Farmville slayings suspects charged with killing Princeville couple

PRINCEVILLE, N.C. — Two men charged with killing three people last month at a Pitt County convenience store have been accused of killing a couple in Edgecombe County in March, authorities said.

Antwan Andre Anthony, 29, and Willie Whitehead, 23, have been charged with murder in the March 18 deaths of Quantellis Carr, 33, and his girlfriend, Jasmine Chesson, 31, authorities said. The couple was found shot to death inside their home in Princeville.

Princeville police charged Ray Shasteen and Ronnell Joyner, both 20, with accessory after the fact, alleging they helped hid the weapon used in the murders of Carr and Chesson.

Other accomplices in Farmville

Anthony and Whitehead are also charged with killing three people during an armed robbery of a Farmville convenience store on April 1.

Police there said the pair, along with Xavier Montel Shamble, 19, and an unidentified juvenile, killed Mokbel Mohamed "Sam" Almujanhi, 16, as he mopped the floor at the Hustle Mart, his father's convenience store. The owner's nephew, Nabil Nasser Saeed Al'mogannahi, 26, and a cousin, Gaber Alawi, 24, were also shot and killed.

There was no word on how Edgecombe County investigators linked Anthony and Whitehead to the Princeville homicides.

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Life in prison for all three and no parole ever. Is this how some parents are raising their children today?

charmcclainlovesdogs2
May 29, 2012 4:50 p.m.

You are welcome! They don't deserve to die anymore than those they killed. OGE May 29, 2012 12:46 p.

I am truely wondering about your sanity.

puzzled
May 29, 2012 1:39 p.m.

We can all say thank you to those that oppose the death penalty for any and all reasons. lumberman

You are welcome! They don't deserve to die anymore than those they killed.

OGE
May 29, 2012 12:46 p.m.

aetius476,"Who is going to care enough to actually help",My question to you would be,how much more help can you give these people,not just the Blacks but all ethnic groups that have this element in their and our society,the death penalty is the only way to insure they will never walk the streets again,these people have no fear of prison and some are quite content there.

muggs
May 29, 2012 12:43 p.m.

You have to wonder what has happened in society and culture to creat these young black men that are without any value for human life.

They just kill so casually and indiscriminitely. It can't be a race issue, because the victims are of all colors and nationalities. The glorification of the "gangsta" lifestyle and violence is so pervasive. The hopelessness these young men feel must have seared their soul.

Why don't the Rev Barber and other leaders of the black community take up this plague? Why do they waste their time with petty vicitmization issues and defending the failed status quo in the black community?

Who is going to care enough to actually help...

aetius476
May 29, 2012 12:27 p.m.