Thread: 2 Teens, 12-Year-Old Charged in Durham Slaying

2 Teens, 12-Year-Old Charged in Durham Slaying


DURHAM, N.C. December 30, 2012 (AP)

Two teenagers and a 12-year-old girl have been charged in the shooting death of a North Carolina man during a carjacking.

Investigators say the three approached 35-year-old Johnny Danilo Villatoro of Durham on Friday night and asked him for a ride before carjacking and shooting him. Authorities found Villatoro lying in the street, and he later died at a hospital.

Police say the 12-year-old suspect accidentally shot herself in the stomach and leg while inside Villatoro's car. She was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries and was expected to survive.

Authorities say the 12-year-old and two other suspects, ages 14 and 16, are being charged with murder. It wasn't known if any of them had attorneys or when they would appear in court.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/teens-12-year-charged-durham-slaying-18091374

Published: Dec 29, 2012 01:43 PM
Modified: Dec 29, 2012 02:40 PM

Two teens and 12-year-old charged with murder

Justino Navarette Maya, 16, of 311 S. LaSalle St. in Durham, is charged with murder. Durham Police Department

By Thomasi McDonald, tmcdonald@newsobserver.com
DURHAM - A man was shot and killed Friday night after giving three young people a ride to a northern Durham neighborhood.

Investigators say Johnny Danilo Villatoro, 35, of Durham, was the victim of a carjacking and the fatal shooting.

Police have charged three youths, including two juveniles with murder.

One of them is a 12-year-old girl from Raleigh who accidentally shot herself in the leg and abdomen while inside the Villatoro’s car, police said.

Investigators found her at about 7:30 p.m. on Channing Court. She is being treated at a local hospital for injuries that do not appear to be life threatening.

Two teens, Justino Navarette Maya, 16, of 311 S. LaSalle St. and a 14-year-old girl from Raleigh have also been charged.

Police took Maya to the Durham County jail where he is being held without bail. The 14--year-old girl was arrested Saturday morning and has been placed in a Wake County juvenile facility, police reported.

Investigators have not yet said who fired the shots that ended Villatoro’s life.

The homicide occurred Friday night on Firth Street, but investigators say the teens first encountered Villatoro shortly after 7 p.m. on Avondale Drive, where they asked him for a ride.

Once Villatoro had driven the teens to Firth Street, investigators say they carjacked his sports utility vehicle and shot him, police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said.

Police found Villatoro’s stolen SUV abandoned behind an apartment building on Channing Court

Investigators do not think that Villatoro knew the teens, Michael saidPolice are asking anyone with further information to call Investigator S.M. Pate at 919-560-4440, ext. 29332 or CrimeStoppers at 919-683-1200. CrimeStoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in felony cases and callers never have to identify themselves.

McDonald: 919-829-4533

http://www.thedurhamnews.com/2012/12/29/214246/two-teens-and-12-year-old-charged.html

12-Year-Old Charged In Carjacking Slaying


Posted: December 29, 2012





Durham, NC – Johnny Danilo Villatoro, 35, was shot and left for dead during a carjacking shortly before 7 pm on Friday. Allegedly he was approached by three youths who asked for a ride. Although he did not know the teens, he gave them a ride, and was shot and carjacked shortly thereafter. Police found him lying in the street. Villatoro died at the hospital. He was married and a father of three.

Carjacking is the crime of attempting or completing the act of taking another individual’s motor vehicle against their will and with the intent of temporarily or permanently depriving them of their property. Carjacking is done in the presence of the motor vehicle owner through the means of force and or fear. All fifty states and the federal government have carjacking laws. The federal government passed an armed carjacking law in 1992. In 1992, Congress passed a law making it a federal crime to use a weapon to steal a motor vehicle. Death that results from a carjacking is a considered a capital crime under federal law.

Therefore, those involved in this case may all be charged with felony murder, regardless of who may have shot and killed Villatoro. Felony murder is when a person is killed during the commission of a felony, even if they had not intended the death, charging all involved in the crime.

North Carolina’s Felony Murder Law § 14-17 is defined: A murder, both first and second degree, perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of any arson, rape or a sex offense, robbery, kidnapping, burglary, or other felony committed or attempted with the use of a deadly weapon shall be deemed to be murder in the first degree, a Class A felony. Any person who commits such murder shall be punished with death or imprisonment in the State’s prison for life without parole. Any such person who was under 17 years of age at the time of the murder shall be punished with imprisonment in the State’s prison for life without parole.

NBC News shares that Durham Police have charged 16-year-old Justino Navarette Maya, and two younger girls aged 12 and 14, with murder. Investigators note that the 12-year-old suspect had accidentally shot herself in the stomach and leg, while in the victim’s SUV. Her injuries are not considered life-threatening. Officers found her not long after the carjacking. The vehicle was discovered behind an apartment complex nearby.

Relatives are expressing outrage over the crime, bewildered how these kids were able to get their hands on a firearm.

Twelve is certainly a shocking age for such a crime, but earlier this year Detroit police were looking for a 10-year-old suspect in connection to a carjacking, along with his 16-year-old accomplice.


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