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Wichita Case of Black Racist Crime Survivor's testimony horrifies courtroom
The Wichita Eagle ^ | Wed, Oct. 09, 2002 | RON SYLVESTER

Posted on 10/10/2002 9:08:59 AM PDT by GaryMontana

Posted on Wed, Oct. 09, 2002

Survivor's testimony horrifies courtroom The woman who survived the quadruple homicide in 2000 takes the stand in the second day of testimony in the Carr brothers trial.

More photos Dave Williams/The Wichita Eagle Crime Scene Investigator Kevin Brasser displays the keys her collected from a victims car during day two of the Jonathan and Reginald Carr trial in Sedgwick County District Court.

Gruesome crime scene photos and chilling testimony Tuesday from the lone survivor of a quadruple homicide nearly two years ago created a disturbing second day of state's testimony in the capital murder trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr.

Jurors left the courtroom of Judge Paul Clark staring at the floor as family and friends of the victims waited silently to be dismissed.

Reginald Carr, one of two brothers facing the death penalty if convicted, looked at faces glaring back at him as court guards marched him back to jail. Jonathan, his younger brother, looked straight ahead.

Prosecutors had spent the first day and a half reconstructing events surrounding the shooting of five people, and the killing of four, in a snow-covered soccer field on Dec. 15, 2000.

Seats that had been full during the first day of testimony emptied at midmorning Tuesday as Wichita police crime scene investigator Kevin Brasser took the stand.

Brasser worked alone in the dark that morning collecting evidence and taking pictures at 29th Street North and Greenwich Road, where the bodies were found. The jury sat expressionless as they looked at Brasser's graphic photos, displayed under repeated defense objections.

But Clark's small court filled again after lunch, when the sole survivor of the attack, a one-time schoolteacher, retold her story. The only vacant seats were the ones next to Jonathan and Reginald Carr's mother.

The state's eyewitness, who testified 18 months ago at a preliminary hearing, once again calmly recounted her nightmare.

She told of two black men armed with guns breaking into the home of her boyfriend, Jason Befort, of then being raped and sodomized and of watching her friends beaten.

She said all the men wanted to know when they burst in around 11 p.m. on Dec. 14, 2000 was: Who has money?

"None of us had any cash on us," she said.

Have any ATM cards?

"We all raised our hands."

How much money do you have in the bank? the attackers asked, she said.

Each had between $200 and $1,500, she recollected. "They were not irrational, they were just shouting and very demanding," she said.

District Attorney Nola Foulston asked what she thought would have happened if they didn't comply with those demands.

"We were under the impression they'd probably shoot us," said the woman.

Since the day of the crime, she has not been identified because of an Eagle policy of not printing the names of sexual assault victims.

She told of assaults and sodomy in detail, as everyone -- including the Carrs -- kept their eyes on the witness stand. The jury watched her intently, looking down to occasionally take notes.

Family members and friends of Befort, Aaron Sander, Heather Muller and Brad Heyka sniffled and tried to hold back tears.

"Oh, God, no," one person whispered as the woman told of one horrific sexual attack on another man that had her fearing for her boyfriend's life.

She said the attackers kept some of them in a bedroom closet while taking one or two out at a time to assault them or give orders at gunpoint.

Just before midnight, the stockier of the two men began taking each of them in Befort's Dodge Dakota to automatic teller machines, forcing them to withdraw money, she said. When it was her turn to drive, she said the man kept fiddling with the radio, trying to find a music station he liked.

"Oh, Christ," someone from the gallery sighed in disbelief.

But en route to and from a Commerce ATM at 21st Street and Webb Road, she said the man told her he wouldn't shoot anyone.

"I said, 'Do you promise?' " she remembered.

"He said, 'Yeah, I'm not gonna shoot you.' "

She said she later told her friends.

"As I got back in the closet I said, 'I think we're gonna be OK.' I said, 'He said he's not going to shoot us.' "

During the hours of agony, the woman learned that Befort had bought an engagement ring for her. One of the intruders found the ring in a popcorn tin.

"Is this the only one?" she remembered the intruder asking, wanting to know if there was any more jewelry.

That's all, Befort told him. She said the bigger man then said something that made her think he had taken back his earlier promise.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to shoot you yet," she remembered him saying before he raped her. It was the second time she had been raped that night.

"Were you able to see or look at this individual?" Foulston asked.

"I did," the witness answered.

During the preliminary hearing, the woman positively identified Jonathan Carr, but not Reginald Carr.

On Tuesday, she said she saw both men, but was not asked to identify them.

She saw the second man in the bathroom, as he attacked one of her friends.

"And were you able to get a good look at him?" Foulston asked.

"Yes," she said, "I was."

Her testimony continues this morning.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: andover; armedrobbery; belaire; blackracism; capitalpunishment; deathpenalty; depravity; hatecrime; jessejackson; jonathancarr; kansas; kidnapping; mediabias; mediablackout; murder; nolafoulston; racism; rape; reginaldcarr; sodomy; wichitahorror; wichitamassacre
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Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton et al.. now that there is a case of real racism? SILENT becasue the crime was caused by blacks against whites! The case in Texas where the drug a black guy behind a pickup was horrible, but this crime is 1000 times worse! AND of course the main stream media is SILENT!
1 posted on 10/10/2002 9:08:59 AM PDT by GaryMontana
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To: GaryMontana
Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton et al..

