A Hinds County jury convicted Andre Kennedy of attempted kidnapping, armed robbery, and house burglary yesterday. Kennedy and the late Edwin "Guttalife Dee" Robinson kidnapped a Northeast Jackson doctor at his home on May 15, 2015. They robbed him and threatened to harm his wife. The doctor managed to pull out a pistol from behind the seat of his vehicle and administer a lethal prescription of lead that sent Guttalife to the gutter while Kennedy fled so he wouldn't be dead. Kennedy will be sentenced on December 17.
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| Eastover Drive and Pinebrook |
A doctor was leaving home to compete in a shooting competition held at Magnolia Pistol Range in Byram at approximately 7:45 AM on May 16, 2015. He made several trips from the house to his truck carrying what he needed for the competition. Unknown to him, two black males were cruising Ridgewood Road looking for someone to rob. They happened upon him walking to his truck near the intersection Ridgewood and Eastover roads. They took him captive at gunpoint and forced him drive to an ATM where they forced him to withdraw a large amount of money. They also mentioned some intentions concerning his wife who was back at home. Intentions that were not exactly nice in nature.
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| Andre Kenney |
Kennedy and Robinson stopped at Eastover and Pinewood by some woods. They told him to get out of the vehicle. The good Doc managed to grab a pistol as he exited the truck and began firing. He shot and killed Edwin "Guttalife Dee" Robinson of Cooper Road. One person at the scene said "he shot the shit out of him". Kennedy fled the scene. The suspect apparently had parked a tan SUV over at Northminister Baptist Church. He ran to the church and left in the SUV. It did not have a license plate.
JPD caught Kennedy several days later thanks to tips provided by JJ readers and charged him with capital murder, armed robbery, and kidnapping. However, the grand jury did not indict Kennedy for capital murder. Kennedy was an MDOC employee at the time of the crime but was terminated by the department upon his arrest. He was not indicted until February 2016, nine months later.
Learn more about Robinson at this earlier post.
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| The Late Edwin "Guttalife Dee" Robinson |
Kingfish note: Unfortunately, the District Attorney chose not to pursue felony-murder charges against Kennedy. Kennedy should be facing life in prison for the death of his fellow Guttalife instead of looking at a maximum of twenty years. The death penalty is preferred for Kennedy but that would be almost impossible to get in Hinds County.
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Sad for the doctor and his family. Deserved "day of crime judgment" for the kidnapper who found out his plans were poorly executed. 20 years from a Jackson Jury for the crime honestly is a surprise. Yes, he should have received more. I guess anymore you take what you can get and hope for the best.
Will the judge sentence him or will the jury?
It is a shame that ventilating violent democrats is such a civil rights issue that the news media must include the note that the good Doctor hasn't been charged for defending himself and his wife.
Next...
Looks like Guttalife Dee might have been an early member of Antifa, huh?
Oh, and you would think Mr. Kennedy would have received a harsher sentence for dismembering someone and taking the limb! After all, "arm" robbery is a pretty serious crime!
(Sheesh, even the criminal justice SUPPORT system is broken!)
Waiting for Judge Green to intervene with a “blessing”
Looks like the jury found him guilty of "arm robbery." Whose arm did he steal?
This is not an issue of race but more of an issue of the failures of capitalism. Medical treatment should be a right and not a profit driven business. The compensation of the labor is totally unequa. Corrections employees are given the dangerous task of guarding victims of class crimes that have incarcerated by the capitalist police state. These guards have a difficult and dangerous job that pays very little. The doctor should not be compensated any more for his labor than the MDOC employee is compensated. In a future of social and economic justice, the state will not allow illicit capital to flow to an undeserving individual like this doctor.
Kidnapping carries 30 years but the jury can sentence to life, armed robbery can carry up to life and house burglary carries 25. How is it you think he’s only getting 20?!
"Perception of crime"
@2:03, you have given new meaning to stupidity.
One can only hope JJ will remember to report on this case when it is reversed by the appellate courts in 18 months for the reversible errors assuredly made by Weill.
2:03 The populace needs the right to not be exposed to such goofy thought. Medical treatment as a right?! Who is going to pay for it?
You have the right to eat fried food, smoke, and be 200 lbs overweight. Don't ask me to pay for your medical care when you are irresponsible. I'll pay for my medical care, you pay for your medical care.
Actually thought this would be a "capital" murder offense since there was a death resulting from a felony?
@2:03
Well at least you waited til after 2 to get into the crack. Congrats on your self restraint !
When the boomers aren't around to hate and vilify progress, we will finally see true social equality in both justiceand economics. The future is brown and tan and female. When the Most Selfish Generation is gone we will see real progress. Equal housing and employment will increase, and the information generation will no longer burdoned with the bloated boomer golden parachute pensions.
Quickly removing boomers is why we need radical change in access to medicine. Why should valuable health resources be wasted on the generation that is holding back equality and progress by voting against the interests of the future?
3:19 is probably right.
2:03 and 4:56 is a troll just trying to get a rise out of you. He can be ignored.
3.5 years for simple justice? WTF?
this punk should have be tried for capitol murder and the d a should have sought a death penalty. under our capitol murder law it matters not that the deceased was one of the criminal perpetrators.
SorryDoc, move out of Jackson. Eastover is not even safe. Its all a shit hole
so a medical doctor who spent years studying and training to save lives should be paid the same as a MDOC employee? Can I meet with you later and buy some of the 32 percent hydroponic kush you are obviously smoking?
And for the record, the best example of a socialist health care system model in America is the VA medical system, a system so broke and full of corruption, graft, and substandard care that they have had to farmed out patients to private doctors. So the evil for profit, fee for service system is propping up a pork barrel boondoggle. Do us all a favor and go back to being a community organizer in the bold new city, leave the hard stuff for the adults, Asshole.
Dear social justice, you will be the first to cry when your socialized doctor refuses to see you cause it is after 4pm and they have seen their quota for the day, you will nash your teeth when a one payer system says that you can't get a diagnostic scan to make sure your flatulence isn't ass cancer, and you will bitch when your medicine formulary is restricted to only old generic meds that make the hair on your balls fall off. And instead of gleefully awaiting the death of the boomer generation, you should be thanking them for working so hard to pay all the taxes to date that have funded all your bullshit. When your generation takes over we will have nothing. I am sorry but I have had just about enough of people like you.
socialism sucks, thank you for your commentary. I am a disabled US Marine veteran. I go to a private doctor because of the inadequacy of the VA. I am in my 70s and hate to see some young Marx (Karl not Groucho) follower wish me dead. I did more for this country than he ever will. Bless you!
WLBT reported that he was on trial for capital murder. What gives?
Last thing Guttalife heard: BOOM, BOOM-BOOM-BOOM,.....BOOM! Then he no longer Guttalife. Wonder if he flashed his sign on the way down.
I thought Trump promised to fix the VA?
7:13am makes a good point, but the problem is that the d a 's office is too chicken manure to go after a death sentence and hinds county juries are too chicken manure to impose one.
I have to go back often to reread this story - - really gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
this defendant was a guard with MDOC on the state payroll when he pulled this stunt.
The jury in this case voted on the charges. The judge sentenced the defendent.
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