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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The Camia Gamet Murder Case

     In 2013, 30-year-old Marcel Hill and Camia Gamet, 38, shared an apartment in Jackson, Michigan, a town of 34,000 in the south central part of the state. She had been raised in foster homes and claimed to have been raped by a foster dad. People who knew Camia Gamet were aware of her violent streak and abuse of drugs, a combination that made her unpredictable and dangerous.

     Marcel Hill, a high school graduate and fast food worker, was by contrast friendly and child-like. According to members of his family he suffered "cognitive limitations" that made it difficult for him to handle simple everyday tasks like paying his bills. Unlike Gamet he didn't have a violent bone in his body. This odd couple relationship would cost Mr. Hill his life.

     A year or so earlier Camia Gamet, in a fit of rage, stabbed Marcel Hill with a knife, then stitched up his wound herself. Neither one of them reported the assault to the authorities. On another occasion she sent Marcel to the hospital with a punctured lung. That assault did not lead to her arrest. But in March 2013 a Jackson County prosecutor charged Camia Gamet with domestic violence and felonious assault after she pounded Marcel on the head with a hammer. Because he was afraid to press the matter and refused to cooperate with law enforcement personnel, the prosecutor had no choice but to close the case.

     In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 18, 2013 a neighbor called 911 to report domestic violence at the odd couple's dwelling. Responding police officers found a blood-covered Gamet staggering around and slurring her words outside the apartment. Inside, officers found smashed furniture, a broken floor lamp, a bloody filet knife and a frying pan covered in blood.

     Amid all of the destruction and gore, officers discovered Marcel Hill. He had been repeatedly bludgeoned with hard objects--presumably the broken lamp and the frying pan--stabbed eleven times, and cut wide open in the torso with the knife.

     Police officers arrested Camia Gamet that night. On Wednesday, May 20, 2013, a Jackson County prosecutor charged her with open criminal homicide. (This meant a jury or a judge could determine the appropriate degree of murder in the event of a conviction.)

     The Gamet murder trial got underway in late February 2014. In her opening statement to the jury Chief Assistant Prosecutor Kati Rezmierski portrayed the defendant as a violent person and a proven liar. According to the prosecutor Camia Gamet had deliberately and knowingly beaten, stabbed and slashed the victim to death.

     Defense attorney Anthony Raduazo told the jury that his client woke up from a drug-induced stupor that night to the sound of shattering glass. Believing that she was being attacked by an intruder, she grabbed the lamp and the knife and used these objects to defend herself. Attorney Raduazo said the defendant had acted out of a "fear-driven rage," noting that in the encounter she had herself received cuts and bruises.

     After six days of prosecution testimony, the defense attorney put Gamet on the stand to testify on her own behalf. In telling her story of self-defense she did not come off as a credible or sympathetic witness.

     In his closing remarks to the jury, attorney Raduazo said, "She is a woman and she is asleep and she is full of drugs and she is full of liquor. Did she react in a thoughtful manner? Or did she jump up and try to defend herself?" Raduazo pointed out that Gamet had not tried to dispose of Hill's body or clean up the death scene. "If this was preplanned and premeditated," he said, "it was a heck of a bad plan."

     Prosecutor Rezmierski, when it came her turn to address the jurors for the last time, said, "The victim did not die quickly. He knew his death was coming. The victim tried to protect himself and flee, but he was no match for the defendant. He never was a match." As to Gamet's supposed injuries, the prosecutor said, "She has barely a scratch, and he's eviscerated."

     On March 5, 2014 following a short period of deliberation the jury returned a verdict of first-degree murder.

     At Camia Gamet's sentencing hearing on April 16, 2014 County Circuit Court Judge John McBain saw the convicted murderer roll her eyes and snicker during a court presentation by one of Marcel Hill's aunts. The sight infuriated the judge who, in speaking directly to Gamet said, "You gutted him like a fish in the apartment! You were relentless! You stabbed, you stabbed, you stabbed, you stabbed, you stabbed until he was dead! I agree with the family, I hope you die in prison! You know, if this was a death penalty state, you'd be getting the chair!"

     Judge McBain sentenced Camia Gamet to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Afterward, defense attorney Raduazo told reporters he would appeal his client's verdict and the sentence.

     On February 4, 2016 justices on the Michigan Court of Appeals, in an unanimous decision, upheld Gamet's conviction. 

30 comments:

  1. not a violent bone in his body? marcel was convicted of sexual assault with in tent to penetrate, marcel has multiple convictions of domestic violence, several witness came forward to testify that marcel had assaulted camia in a local bar just hours before his death. one witness came forward to testify that marcel put a knife to her throat and demanded sex from her, another was to testify that camia had come to her residence in the middle of the night scantily clothe and bleeding from injuries marcel had inflicted, another witness came to testify that marcel had alledged that he had assaulted him and the police refused to take action because in their words he is a piece of shit who beat every woman hes been with, the program snapped featuring this story aired 3-22-15 and it documents how a controversial ruling that a bias judge agreed with turned all these witnesses away and anything of marcel abuse towards camia was not admisable, the show also documents as the journalist from the Jackson citizen patriot noted that marcel was not the innocent person he was portrayed to be during the trail.

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    1. Exactly what i thought from her actions in vourt and her face reactions tells me there was something more then just cold blooded she had hate towers him.and probably towards the family because mostlikely they knew of.hes abuse towards her i most definitely do.not. justify what she did but i understand her stupid and NOT SMART reactions. Because of what she was dealing with and had no way to prove her self since she was looked as a murder i just hope.she repen for what she did and finds GOD TO BE WITH HER

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    2. Jesus Christ you retard, have you ever heard of a period or capitalization?

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    3. Hahaha! Back to school!

