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DIGGING DEEPER: All Those Involved in Shootings Have Criminal History Save Email Print
Posted: 12:25 AM Dec 9, 2007
 Last Updated: 11:09 PM Dec 9, 2007
 Reporter: Michael Wooten
Email Address: michael.wooten@wsaz.com
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According to court documents, all five people involved in the early-morning shootings in Charleston Saturday have criminal backgrounds.

Suspected shooters Charles Moore and Antonio Jeffries; shooting victims Emanuel McCarty and Desmond Clark; and murder victim Andrew Smoot have all been arrested multiple times.

All of the suspects are 21 years old or younger, but they have lengthy rap sheets, according to court documents.

Below, we listed criminal charges that have been filed against those involved dating between 2004 and now.

The charges listed below are simply that, charges, based on arrest records. Many of the charges were adjudicated, while others were dismissed.




Charles Eugene Moore (Suspected Shooter)

    2005
  • Felony Malicious Wounding

  • Endangerment Involving Firearm

    • 2006

  • Felony Wanton Endangerment

  • Felony Wanton Endangerment

  • Drug Possession

  • Fleeing

  • Fleeing

    • 2007

  • Murder




Antonio Lamar Jeffries (Suspected Shooter)
    2005
  • Truancy

    • 2006

  • Possession With Intent To Deliver

    • 2007

  • Murder








Emanuel Armond McCarty (Shooting Victim)
    2004
  • Drug Possession and Delivery

  • Domestic Assault

  • Destruction of Property

    • 2005

  • Aggravated Robbery

  • Battery

    • 2007

  • Battery

  • Domestic Assault

  • Destruction of Property

  • Domestic Battery




Desmond Demitrius Clark (Shooting Victim)
    2004
  • Domestic Battery

    • 2005

  • Domestic Battery

  • Domestic Battery

  • Kidnapping

  • Battery

    • 2006

  • Carrying Dangerous Weapon

    • 2007

  • Possession With Intent To Deliver

  • Domestic Battery

  • Wanton Endangerment

  • Burglary

  • Burglary

  • Wanton Endangerment

  • Malicious Wounding

  • Escape

  • Malicious Wounding

  • Battery




Andrew Harrison Smoot (Murder Victim)
    2005
  • Carrying Dangerous Weapon

  • Possession of Controlled Substance

    • 2006

  • Malicious Wounding

  • Wanton Endangerment

  • Possession With Intent To Deliver

  • Receiving/Transferring Stolen Items

  • Carrying Dangerous Weapon

    • 2007

  • Possession With Intent To Deliver

  • Possession of Controlled Substance






LATEST ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT

One man is dead and two others have been arrested following several related shootings in Charleston.

Police charged 18-year-old Antonio Jefferies and 20-year-old Charles Moore with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Andrew Smoot.

Chief of Detectives Steve Cooper says the suspects were friends of two other people who were shot around 3:30 a.m. outside the American Legion Club on Charleston's west side.

Jefferies and Moore then went to Smoot's home on Charleston's east end and rang his doorbell. Smoot was shot in the head when he answered his door at 3:40 a.m.

Cooper says Smoot had been at the American Legion. Although police aren't sure whether he was involved in the initial shooting, Cooper says Smoot's shooting appears to be in retaliation.

Moore was wearing a bulletproof vest when police stopped the suspects' vehicle following a third shooting at 3:55 a.m.

