For those who didn’t see the stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska coming, we ought to remember what Darius Nathaniel Sessoms did five years earlier in the same state.
In August 2020, Sessoms was arrested and charged with shooting a 5-year-old boy at point-blank range.
The provocation? According to his family, he rode into Sessions’ yard with his bicycle.
Two years and change later, Sessoms entered a so-called Alford plea — where a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges the state has evidence to convict — on a first-degree murder charge in exchange for life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to The Associated Press.
Today is the 5th anniversary of the infamous murder of Cannon Hinnant, 5, by his next door
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