6 indicted in torturing and killing of 21-year-old Alishah Pointer

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — Editor’s be aware: the video within the participant above is from a earlier story.

Six suspects have been indicted on fees in connection to the loss of life of 21-year-old Alishah Pointer, who was killed and tortured in East Cleveland final November.

All six suspects — Hakeem Ali Shomo, Anthony Bryant, Brittany Smith, Future Henderson, Portria Williams, and Nathaniel Poke, Jr. — had beforehand been arrested within the weeks following Pointer’s kidnapping and killing in November. On Tuesday, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley introduced the next indictments for the suspects, whose ages vary from 18-33:

Portria Williams and Hakeem-Ali Shomo:

• Two counts of Aggravated Homicide
• Three counts of Homicide
• Two counts of Felonious Assault
• 5 counts of Kidnapping
• One rely of Conspiracy
• One rely of Having Weapons Whereas Beneath Incapacity

Future Henderson, Nathaniel Poke Jr., Anthony Bryant, and Brittany Smith:

• Two counts of Aggravated Homicide
• Three counts of Homicide
• Two counts of Felonious Assault
• 5 counts of Kidnapping
• One rely of Conspiracy

In keeping with the prosecutor’s workplace, it’s believed that Williams, Henderson, Poke, and Shomo drove to a residence close to Glenmont Street and Superior Street in East Cleveland on Nov. 4. As soon as there, Henderson and Shomo, who was armed with a gun, allegedly compelled two feminine victims, 25 and 21, to get inside their automobile and take them to Pointer’s location.

Williams, Henderson, Poke, and Shomo proceeded to drive to Pointer’s location earlier than luring her out of the residence and taking her to a different location at gunpoint. The primary two victims have been in the end launched.

Pointer was then transported to Williams’ residence, the place she was held into the next day. Smith and Bryant arrived and Poke left, with Shomo, Smith, and Bryant bodily assaulting Pointer in an effort to achieve info associated to their pal’s loss of life.

Afterward, Shomo left, with Henderson, Smith, Williams, and Bryant forcing Pointer inside their automobile earlier than driving her to an deserted residence close to Savannah Avenue and Manhattan Avenue in East Cleveland. Contained in the residence, Williams and Bryant allegedly fired a number of photographs on the Pointer, who was discovered deceased by the East Cleveland Police Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Nov. 9.