"Don' tell mama de babysittah's dead...."

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LOL!!!!! This is a Keeper!!
"Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote in message
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> A tip of the do-rag goes to "Auntie Pik" for bringing this one to my
> attention. This real-life all-ebonic version of "Don't Tell Mom The
> Babysitter's Dead" goes beyond TNB. I mean, this is CLASSIC nigger
> behavior.
>
> Once upon a time this black lady minister adoped a she-niglet and 14 years
> later she was stuck with a wild-as-hell ho' on her hands. After the usual
> TNB scrapes with the law, this Jennifer Tombs wound up having to wear a
> tracking bracelet on her ankle to make sure she stayed at home, which
could
> be guaranteed only if someone was around to keep an eye on her, since she
> was used to taking off for days at a time. Well, since mammy had to leave
> for an out-of-town church retreat, a friend of the family, Latanya
> Lavallais, agreed to come over and "babysit." Latanya's sister would
later
> testify that when the two girls talked on the phone, she hear Latanya
shout
> to Jennifer, "You ain't doin' none o' dat shit. You do what I say or I
lock
> yo' ass in de closet!"
>
> Seems that Jennifer wanted to invite some friends over to party, but
Latanya
> wouldn't allow it, so she solves her problem by shooting Latanya five
times
> in the head. While she and her bruthas and sistahs are drinking wine and
> 40's and smoking rocks and reefer upstairs, the babysitter is assuming
room
> temperature downstairs.
>
> Not until the next morning does she realize how bad she fucked up. She
> can't drag the body of her 200-pound babysitter out of the den in the
> basement, and when she tries to clean up the blood with laundry detergent,
> she just gets it all over everything, including herself. She gives the
> murder weapon to a friend to dispose of (it's tossed into a storm drain
less
> than 200 yards from the house, where police find it almost immediately).
> Despite her story that she shot Latanya by accident, thinking she was an
> intruder (never mind that the bullets entered the back of her head), she's
> the #1 suspect from the get-go, and the evidence against her is so
> overwhelming that it's a wonder why she just didn't try to cop a plea
> bargain. What makes this story so notable is that it took place in an
> AFFLUENT black neighborhood, and yet all the classic elements of ghetto
TNB
> are alive and well. "You can take the homie out of the hood, but........"
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Teen murder suspect distrusted by own mother
>
> DENVER (AP) - A 16-year-old girl was convicted Friday of killing the
family
> friend who agreed to watch her while her minister mother was at a weekend
> church retreat.
>
> Jennifer Tombs, stoic throughout her four-day trial, cried when the jury
> found her guilty of first-degree murder in the September shooting death of
> Latanya Lavallais.
>
> She was immediately sentenced to life without parole.
>
> ''Today, everybody lost,'' said Lavallais' sister, Noreen Wilson. ''The
only
> thing is this person will never hurt anybody again. But we didn't win
> anything. We just lost two lives for nothing.''
>
> Prosecutor Henry Cooper said he was pleased with the verdict. ''A
beautiful
> person was killed, and Jennifer Tombs will have the rest of her life to
> think about it.''
>
> Prosecutors portrayed the girl as so intent on going out with her friends
on
> Sept. 27 that she shot Lavallais five times in the back of the head and
then
> cleaned up the mess.
>
> Tombs' ex-boyfriend, Joaquin Johnson, testified he gave Tombs a
.25-caliber
> semiautomatic pistol because she said she needed it to protect her baby.
> Johnson said he later found out there was no baby.
>
> Johnson said Tombs called him about 4 a.m. Sept. 28 to say she had shot a
> woman who had barged into the house.
>
> ''But there was no intruder,'' prosecutor Mike Pellow said during closing
> arguments. ''That was Latanya Lavallais laying dead in the basement with a
> full clip emptied into her head.''
>
> Defense attorneys argued that Tombs wasn't in the house when Lavallais was
> shot.
>
> Police later found shell casings on a counter in Tombs' home, and the
pistol
> Johnson had loaned Tombs was found under a sewer grate.
>
> 04/04/97 11:04 PM
> Copyright Lubbock Avalanche-Journal 1997
>
> http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/040597/teen.htm
>
>
>
> Babysitter's conviction stands
>
> By Carl Hilliard
> Associated Press
>
> October 2, 1998
>
> DENVER- A 16-year-old Denver girl who shot her babysitter to death failed
to
> convince the Colorado Court of Appeals there was flawed evidence, improper
> jury instruction and prosecutorial misconduct in her case.
>
> A three-judge panel on Thursday ruled there was no reason to set aside
> Jennifer Tombs' conviction in the 1996 murder case.
>
> She was convicted as an adult in the Sept. 27, 1996, slaying of LaTanya
> Lavallais.
>
> Lavallais, 23, was baby-sitting Tombs while Tombs' mother was out of town,
> and prosecutors said the girl shot Lavallais in the head six times because
> Lavallais would not let her go to a party.
>
> Tombs, stoic throughout her four-day trial, cried after a Denver District
> Court jury found her guilty of killing the woman, a family friend whom
Tombs
> regarded as a cousin.
>
> Tombs was immediately sentenced to a mandatory life sentence.
>
> In her appeal, Tombs claimed the trial judge, Warren Martin, erred when he
> overruled a defense objection to testimony about a phone conversation
> between the victim and herself.
>
> She also claimed the judge should not have allowed evidence about her
> character, and he later did not include a definition of deliberation in
the
> jury instruction.
>
> And finally, she claimed the prosecution committed misconduct when it
> referred to "lies" during closing argument.
>
> The court rejected all those claims.
>
> Records in the case list a prosecution argument that the Rev. Madlyn Tombs
> distrusted her daughter so much she locked her bedroom door at night and
> slept with her jewelry on.
>
> During the four-day trial, Tombs' ex-boyfriend, Joaquin Johnson, testified
> he gave Tombs a .25-caliber semiautomatic Lorcin pistol on the night
before
> Lavallais body was found.
>
> Johnson told police Tombs said she needed the gun to protect herself and
her
> newborn baby against four women who had jumped her earlier in the day on
> Sept. 27. Johnson later found out there was no baby.
>
> Johnson said Tombs called him about 4 a.m. Sept. 28 to say she had shot a
> woman who had barged into the house.
>
> "But there was no intruder," prosecutor Mike Pellow said during closing
> arguments. "That was Latanya Lavallais laying dead in the basement with a
> full clip emptied into her head."
>
> http://www.boulderpublishing.com/news/statewest/02sitter.html
>
>
> Killer girls
>
> A Colorado jury found 16-year-old Jennifer Tombs guilty of first-degree
> murder and sentenced her to life without parole. When her mom went away
for
> a church retreat last September, she left Jennifer with a neighbor,
Latanya
> Lavallais. Jennifer wanted to go out with friends, and when Ms. Lavallais
> said no, the girl shot her five times in the back of the head.
>
> http://worldmag.com/world/issue/04-19-97/opening_3.asp
>
>