Black raped and strangled an 11-year-old black girl

[Whitebear]

Black raped and strangled an 11-year-old black girl


Alex Demolle


Jaquita Mack

OAKLAND -- An Alameda County jury heard conflicting accounts today as to whether an Oakland man raped and strangled an 11-year-old girl before dumping her body in a field eight years ago.

Deputy District Attorney John Brouhard told jurors that Alex Demolle, 32, brutally killed Jaquita Mack in Oakland's Fruitvale District on July 23, 1999, before using his next-door neighbor's car to drive her body to a weedy field, where it was found the next day.

"Jaquita left her home that night to escape ugliness," Brouhard told a jury of six men and six women in his opening statement in the death-penalty trial in Oakland, referring to drug use and prostitution at her parents' home.
But when she went outside to ride her bike, "She was confronted with complete and utter terror," Brouhard said. "He fondled her, he raped her, he sexually violated her little body. When he was done, he sat on her legs, put his big hands on her neck and literally squeezed the life out of her."

Jaquita died with her eyes open, the prosecutor said.

Demolle has been charged with murder with the special circumstances of rape and lewd acts with a child. If convicted, he could be sentenced to death by lethal injection.

Jaquita, who had dreams of becoming president of the United States and sang in her church choir, would have entered the sixth grade at Schilling Elementary School in Newark, where she lived with an aunt. She died about a month before she would have turned 12.

An uncle last saw Jaquita riding her bike with pink pedals and green handlebars near the B&W Market on the corner of Fruitvale Avenue and East 27th Street.

While the prosecution addressed the jury for an hour and a half, defense attorney James Giller -- whose co-counsel is well-known criminal defense attorney Daniel Horowitz -- took just several minutes to deliver his opening remarks. "Wait until you hear all of the evidence in this case," he urged jurors.

Giller said the defense would concede that DNA evidence pointed to Demolle, but said prosecutors would be trying to show that the defendant committed sodomy when there was no evidence of that.

In court today, Brouhard showed jurors a picture of a smiling Jaquita. He later contrasted that image with pictures of her body in a field off Ransom Avenue in East Oakland, about 15 blocks away, and those from her autopsy. Relatives in the front row wept as the pictures appeared on a large screen in the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman.
Demolle showed no emotion.

Demolle's home in a seven-unit brick-and-stucco building was next-door to the market and was within sight of Jaquita's father's home, where she had been staying for the summer.

Jaquita did not know Demolle, but he may have seen her riding her bike in the neighborhood, family members have said.
Demolle, a former office-supply warehouse worker, was unemployed at the time of his arrest.

He has no convictions, but Demolle was arrested in December 1993 for allegedly trying to break into a car on West MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland. His prosecution was deferred for a year pending no further arrests and his completion of 40 hours of community service at a Boys and Girls Club. He performed the service, and the case did not appear on his criminal record.

Demolle's next-door neighbor Delores Hill told The Chronicle at the time that Demolle pounded on her door the night Jaquita disappeared, his eyes wide with panic. He pleaded with her to let him borrow her car to visit a sick aunt. He took Hill's 1984 Buick Regal and returned it 20 minutes later, she said.

Hill said Demolle denied any involvement in Jaquita's death after he was first interviewed by police. Demolle told Hill that he was concerned about his own 3-year-old daughter's safety and vowed to find Jaquita's killer himself.

But police said Demolle gave conflicting statements during a series of interviews. At first, he said he had not seen Jaquita. But he later said that he helped Jaquita up after she fell from her bike, authorities said. Two witnesses also saw Demolle with the girl, according to police.

Hill later told police that Demolle had told her that it couldn't have been him, commenting that it takes 20 minutes to strangle someone, Brouhard said.

[Buster]

Jaquita, had dreams of becoming president of the United States



What a loss to the nation!

[Gman]

TNB start to finish in this fine post, Buster!! Love the series of different lies that the boon perp vomits out to the cops. I am sure they just let a boon keep talking and eventually their single digit IQ gives out and they just blurt out the truth. Too funny. A future president, whatever!!

Gman

[Rasp]

Jury hears taped confession of rape, killing

Jury hears emotional confession
Court plays recorded interview with recount of 11-year-old's rape, killing

OAKLAND — "I don't know what happened, I just lost it."
That was the explanation Alex Demolle gave seven years ago as he confessed to police about how he raped and then choked to death his 11-year-old neighbor, Jaquita Mack.

