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Rapper Young QC Sentenced To Serve
High School Football Player, 15, Was Shot At Grandfather's Funeral
Life In Prison For Mother’s Death
Yolanda Holmes doted on her son, Qaw’mane Wilson, an only child she lavished with fancy clothes, jewelry and a Mustang.
At 23, the aspiring rapper who called himself “Young QC” wanted more, and hired a hit- man to kill his mother, Cook County Judge Stanley Sacks said Friday, as he sentenced Wilson to 99 years in prison.
The gunman, Eugene Spencer, was sentenced to 100 years.
“The word is ‘matricide,’ meaning murder of one’s own mother,” Sacks said as he stared down from the bench at Wilson and Spencer.
“Whatever he wanted, his mother gave to him. A car. A job. One could say he was spoiled. She gave Qaw’mane life, and it was his choice to take it way from her.”
Spencer rode with Wilson’s girlfriend to Holmes’ apart- ment in Uptown in 2012, and shot Holmes as she slept in her bed, then struggled with Holmes boyfriend, knocking him unconscious, then return- ing to stab Holmes after a phone conversation with Wil- son, who told him to “make sure the bitch is dead.”
Wilson later collected the money in his mother’s bank ac- counts, and in the months after her death used the cash to cus- tomize the Mustang she had
A 15-year-old football star was one of two people killed in a dev- astating shooting that broke out outside his grandfather's funeral in Florida on Saturday, his coach confirmed.
Deerfield Beach High School star Terrance Jackson, was 'killed at his grandfather's fu- neral,' coach Jevon Glenn said to the South Florida Sun Sen- tinel.
TERRANCE JACKSON, 15.
Jackson, a sophomore who played defensive end, had skipped a team trip to tour sev- eral colleges to attend the serv- ice in Riviera Beach when shots fired on the street in front of Victory City Church on W 20th Street shortly after 2.30pm, fol- lowing the funeral.
Jackson and 47-year-old Royce Freeman died at the scene.
Qaw’mane Wilson, 30, was sentenced Friday to 99 years in prison for hiring a friend to kill his mother, successful Uptown salon owner Yolanda Holmes.
given him with gull-wing doors. On one occasion, he withdrew thousands of dollars from a bank and tossed wads of cash to a crowd of people he said were fans of his rap music — captur- ing the moments in a YouTube video that was played for the jury.
His long dreadlocks pulled back into a topknot Friday, Wil- son, now 30, slouched in his chair and merely nodded when Sacks announced the sentence. When asked if he had anything to say before Sacks made his ruling, Wilson was brief.
“I just want to say, nobody loved my mother more than me,” he said. “She was all I had. That’s it.”
Manhunt Continues For White Robber Who Wore Blackface In Maryland Bank Holdup
A manhunt is on for a brazen white suspect who held up a bank in Maryland while dis- guised in blackface, police said.
The robbery occurred at PNC Bank in Perryville, about 43 miles northeast of Baltimore.
Perryville Police Chief Allen Miller told ABC News on Thurs- day that the teller who was robbed initially described the robber as black, but after investi- gators reviewed security video, they noticed the crook's white skin between his right gloved hand and jacket sleeve.
"You could see that he was not a black male," Miller said. "He had obviously covered his face in black something. I don't know if it was makeup or what. We're
BANK ROBBER
still investigating."
No one was injured in the heist.
The robbery occurred around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the chief said. "He walks up to the teller and he presents the teller with a note, and the note basically said, 'Hey, I want all your money. Don't give me a moneybag. I want all the money in the drawer,'" Miller
said.
The teller complied, emptying
her cash drawer on the counter, Miller said.
"He scooped up the money and left. It took about 15 to 20 seconds total for this to happen," Miller said. "No weapon was displayed nor insinuated."
Investigators believe the sus- pect, described as about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 180 pounds, fled in a gray car. He was wearing a heavy jacket and a hat pulled down low.
"In almost 40 years in law en- forcement, this was the first time I ever remember a person going into a bank with blackface on," Miller said. "This is a first for me in my career."
White Supremacist Who
Murdered Charleston 9
Appeals Death Sentence
The white supremacist who murdered nine Black churchgo- ers at the historic Mother Emanuel Cchurch in Charleston, South Carolina, is appealing his conviction and death sentence, with his lawyers saying that he was too mentally ill when he represented himself at trial.
As Reuters notes, after choosing to represent himself at the trial and presenting no evi- dence, Dylann Roof was found guilty on several federal charges, including hate crimes resulting in death.
He was ultimately sentenced to death, after about three hours of deliberation by the jury.
Federal public defenders are now arguing that Roof was a “22-year-old, ninth-grade dropout diagnosed with schizo- phrenia spectrum disorder, autism, anxiety, and depression, who believed his sentence didn’t matter because white national-
DYLAN ROOF IN COURT.
ists would free him from prison after an impending race war.”
“Roof’s crime was tragic, but this Court can have no confi- dence in the jury’s verdict,” lawyers insisted in the appeal.
Back in Nov. 2016, a federal judge ruled that Roof was com- petent to stand trial for the mur- ders.
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