Sallow
The Big Bad Wolf.
Well in the haze of Casey Anthony mania...comes a real troubling case.
Cory Maye spent ten years in jail for shooting a guy he thought was breaking into his home. For their part..the police broke into the wrong house.
Where's the outrage?
Shortly after midnight on December 26, 2001, Maye, then 21, was drifting off to sleep in his Prentiss duplex as the television blared in the background. Hours earlier, he had put his 18-month-old-daughter to sleep. He was soon awoken by the sounds of armed men attempting to break into his home. In the confusion, he fired three bullets from the handgun he kept in his nightstand.
As he would later testify in court, Maye realized within seconds that he'd just shot a cop. A team of police officers from the area had received a tip from an informant -- later revealed to be a racist drug addict -- that there was a drug dealer living in the small yellow duplex on Mary Street ...
Maye would later testify that as soon as he realized the armed men in his home were police, he surrendered and put up his hands. There were three bullets still left in his gun. But Maye had just shot a cop. And not just any cop. He shot Officer Ron Jones, Jr., the son of Prentiss Police Chief Ron Jones, Sr. Maye is black; Jones was white. And this was Jefferson Davis County, a part of Mississippi still divided by tense relations between races. Maye was arrested and charged with capital murder, the intentional killing of a police officer.
Cory Maye: Free 10 Years After Shooting Police Officer
Cory Maye spent ten years in jail for shooting a guy he thought was breaking into his home. For their part..the police broke into the wrong house.
Where's the outrage?