AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Charlotte man with manslaughter conviction charged with fatal shooting less than two hours after posting bond
A 29-year-old Charlotte man already convicted of voluntary manslaughter allegedly killed one person and seriously wounded another barely two hours after walking out of jail on a $10,000 bond, raising sharp questions about why he was free at all. David Simpson posted bond on a charge of possession of a weapon by a prisoner and […] The post Charlotte man with manslaughter conviction charged with fatal shooting less than two hours after posting bond appeared first on American Almanac .
A 29-year-old Charlotte man already convicted of voluntary manslaughter allegedly killed one person and seriously wounded another barely two hours after walking out of jail on a $10,000 bond, raising sharp questions about why he was free at all. David Simpson posted bond on a charge of possession of a weapon by a prisoner and left Mecklenburg County Jail at 12:20 a.m. on July 29. By approximately 1:45 a.m. that same morning, police say, he had shot two men at an east Charlotte apartment complex, one fatally. The entire sequence, release to alleged homicide, took roughly 85 minutes. Simpson now faces charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury,…Open