Kamille 'Cupcake’ McKinney: 2 charged with capital murder of child
Oct 24, 2019
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Birmingham police detectives on Thursday presented their evidence against Patrick Devone Stallworth, and his girlfriend, Derick Irisha Brown, to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
District Attorney Danny Carr, in a 4 p.m. announcement, said his office has issued warrants against Smith and Brown for capital murder of a child under the age of 14. If convicted, both could face the death penalty.
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The abduction happened about 8:30 p.m. at Tom Brown Village public housing community off Messer-Airport Highway.
Kamille was with her mother, April Thomas, and other family members at the birthday party in a parking lot off 41st Place North.
Children attending the party said a man got out of an SUV and put Kamille in the vehicle.
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Just 24 hours after Kamille’s disappearance, residents at a
Center Point condominium complex called 911 after finding the Toyota Sequoia parked outside. Stallworth and Brown were taken into custody as persons of interest.
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Stallworth with seven crimes - possession of child *advertiser censored* and possession with intent to distribute child *advertiser censored*. ... Authorities said there were no images of Kamille found on his phone. He was released from jail after posting $500,000 bond.
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Brown was held as well after authorities filed a motion to revoke her bond in a case in which Brown is
accused of abducting her three children from DHR custody.
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The incident happened
July 13, 2018 and Brown was charged then with three counts of
kidnapping, second-degree assault, attempting to elude and four counts of reckless endangerment.
Deputies learned that the night before the kidnapping,
DHR had removed the children from the custody of their mother as part of a safety plan while an investigation was conducted into abuse allegations.
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While being questioned in connection with Kamille’s case, investigators learned she had tried to reach out to the victims in the 2018 case. A judge then revoked her bond.
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Adam Danneman, a public defender whose office represents Brown, previously said the woman “adamantly denies” knowing anything about the abduction
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Moments after Kamille’s remains were found, a team of police already in position
carried out a search warrant at a home in Midfield where Stallworth was taken into custody on suspicion of capital murder and kidnapping.
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Little is known about Stallworth.
He has family members in the area and once lived at the family home where he was
arrested in Midfield Tuesday night. He also lived for a time in the mid-2000s in Pensacola, but Florida records show no criminal history for him there.
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In Alabama, he also has
no significant prior criminal record. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge in Butler County in 2004. He was arrested again in 2013 on a felony marijuana possession charged but it was dismissed.
It wasn’t immediately clear how long he lived at
Woodside Condominiums – where he was initially arrested – but management there said he had
lived in one building until it burned in September and then moved to his current rental apartment which was padlocked after his arrest.
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Both will be held without bond in the Jefferson County Jail.
^^^bbm
First time I've read that birthday party was held in the parking lot. Perhaps like tailgate/bbq where guests assembled. Makes more sense than everybody indoors and kids outside completely on their own.
PS first apartment at Woodside burned. Evidence of prior crimes including child *advertiser censored* destroyed?
PS arrested Tuesday in Midfield (the family home- parents?).
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JMO Early on I worried that if she was by chance alive, that whomever had her would kill her. No matter what it’s tragic.
