His name was Erick Hambrick. His name was Erick Hambrick.
The killer of Erick Hambrick is back on the street. Read that sentence again. The killer of Erick Hambrick is back on the street. Arkel Coleman did not even serve five years in prison while his victim sleeps forever in the grave.
Mr. Hambrick was an employee at MEMA. He was a talented singer as he performed in the Mississippi Opera and in the choir at First Baptist Church (Jackson). He attended Thursday night choir practice on May 28, 2015. He unfortunately stopped at the Waffle House on High Street at 10:30 PM. The 19 year-old Arkel Coleman thought the 52 year-old man would be easy prey and beat him with his fists. Mr. Hambrick fell to the ground and sustained more injuries when his head violently struck the pavement. His family removed him from life support a few days later. Arkel Coleman and his accomplice, Sherderwick Anderson, removed a ring they fancied from a dying Eric Hembrick's finger. Police arrested the pair within a few days.
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JJ reported a year ago:
A grand jury indicted the feral Coleman for first degree murder and robbery on June 26, 2015. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter. District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith accepted the guilty plea and dropped the robbery charge. Attorney Ali Shamsid-dunce represented Coleman.
Judge Tomie Green reviewed the case and blessed Coleman. She sentenced him to serve fifteen years in prison but suspended five years of the sentence. She ordered him to take an anger management class and enroll in a GED class. She naturally gave him credit for time served in prison. Thus the amount of time he will serve in prison after conviction is less than nine years. Keep in mind that Shamsid-dunce once clerked for Judge Green.
The MDOC website states Coleman will be released on May 22, 2022, a little less than ten years after he was murdered. He will be almost thirty years old upon release, still in the prime of his life and able to kill again.
Well, guess what? MDOC will claim it was following state law but regardless of the reason, MDOC released Coleman from prison on August 15, 2020 and placed him under so-called earned release supervision. ERS means the jailbird is now a free bird.
Coleman is only 24 years-old.
Kingfish note: Kill in Jackson, serve a few years, go free. Rinse, repeat. Don't expect any of the usual suspects to say anything about this travesty. They will march for injustices five states away but are silent when people who kill with impunity on the streets of Jackson go free.
Then there is the prison reform crowd that races to put more criminals back on the street. While prison reform is the buzzword among the Legislature and
conservative dumb-tanks in Mississippi, nary a word is said
about fixing laws that allow killers such as Arkel Coleman to roam free after only a few years. Disgusting.
46 comments:
Blame advocates for reform all you want, but the sentence for murder is life. The responsibility for this one lies squarely with the prosecutor. He should have been charged and convicted of murder. Mississippi's parole laws are messed up and need to be reformed.
This is only going to get worse nationwide.
Once more, we are in a political cycle of helping the "poor disadvantaged criminal" by rewarding failure and wrongdoing.
For me, I'm not worried about it anymore. I carry a .45 acp.
Attack me and I'll kill you.
Why any civilized human being, who can afford to leave, stays in that human landfill is totally beyond me.
Well said KF.
Eric was a hell of lot nicer human than I will ever be, and with the exception of his late father's ring . . .
he would have given those thugs anything they wanted.
Now the thug killer is back on the streets.
Disgusting indeed !
Perhaps karma will direct this killer to visit a Jackson gas station.
He won't be a problem anymore since Baby Chowke put the curfew in place
I know it's popular to jump on Hinds county on this. site, but according to your own words
"Well, guess what? MDOC will claim it was following state law but regardless of the reason, MDOC released Coleman from prison on August 15, 2020 and placed him under so-called earned release supervision."
It seems like you have an issue with state law. Go take it up with Delbert.
This is what the Marxist progressives want, in part funded by the Marxist george soros. The goal is chaos, which will bring about more oppressive laws, control, and government intrusion. Our founding fathers penned to prevent this through the Bill of Rights, which will be soon thrown under the bus. Lock and load.
Don't forget a Grand Jury and Jury of the animal's "peers" was involved.
I feel like I have landed in The Twilight Zone. Nothing makes sense anymore.
murder charges are reduced to manslaughter charges all the time, in every county. As a matter of fact, there have been a number of murder cases over the years tried in madison county where the defendant was found not guilty of murder and guilty of manslaughter. If the Judge sentenced him to 15 years and he got out after 5, that's an MDOC issue. Every defendant in every county gets credit for pretrial detention. Lastly, there are a number of judges whose law clerks practice in front of them. big firms routinely hire judge law clerks so they can send that same clerk right back in front of that judge. but I am guessing you dont have a problem with that, right???
