Three Men Dead In Week of Violence
death just before midnight last
Thursday in an apartment at 4412
Lane St.
Osbourne, who has lived in
Dallas and Queens, "N.Y., was
wanted in New York City on drugs,
robbery and bribery charges, Win
ston-Salem Police Lt. T.L. Reavis
said.
Anthony Tyrone King, 19, of
222 Motor Road, Apt. 32, has been
charged with two counts of murder
. in connection with the double shoot
ings and was being held without
bond in the Forsyth County Jail.
Mitchell's body was sent to
Eastonville, Fla., where he grew up
and where his mother, Melenese
George, resides.
"I want him to get the death
penalty," George said about her
son's killer. "I want to be there to
pull that switch."
George, who cried uncontrol
lably during the telephone inter
view, said that the police told her
that the suspect had admitted rob
bing Mitchell.
"It was just so senseless," she
said.
Reavis said King, with Mitchell
and Osbourne in tow, knocked on
the door of the Lane Street house
and asked Kenneth White if they
could use his phone. Reavis said
that while Osbourne was using the
phone in a bedroom, he was shot
with a semiautomatic weapon. The
gunman then went into the living
room and shot Mitchell.
Reavis said that he didn't know
if it was a "drug deal gone bad or
the guys were just killed over
drugs." He said, however, that the
Blacks
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to make sure that the needs of black
children are met in the city/county
school system.
"We are taking our dollars and
giving them to the other guy," the
East Ward alderman said. "Now I
love the whites, too, but I don't love
him enough to give him all we got.
And that's what we're doing. Then
- we turn around and say they're
doing it to us over there; we're
doing it to ourselves."
Newell said blacks must take a
more active role in ensuring a
proper education for African-Amer
ican youths!
When I look at us here in
Winston-Salem, how we are allow
ing our JudgjeTgo to schools further
and fnnhtr frnm nnr communities,
and don't know what books they
have and what they're learning from
it ...," she said. "And to have a
school system that's not even fund
ing LIFT Academy ? we don't
know where our children are going
to go to School."
She compared the African
American struggle for economic
parity to that of other ethnicities.
"If the Hispanic, Jew or Asian
can make it." she said, "we can
make it, too."
About 100 people attended the
all -day meeting, where participants
explored several avenues that will
be defined and discussed during the
fall summit. The four areas dis
cussed at great length were: educa
tion, criminal justice, economic
development and housing.
The participants were placed in
groups of 25 to discuss each topic.
For example:
B In the area of criminal jus
tice, participants discussed possible
alternatives to incarceration, such as
establishing a "street academy" that
would teach a trade to a young
offender.
B Along the lines of economic
development, it was noted that
blacks should spend more of their
money with black-owned busi
nesses ?
? Participants who discussed
housing called for more affordable
housing and avenues to assist resi
dents of public-housing communi
ties in becoming homeowners.
? And discussion on education
focused on creating groups to inter
act with individual schools and"
teachers on behalf of students
whose parents are unable to do so.
It would work much like the
extended family concept, wherein
an adult in the black community
could chastise a kid for misbehav
ing.
gunman robbed one of the victims
of some marijuana. He refused to
say how much was involved.
King was arrested at his home a
few hours after (he incident, Reavis
said.
George said she learned of
Mitchell's death through his girl
friend, with whom he had two chil
dren, who are 4-1/2 years old and
frve months old.
She said Mitchell was in his
last year as a biology major at Win
ston-Salem State University. She
has another son in college and a
daughter who is a college graduate.
"It was a complete shock ..."
"she said. "You know, you send your
child off to school, you don't expect
him to come home in a package." ^
Hours before the two men were
gunned down on Aug. 25, Torre
Buchan Horton, 19, of 1213 E. 12th
St., Apt A, was shot to death out
side 760 Ferrell Court around 2 a.m.'
No arrests have been made in con
nection with the incident, police
said.
He was eulogized Saturday.
Tm not going to rest in peace
until the murderer is captured," his
mother, Ernestine S. Martin, said.
Martin said that her son was
shot first in the back, but that the
gunman returned to shoot him in the
head. She said that Horton was at
the complex visiting friends and
then went to a store to buy ciga
rettes. She said when he returned, he
sat on a bench and started talking to
a woman.
A man, whom she said she
knew as "Moe," got into an argu
ment with Horton over the woman.
"Moe shot him twice! Shot
him in the back ..." she said. "It was
just cold-blooded to me.
"If this young man knew what
he's done to us ..." she said.
No arrests have been made, but
the police said they have several
leads.
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Martin said her son, who wis
known on the street at "Fat Note,"
was employed by Temporary
Resources and was "very much
well -liked"
Martin said she has participated
in a candlelight vigil sponsored by
Blsck Men and Women Against
Crime. She said she never thought
the reason for such vigils would hit
so cloaetohome,
"Whose child will be next?" she
asked.
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