At five-thirty on Sunday evening, August 9, 2020, 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant was playing in front of his house in Wilson, North Carolina with his sisters aged 7 and 8. As the boy rode his bike with his mother looking on, the child was approached by a 25-year-old neighbor named Darius Sessoms who pointed a handgun at the boy's head and shot him. After the shooting, Sessoms ran back to his house that is located next door to the victim's on Archers Road.
Doris Lybrand, a neighbor who witnessed the shooting, called 911.
Cannon Hinnant was rushed to the Wilson Medical Center where he died shortly upon arrival.
Police officers arrested Sessoms the following evening at a house in the nearby town of Goldsboro. The Wilson County District Attorney charged Darius Sessoms with first-degree murder. The magistrate denied the suspect bail.
According to neighbors, the boy's family had known Darius Sessoms for several years.
On Tuesday, August 11, 2020, Bonny Waddell, the young victim's mother, posted the following online: "That man [Sessoms] will answer to me. That man will see me and my son through my face! This sorry excuse as a human being will rot in hell. My heart has been taken from me."
While as of this writing no motive for the killing has been revealed, a police spokesman told reporters that the murder was not "random."
According to the boy's father, his son was killed because he had ridden his bicycle on Sessoms' lawn. The father, on Instagram, railed about how the media has ignored this case. (Sessoms is black and the victim is white.)
Doris Lybrand, a neighbor who witnessed the shooting, called 911.
Cannon Hinnant was rushed to the Wilson Medical Center where he died shortly upon arrival.
Police officers arrested Sessoms the following evening at a house in the nearby town of Goldsboro. The Wilson County District Attorney charged Darius Sessoms with first-degree murder. The magistrate denied the suspect bail.
According to neighbors, the boy's family had known Darius Sessoms for several years.
On Tuesday, August 11, 2020, Bonny Waddell, the young victim's mother, posted the following online: "That man [Sessoms] will answer to me. That man will see me and my son through my face! This sorry excuse as a human being will rot in hell. My heart has been taken from me."
While as of this writing no motive for the killing has been revealed, a police spokesman told reporters that the murder was not "random."
According to the boy's father, his son was killed because he had ridden his bicycle on Sessoms' lawn. The father, on Instagram, railed about how the media has ignored this case. (Sessoms is black and the victim is white.)
A mostly peaceful killing.
ReplyDeleteI get it. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteSessoms is lucky he did not commit murder here. There is still a strain of vigilantism in my area, but mostly unseen. His body would not have been found. My heart breaks for Cannon's family. Poor lad. May He RIP.
ReplyDeleteRest in peace, little one.
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