Posted on 01/25/2016 6:50:06 AM PST by pabianice
... The paths of the 47-year-old military leader and the 26-year-old convicted sex offender crossed eight days ago, in a screeching tangle of rubber and steel near the intersection of West Mountain Drive and Gillespie Street.
Fayetteville police say Dunlap's black 2000 Honda Accord was traveling south on Gillespie Street when it crossed a grassy center median, veered into oncoming traffic and smashed into Ratley's 2015 Harley Davidson motorcycle.
A makeshift memorial stands — American flags, flowers and a sign — where Ratley lost his life.
Dunlap is back behind bars, being held on $100,000 bail on charges of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle, careless and reckless driving and driving left of center.
Saturday afternoon, soldiers carried Ratley's coffin into the auditorium at Robeson Community College, where a long procession of grieving family members and soldiers in dress blues came to pay their final respects.
Justin Andrew Dunlap lives in a peaceful neighborhood of middle-class homes in a rural area off Parkton Road south of Hope Mills.
Peaceful, at least according to his neighbors, when Dunlap isn't around.
When he is, they say, all hell often breaks loose.
It's was that way even when Dunlap was a boy, racing small motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles down the otherwise quiet streets.
As he grew older, the neighbors say, his toys increased in size and power, and so did his actions.
"He is a menace to our neighborhood," said Vernon Pittman, who lives on a cul de sac two doors from where Dunlap was staying with his uncle and grandfather before his arrest.
Another neighbor, who feared retaliation if his name were used, described one of the many altercations he has had with Dunlap.
On New Year's Day, he said, he was walking his dog in the neighborhood when Dunlap came flying around a corner in his Honda and almost hit him.
The neighbor said he yelled at Dunlap to slow down. He said Dunlap screeched to a stop, slammed his car into reverse, jumped out and started yelling at him.
The morning of the day Ratley was killed, the neighbor said, Dunlap had screamed at him again for no apparent reason.
Such stories are common in the neighborhood. Stories of yelling and screaming, nasty fights and domestic disturbance.
Pittman tells of the time he saw Dunlap and about four of his friends dancing around a rebel flag in his yard. Everyone in the group had shaved their heads. Pittman said the incident happened shortly after Dylann Roof was charged with killing nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof told investigators that he had hoped to start a race war.
In the last five years, records show that the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office has responded 49 times to the Winner's Circle home where Dunlap lives. Most of the calls for service were to check on Dunlap because of his status as a sex offender. But seven were for domestic disturbances, and one was for "past theft."
"This kid should have been locked up a long time ago," said another neighbor, Ken Slankard. "Those of us who have dealt with him knew something like this was going to happen..."
looks good in prison orange...
He’d look better in manila or hemp.
Wonder if he intentionally killed the motorcyclist because he was black. Sounds like the punk needs a better interrogation.
My first thought and I hadnt read the source. Prayers for family friends and brothers... And for justice.
I can’t stand neighborhood scumbags like this. No respect for other people or their property. Just useless menaces to society. Seems like everyplace on earth has one.
Never mind, pic of the CSM at the source :p
The picture of Ratley? The skinhead activities of Dunlap?
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