4 arrested in 10/12/98 Dekalb, GA triple homicide
James Wooten
being
shot in a hotel parking lot and they were definitely involved in a drug
deal.
Here are a couple of URLs pertaining to the Hilton Killings:
http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/1998/10/29/triple.html
http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/1998/10/30/triple.html
and here is an article about the Dekalb slayings/arrests:
October 30, 1998
Police arrest four men in DeKalb triple homicide
By R. Robin McDonald, The Journal-Constitution
Four men arrested by DeKalb police Thursday for an Oct. 12 triple murder had
brokered a drug deal with the victims, but instead gunned them down in a
robbery that netted "about $1,033 and some change," for each life, DeKalb
Public Safety Director Thomas Brown said Thursday.
The Tucker shooting has not been linked to another triple slaying that took
place a week later at the downtown Atlanta Hilton & Towers, DeKalb police
said.
Detectives charged Demetrius Weddle, 20; Darren Alladyce, 22; Adam Upperman,
26; and Jack Cofield, 20; with murder, said DeKalb Lt. Pam Pendergrass.
The men were arrested at Park Lake Apartments in Stone Mountain, where
detectives say they also recovered a 9-mm handgun and a semi-automatic
MAC-11 assault pistol that they suspect were used in the slayings.
As vacationing travelers slept Oct. 12 at the Econo Lodge at 1820 Mountain
Industrial Blvd. in Tucker, two Pensacola, Fla., residents and a Stone
Mountain man traveling in a Florida rental car died in a barrage of gunfire
minutes after they pulled into the motel parking lot.
When police officers arrived at the motel, they found the Dodge Stratus
riddled with gunshots.
Keith Allen White, 33, of Stone Mountain--passenger in the rental car--and
Terry Kimbrough, 22, of Pensacola, died of multiple gunshot wounds at the
scene.
The driver, Livingston Laura, 31, of Pensacola, died at DeKalb Medical
Center shortly after the shooting, police detectives said.
Laura, a convicted felon, completed two years of probation last November for
selling marijuana in Pensacola, said Debbie Buchanan, a spokeswoman with
Florida's corrections department. According to the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement, his criminal record includes arrests for possessing marijuana
and cocaine, and auto theft.
Pendergrass said police now believe the suspects "brokered a marijuana deal
with the victims, but their intention was to rob the victims when they
showed up. . . . They tried to rob them, and it just went bad."
The killers, Brown said, "came for the express purpose of ripping off some
$3,100 for about 3 1/2 pounds of marijuana."
The motel "was just the place for the meeting in the parking lot," Police
Chief Bobby Burgess said. "There is no other connection with that lodge."
Pendergrass said that police received their first break in the case within
hours of the homicide when a caller told them the Florida residents "were up
here to buy marijuana" and who they intended to purchase it from.
"Lots of leg work, taking statements and busting up alibis" eventually led
police to the four men now in custody, she said.
DeKalb Capt. Rodney Maddox said detectives now believe the victims were shot
because they may have attempted to hide some of the cash that was supposed
to pay for the marijuana or refused to surrender it to the robbers.
"This was pure and simply a case of greed and treachery," he said.
"Everybody was in it for the money."
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Hi, I'm Brandy. I was Livingston's girlfriend at the time. I knew Terry and Scott as well. Terry didn't have anything to do with the drug deal. That was Livingston. He would go up there regularly for marijuana. It should have been me there instead of Terry... It would have been me if I hadn't slipped away to North Carolina that weekend to see an ex.
No one can imagine the guilt that I live with to this day.
Another thing is that I hate seeing that the media demonized Livingston. He was a good guy. Yes, he got involved with some bad things, but it isn't like he didn't work or got rich off of drugs. He was just a father of a little girl trying to make ends meet. Livingston would be outside every single day cutting hair. He would be outside working on the car and have Kiara beside him singing her the ABCs.
If I were to blame anyone, I'd blame the perpetrator... Even if no one approves because it was a drug deal, I still blame those who had malicious intent... And I always will.
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Brandy Justavino
> Thank u for this post. I am Adam Uppermans current friend. Adam is innocent as the two men told him that the guys in the hotel stole some clothes out of the apt and that they were going to get them back from the men. The other two men started ahooting something adam didn't know was going to happen with guns. The two men were able to get their stories in line and now adam has done almost 20 years for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
You think anyone is going shed a tear for your friend, when I lost my boyfriend and Kiara lost her father??? Livingston isn't coming back, EVER! His daughter was only a toddler. Now she can't even recall the man who loved her more than any person on this planet, and your friend hand in it. I hope he never gets out, because believe in vengeance, and prison might be the safest place for him.
Greg Carr
https://clustrmaps.com/persons/Demetrius-Weddle
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/eight-members-large-tax-fraud-conspiracy-sentenced-false-claims-and-money-laundering looks like Mr.Weddle did two more years for a 26 million dollar attempted fraud.
https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub/files/201514671.pdf Weddle received another 11 month term for violating probation and identity fraud.
I am going to try and sleep. Will look up the other names tomorrow.