Jushun "Red" Paige will stay put in jail for a while after Hinds County Court Judge Johnny McDaniels denied bond yesterday. The Capitol Police arrested Paige in June for auto burglary. Paige and his friends participated in the murder of Chelsae Kirschten in 2017 but managed to escape justice.
A police affidavit alleged what took place during the commission of the crime.
Judge McDaniels held a preliminary hearing yesterday for Paige. Capitol Police detective Shawn McDaniel testified security camera footage showed Paige approaching the victim's van, walking around to other other side, and returning to his own vehicle with a backpack that was in the van. The victim told the detective it was his backpack and went missing at the same time while he was inside the gas station.
The Capitol Police arrested Paige during a traffic stop two days later. However, the plot thickened when some new information surfaced.
Paige was out on bond for a 2024 arrest for felony fleeing of a law enforcement officer. Although arrested, the case was never submitted to the grand jury. The prosecutor said her office had gotten the file and will present it for indictment.
Judge McDaniel said since Paige was free on bond when arrested, he would continue to deny bond. He will hold a status hearing on Paige within 60 days.
Unfortunately, no mention was made of Paige's criminal record. Paige pleaded guilty to carjacking in 2016. Judge Melvin Priester, Sr. sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison but suspended 7 years of the sentence. Paige pleaded guilty to attempted armed robbery in the Kirschten case in 2020.
Kingfish note: 23 year-old Chelsie Kirschten was brutally gunned down at the intersection of Fortification and North State Streets on August 17, 2017. JPD arrested Nicholas Coats, Lidarious Dixon, and Jushun Paige for Kirschten's murder and trying to rob the passenger in her car. JPD reported:
During the course of the investigation, it was learned that the victim and a front seat passenger were stationary at the intersection of Fortification St. near State St. waiting for the traffic signal to change, when an unidentified black male subject approached the vehicle from the driver side armed with a silver handgun. The suspect, wearing dark colored clothing, fired a single gunshot through the front driver side window of the vehicle striking the victim (in the upper back) and he fled on foot. The vehicle continued to travel eastbound on Fortification St. and came to a final rest near the interstate. The motive for the shooting has not been determined at this time.
The grand jury indicted Coats, Lidarius Dixon, and Jushun Paige for capital murder, armed robbery, and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Coats admitted to driving the other suspects to the scene of the murder. Coats pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on December 6, 2018. Circuit Judge Jeff Weill sentenced that poor schmuck to serve forty years in prison but suspended ten years of the sentence. Schmuck because his compadres in crime are undoubtedly laughing at him right now as they enjoy their good fortune at the hands of the Hinds County criminal justice system.
A jury found Dixon not guilty of Capital Murder at his August 2019 trial although it convicted him of conspiracy to commit attempted armed robbery of the passenger in Kirschten's car. Judge Adrienne Wooten sentenced him to serve five years in prison but gave him credit for time served (two years in jail). Dixon was paroled in January 2020.
The acquittal of Dixon threw a monkey wrench into the prosecution's plans as he was the accused shooter. It didn't help that Coats identified Dixon as the shooter while Dixon identified Paige. Thus, prosecutors remanded the capital murder indictment against Paige.
In other words, all the defendants pointed their fingers at each other when it came to answering the question of who shot Chelsae. Since District Attorney Robert Schuler Smith did not indict them under the felony rule, no one was convicted of murder.
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Driver gets 30 years.
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DA tries to put murder suspect back in prison.
3 suspects indicted.
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Supremes reject DA's appeal.
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D.A. appeals release to Supremes
Chelsie's mom speaks.
Mother slams Hinds criminal justice system in Fortification Street murder.
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DA tries to put accused killer back in jail.
Vance calls out DA's phony excuses.
No indictment, no jail. Accused Fortification Street killer goes free.
Accused Fortification Street killers denied bond.
Arrest made in Fortification Street murder.
Reward increased.
No Comment (CL Refuses to publish race of suspects).
Young woman murdered on Fortification Street.
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