While we all agree the Hinds county criminal justice system can use improvement, the contact attacks without real information is not helpful. For instance, I have seen judges in Hinds County have a criminal docket with more cases in one day than some counties handle all year. But you dont hear about that. The LT Government working to get special judges appointed was a great started.
People always talk about our world being visited by intelligent life from outer space. I seriously doubt that. If they were to visit us, it would prove they weren't that intelligent. Just look at what's going on. We are regressing.
Molon Labe, or 3:49 hit the nail on the head. Consider also the degradation of the public education system and its refusal to teach civics when training up your own children.
Damned if we do and damned if we don't. Jails fill up and ACLU lawyers insist eager to comply Judges empty them. Lets forget about bank robbers for a moment. We simply don't have enough jail cells to hold all of the criminals, murderers, child killers and baby rape deviants. No one wants to pay the taxes required to build them to ACLU Standards.
Could we go all Post Apoplectic and remove them from the genetic pool? Maybe if the criminals killed more ACLU Lawyers and Liberal Judges. Sadly, too few of those guys have experience on having a wife or husband or child murdered.
Time to shut up. God help us - This is like screaming in the darkness.
Waffle House had video of the incident.
A deal. The lawyer got a damn good deal. Not the defendant. In Hinds County it's always WHO not what. You obviously don't have to be such a good lawyer either. You just need the hook-up. This was not a situation warranting a cushy plea bargain. The evidence was there. Not a tough prosecution. Didn't matter. WHO mattered.
IT's a shame in this country when a contributor is killed and the non-contributor is free. In Hinds County likely to do it again as has been proven.
There is no more accountability. I'm afraid that the USA is just a toilet flush from becoming the next 3rd world.
now you know why vans sporting goods has been sold out of all types of ammunition for months.
@5:28
Last time I was in Van's it appeared that the folks from Jackson knew about it and were buying up ammo too.
Thank you Empower Mississippi! We just saved a few tax dollars and now there’s one more in the labor pool so wages can continue to stagnate!
All you gun nuts act as if a gun will protect you. Fact is the perks have more & better guns than you.
The perks control the conflict by surprise, no fear of retaliation, and pure hate by a culture built on being a victim.
The Democrats will stay in office feeding this to its voters. Instead of Project Innocent they need a Victim for Justice lobby.
Thanks for providing the pic. Since I’m in Jackson working my businesses daily I’ll keep an eye out. If I happen to come across this should have been swallowed he’ll be joining his victim in short order.
KF, other than inciting your usual suspects, who exactly are you angry with?
- RSS made this deal, but Hinds county voters fired him
- his lawyer shamsideen did his job, to get the best deal for his client
- the judge didn't make the deal, but I guess she could have rejected it, but that's rare in the USA
- mdoc, followed state law
- governor and legislature, both GOP led for decades, allowed this state law
The root of this problem was RSS. What's he up to these days? Want to send a gang over to his home, Trump style?
It was Judge Green who suspended 10 years of a 15 year sentence. So, when (not if) this guy fails to meet all of the conditions of his parole/probation, will he be brought up for a violation? If that happens, the "suspended" part of the sentence is supposed to be reinstated in its entirety.
"the Hinds county criminal justice system can use improvement" is a tremendous understatement. "Broken" is more accurate, at multiple levels.
6:26 Perps get no perks
In a few weeks, there is a murder trial involving Caucasian individuals. Bet any sentence that may be given will be longer.
This is what our present system gives us.
But Empower MS, with all its spokespeople and funders (Latino, Lee, Gibert, etc etc) are wanting so that "their" tax dollars don't have to pay to keep these folks in the pokey.
Interesting that these so-called conservatives (libertarians, actually but who's counting) are in bed with George Soros and his bought and paid for DA's and the left think tanks. All for the same reason - they live in their hideaways, and want to complain about how they are having to pay for the incarcerations. Almost like it is coming straight out of their pockets and into Parchman's checking account.
But that's ok folks - once their other founding father and funder makes his money off the weed market, they will have another source of income to help pay for these costs. Maybe then they will be willing to let Soros carry the water on putting the criminals back on the street.
Yeah. Sure. They will back off then. Yeah, I'm sure.
7:42 PM Thanks, for correcting me. I get so fired up by Jackson Jambalaya that I want to scream! It not good for my health at 70 years old. But, my only news sources are Fox News & JJ because CBS,NBC,CNN,ABC, Clarion Ledger, Facebook, & Twitter are so liberal I've quit watching & reading them.
"The MDOC website states Coleman will be released on May 22, 2022, a little less than ten years after he was murdered."
