Apparently All Lives Don't Matter
By Heat Street Staff | 1:10 pm, July 12, 2016
Social Media is now boiling with rage, much of it racially charged, surrounding the March murder of Shane Varnadore, 28, a Papa John’s deliveryman in Gwinnett County, Georgia. The recent social media activity is likely linked to recent events in Dallas.
14 year old Reginald Lofton, and Jermaine Young, 21, were charged soon after the murder with robbing and killing Varnadore when he arrived at an apartment complex to deliver pizza. Lofton was charged as an adult.
Police said the suspects stole all four pizzas that Varnadore was carrying, and nothing else.
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Both Lofton and Young were reportedly from the Chicago area and moved to Georgia to escape their troubled pasts. Young’s mother told WSB-Atlanta that her son wasn’t even supposed to be in Georgia on the day of the murder but had missed his bus back to Chicago.
Shane Vernadore
WSB-TV also reported that just before the murder, both suspects posted photos to Facebook allegedly brandishing the same gun authorities say was used to slay Vernadore.
At the suspects’ preliminary hearing in late March, police said they found the murder weapon inside pancake mix boxes in an apartment, and that three of the four purloined pizza boxes were found hidden behind the apartment’s washers and dyers.
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By Heat Street Staff | 1:10 pm, July 12, 2016
Social Media is now boiling with rage, much of it racially charged, surrounding the March murder of Shane Varnadore, 28, a Papa John’s deliveryman in Gwinnett County, Georgia. The recent social media activity is likely linked to recent events in Dallas.
14 year old Reginald Lofton, and Jermaine Young, 21, were charged soon after the murder with robbing and killing Varnadore when he arrived at an apartment complex to deliver pizza. Lofton was charged as an adult.
Police said the suspects stole all four pizzas that Varnadore was carrying, and nothing else.
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Both Lofton and Young were reportedly from the Chicago area and moved to Georgia to escape their troubled pasts. Young’s mother told WSB-Atlanta that her son wasn’t even supposed to be in Georgia on the day of the murder but had missed his bus back to Chicago.
Shane Vernadore
WSB-TV also reported that just before the murder, both suspects posted photos to Facebook allegedly brandishing the same gun authorities say was used to slay Vernadore.
At the suspects’ preliminary hearing in late March, police said they found the murder weapon inside pancake mix boxes in an apartment, and that three of the four purloined pizza boxes were found hidden behind the apartment’s washers and dyers.
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