Something is terribly wrong with a justice system that continues to let murders out on bond to walk our streets. If a defendant takes a life, he should be locked up until his trial.
In the case of 17-year-old Antoine Wimes, a judge saw fit to grant him $250,000 bond in a murder and assault case. Wimes was arrested in February 2009 and charged with the July 2008 shooting death of Obiakor Onyemaechi.
Wimes’ mother put up the necessary $25,000 in cash or property to secure the bond. Judge Karen Woodson ordered Wimes to wear an ankle monitor on home confinement — which has been proven time and time again to be a totally useless method of keeping tabs on dangerous criminals.
By 8 a.m. Monday, Wimes’ mother said he cut off his ankle monitor and was out the door. She never called the police to report his absence. More than 12 hours later, Wimes and an accomplice, Donovan McCoy, 21 — a career criminal from Michigan who had only been in Georgia for three months, were at the door of “Nikki” Neely demanding money.
Neely, who is the best friend of Wimes’ sister, refused to give them any cash. Outraged, Wimes shot Neely in the face and torso. The sociopath then picked up Neely’s crying 1-year-old son Javante by the ankles and swung the child “like a baseball bat” against a wall or piece of furniture.
The baby suffered crushing injuries and lacerations and is listed in serious condition at Egleston Children’s hospital. Neely is in critical condition at Atlanta Medical Center.
Meanwhile, the monitoring company which was being paid to monitor Wimes and 11 other violent criminals on home confinement, didn’t alert the police that Wimes was off his monitor until 9 p.m. — 13 hours after he cut his monitor off!
Wimes was quickly identified as the shooter and baby beater, and was the subject of an intense police manhunt. By late Tuesday afternoon, his picture was aired on local news broadcasts. Around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Wimes showed up at a family member’s residence on Rico Road asking to use the phone. The family member, having seen Wimes’ photo on TV, called the police. Wimes ran across the road to a vacant home and hid out in the attic.
The SWAT team arrived within minutes and the police K9 unit was called to the scene. The police used a bullhorn to advise Wimes to come out with his hands in the air. Wimes came to the front door saying he gave up, but then the coward ran behind a nearby bush with his hands still in the air.
As Wimes was led past reporters into the Chatahoochee Hills Police station Tuesday evening, he shouted, “I own this world like Scarface!”
wow. im shocked at his age. why so evil so young? dang hope that girl and her baby pulls through
Stories like this are why I believe in the death penalty….
Sandra I wondered if you were going to post this story when I heard it on the news.
Some of our young black men are very lost breaks my heart.
I pray the victim and her son recover!
Jesus take the wheel..Amen
This is a sick young man. Praying for the victims and for this young man’s family.
This is so sad! Enablers. His mother was an enabler. She shouldn’t have got him out on bond, shouldn’t have neglicted to call the police and should have had him dedicated to the Lord at birth, baptized every three years, and blammed upside the head by a community of pastors.
Because to me, (and I don’t speak for all), but to me, these youngun’s have lost their God-given conscience and have turned into lap dogs for Satan. This boy was mentally disturbed and possessed.
I AGREE WITH KAY – THE WAY I SAW HIM ON TV..HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS POSSESSED.
SAD STORY. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES.
cosign 5 & 6.. wow…
Cosigning on all the comments. This boy was one sick individual and his mother and whomever else aided him while he was out there committing crimes are enablers!
What I do really want to know it, how so many people who commit lesser crimes…say selling weed for instance are denied bail but murders are let out…makes no sense. It happens all the time in philly and it only makes the news that the criminal never should have been on the street if a cop getting shot or killed is involved…
I feel for that women’s family and I hope they make…
KayCeiSoul that was very well put & @BLACKBARBIE404 youre right & possession is a very real thing and people dont like to talk about it or are quick to see the person is just crazy…the devil is very real…and the scarface things just proves my point..to much tv & rap is bad for the mind….all these subliminal messages it anit no telling where he picked that demon up front but someone needs to pray over that child & then let him spend his life in jail…my prayers got out to the young lady and her baby
WOW!
Look at is mom enabling him this is her fault she should be ashamed she should never have been able to have kids put that on eerything she was a single teenage mom!
Honey bunches – when I tell y’all…I would drop kick my sons clean in the middle of their backs before it EVAH got this far. I am no joke when it comes to raising my sons, because they are a direct reflection of me, and are supposed to be a reflection of the Lord’s goodness first.
BLAMM!!! Head right into the side of the garage – where the brick is, not the siding.
We have to get our kids, and not depend on society to raise them, because just like flyqtnva said – that boy picked that thang (demon) up from somewhere. Had he been covered correctly, that would not have been possible, and this would not be happening. This is sad! My prayers go out to the young lady who was shot and her precious child.
Sad. He has the two thumbs up like he just saved ppl in a burning building. He said that this is his world and that he is “Scarface”. How the hell do you let him out on bond and then he goes out and does this? Lock his mom up too.
I agree with you KayCeiSoul, I would drop kick my son also. He is only 7 years old, I’m very tough on him, for the simple fact he is a male. I think the mom should be charged with something, if she would have reported he took off his ankle braclet, maybe he would have been caught prior to going to the victims house.