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    4. Doesn't matter what people saw hours prior. She CHOSE to go home with him and then kill him

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    5. at the end of the day you are right, she chose to kill him and you can't come back from that

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    6. This is true, this was my Friend they found her but never called her to testify and then lied to both her and cami as to why....Why wouldn't they use my friend in her defense he almost killed her....Something is seriously wrong here....

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  2. I agree with the previous comment. I'm not necessarily saying it was justified, but the outcome is not right either. It's not so clean cut as it was portrayed and he wasn't the angelic childlike man that was painted.

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  3. I feel John B. Bains should not take sides.The judge should be professional and neutral regardless of crime that may or may not happened. Also based on the homicide that occurred. There was domestic violence commited by marcel Hill. Should not the judge and jury consider this possible evidence.

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    1. Judges SHOULD be impartial and controlled. I agree with this completely. But watching some video tapes of the trial, she was clearly not very respectful of the court and she wasn't taking the proceedings very seriously. She looked to me as if she thought everything was a joke, and she expected to walk out of the courtroom to her former life(minus her boyfriend).

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    2. She would have known that all evidence of his past and corroborating witnesses would not be allowed. He was a victim that HOUR. Why are all these articles so bias? his family enabled by overlooking his violence and sexual violence as long as he went to church on Sundays. Her trial was a joke. A JOKE.

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    3. Why are so many articles bias against her? He was a 2x convicted sex offender. That's not including his violent criminal record. As a sexual assault survivor and mother of a survivor, Do you know how much evidence is required before the DA will even seek charges? Those are just the times he was caught. The system failed this woman as a child and as an adult.
      His family didn't care that he was sexual offender and woman beater as long as he went to church on Sundays.
      I expect better from bloggers and journalists. I Googled his name and his transgressions were first page.

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  4. I feel bad for this woman she clearly did NOT get a fair trial instead she was screwed by the system that failed her since she was a toddler! Sad!!

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    1. She took the life of a human being. Then, thought it was funny while in court. Did not get a fair trial? Sounds like she did. Sounds that both of these people were violent and evil. Lots of people have bad childhoods, but they do not grow up to be like this woman. She killed a man and didn't seem to have any remorse for her actions.

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    2. I agree with you sherry lots of people have bad childhood's that's no excuse to take a man's life even if he's abusive you always have a choice and she chose to take his life and she deserves to spend her life in jail however the judge should have been more professional and not have gotten emotionally involved in this case because now that will give the defendant a reason to ask for a new trial I do hope she gets the same verdict tho..

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  5. I agree

    Marcel was found responsible for Sexual Assult, Domestic Violence and Attempted Murder so he was ready to slit Camias throat

    Camia was also guilty for Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse and Murder

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  6. She didn't stab him in fear of her life and run away. She slit him from head to sternum. The judge "took sides" because she was laughing and rolling her eyes during sentencing? Count me (and any rational person) on his side then.

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  7. Yes I believe there may have been abuse on on both ends..but I do believe she was the agresser...she was full of anger and rage from childhood and she took it out on someone who was vulnerable as she once was..I fell sorry for his family.may God bless them and I hope camia seeks forgiveness in God for her act of murder...and as far as her sentence I agree with the judge, she showed no remorse, norvrespect for the family, or the court room..rolling eys, snickering and shrugging her face in court..her body language ,attitude, and demeanour and all was nasty rude and disrespectful..Her character alone in the court room got her exactly what she deserves.

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  8. Is she still alive and how is she holding up in jail? Is she ok is she fitting in with the other inmates?

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  9. The judge was a disgrace. He is supposed to remain impartial and apply the law in a calm and collected manner. He didn't even try to hide his hatred and bias. What this defendant did, or didn't do is irrelevant, but far too many people are blinded by their own lynch-mob revenge mentality to see the bigger picture - that nobody in a court presided over by this judge is guaranteed a fair trial. Land of the free ? My ass.

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  10. Its all just evil... she had no remorse for it tho... she smurked and laughed like she didn't care. Thats why he reacted lile that and she got the sentence .

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  11. In the video she stated he put his hands on me first. And here it says she was sleep and did nit know who are what was attacking her in the dark. She hit him with more then one object then stab him 11 times then gutted him she got what she desreved and let's not for get she laughed about it in court really I feel so bad for her, not!

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    1. She got what she deserved because if he was so abusive with her in the past then why did she stay in that relationship, she should’ve seek help or ended that toxic relationship. I just hope she find God in jail...

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  12. In the video she stated he put his hands on me first. And here it says she was sleep and did nit know who are what was attacking her in the dark. She hit him with more then one object then stab him 11 times then gutted him she got what she desreved and let's not for get she laughed about it in court really I feel so bad for her, not!

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  13. She must have known it was him she was hitting and not an intruder, come on! Maybe not on the first stab, but surely by the second or third. This was cold-blooded murder reminiscent of the Pistorius case. And judges are human too, especially when it comes to the more heinous crimes - they are allowed to be outraged. We modulate our actions by others' reactions, so the justice system is not doing criminals or society any favours by being so unemotional and polite that it almost sends a message of encouragement to murderers.

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  14. I’m going to write to her and see about being pen pals...people should not be so quick to judge she and one of my siblings shared the same Forster home in which their foster dad molested and raped all three of the mixed foster children but not his own white daughter..smh..prayers for his family although he was just as violent if it wasn’t him it would have been her and for his aunts and family y’all know that man loved to drink so pls stop they were both messed up in the head and both no longer have a life one is no longer breathing and one will never get to live life again so I guess in a way god handled it for both of them

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    1. I'd like to as well. How do you find that kind of information

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  15. Her f-ing pen pal??? Why not her cell mate? Hopefully her life in prison is hell on earth. Now go get the professional help you need.

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