The victims of the nightclub shooting were taken to Charleston Area Medical Center's General Hospital. An operator says 21-year-old Emmanuel McCarty is in critical condition this evening, while 21-year-old Desmond Clark remains under evaluation.
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Posted by: Sherri on Jul 30, 2008 at 11:55 AM
When is this state going to start putting criminals behind bars???? This is really humiliating to a state that already has limited things to offer! SUGESTION, bring better paying jobs that actually stick around longer than a year so people don't have to resort to crime. IT WORKS IN OTHER STATES NATIONWIDE!!! TRY EDUCATING OUR YOUTH ALSO !!
Posted by: rogermoore on Dec 12, 2007 at 11:10 AM
what's up with the comment editing? who decides what information is appropriate? it is certainly not consistent.
Posted by: green on Dec 11, 2007 at 06:37 PM
Of course the past matters. This is an unfortunate learning experience for our justice system. It is clear all of them have been given too many chances, and if they had not maybe one of them would still be alive.
Posted by: "IDEA?" on Dec 11, 2007 at 04:27 PM
maybe Megan Williams will come out to march for these Fine Outstanding Citizens,that will maybe someday contribute to the system! instead of wasting tax money, giving them 3-meals a day plus FREE HEALTH CARE, oh and lets not forget the 6x4 cell they will call home maybe they could be Megan Williams body guards instead! na they will ALL instead claim some kind of disability to draw a check like 90% of AMERICA does now and us people who work everyday gets taxed to our death. HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!
Posted by: Richard on Dec 11, 2007 at 09:05 AM
yea.mabey the black lawyers coming to town again.can do somthing about there people.mabey a march or somthing.mabey just an address so we can send money.mabey if the police would quit arresting these guys.so they could build a drug impire that would handle there own problems.but with the change of command so much there is no stability in the drug community.or perhaps.kill 1 another off or spread enough bad drugs to kill off there customers.iv watched the war on drugs for years now.and its getting worse.big new prison,s full need more.need more cops bigger better guns.stricter laws to keep good people from interfering with there trade.mabey a law saying that its against the law to murder non drug using or selling citizens.then we can all go to are jobs and schools pay taxes and raise are familys in peace.and if that dont work..arm every1 so working people can make it back and forth through the day.has any tryed telling them to just STOP IT!!!!and now there lowering the jail time for CRAK
Posted by: Greg on Dec 10, 2007 at 09:41 PM
Now folks, don't get so upset. Danny Jones and his $2.00 user fee is going to make the streets of Charleston safe. And if he don't fix the problem with the working man/woman's money then I am sure the health department and their smoking ban will.
Posted by: SOMEONE WHO CARES on Dec 10, 2007 at 08:49 PM
PERSONALY, I DONT THINK THEIR RECORDS SHOULDNT BEEN REVEALED BECAUSE THAT GIVES CRITICS AND HATEFUL PEOPLE SAY THATS WHAT THEY GET. TRUE U CAN GO TO THE COURT HOUSE AND SEE THEIR RECORDS.WHY DIDNT THEY SHOW THE RECORD OF THE NEWS MAN THAT WAS ARREST YEARS AGO FOR DRUNK DRIVIN.HE WAS PUTTIN PEOPLE LIVES IN DANGER FOR DRINKIN IN DRIVIN.MY FAMILIE MEMBER WAS MURDER IN 2003 THE MAN CHARGED FOR HIS MURDER WAS A CONVITICED FELON AND GOT OFF ON MAN SLAUGHTER AND SERVED NOTHING BUT 3YEARS. WHERE WAS THE CRIMNALS BACKGROUND.YEAH JUS SHOW HOW MOST GET AWAY WITH ALOT.6 SUSPECT IN MEGAN WILLIAMS CASE. BUT DONT ANYBODY WANNA COMMENT ABOUT THAT
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 10, 2007 at 05:39 PM
take them to iraq if they want to shoot and kill and let the soldiers come home
Posted by: THINKING on Dec 10, 2007 at 05:34 PM
Why not names the judges that apparently faltered in these young men's lives? ALL of these men should had been turned over to some wardens and correctional officers.
Posted by: Debbie on Dec 10, 2007 at 01:44 PM
Their arrests are public record. If you don't want a mile long rap sheet exposed stop breaking the law. I'm sorry a young man is dead, but you live by the sword, you often die by it. I hope (but I doubt) this will serve as a wake up call for others following the same path. It's a road to nowhere, but death or prison.
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 10, 2007 at 12:39 PM
I agree with Jim the system is a joke. We need to get the old judges out and vote in the ones who care and don't want criminals on our streets. Raleigh county is 10 times worse, All the magistrates and judges have been there longer than dirt has been known as soil. They don't care that these people have records they just keep slapping them on the wrist and letting them go without jail, without resitution. Our legal system needs changed and if it doesn't the crime in this state will be alot higher. Yeah it might hurt the family, but where was the family when this bad behavior started? Were they punished? Did they learn? When wrong doing is all you know and continue to do wrong it will catch up to you. I can speak I was a victim of an assault and the system didn't do nothing to protect me and he is still free doing wrong with a rap sheet. I'm the one who has to deal with pain and suffering every day of my life. NOT THE CRIMINAL!