THIS IS VERY DISTURBING
Kool Moe Dee
Took a brother’s life with a knife as his wife
Cried cause he died a trifling death
When he left his very last breath
Was I slept so watch your step
Back in the sixties our brothers and sisters were hanged
How could you gang-bang?
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan
and I shouldn’t have to run from a black man
cause that’s
Self-Destruction, ya headed for Self-Destruction
I blame his mother. She should have left his behind in jail and did all of us a favor, especially the two victims.
KayCeiSoul
You said everything I wanted to say and some things I didn’t even know I wanted to say, but definately agree with. Moms are not dads. Our sons are struggling and the vicious cycle continues on and on. It sounds like you are tapping into that super male within to raise your son properly. Good for you and him. Lord please bless our fatherless sons in Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Enablers. His mother was an enabler.
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why does bill balfour’s momma (dude who did the hudson family murders) come to mind?
these mommas need to stop taking up for these no good children. had she left his behind in there after he took the first life this story right here would be a NON STORY. his butt would been locked up where he belongs. she knew he was disturbed. at least he woulda been off the street and maybe getting some help. smdh. now he has had the chance to take or at the very least ruin two more lives. i am praying for the young lady and her little boy.
i blame him but i also blame his mother.
This boy looks like he has/had fetal alcohol syndrome. But in any case he ain’t ish & his mother ain’t ish neither is his obvious absentee father. No good tree raises morally bankrupt fruit like this one.
The mother should be arrested for negligence and she better lose her bond money. She should be as devastated as all the victims involved in this. He should have cold water poured on him and be lashed to death, he doesn’t deserve to be a further cancer to society by languished in our tax-funded prisons.
the sad part is my own mother is an enabler to my younger sister. she runs all around the city, wreaking havoc, racking up more and more petty charges, and my momma has made it her life’s mission to bail her out of jail, leave her bed and home in the middle of the night to go get her from terrible sides of town that a lady her age has NO biz being on (in the day or in the night), lie to the cops on her whereabouts….and all other kinds of just SKRAIT tomfoolery. now she is not speaking to me or my older sister cause we would not loan her the money the other day to bail her out for the gazillionth time. LEAVE HER DOWN THERE.
i am gonna print this story out and mail it to her and write on it “THIS IS WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU ARE AN ENABLER” at the top with a sharpie.
He looks right cocky in that picture! I wanna see a follow up after he’s been in maximum security prison for 20 years.
This is a sad story…The nation should look at gun control laws in China and come up with an adaptation of those very laws. When I was 17, I didnt even know where to even start looking for a gun. I’m so sick of senseless violence.
Thanks Bird and everybody else who feels the pain of this situation and understands the fact that we have to get with our kids on a regular. Tighten ’em up with love!
And yes Bird
– I see so much of what I don’t like about some of our failing black men (not saying they are all failures either), and I launch an attack against the enemy with regards to those things befalling my good sons! I say no.
My sons (including their friends or any other young black male I’m within 50 ft. of) will not be comfortable and complacent with being trifling, lazy, inconsiderate, non-thinking, disrespectful, expectant, doggish, nor anything else that I have run into during this lifetime of dating and knowing men. Please. That ain’t cute. They know I ain’t buying it. Greater is He that is in me than is in the world. Girl when I go after them, all I hear is that Snap song “I got the poooower!!” LOL!
If they so much as forget to open a door or pull out a chair for a lady or neglect to speak with respect to another brother or elders…WHOMP. BINK. BLAM. It’s a given. I’m a hands on mom, because the Word encourages it. And I touch and agree with your prayer Bird. I speak it every night over my sons.
God, what is going on with some of these young kids today?? What makes them so damn depraved and and with NO regard to human life??
Reminds me of a case down here in Dallas. Two teens shot and killed two Christian music producers, after stating they were looking for some “rich white people” to rob. They got $2.
One of them gave the most chilling interview. He just didn’t care about what he did. The reporter asked him if he had anything to say to the victim’s families. He paused, looked away and then looked dead into the camera – “F- them” he said.
His mama was on the stand the other day saying it wasn’t his fault. She moved from state to state and was with multiple men all his life. She claims he didn’t know any better and he was exposed to drugs and alcohol young. She made every excuse for him – an enabler.
That’s why these young black men can’t be coddled and Mama can’t rescue them all the time. I know a mother’s love can be blind, but open your eyes at SOME point.
So sad – I hope the woman and her baby recover from ALL the wounds – both physical and mental. And this boy needs to be locked up forever and I hope the judge is NEVER re-elected.
We need our fathers- mature, sober, committed, and employed- back in our homes. Stop lying to ourselves that we don’t need Black men.
attorneymom Says:
We need our fathers- mature, sober, committed, and employed- back in our homes. Stop lying to ourselves that we don’t need Black men.
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Amen! I don’t care if a woman says she “don’t need a man”, it’s not about you, you laid down and had kids with someone who did not stay around, your job is to keep male figures in their life, Pastors, Deacons, Uncles, Big Brother Volunteers, etc…
I have nothing to say except… execute him. Put his animal behind to sleep never to wake again. He’s rubbish.
I murder lil n!ggas like this…crack babies have no conscience.