Rampage suspect Ezekiel Kelly appeared calm and kept his answers to the judge short. Deputies escorted the shackled 19-year-old accused mass-murderer into the courtroom wearing navy jail clothes and a black face mask. He didn’t enter a plea on the single homicide charge they’re using to hold him on. Prosecutors have a whole bunch more to add once they figure out what all he’s been up to. Hopefully, this time the animal will stay in his cage where he belongs, for a really long time. Even liberals are beginning to consider the merits of capital punishment on this one.
Suspect behind bars, again
Rampage suspect Ezekiel Kelly was supposed to be safely in jail already but local liberal polices set him free. He served a mere 11 months out of the three years he had been sentenced to, for aggravated assault. Even that had been lenient. “He had initially faced more serious charges in a 2020 case in Shelby County, including attempted murder, reckless endangerment, and using a firearm with intent to commit a dangerous felony.”
Progressive prosecutors cut him a deal. “If Mr. Kelly served his full 3-year sentence, he would still be in prison today and 4 of our fellow citizens would still be alive,” Memphis, Tennessee Mayor Jim Strickland insists.
Kelly used his freedom to go on a random killing spree. No motive has been disclosed because he probably hadn’t actually given it that much thought. He just acted out exactly as he had been programmed to, by the endless stream of propaganda beamed at his phone.
COURTROOM COVERAGE! Ezekiel Kelly was escorted in for his first court appearance following a crime spree across the city! @3onyourside pic.twitter.com/5p0tWm3U8t
— Jerrita Patterson (@JerritaP_OnTv) September 9, 2022
The suspect had no plans for the future, unlike his first victim Wednesday morning. Dewayne Tunstall “had aspirations of running a food truck and planned to name it ‘EBE,’ inspired by the phrase he lived his life by: ‘Everybody eats,’” friend Marcus Cash informs. Just before 1:00 a.m. on September 7, “Tunstall was shot and killed while visiting Cash’s house.” Kelly’s first victim of the spree.
The city was already on edge because only days earlier, the body of kidnapped Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher had been discovered. Kelly isn’t a suspect in that murder but rumors are swirling based on what he did do. There have been a whole string of “deadly attacks across the city over the past week.”
Tunstall is the murder Kelly was arraigned for on Friday. Police are aware of at least 3 more murders and three injured victims. Judge Karen L. Massey appointed a public defender to represent the accused and set his next appearance for September 13.
Held without bond
Kelly isn’t going anywhere for a while. The judge ordered the suspect held without bond in Shelby County Jail and the system is gearing up for a major circus in the courtroom. Now that court records have been made public, more details of the crime spree have been revealed.
Ezekiel Kelly, AKA “Zeek Huncho,” prompted a citywide search all day Wednesday. At one point officials issued a shelter-in-place order for part of the city. They had to shut down public bus and trolley service in the area, too.
Kelly surfaced again at 4:38 p.m. when officers “responded to the first afternoon shooting.” When they arrived they “found a man in his car with multiple gunshot wounds.” A few moments later, “police said they found a woman at a different location with a gunshot wound to the leg.”
Days after Eliza Fletcher’s body was found, 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly kills four while filming on Facebook live. | By @CollinLeonard_https://t.co/BiPaqrxZJI
— Deseret News (@Deseret) September 9, 2022
Officers didn’t have much to go on or anything to firmly tie the crimes together to one suspect. That changed when they got a tip from Facebook viewers that “Kelly was allegedly streaming on Facebook Live when he opened fire inside a store more than an hour later.”
Memphis Police transported a male victim in critical condition. “Officers then responded to three more locations, where they found a man and two women who had been shot. The man was brought to a hospital in non-critical condition, Davis said, but both women died.” Kelly stole the SUV owned by one of the women. The suspect disappeared again until he ran out of gas.
“After learning that Kelly carjacked a person at gunpoint and took off in the victim’s Dodge Challenger, the car was spotted within minutes on I-55.” That led to a high-speed chase and inevitable crash. “Kelly was arrested and two weapons were visible in the car when he was taken into custody.“
