Police are questioning two brothers who were taken into custody Thursday in connection to the murders of a UT student and her boyfriend. A third man is also being questioned in Kentucky. The woman was was carjacked, gang-raped for days and killed. The victims were both white but the police is not considering to charge the criminals of hate crimes.
Officers took Lemaricus Davidson, 25, into custody without incident in Knoxville at a house at 1800 Reynolds Street around 3:45 p.m. The house appears to be unoccupied and has for sale signs in front of it.
A few hours earlier, officers from several law enforcement agencies helped take his brother, Letalvis Cobbins, 24, into custody in Lebanon, Ky. without incident. He was found just after noon inside a house. Officers checked the house after a tip.
Cobbins is being held in federal custody. Local investigators are in Kentucky questioning him.
The men are being held on un-related charges. No charges have been filed against either man in the double murder investigation.
A third man, George Thomas, who was with Cobbins in Kentucky is being detained for questioning. According to Knoxville police, he is not related to the brothers.
Police are questioning Cobbins and Davidson about the murders of Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23.
According to the U.S. Marshals Office in Kentucky, two or three suspects carjacked Christian and Newsom the night they disappeared.
Newsom was shot to death while Christian was held hostage for a number of days before she was also shot to death.
Her body was found in a rental house Tuesday on the 2300 block of Chipman Street in East Knoxville. Newsom’s body was found Sunday afternoon along the railroad tracks near 9th Ave.
U.S. Marshals say they have combined efforts with the Knoxville Police Department, Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the ATF due to concern the carjacking suspects would commit a similar crime in another state.
Davidson and Cobbins have extensive criminal records in several states.
Davidson was convicted of carjacking and aggravated robbery charges in Jackson, Tennessee in 2000.
The crime was similar to what allegedly happened in Knoxville. According to police offense reports, a woman was sitting in her van while using a pay phone behind a gas station. The woman said three people approached her and held her at gunpoint, demanding her van.
She said she tried to give them money but they forced her out and stole her van.
The woman identified Davidson as the gunman in the case.
Davidson was just released from prison a few months ago in Tennessee. He was also wanted on a failure to appear warrant for driving on a suspended licence in Knoxville.
Neighbors say Davidson lived in Knoxville with a woman and two children at the house where Channon Christian’s body was found.
Cobbins is wanted in Lebanon, Kentucky for failing to appear on a charge of criminal mischief. He was also charged there with attending a cockfight and disorderly conduct. In Shelby County, Tennessee, he was charged with contempt of court.
And in New York, Cobbins was charged for offenses in Queens in 2003 and the Bronx in 2004.
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I am really disgusted with our country,why this isn’t reported here in the US! If it was white against black it would be in every paper.
” Davidson and Cobbins have extensive criminal records in several states. ”
execute them then ! whats with these laws that hold the greatest benefits to those who least deserve them ? …
This is sick I live in the state’s and I never even heard about this until now. Jerry you are right about that. I talk to people about what is going on and they just tuck tail and run. The media is controlled here we see celebrities and all the lies. If I want to know what is going on here I have to go outside of the media here in the USA. :wink:
I saw this on the net and was absolutely disgusted. When I contacted
people on the west coast of the US most
had never even heard about it That’s how
the US is really controlled. Black Marines raped a 12 year old girl in
Okinawa but you would never know they
were black by reading US newspapers.
You would have to use the net to learn that. The last time in the States-April 2006, San Diego, I noticed all the TV stations were sourced in the US,
not one from outside the country. Amerikans are some of the most propagandized people in the world and they don’t have a clue.
I heard about this when I was in TN. What an terrible crime! These evil thugs must pay for these crimes and all others held accountable. Unfortunately, Caucasions are not included in the Hate Crimes bill. Go figure.