In re Scoggins CA3
Samuel Wilson was murdered during the attempted commission of a robbery set up by Willie Scoggins. Wilson had previously sold Scoggins three boxes purportedly containing 50-inch flat-screen televisions. The boxes actually contained plywood wrapped in bubble wrap. A few days later, Wilson encountered Scoggins’s girlfriend, Shaneil Cooks, and her friend, Jennifer Kane, in a parking lot and offered Cooks the same deal. Cooks informed Scoggins via text message that she found the man who had hustled him. A short time later, Cooks and Kane lured Wilson to a different parking lot under the guise of making a purchase. When Wilson arrived, in addition to Cooks and Kane, he found two of Scoggins’s friends, James Howard and Randall Powell. Scoggins was also nearby, in an adjacent parking lot. The plan, devised by Scoggins, was for Howard and Powell to rob and “beat the shit out of” Wilson. When Wilson ran, Powell shot and killed him.
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