Posted by: jim on Dec 10, 2007 at 11:21 AM
The judges that let these people remain free after all these arrest should be put in jail. Our justice system is a joke.
Posted by: west side on Dec 10, 2007 at 10:46 AM
i think we all should look at the crime itself and not the past i my self was released from prison 2 years ago and have held a job and relationship with my kids what was done in the past is irrelivent to the crime that was committed we should not waste time talking about the past but pray for a better future my heart and prayers go out to the family of all involved so (D)pull through this and look up to god you have so much to live for and a great testimony you friend James
Posted by: rogermoore on Dec 10, 2007 at 09:09 AM
Concerning bringing up their "past history," let's not pretend these guys have been clean for twenty years with a bad past; these guys seemed to have been pretty busy just this year alone. imo, these guys deserve as much sympathy and compassion as they were willing to give others, which doesn't seem to amount to much.
Posted by: Bev on Dec 10, 2007 at 08:45 AM
I wasn't even going to comment on this until I read what "T" wrote. These men have records from 2007, that is not "in the past". It is a nasty shame that this young man had to lose his life. But we have to stop making excuses. Their records are public documents and can be viewed by anyone. I know they have people who love them just like we all do. They need to think about those people before they commit the many crimes on their rap sheets. The family is left to suffer and try to make sense out of the senselessness. When are we going to learn that we CANNOT solve our problems with a gun??? How many shootings have made national attention in the last week, 4-5?? Wake up people, violence begets violence!!
Posted by: david bragg on Dec 10, 2007 at 08:37 AM
The question is why are these boy's out on the street's and not behind bar's.With that kind of rap sheet it seem's not to make sense that there not in jail but instead there out running the street's.I think Charleston need's get a little harder on there crime's and jail time if you ask me and this might not have happened.
Posted by: J on Dec 10, 2007 at 08:29 AM
Arrest records are a matter of public record, and I don't see anything wrong with making their's "public", not everyone knows how to go about getting a record. But I think it is important to say that this is an ARREST record (from what I can tell) not a conviction record. If anyone has spent time in the courts you would know how easy it is for someone to get off on a charge. Jail overcrowding, witness/victims not showing, overbooked dockets, it is a problem, and the only way it is going to be solved is if people, citizens, start to care about what happens AFTER the arrest of someone. Just because someone is arrested, doesn't mean that they are going to see jail time. WV needs tougher penalities on people who choose to act out against society, or against their family members, the system is set up to be tougher on someone with a third offense DUI or Shoplifting, than on someone who beats their girlfriend, rapes their child, or pulls a gun on someone in the mall. Theirs my 2 cents!
Posted by: Very Concerned on Dec 10, 2007 at 03:51 AM
Everyone of these young men should had already locked down by the judges. I know you are damned if you do and damned if you don't- error on the side of right in the future. Now all these families suffer while morticans and attorneys gain. The system failed these young men. Wonder did the education fail likewise? Where were the fathers? Women must learn every nice boyfriend will not make a good father or mentor. However I do realize even some parents lose their children to the streets' quick money and illegal activities regardless of the hours of punishment, counseling and the severe prayer list the childrens' names were on here and away from here. It draws them but if any of their parents accepted even a nickel from illegal money then they enabled their children's ruthless and lifeless life whether in the grave or inside prisons. I noticed this station never released all the charges of those from Logan who is said to attack Megan but they did this time.Wonder why?
Posted by: James on Dec 10, 2007 at 02:24 AM
this to poster T & Beth one of the reason they have showed us all about everything they have been into is because it shows all of us that the Justice system does not work for most people, I have seen first hand someone just getting in trouble for one thing they done and they are still sitting in Jail & you got everyone that got shoot or was the shooter that have been in trouble a bunch of times this year and the years before this and they were on the streets if they were in jail in the first place because everyone of them done something wrong this shooting would have NEVER HAPPENED & everyone of them would have had there family,kids,friends waiting on them when they got out.so stop blaming the news people and blame the Justice system for not doing there job in the first place.