In another painful day in court, jurors in the death penalty case against Demolle heard the recorded interviews police had with Demolle after he was arrested for the crime.

As the tape began to play, Demolle's sobs were heard in the background and homicide detective Sgt. Derwin Longmirestates the time and date and begins to ask Demolle questions.

Longmire began to tape Demolle immediately after the then 24-year-old broke down and confessed he had raped and murdered the "little girl."

Demolle talks of how he was sitting by his front door playing video games as Jaquita was riding her bike past his apartment. He said she approached and asked if she could play the game as well.

He invited her inside and she sat on a mattress in the living room and began to play.

"She sat down on the mattress," Demolle is heard saying right before he begins to sob. "Then I started touching her, she was just there playing and I started touching her.

"I don't know what happened, I just lost it. I raped her."

Demolle is charged with first-degree murder in the case and faces execution.

Police began to focus on Demolle after he gave conflicting stories about his contact with Jaquita during two separate interviews conducted as part of a neighborhood-wide sweep.

His changed story piqued police interest and they received his permission to take a blood sample. DNA then was extracted from that sample and it matched DNA from semen found in Jaquita's body.

Throughout the taped interview, which took place about two weeks after Jaquita's body was found in an overgrown vacant lot about a mile away, Demolle is heard crying and wondering out loud why he did what he did.

He described how, after he killed Jaquita, he wrapped her body in a sheet and threw her out a window into an alley behind his apartment. He also spoke about how he then borrowed a neighbor's car so he could take the body somewhere else.

He repeatedly told police he was nervous at the time and scared.

"Before I knew it, I was like choking her, and I crushed her windpipe," he is heard saying. "And then, I just kept choking her."

Demolle said he began to choke Jaquita because he did not want her to leave and tell her parents what had happened. He was fearful of losing his 3-year-old daughter and scared about facing jail time, he told police.

"I was just trying to keep from embarrassing my family," Demolle said.

"I sat there, I was nervous. I didn't know what to do. I was thinking about my daughter, I was thinking about everybody if I got caught," Demolle said at the time. "I didn't want to lose my daughter.

"Oh. God," he said as he began to wail.

As the tape was playing Demolle, now 32, sat with his head in his hands. At one point he covered his ears with his fingers; at other points he read along with a transcript of the interview that was on the table in front of him.

Meanwhile, Jaquita's aunt and other relatives sat quietly. Some began to cry while others just stared at the transcript that flashed on a projection screen.

At one point, after the court was returning from a break and the jury had yet to enter the courtroom, a man who identified himself as Jaquita's uncle stood up and addressed the judge.

The man expressed anger that during the break court staff and lawyers were chatting and laughing.

Judge Larry Goodman asked the man to take his seat. When he refused, he was escorted out of the courtroom and told never to return.

Once court resumed, Deputy District Attorney John Brouhard continued playing the tape.

"For the first few seconds I was thinking what the hell am I doing," Demolle said during the interview. "She was just staring at me and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't let go of her, I was so spooked and scared.

"I was like locked. It was like my body was there doing one thing and my mind was somewhere else."

Demolle said that Jaquita never said a word during the 15- to 20-minute rape and murder. He said she never fought back and that he thought she was "petrified."

"It just happened, like spur of the moment," Demolle said about why he raped and killed the girl. "I don't know what I was thinking."

[Rasp]

White folks proclaim: "fetch the rope!"

Neighbor guilty of rape, murder
Jury took one day to convict Demolle in 11-year-old's death

OAKLAND — Alex Demolle, a father of one arrested seven years ago on suspicion of raping and then choking to death 11-year-old neighbor Jaquita Mack, was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder, rape and lewd acts on a child younger than 14.

It took less than a day for an all-white jury of six men and six women to find the 32-year-old guilty of the crimes he admitted to during taped confessions with police and district attorneys.

Demolle sat still with his mouth in his hands as the jury's verdict was read. Tears rolled from his eyes as the court clerk finished the reading.

"I'm just happy to see it," Verna White, Jaquita's legal guardian, said tearfully. "I can't say anything more."

Deputy district attorney John Brouhard declined comment until after the penalty phase of the trial has concluded.

Demolle's vicious act began on a warm summer night in 1999 with an invitation for Jaquita to enter his apartment to play video games on his Sony PlayStation.

It didn't take long before Demolle began to touch Jaquita on her arms and legs. After being pushed away once, Demolle reacted with force. He pushed Jaquita onto a mattress in his living room, pulled her pants off and began to rape the girl, evidence in the case revealed.

