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Marshal: Man shot, burned; woman raped
Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 1/11/7 | Matt Lakin and Don Jacobs

Posted on 01/11/2007 4:34:32 PM PST by SmithL

Investigators believe Channon Christian was held hostage and raped repeatedly for several days before being killed, a federal marshal said today.

The news came on the same day that authorities captured three men sought for questioning in her death and that of her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom.

Authorities believe she and Newsom were abducted after a weekend carjacking in North Knoxville that ultimately led to both their deaths, said Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Rich Knighten of the Western District of Kentucky.

"They did some really nasty things to this lady," Knighten said.

Newsom was shot and his body burned, Knighten said. He said he didn’t know how Christian died.

Federal and local authorities nabbed Letalvis Cobbins and a friend, George Thomas, about 10 a.m. Thursday in Lebanon, Ky. Knoxville investigators had received information that Cobbins had a relative there.

Lemaricus Davidson was arrested about 3:35 p.m. in Knoxville by KPD’s Special Operations Squad, U.S. marshals and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents.

Cobbins, Davidson and Thomas are suspects in both killings, Knighten said.

Davidson, 25, was arrested at an empty house at 1800 Reynolds St. He was crying and offered no resistance.

Davidson and his brother Cobbins, 24, had been wanted for questioning in the slayings of Newsom, 23, and Christian, 21.

Police previously had not mentioned Thomas. He was called a "person of interest" by Knoxville police as of Thursday night.

None of the three men have been charged in connection with the slayings.

However, Cobbins has been charged with being a felon in possession of a weapon, based on evidence discovered at the Chipman Street house where Christian’s body was found Tuesday.

Newsom, of Halls, and Christian, of West Knox County, had been dating since November. They told their parents they planned to join friends in an apartment off Washington Pike on Saturday night to watch movies.

At 12:24 p.m. Sunday, a railroad employee on a passing train alerted police about a body along Norfolk Southern tracks between Ninth Avenue and Cherry Street. It was Newsom's body.

At 2 p.m. Tuesday, police armed with a search warrant entered a nearby rental home at 2316 Chipman St. and found Christian's body. Her 2005 Toyota 4-Runner had been found Monday abandoned two blocks away at the intersection of Chipman Street and Glider Avenue.

More details as they develop online and in Friday’s News Sentinel.



TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: blackonwhitecrime; channon; channonchristian; christophernewsom; hatecrime; nohatecrime; tennessee; tn
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Letalvis Cobbins

Lemaricus Davidson

Newsom

Christian

1 posted on 01/11/2007 4:34:39 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL
Going by the names of the perps in the article (before seeing their pictures) told me exactly who they might be ...
2 posted on 01/11/2007 4:40:16 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: BluH2o

Of course this is not a hate crime. . .no. . .


3 posted on 01/11/2007 4:42:18 PM PST by Fairview
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To: JLS

relating to our exchange on the "Stripper lied" thread, here are three men who held a great deal of power over Miss Christian, and used it savagely


4 posted on 01/11/2007 4:42:50 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)
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To: SmithL
Looking at the 'superficial' facts of the case, this might have the makings of a hate crime. Does not sound like a crime of love to me.

What's the Vegas odds that it will get charged that way?

Wonder if we'll have some Duke professors out banging pots on this one?

5 posted on 01/11/2007 4:43:23 PM PST by nctexan
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To: SmithL

HATE CRIME???
As if....
I think I better stop now, before I use a word or two that might get me suspended.......


6 posted on 01/11/2007 4:43:39 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: BluH2o

They will burn in hell...


7 posted on 01/11/2007 4:43:41 PM PST by RightResponse (It depends on what the defamation of Islam is .....)
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To: BluH2o
Letavius and Lemaricus..
friggin' white Mormons again.

Of course there will be cries of racism as the perps are processed through the justice system and eventually sentenced.

8 posted on 01/11/2007 4:45:19 PM PST by evad
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To: Fairview
Of course this is not a hate crime. . .no. . .

Ofcourse not: look at the race of the perps and the vicitim...

The whole idea of hate crimes is crazy...the actions themselves are crime; what is going on in their reptilian minds at the time I DO NOT CARE!
9 posted on 01/11/2007 4:45:35 PM PST by Mikey_1962 (If you build it, they won't come...)
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To: RightResponse

If they abused my kin like that, the law would be the least of their worries. After all, I believe the punishment should be greater than the crime.


10 posted on 01/11/2007 4:45:59 PM PST by Loud Mime ("She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon." - Groucho Marx)
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To: SmithL

Didn't something like this happen in the last few years in Kansas or Oklahoma where two couples were tortured and murdered? The MSM won't cover these stories for long but we need to remember.


11 posted on 01/11/2007 4:46:06 PM PST by Spok
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To: BluH2o

The part that always strikes me viscerally is the expression on the faces of the mug shots...eyes that bore holes straight through you, a glaring hatred for all to see.


12 posted on 01/11/2007 4:46:07 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer
The part that always strikes me viscerally is the expression on the faces of the mug shots...eyes that bore holes straight through you, a glaring hatred for all to see.

They should see mine right now...

13 posted on 01/11/2007 4:48:00 PM PST by RightResponse (It depends on what the defamation of Islam is .....)
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To: Old Professer
... eyes that bore holes straight through you, a glaring hatred for all to see.

I see it more in the light of stupid arrogance.

14 posted on 01/11/2007 4:49:35 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: Spok

Well, I can't remember the last time a young black man and his girlfriend/wife were raped/tortured and murdered by white OR black men.


It's not that blacks don't kill blacks and often over the most tragically insignificant things. BUT, this kind of savagery is not normally seen inflicted in black on black crimes (unless there's some criminal reprisal or punishment in 'the game' of the underworld.)


15 posted on 01/11/2007 4:52:50 PM PST by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: Skywalk

Street Cred?


17 posted on 01/11/2007 4:58:13 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: BluH2o
I hope this turd is crying when they put a noose over his head and kick the chair out from under him.
18 posted on 01/11/2007 5:01:38 PM PST by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: Jotun
Their death sentences were commuted to life.

I heard about the crime you mentioned, but I hadn't heard their death sentences were commuted. I'm sorry to hear that -- their case seemed to be the picture-perfect example of why we need a death penalty.

I guess the same thing will happen in this Knoxville case also.

19 posted on 01/11/2007 5:10:55 PM PST by 68skylark
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To: SmithL
This sounds almost as bad as the horrors perpetrated against Tawana Brawley by those white cops.

Oh, wait. That was made up. This is real.

Go for the death penalty. Flush these turds.

20 posted on 01/11/2007 5:13:18 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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