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Autopsy: Former ECU football player shot 18 times

A former East Carolina University football player who was killed last year outside a Raleigh restaurant was shot at least 18 times, according to an autopsy report released Thursday.

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Matthew Burns
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RALEIGH, N.C. — A former East Carolina University football player who was killed last year outside a Raleigh restaurant was shot at least 18 times, according to an autopsy report released Thursday.
Anthony Domonique Lennon, 24, was shot to death on June 23, 2017, in the parking lot of Bahama Breeze, at 3309 Wake Forest Road.

An autopsy determined that he had been shot 13 times in the torso, three times in the right arm and once each in the left arm, right leg and neck. The medical examiner said two of the wounds might have been caused by the same bullet passing through the body twice.

The shots came from an undetermined or distant range, the report states.

Ashanti Rahdee Bennet, 33, of 240 S. West Street in Greenville, has been charged with murder in the case. Jamar Vick Allen, 22, Clifton Jason Spellmen, 25, of 1431 Portertown Road in Greenville, and Wantavius Burney Jackson, 25, of 788 Tyree Road in Kinston, were all charged with felony conspiracy to commit murder. Stephanie Chayanne Owens, 19, of 170 Keys Court in Greenville, was charged as an accessory after the fact to murder.
Clifton Jason Spellman, left, and Wantavius Burney Jackson

Lennon, 24, played on defense and special teams for ECU from 2011 to 2014, finishing his senior season with the fourth-most solo tackles on the team.

Police have not disclosed a motive for the shooting.

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