Posted by: Amazed on Dec 10, 2007 at 12:43 AM
But wait .. I forgot , we are faced with a more important problem -developing an Anti-Smoke Response Team trained to track down and execute anyone who may mention the term "cigatettes" or cought smoking.
Posted by: Amazed on Dec 10, 2007 at 12:34 AM
They didn't get "guns" by going through background checks, etc. Shows how gun laws are useless, criminals are able to obtain them and don't care about any regulations or breaking the "law" to do so. If restrictions and "bans" worked, we wouldn't have "illegal drugs" either. It is tragic when this happens, but lets stop blaming society and disregarding that these people are responsible for their actions and should have been incarcerated long ago based on the prior charges against them. Also a TEC 9MM being "almost a machine gun" is like the statement of being "almost pregnant" - So many people, both the public and media alike, don't comprehend this concept. A "machine gun or true automatic weapon fires continuously ( or in rapid bursts ) as long as he trigger is held down. I await the gun control proponents to respond with the ridiculous rhetoric of how more legislation and "tighter gun control" or "banning" would prevent this. So be prepared to protect your loved ones and yourself.
Posted by: Beth on Dec 9, 2007 at 10:48 PM
This is for T, I could not have said it better myself. I do not think that was right of them to expose their records.
Posted by: our people on Dec 9, 2007 at 10:32 PM
jail could have saved all these lives on this day. why you ask? with the records they each have they should not have been on the steets. snitches get a longer rope. rope.
Posted by: tony on Dec 9, 2007 at 07:40 PM
a tec 9 mmm is almost a machine gun, the public needs to see a picture of this gun so they will know what is being carried on the streets of charleston, and a bullet proof vest, like this man didnt know what he was gonna do
Posted by: tony on Dec 9, 2007 at 07:14 PM
I hear ads that say a gun crime = 5 yrs, it sure looks like it.. it wont be long until we all have to carry guns to protect ourself, my family wont go to the Town Center Mall anymore because of the thugs there. these men should have been in Jail before this, they have no fear of going to jail.
Posted by: T on Dec 9, 2007 at 04:28 PM
I hate that whenever a crime is committed that results in a death the media is quick to expose the victim's rap sheets. Dont lose sight of the true tradgedy...A young man: A FRIEND, HUSBAND, AND FATHER was just murdered, and there are two more who are in critical condition!!! I feel that exposing all the wrong that they have done is superfluous at the moment. We should be more concerned about the greiving family of Andrew, and the well-being of Desmond and Emmanuel. The family is already going through enough without you exposing everything wrong that these young men have done. It seems as though everytime a young man gets killed that has had any trouble in the past, the police and news want to bring up their history as if it justifies their injuries, or their deaths; its almost like telling us that the crime doesn't matter anyways.
Posted by: No Name on Dec 9, 2007 at 12:03 PM
I believe that you shood keep looking at all arrest records. I think you will find that there are many more young men in Charleston that have arrest records just as long and equally violent. These men are very dangerous and you have to wonder how it is that they are aloud to remain on the street. I say this because I have personal knowledge of several myself. I have moved out of the area for just this reason and I believe that there is more trouble coming. Good Luck to you all.
Posted by: meme on Dec 9, 2007 at 11:53 AM
How many chances should someone gets before they are put behind bars. As many chances as it takes until they kill someone? Get these type of people off the streets and clean up Charleston.
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 9, 2007 at 07:34 AM
I guess none ot them had any prison time yet, I know of men that did'nt do but one of those felony that these guys have with no other records and has done 5 years in prison.
Posted by: CB on Dec 9, 2007 at 07:02 AM
THIS TELLS YOU HOW WEAK THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS.
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 9, 2007 at 03:49 AM
why were they not all in jail looks like all the charges should have put the there
Posted by: Joyce on Dec 9, 2007 at 02:53 AM
What happend to the 3 strikes, it takes murder maybe!!! to put these people behind bars and keep the rest of civilization safe.
Posted by: Steve on Dec 9, 2007 at 12:37 AM
Looks like there wouldn't have been a murder in 2007 if the judges had done their jobs in 2005 and 2006. Why were these guys still on the streets? The greastest injustice in society today is the present justice system.
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