On Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 7:11:19 PM UTC-5, _ G O D _ wrote:
> Motel shooter gets life in jail
> by Paul Woolverton
> woolv...@fayettevillenc.com
> or at 486-3512
> http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=228468
> Two men blasted away at Reginald Devon Miles in a Fayetteville motel room three years
> ago, killing him with at least a dozen shots.
> A prosecutor said that the killing was prompted by jealous rage after Miles
> reportedly made sexual advances toward the girlfriend of one of the shooters.
> On Monday, Christopher Jason Scott pleaded guilty in Cumberland County Superior Court
> to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Three other people are
> awaiting trials in the case.
> By pleading guilty, Scott, 23, avoided a potential death sentence.
> Prosecutor Cal Colyer gave the following summary of the evidence at Scott's
> sentencing hearing:
> Scott's roommate was Henry Luther Brown III. Brown's girlfriend, Khateefa Maxine
> McDaniel, made the complaints about Miles that ended in the shooting.
> On Dec. 14, 2002, - the day he was killed - Miles visited the home of Sharesa
> Antoinette Breece. McDaniel was there, too. While Breece was out of the room, Miles
> reportedly made sexual advances toward McDaniel.
> McDaniel called her boyfriend, Brown, to complain about Miles. Brown called Scott and
> told him to get their guns.
> McDaniel, Breece, Brown and Scott met at an IHOP to plan their revenge. Then McDaniel
> called Miles and asked him to meet her at the Coliseum Inn on U.S. 301.
> Miles rented room 171 while the four plotting to get him waited in the parking lot.
> Miles went to the room and McDaniel followed, leaving the door open. Breece waited in
> the parking lot while Scott and Brown followed McDaniel into the room.
> Miles, sitting on the bed, jumped up and argued with Scott and Brown. They shot him
> and walked out.
> McDaniel, "after seeing that he's still moving and alive, comes to the door and tells
> Mr. Scott, 'He ain't dead,'" Colyer said.
> They went back into the room and Scott shot Miles several more times. Then McDaniel
> went through Miles' pockets and took a bag of cocaine, a cell phone and some cash.
> The four left, taking Miles' jeep with them and hiding it behind a church on Dunn
> Road.
> An anonymous tip led to the arrest of the four, Colyer said.
> The scenario, he said, suggests that McDaniel "wound Mr. Brown up" and the four "were
> acting to attempt to redress the grievances of Ms. McDaniel."
> At least once before the shooting, Colyer said, McDaniel had put someone she knew in
> a situation where she and her friends could hurt or rob him.
> Scott's apology
> Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks allowed Scott to make a statement before he was
> sentenced.
> Scott was in the Air Force at the time of the killings. He had a clean record and
> planned to go to college. Now 23, he faces life in prison.
> On Monday, he apologized to Shirley Miles, Reginald Miles' mother.
> "Mrs. Miles, I didn't know Reggie. I didn't know anything about him," he said. "From
> what I've read about him, he was a father, a son, a grandson and a brother."
> He said he now understands the value of a life.
> "It may not bring you any peace, but I do apologize."
> He also apologized to his family members, including his parents, who attended the
> hearing. He said he decided to enter his guilty plea to avoid bringing the protracted
> pain of a trial to them and to Miles' family.
> Shirley Miles spoke briefly, too.
> "Reggie was my baby. He was my baby boy," she told Scott. Miles was 29 when he died.
> "I don't hate you. I just hate the actions that you took that took my son's life
> away."
> Charges of first-degree murder, robbery and conspiracy are still pending against
> McDaniel, Breece and Brown.
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Why hasn't anyone looked into this case. Christopher Jason Scott was not at the location of the murder to commit the murder. He has been wrongfully accused and pressured into taking a plea deal. There is no justice in this case.