‘Scapegoat’ in post-movie killing?
Willie Williams III wanted to let his mother know he was on his way home after a late night at the movies, so he asked his best friend, Yolanda Metayer, to retrieve her cellphone from her brother at the Ford City Mall.
The Jesse White tumbler and star Robeson High School basketball player never made the call, nor did he make it back to his family.
Williams, 17, was killed when the pair walked toward a brawl that had broken out between their friends and Williams’ alleged shooter following a screening of the film “ATL” on April 1, 2006.
“I said, ‘Will get up,’ ” Metayer said Tuesday at the opening of Eddie Fenton’s murder trial at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
“He was moving but he was jerking. I turned him over and saw that his head was bleeding.”
Metayer said she saw Fenton shoot her friend but admitted she did not connect with police until three years later. “They was looking for me, but I wasn’t around,” the convicted felon said.
Donnie Moore, another convicted felon and a friend of Fenton’s, also said he saw Fenton, now 27, raise his weapon during the fight.
Fenton wasn’t charged with Williams’ murder until 2010.
Fenton’s attorneys said there was no physical evidence linking Fenton to Williams’ murder, adding that their client was being “scapegoated.”
They also questioned the credibility of Cook County prosecutors’ witnesses, who were among the “rowdy” filmgoing crowd. “These people are opportunistic. They are convicted felons and they are liars,” assistant public defender Rebecca Washlow said.
Teen shot to death
A DuPage County teen was killed in a drive-by shooting near his home in unincorporated Willowbrook, police said Tuesday.
Joshua Holmes, 18, was shot about 6:35 p.m. Monday when a gunman began firing at him from a white, fourdoor sedan that had pulled up nearby, DuPage County sheriff ’s police said.
Holmes was shot five times and died a short time later at Hinsdale Hospital.
Though police said Hol- mes was the intended target of the attack, they offered no possible motive for the shooting.
Anyone with information can contact the sheriff ’s office at (630) 407-2400.
2 shot, killed in car
Two people were killed and two others wounded early Tuesday while sitting in a car in the Far South Side West Pullman neighborhood.
Quiltavia Patterson, 25, and Jermaine Carter, 38, were shot by someone in an SUV while on the 400 block of West 120th Street.
Carter, of the 400 block of West 120th, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, while Patterson, of the 11700 block of South Stewart, was dead on the scene, officials said. Patterson suffered a gunshot to the neck and Carter suffered four gunshot wounds to the torso, police said.
A 40-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen and arm, and a 22-year-old woman was shot in the hip. Both were listed in serious condition.