They'll be here soon defending the murderers.

2 posted on 10/10/2002 9:12:46 AM PDT by BrooklynGOP
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To: GaryMontana
Bump for our corrupt media. Only imagine if the races had been reversed...
3 posted on 10/10/2002 9:16:09 AM PDT by xJones
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To: xJones
Only imagine if the races had been reversed...

The HBO movie would ALREADY be in production...



4 posted on 10/10/2002 9:19:00 AM PDT by who knows what evil?
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To: GaryMontana
Agree 100 percent.
5 posted on 10/10/2002 9:20:59 AM PDT by axel f
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To: GaryMontana
I'd say it's hard to compare one horrific crime to another, but this one has to rank right up there.

Whatcha wanna bet the "defense" ends up trying to portray the two thugs as having sub-normal intelligence? Below the magic 70-pt IQ threshold?
6 posted on 10/10/2002 9:24:36 AM PDT by Redbob
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To: GaryMontana
I was stationed in Witchita Ks at McConnell AFB in late 70's and that place was a ticking time bomb up around the Hillside Road area.....Lots of assults, drive bys, robbery ect ect....high crime rate. One didn't loiter there with out a sidearm for long. I wonder what the address of the victims home was ? It may have been posted but I haven't seen it.

I hope they put these two animals down like the rabid rodents they are .......

Stay Safe , Armed and CYA Gary ! !

7 posted on 10/10/2002 9:29:16 AM PDT by Squantos
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Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton et al.. now that there is a case of real racism? SILENT becasue the crime was caused by blacks against whites! The case in Texas where the drug a black guy behind a pickup was horrible

And let's not forget Ken Tillery killed by Darrell Gilbert, Blake Little and Anthony Holmes in Jasper Texas. Where were Jessie and Al then?

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

8 posted on 10/10/2002 9:37:04 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
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To: Redbob
Yeah, that's about the way it'll go,but there's always the chance of an "accident" in prison.
9 posted on 10/10/2002 9:41:27 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: GaryMontana
uhuh uhhhh Spike Lee says: Black People Cant Be Racist...
10 posted on 10/10/2002 9:46:17 AM PDT by joesnuffy
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11 posted on 10/10/2002 9:56:27 AM PDT by lodwick
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To: Squantos
They lived on the far northeast fringes of the city away from the "bad areas". They were killed about a mile from me.
12 posted on 10/10/2002 9:57:32 AM PDT by sigSEGV
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To: GaryMontana
There have been several articles written about how white young men do not fight back anymore. We are raising them to be sensitive, to talk about their feelings and to not give in to anger.

And here we have nice young men and women, robbed, raped and eventually murdered by hateful thugs who look upon them as weak, typical victims. The same thing happened in CA when the 2 girls were abducted.

Are we raising a generation of wimps, or is this just an aberration?

13 posted on 10/10/2002 9:58:32 AM PDT by gramho12
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Thanks for the info...... Is that up behind Beachcraft ? Rock & Kellog I think ? Been a few years , sorry for my poor memory........

Stay Safe !

14 posted on 10/10/2002 10:05:20 AM PDT by Squantos
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To: UCANSEE2; redlipstick; cyncooper; RnMomof7; Jaded; Valpal1; BunnySlippers
I don't know about ucansee2, since he leaves near me..but I consider this a local crime...it wasn't that far away from us.

This is a good reason to believe in the evidence the victims leave behind and not the spin of slickmeisters.

Thank God a witness survived..
15 posted on 10/10/2002 10:11:32 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: UCANSEE2; redlipstick; cyncooper; RnMomof7; Jaded; Valpal1; BunnySlippers
leaves near me.. = LIVES near me..



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16 posted on 10/10/2002 10:14:41 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: Squantos
Several miles east and north of Beechcraft (Raytheon now). Killed here. They lived a mile or two east of there.
17 posted on 10/10/2002 10:15:08 AM PDT by sigSEGV
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To: GaryMontana
The case in Texas where the drug a black guy behind a pickup was horrible, but this crime is 1000 times worse! AND of course the main stream media is SILENT!

I heard, from a fairly credible source (detective type), that this case was NOT a racial crime, but a payback crime for something that happened in prison. Who knows, but it seems that whenever a white person does anything to a minority, it is jumped on as a hate crime.

18 posted on 10/10/2002 10:16:36 AM PDT by Paradox
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To: sigSEGV
Thank You !.......Stay Safe !
19 posted on 10/10/2002 10:30:14 AM PDT by Squantos
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To: sigSEGV
This is the first time I've heard of these murders. I'm shakey from reading what I just read. That woman who was an eye-witness and was repeatedly raped-- was she shot along with the others and was blessed enough to survive or was she never shot at all? What a horrifiying experience to endure.
20 posted on 10/10/2002 11:06:11 AM PDT by Boxsford
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