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Jackson 11/20/03
Suspect Taken Down by Trio of Handymen
Cheryl Lasseter
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We’ve profiled him on Crimestoppers, now it appears robbery and assault
suspect Lewis Chandler has harassed State Street resident and senior
citizen Hebron Morris for the last time.

“He robbed me three times, tried twice to get into our backyard,” Morris
says. “We put up fencing, barbed wire. This guy jumps over fences to get
to you.”

Morris says on Thursday morning, Chandler appeared through one of two
holes he’d cut in the garage to commit previous burglaries. Then he
attacked Morris as he and his sister, Dean Alexander, were leaving the
house.

“He had to take time out to assault me on the back porch, which took a
little while. I’m not very good at resistance,” Morris says. Dean
screamed for help.

Across the street, First Baptist Church maintenance man Robert Wilson
got wind of it and jumped into his truck. Co-workers Dennis Chism and
Joe Turner started a foot chase.

“They were just relaying the message to me over the radio as to where he
was headed,” Wilson says.

With a fist full of cash, Chandler ran through a parking lot behind
Morris’ house, then down President Street. He tore off his jacket and
threw it down in the parking lot next to the Supreme Court building
under construction.
The jacket was still lying there Thursday afternoon.

Chandler fled past Two Sisters restaurant, across a cemetery, through a
hole in the cemetery’s wire fence, and across a quiet section of Lamar
Street. His journey came to an end across Lamar Street, behind a small
white house next to the Church of Christ Holiness USA.

Mr. Morris caught up quickly. “When I heard Robert say, you stop or I’ll
blow your head off, I felt much better,” Morris says, although
Morris used his own shotgun to keep Chandler at bay.

Chandler is jailed on two counts of house burglary, three strong-arm
robbery counts and one armed robbery count.

Morris says another man worked as a decoy for Chandler Thursday; he says
that suspect has not been caught.