Huh?
I think PittPanther is giving his usual leftist drivel by saying that white people should just stay out of Hinds County. If black on white issues happen in Rankin or Madison counties, the judge can always be intimidated by Antifa or BLM gangs
" All you gun nuts act as if a gun will protect you. "
Earth to 6:26.
Guns do protect.
But back to the topic, Eric had no "gun" when the thugs threw him down . . . smashing his skull in the parking lot of a Jackson restaurant.
Exactly. The people paying for "criminal justice reform" live in gated communities far away from the neighborhoods that will actually suffer the consequences of letting criminals out of prison.
Yes, keep in mind this is elites vs everyone else. Elites just all have diff labels. Gibert n Latino types are all wealthy and preach from their ivory towers against policies of their elite opposition which argue their counter points. It's all of us who get shafted.
The worst component of this issue is that it's not a race issue. It's a human issue. As in a very good man was killed by a very bad child, who never was introduced into the concept of a world governed by law...the world that most of us choose to operate in.
A normal society governed by human laws would address this situation,immediately, and remove the criminal element. A jacked up society releases the problem child back into the fold, and all of the normal, law abiding citizens are waiting for his next criminal act to be reported here on a blog. I give it 90 days until the criminal backslides.
Rinse and repeat.
KF, relax. I’m sure a freed Coleman will be murdered on the streets soon enough, and you’ll return with your self-righteous ideology in no time at all.
At the same time, your problem appears to be solely with the justice system?
bet a catfish poboy dressed that he did not get a GED.
I was one of Erick’s supervisors and the loss hit myself and his coworkers very hard. He was a nice man that would’ve avoided confrontation at all costs.
He is still missed and the killer’s treatment simply shows all that’s wrong with Jackson.
7:40 Judge Green, you are destroying our community, these fools commit crimes and you give them little time and bless them with half. Try giving them a shocker, 50 years and cut that in half! Forget the guidelines and make a bold statement!
I’m usually sarcastic when I comment! But the real talk is that you are destroying our community with your Lackadaisical Sentencing.
Witnesses to crimes won’t come forward because the criminal will be out in no time! Can you say, No Justice, we the Community need Peace!
Judge Green, let these fools figure it out with a long Prison sentence. We need you Judge Green!
There is a system, but it has nothing to do with justice.
I had the priviledge of knowing Eric for a very long time. He was the best of people. This is way past wrong. I have come to the sad conclusion that justice no longer exists in this world, at least not what I percieve to be justice. There are those that believe that this murderer's early release is justice, and sadly one of them sits on the bench and judges others, with, IMO, no regard for the law.
All I can do it try to honor Eric's memory by trying to be the best person I can be. By being kind and caring, of letting those I care about know that I care. RIP Eric. You are remembered well.
I find it disturbing, that someone working in a highly-paid supervisory position, would write "myself", when the correct word is "me". And, since the Victim, in this story, was a HUMAN (and a WONDERFUL HUMAN, apparently), it is a pity the word "that" was used, when "who" was appropriate.
Unless one is attempting to deliberately DEHUMANIZE someone, the word 'Who' is appropriate: "who would've" - not, "that would've".
If Eric was my son I would be going to prison. I would take care of that murdering piece of shit myself.
Judge Green is a voice in our Community! Judge Green is needed to protect us from this cruel and unforgiving element! Judge Green you are showing our Youth that your Justice is kind to Criminals! Judge Green we want our Communities to be SAFE!
8:27 a.m.: I wrote the comment last night at 7:40. I can assure you that I am NOT Judge Tommie Green, who I view as a glorified social worker, with too much power, who has been promoted beyond her abilities.
In fact, I think Judge Green is a disgrace to all the hard-working and underpaid case workers out there, who are trying to make a difference in society one person at a time.
-7:40
I grew up with Eric.
He was like a first cousin.
Our parents were very close and every year we would go on vacations together.
I will never forget one of those family trips when we were dining on a patio.
Long story short, Eric happened to be in the wrong chair when a big ass bird relieved itself and Eric got "splattered" with bird crap.
He was the first to laugh about it.
Never did anyone dream that he would be killed in a parking lot on High Street many years later.
The good thing is now that the animal is free, he can become active in his community and volunteer at the Opera, etc.
4:10 - MDOC does not write laws, sentencing regulations or rules for early release. All they do is enforce them. So...it is NOT on MDOC.
8:59 - The post that caused you to crap-squirt your pants was written with genuine respect and love for the victim. Why do feel it necessary to lambast the writer with silly grammatical corrections?
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