made entrance to a bedroom that the suspect was in. The shot struck him in the abdomen below his vest. He succumbed to his wounds while being transported to a local hospital in a patrol car. The suspect was apprehended at the scene and has been charged with capital murder. He was found guilty of capital murder on January 23, 2004, and sentenced to death. Officer Jones had been with the five-officer Prentiss Police Department for 5 years. His father was chief of police at the time of the shooting. He was survived by his parents and two brothers.

[NELSON111]

Well...nice having such a deep intellectual discussion with you...and glad that you showed your true colors.

You debate like John Kerry...which is probably not a slam to you...but a compliment. Good day.

[Old Student]

"What does that say about you?"

I'm unlucky? Lets put it this way. I don't drink and drive. I don't speed. I don't hold up liquor stores. I spent about half of my military career in southern states, and I've retired to one, as well, despite being a native Californian. There are aspects of southern culture I truly love, and some I truly hate. I think what it really says about me is that I've been around a little. There are some aspects of southern culture that are truly FUBAR, and this is one of them. Take a good long look at yourself, chum. If you aren't part of the solution, you ARE the problem.

[conservative cat]

That guy was buck naked in the street as I remember it. Same one?

Exact same one. He took the gun from the officer and shot him with it.

[Mojave]

There are some aspects of southern culture that are truly FUBAR, and this is one of them.

Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana. Small towns, big towns.

The stereotypes aren't true. I've seen more racism and abuse in California than I ever saw in the south.

[AmishDude]

That is one BIG inconsistency and that makes me wonder how much reliance I should put in the rest of what they are writing

Oh, come on, how can you be suspicious of a source called The Agitator?

[md2576]

Cory Maye—black, age 24

Sentenced to death in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi

By: A jury

Date of crime: 12/26/01

Prosecution’s case/defense response: Police burst into Maye’s apartment yelling, “Police!” during a drug raid. Maye was in his bedroom. When police officer Ron Jones came through the doorway, Maye shot him in the abdomen just below his bulletproof vest. Jones died. The victim was the son of the police chief of the town of Prentiss. The defense attempted to prove that Maye did not know the persons breaking in were police officers, and that he was trying to protect his infant son, who was in the bedroom with him. In mitigation the defense pointed out Maye’s relative youth at the time of the shooting (21) and his lack of a prior criminal record.

Prosecutor(s): Claiborne “Buddy” McDonald IV, Doug Miller
Defense lawyer(s): Rhonda Cooper

Sources: Sun Herald (Biloxi) 12/28/01, 12/30/01; Clarion-Ledger (Jackson) 2/22/02; Telephone call with prosecutor Miller 9/27/04

Source: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:738LAv5J2QYJ:https://www.ajs.org/jc/jc_death_cases.asp+Cory+Maye+Mary+Street+Prentiss,+MS&hl=en

Got this From AJS but had to get it from Google cache. Seems in this it's a son. Hard finding any news on this.

[Mojave]

http://www.da15thdistrict.org/

[TheFrog]

In Houston yelling police is one of the tactics used in "home invasions" and we all know how that ends. If someone breaks into my house in the middle of the night I don't care if they are yelling police or not, they are going to be on the wrong end of a 12ga.

[Old Student]

"The stereotypes aren't true. I've seen more racism and abuse in California than I ever saw in the south."

The stereotypes are true. In the South, and in California. Many other places, too. Not all small towns are like that, and not all big towns are free of it. You might want to take the blinders off.

[SauronOfMordor]

I think there were a total of four residents at the duplex, including the child.

Incorrect. Clarion Ledger from December 28, 2001 has

Cory Maye, 21, one of three people at the duplex at 1728 Mary St. at the time of the shooting, is charged with capital murder in the officer's death.

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The two other people in the duplex, one a juvenile, were taken into custody, but later were let go. Their names were not released.

There were three there. One was the baby. They had to take the baby into [protective] custody if the parents were in custody

I also would expect a 21-year old (the cop killer) not to have a known previous criminal record. Morover, if no drugs were found, it's possible one of the three adults had enough time to dispose of them, especially if they were hidden close to the toilet flush. These criminals ain't stupid, you know.

You're assuming it was a drug den. There is no evidence in any article I've seen, even hinted at, that anybody flushed anything. I see no evidence that this was anything other than a bogus bust at a wrong address, that turned very badly

[SauronOfMordor]

In a little more looking, I find one reference to what it was about: "On Dec. 26, in Prentiss, Officer Ron Jones, 29, called his father, Ronald N. Jones, the police chief, for permission to get a search warrant for an apartment where an informer had told him there was crack. An hour later, as Officer Jones led a team into the apartment, he was shot in the abdomen. The suspect in the shooting, Cory Maye, has been charged with capital murder."

An informant said there was crack there. So they go on a big raid. I wonder if they even bothered to find out there was a kid there who would have been endangered in the raid process. Sounds more like sonny boy was trying to make a name for himself, and screwed up

[SauronOfMordor]

Maye took a prone position, the better to get a shot up and under the protective vest. He must have known they were cops entering.

I would hit the ground and get behind cover if I thought there were armed people in my place trying to kill me. It seems a natural thing to do

[md2576]

http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1615000&nav=2CSfKOTG

[GregoryFul]

Jurors have irrational ways to decide guilt or innocence. One jury that I was on (foreman, no less), one lady would not even discuss the evidence, because God told her the people charged were guilty of all that they had been charged with. That's it, case closed.

Another juror voted for guilty because he didn't want his insurance rates to go up (it was an insurance fraud case). Another voiced his thought that only guilty people would be tried. Another wanted to conclude the deliberations quickly and so would vote with the apparent majority on any decision.

Only about half seemed to consider and debate the merits and value of the presented evidence, or the charge as given by the judge. One's only hope is to be rich enough to hire a dream team, and they can manage to plant a slogan into the jurors minds, or never be indicted by the system.

The prosecutor had a sound case, and the jury found those charged guilty of most of the charges - so I was happy with the outcome, but I was astounded by the (il)logic the jurors used to arrive at their decision.

[YOUGOTIT]

"Just because the cops didn't find the drugs doesn't mean there weren't any. Amongst the three young man, one of them could have had enough time to dispose of the drugs during the shootout"

What three young men? The Constitution is the supreme law. If anyone violates it they are the guilty one period.

[GregoryFul]

Have you forgotten, the Constitution was abandoned a long time ago, owing to the fact that few chose to defend it, and many chose to pervert its plain meaning.

[YOUGOTIT]

"When they broke into Mr. Maye's place they were unaware that this was a different residence rather than a side door."

If this is true then WHY was this person even tried or arrested? He was protecting his home from invaders who were in violation of the Constitution. If we are not going to have the Constitution as the supreme law then lets do away with any pretense and go to the KGB policy. Where no citizen has the right to protect himself or his home and the state is the supreme ruler, just like Nazi Germany and the Communist in the USSR.