Fer shame a “child” with an ugly assault rifle infringes on his mom’s atacker’s civil rights….
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Crime/Corruption News
Source: Charlotte Observer
Published: 3/28/01 Author: Melissa Manware & Gary L. Wright
Posted on 03/30/2001 10:47:43 PST by caliph

Published Wednesday, March 28, 2001

No charges for man who shot to death his mother’s killer

By MELISSA MANWARE GARY L. WRIGHT
Staff Writers

A Charlotte man who fatally shot the man who gunned down his mother and
brother earlier this month will not face criminal charges, a Mecklenburg
prosecutor said Tuesday.

Assistant District Attorney Marsha Goodenow said Jerry Niquontis Whitley,
21, acted in self-defense and was trying to protect his brother March5 when
he shot 41-year-old Larry Michael Rice with an AK-47 assault-style rifle at
a west Charlotte mobile home.

Rice fatally shot his girlfriend, 46-year-old Peggy Whitley, and her son,
17-year-old Maurice Whitley, with a sawed-off shotgun seconds before he was
killed.

Peggy Whitley, who lived at the Ashley Circle mobile home with Rice but had
recently left him, was visiting next door with her sons when Rice called
her to his home, Goodenow said.

She went to the mobile home to get some belongings and was shot during an
argument, police said.

“He gunned her down. Then when one of her sons came over to see what was
going on, he shot him,” Goodenow said.

Goodenow said Rice then opened fire on Jerry Whitley. Jerry Whitley went
into a mobile home and got an AK-47. Rice continued firing at him, and he
shot Rice, the prosecutor said.

“His mother was already dead. He was trying to save his brother,” Goodenow
said.

Maurice Whitley, a 10th-grader at West Mecklenburg High, died from a
gunshot wound to the chest.

Peggy Whitley had worked as a housekeeper at a Days Inn on Billy Graham
Parkway. She was shot in the head, Goodenow said.

Rice had an extensive arrest record in Mecklenburg County, including
kidnapping, assault and driving-while-impaired convictions. He was ordered
just last year to complete a treatment program for batterers, records show.

Of the eight murders reported in Charlotte-Mecklenburg this year, five have
been domestic-related. Homicide investigators said 16 of last year’s 75
murders were domestic-related.