It is after midnight. In the very dark areas behind the Gidney Street home Fenner is approaching from the south through some back yards. Brackeen is hiding in the darkness under some shrubbery. About to spring the trap on Fenner.
Per the reports I received, as Fenner sneaks on by, Brackeen jumps out from the bushes in almost total darkness and tackles Fenner. There is a bit of a struggle and Brackeen fires one shot into Fenner’s back. However, somehow in the struggle and in the dark, Brackeen’s weapon’s ammunition magazine is ejected and Brackeen’s repeated attempts to fire was limited to that single round that was in the chamber. Although Fenner was wounded, he managed to retrieve his own weapon and fire at Brackeen. At least one round from Fenner’s weapon entered the arm hole in Brackeen’s vest and mortally wounds Brackeen. And Fenner is able to escape.
Sometime after the firing of the shots and before the nearby police officers arrive, Ashley Hamrick is reported to have franticly called on some nearby friends who assist Fenner’s escape from the Gidney Street property to nearby assistance and a hideout. Fenner’s family members in Rhode Island were called and immediately left by car to come to North Carolina to get Fenner out of NC and up to Rhode Island.
The police officers quickly arrive, find Brackeen mortally wounded and call for help. Somebody retrieves the Police Dog Ciko locked in Brackeen’s vehicle and the manhunt for Fenner begins. Ashley Hamrick is arrested.
Folks, this is not the end of the story. In many respects it is just the beginning.
As I have previously stated many times, this is the story that I have been told. Not by only one person, but by several; However, this is not one of those he said, she said unsolvable accounts. There are many things that I do NOT know from my own personal knowledge. But somebody knows!!!
For instance:
1. Brackeen’s leaving his Police dog locked up in his police vehicle hidden from view and away from the Gidney Street address. Where was the Police vehicle, dog inside found? The City of Shelby’s narrative leaves out these details and the public deserves an explanation. Also, Brackeen serving arrest warrants by himself, on foot in a back yard and in a predominantly black neighborhood. I don’t buy that for a minute, do you? Especially when you think about this for about 15 seconds. I don’t have any of these answers, but somebody does. And why were none of these details disclosed to the public over the past three years?
2. The other two officers? Did they hide the truth to save their own skins and to place the total blame on a young black man that they were planning to kill? To save face for the SPD and Brackeen in the process-now that the plan had backfired? I was not there and I am also NOT a mind-reader. But somebody knows the answer to this.
3. Brackeen’s service weapon’s magazine being ejected? I personally don’t know that for a fact. But somebody knows.
4. Brackeen’s shirt? Civilian shirt or an SPD uniform shirt. I don’t know that for a fact. But SOMEBODY knows.
5. Where the shootout actually took place. In the well-lit area as per Ashley Hamric’s statement to the news, or in the dark area? Brackeen never walked another step after being shot. Somebody knows exactly where he fell. Brackeen’s body cam video clearly shows it was in the darkness of the night. Which had to be away from the well-lit area on the other side of the Gidney Street home. The home at the corner of Gidney Street and Parkview Street. Straight across from Bethel Baptist Church.
It took me almost three years of believing the City of Shelby’s narrative about the Brackeen killing before I was made aware of facts that were contrary to the Shelby narrative. I also learned that what I was told had been circulating through the Black Community from the git-go. And nobody was complaining. Sources say members of the White Community, especially Shelby City Employees, including the Shelby Police Department, knew this Shelby narrative was phony. But wanted to keep their jobs.
There are plenty more questions about the exact details of what happened right before, during and right after Brackeen-Fenner shootout. As well as the three years of illegal imprisonment of Fenner, potential witnesses and accomplices (including Ashley Hamrick) in Fenner’s escape. Stay tuned for more articles to come.
And this is where the “similarity phenomenon” kicks in. Somebody knows the answers to the questions raised that are noted above. Multiple somebodies probably. But ALL the City of Shelby officials and employees as well every law enforcement agency as well as the Cleveland County District Attorney’s Office lead by ADA Sally Kirby-Turner (Where the Elected DA Mike Miller was during all of this is unknown-although DA Mike Miller being missing in action is commonplace) have backed up one of their own. Right or wrong. Backing up lies and tall-tales with more lies and tall-tales when it suits their purposes.
This “Shelby situation” of what appears to be “systemic racism,” as is the common term, is similar for the apparent “normal” as shown in Willie Green’s (a Former NFL Superbowl winner and now a Shelby businessman) attempts to do business in the City of Shelby and Cleveland County. Officials make up reasons to deny Mr. Green’s proposals. Then slander his name by calling him a Muslim and broke. And when they are sued by Mr. Green, they concoct lies and have city employees submit affidavits that the lies are the truth. More on this later.
Even more troubling is the fact that the County, the DA and Law enforcement (Shelby and otherwise) all join in on the injustice and the cover-up, lies and tall-tale. Other examples come to mind. The Mindy Morrow phony prosecution by Cleveland County Schools linked to Mindy’s complaint about illicit sexual relations between a Principal and a teacher. The false charges and prosecution against former State Highway Patrol Officer Brian Ledbetter and his father Clyde. All stemming from illicit sexual deviances of a CCS School Teacher and the ever-present cover-up of such things. This started at CCS, moved to a school in South Carolina and then back to Gastonia, North Carolina. Where the pervert still teaches children to this very day. Brian Ledbetter’s father, Clyde Ledbetter, ran for Sheriff of Cleveland County in 2018 as a write-in. Clyde has announced that he plans to run again for Sheriff in 2022 as a Democrat. You can expect to hear more about this story in the very near future.
Folks, there are plenty of injustices and just plain acts of corruption in Cleveland County. This series of articles is just one of them that needs to be reported. Stay tuned as the news about the problems and recommended solutions are forthcoming in regard to the Fenner “Cop-Killer” trial that never happened.