AMONI and INDEYA NEKOLE CARTER - 18 Months and 4 yo/ Accused: Robert Carter Jr - Lake Village AR

Robert Carter, Jr. charged with murder in children's death


3:10 PM, Apr 19, 2011





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Written by Lindsey Tugma

LAKE VILLAGE, Ark. (AP) -- Chicot County prosecutors have charged a Lake Village man with capital murder in the deaths of his two young children.

Authorities say Robert Carter Jr. was served with an arrest warrant just before 11 a.m. Tuesday. Carter remains hospitalized in Little Rock.

Investigators allege that Carter on Sunday drove his van through the yard of a Dermott home where his ex-girlfriend, Latasha Figures, and their children were living. It's alleged in court documents that Carter hit Figures and the children once, then turned around and drove across the yard again.

Arkansas State Police say 18-month-old Amoni Carter died at the scene, and 4-year-old Indeya Nekole Carter died at a Little Rock hospital. Figures was hospitalized with serious injuries.

Carter was wounded after being shot by Figures' father as he fled.

Two Southeast Arkansas men escape possible death sentences


November 16, 2012

By Patty Wooten

Two Southeast Arkansas men escaped possible death sentences when they pleaded guilty to murder in separate, unrelated domestic murder cases.

In an eleventh hour plea deal on the steps of the Desha County Courthouse Tuesday, after the jury was empaneled, Marquis Ontrell Poole’s defense attorney Steven Porch and 10th Judicial District Prosecutor Thomas Deen reached a plea agreement in which the 27-year-old Dumas man would plead guilty to first-degree murder in the November 2011 shooting death of his 25-year-old girlfriend Amanda Madden.

In the plea agreement, Poole, who was charged with capital murder and faced a possible death sentence, was sentenced to 70 years in prison.

Poole shot Madden three times with a revolver in the kitchen of her mother’s Dumas apartment. Madden’s 6-year-old child was in the room where the shooting occurred.

Madden’s mother, who was in the living room when the shooting occurred, told police she heard three gun shots then rushed to the kitchen where she saw her daughter lying on the floor.

“You shot my baby!” Madden’s mother said to Poole, according to a Dumas police officer’s testimony at Poole’s first appearance hearing in November 2011.

The officer said Madden’s mother told him that Poole responded, “(F_ _ _), your daughter.”

Poole was sentenced to 40 years in prison with a 20-year enhancement for killing Madden in the presence of her 6-year-old child. He also received a 10-year sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The sentences will run consecutive, giving him a 70-year prison sentence. He will not be eligible for parole until July 7, 2053.

In a separate, unrelated murder, a 24-year-old Lake Village man pleaded guilty on November 9 to two counts of capital murder for the deaths of his two children and one count of attempted capital murder for the attempted murder of their mother, his former girlfriend.

Robert C. Carter Jr.

Robert C. Carter Jr. received two life without parole sentences for the murder of 18-month-old Amoni Elasia Carter and 4-year-old Nekole Carter. He received a life sentence for the attempted murder of their mother Latasha Figures.

Carter was arrested in April 2011 after he drove a vehicle into the yard of a Dermott residence on Iowa Street where Latasha Figures, Carter’s former girlfriend, and their two children lived.

As Carter drove into the yard on April 17, 2011, he struck and killed 18-month-old Amoni Elasia Carter and critically injured 4-year-old Indeya Nekole Carter, who later died at a Little Rock hospital.


http://searktoday.com/two-southeast-arkansas-men-escape-possible-death-sentences/

He won't be murdering any more babies.