After raping Jaquita, Demolle, scared of embarrassing his family and going to jail, killed the girl by choking her. He then used a neighbor's car to take her body to an empty lot several blocks away.

He dumped the body and then went back home to meet up with friends who were going on a fishing trip to Lake Tahoe.
Police initially suspected the crime was conducted by one of the men that frequented the house where Jaquita's crack-addicted mother engaged in prostitution.

Jaquita, who normally lived in Newark with White, her aunt and legal guardian, had been living with her mother during the summer.

It wasn't until DNA tests on everyone in that house failed to match the DNA extracted from semen found in Jaquita's body that police begin to widen the search.

They focused on Demolle after he changed his story about the last time he had seen the girl.

Demolle eventually consented to a blood test and his DNA matched that of the DNA found on Jaquita.

Once arrested, he confessed to the crime both during a taped interview and later in three letters he wrote apologizing for his actions.

"It was inevitable," Demolle's attorney Daniel Horowitz said of the verdict. "Next phase is life or death."

The jury will meet again April 16 to hear testimony in the penalty phase of the trial. Once that is complete, the jury will decide if Demolle will be sentenced to death or life behind bars.

Kevin Thomas, 41, a childhood friend of Jaquita's father who was at the hospital when the girl was born, said he wants Demolle to spend the rest of his life behind bars thinking about the crime.

"We should let him live so, for the days that he is on this planet, he can think about what he did," said Thomas, who sat through the entire trial. "This verdict is something that I have been praying for."

Horowitz said it is that phase of the trial that Demolle's defense team, which also includes James Giller, has focused on since the start of the trial.

He said he was confident the jury will consider all aspects of the case, including Demolle's tearful confessions and remorseful letters, when they begin to decide his fate.

"The case comes down to ... a guy who, up until that time, was a normal member of the community," Horowitz said. "That is the puzzling aspect of this case.

"How do you turn so quickly? It's crazy."

[LaKooneshia]

Dis here nigger be doin' mo' dan thinkin' 'bout killin da niglet fo' de next 40 years He be busy washin' underpants, tossin' salads, tonsil ticklin', and givin' colon cowboy rides. When the bruthas burn his ass out, dis here tree jumper goin' ta wish fo' de def penalty.

[Gman]

Gotta hang this coon because prison is like nigger heaven to a spook. Hell, homo sex is probably a fun thing for these dark devils. They are all sex freaks from birth.

Gman

[Rasp]

Hang him high!

Death Sentence Doled Out In Oakland Girl's Murder

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Calling an 11-year-old's murder "a cruel, senseless, depraved and vicious act," an Alameda County judge Friday condemned an Oakland to death for her rape and strangulation more than eight years ago.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman said the death of Jaquita Mack in Oakland in the early evening hours of July 23, 1999, was "a cold-blooded premeditated murder" and "a cruel, senseless, depraved and vicious act."



Goodman said the actions of DeMolle, who was 24 at the time and is now 33, were "predatory in nature" and were "shocking and callous beyond any civilized norm."

At the end of the guilt phase of DeMolle's trial on March 20, jurors convicted him of first-degree murder plus the special circumstances of murder during rape and murder while committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14.

The same jurors recommended the death penalty May 3 after about four days of deliberations.

In his closing argument in the penalty phase of the trial, James Giller, one of two attorneys for DeMolle, asked jurors to spare his life because he's "a caring individual."

Giller said DeMolle hasn't been convicted of any other crimes and the only evidence prosecutors presented of other bad acts by DeMolle were a fight when he was 15 years old and a threat he made against a construction worker in a parking lot confrontation when he was 23.

No charges were filed for either incident.

Jaquita was mainly raised by her aunt in Newark but was spending part of the summer of 1999 with her parents in East Oakland.

Brouhard told jurors in the guilt phase of the trial that she went bicycling late in the afternoon of July 23, 1999, and DeMolle, who lived nearby, spotted her and lured her into his apartment in East Oakland by promising she could play video games.

Brouhard said DeMolle, who has a wife and a young daughter, touched Jaquita all over her body and "the purpose of touching this girl was to get his sexual jollies with her."

The prosecutor said DeMolle killed Jaquita after raping her because he didn't want to get caught, telling police, "I didn't want to be behind bars the rest of my life."

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Prosecutor describes 'utter terror' in 11-year-old's rape, slaying