Posted on 06/05/2015 11:21:02 AM PDT by Gamecock
Doug London fired one shot at the man who came to his front door to kill him and his wife, but a spent shell casing lodged itself in the gun, rendering it useless, according to newly released court documents.
First responders found the bodies of London and his wife, Debbie, just inside the front door of their Lake Wylie home a short time later, according to the documents, which were unsealed Wednesday. Debbie had been shot in the face. Her husband was shot in his face and chest, and twice in his back.
Prosecutors said Malcolm Jarrell Hartley killed the Londons in October to prevent Doug London from testifying in court about an earlier robbery of their Charlotte mattress store by members of the United Blood Nation gang.
Details of the killings were released in a criminal affidavit for Jamell Cureton, a leader in the Charlotte cell of the gang called the Valentine Bloods. Cureton was shot by Doug London during the May 2014 robbery attempt at the Mattress Warehouse on South Boulevard, court documents say.
Cureton, Nana Adoma and David Fudge were arrested in the ensuing weeks and charged with the robbery.
Cureton later communicated with other members of the gang in phone calls and letters from jail, saying they needed to discredit the Londons or stop them from testifying altogether, according to the documents.
Cureton was later arrested in connection with the Londons’ killings. He faces almost a dozen federal charges; six carry the death penalty. A federal indictment charges him and five other UBN members with the Londons’ killings.
The federal government took over the case a week after the Londons were killed. In all, a dozen members of the Bloods were charged in the racketeering case.
After the robbery, the Londons showed up to court appearances for Cureton and the other alleged robbers, frustrating Cureton, according to documents.
In a letter to Adoma after the robbery, Cureton said the Londons were causing hassles by showing up to the court appearances and needed to be discredited, according to the documents.
In the letter, Cureton suggests that the two come up with matching stories about the robbery.
They should say Doug London “smoke crack & owed 1 of us some money – we (came) to collect,” the letter said, according to court documents.
In the letter, Cureton said Doug London was “gunning” for him, according to the court documents. “Hunt for blood and blood gone hunt for you.”
For weeks, members of the Valentine Bloods plotted the couple’s killing, according to the indictment in the case.
Cureton played a leading role, despite being in jail at the time, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Green said in April.
Cureton – a midlevel gang leader known as “Murda Mel” and “Assassin” – called meetings, made phone calls, even wrote orders on how he wanted the killings carried out, court documents state.
At one point, Greene said, a gang member asked Cureton if he wanted “One or two weeks?”
Translation: Did he want one or both of the Londons silenced?
“Yeah, two weeks,” Cureton replied, Greene said.
Near the end of the letter released with court documents this week, Cureton indicates that their plans needed to stay secret.
“I need you to destroy this letter. … I got something in store for our friend. (And I don’t) need nobody searching (and) finding nothing incriminating.”
Just goes to show what happens to people who go into the shady business of bedding.....
Dear gamecock,
Never underestimate the possibility that these poor
murdered souls may have never been told about
limpwristing. It is something that every semi-autowner needs
to know about
You can have ammo that makes the semi cycle,
you can know about tap rack boom,
you can own any semi,
yet limpwristing is THE gift from Murphy that one
must overcome, or one might meet the same fate.
Good advice.
Not a bad idea to practice shooting with your `weak’ hand too.
Draw and dry fire with snap-caps if you can’t get to the range.
This is racist!
The police did not arrest one single White, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander or American Indian for these crimes.
I’ll bet they didn’t even INVESTIGATE any White, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander or American Indian people...
He limp-wristed it, apparently no time to whack and rack (or, as noted above, he didn’t spend enough time on the muscle memory). Too bad for the vics, hopefully the perp burns.
With over 50 years of pistol handling experience, I always recommend amateurs purchase a wheel gun for self defense.
Simple - no fuss, handy tool.
Agree with your assumptions.
Prior to the TBA that claimed all of my firearms in early November of 2008, I used to keep a half-dozen or so revolvers around the house in addition to the semi-auto pistols and shotguns.
They are extremely reliable, and when chambered for .357 magnum they pack quite a wallop.
In my experience, if one doesn’t hold the semi-auto firmly, stovepipes are more likely to happen.
Oh wait...
Wonder if soetoro will mention these 2 "Crackers" like he talked about trayvon and brown?
I think not.
One of the tragic parts of this whole episode is that “Rahkeem McDonald” was in the process of turning his life around.
He was negotiating a deal with a certain fast food chain to become the new mascot at all their inner-city restaurants.
I agree with you.
Nine times out of ten, good ammo will fix stove piping. You can also fix it with a spring kit.
Many semi-autos are sprung too hard these days to make up for +P ammo. In my opinion, it’s better to wear out the gun than have it not work. Cheap ammo is fine for the range, but you should always have premium rounds when carried or stored.
I don't have fifty years experience, but with the experience I do have I believe limp-wristing is EXTREMELY over sold for ejection failures.
Of greater import, in my experience, is a top quality firearm along with ammunition that has a minimum of 250 rounds of that specific ammunition run through it with zero failures.
"Limp-wristing" is what "single-pistol-owners" invariably blame before they admit their one gun kinda sucks.
I agree. I’ve seen many gay people shoot just fine. :)
Or race ‘cuz tha’s racism.
A decent tilt-barrel action should be impervious to LW-ing, anyway. It really only affects unlocked blowback actions such as with a .380 or any of the Hi-Point models.
Just asking, how does the grip you hold on the weapon have any affect on a stove pipe jam?
My Sigs never stove pipe for me. Never, not one.
When my 16-year-old daughter shot it, she got one after another.
It was clearly limp-wristing.
I’ve also had stovepipes on a .45 and .22 that had nothing to do with limp-wristing.
We’ll never know why this guy got a stove pipe, he may have already been shot and barely able to hold the gun.
A semi-auto requires resistance for the slide to move, otherwise the entire gun moves. On rifles, the mass of the gun compared to the bolt is generally enough, but with a pistol the lower must be held in place while the slide cycles.
Guess that locks it up. I've never had the problem myself, so I don't know other than what I've heard along the grapevine. I can understand why limp wristing an unlocked blowback could cause a failure to properly eject, but i don't know how that would work with a tilt barrel design. Not denying it mind you, I just don't know how it works.
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