Cleveland, OH
Trial date set for 6 charged in torture, murder of 22-year-old woman in East Cleveland
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A trial date was set Friday for the six suspects charged within the kidnapping, torture and homicide of Alishah Pointer, 22.
The defendants are Anthony Bryant, 19; Hakeem Ali Shomo, 31; Nathaniel Poke Jr., 23; Future Henderson, 18; Portria Williams, 31; and Brittany Smith, 33.
Court docket data present their trial is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. on Dec. 12 within the Cuyahoga County Court docket of Frequent Pleas.
In late Might, all six had been indicted on further expenses by the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury.
Pointer’s physique was discovered on Nov. 9, 2021 within the basement of a burned out deserted house within the 14500 block of Savannah Avenue in East Cleveland.
Williams, Poke, Bryant, Shomo and Smith are all being held on a $2 million bond on the Cuyahoga County Jail.
Henderson is being held with out bond on the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Heart.
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In line with courtroom paperwork, on Nov. 4, 2021, Williams, Henderson, Poke and Shomo drove to a house close to Glenmont and Superior Roads in East Cleveland and compelled two girls to get into their automobile at gunpoint.
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The 4 suspects then allegedly had the feminine victims take them to Pointer’s location.
As soon as at Pointer’s location, the suspects lured her into their car.
The Cuyahoga County prosecutor stated after releasing their first two kidnapping victims, the suspects drove Pointer to Williams’ house and held her into the subsequent day.
Whereas there, Smith and Bryant arrived and Poke left, based on paperwork.
Shomo, Smith and Bryant then allegedly bodily assaulted Pointer as a way to achieve info associated to their buddy’s demise.
Shomo then allegedly left the house and Henderson, Smith, Williams and Bryant compelled Pointer into their car and drove her to an deserted house on Savannah Avenue.
After forcing her inside the home, Williams and Bryant fired a number of pictures at Pointer, based on courtroom paperwork.
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Henderson, Williams, Bryant and Smith then allegedly left the scene and went to Shomo’s house.
Williams and Shomo had been indicted on the next expenses:
*Two counts of aggravated homicide
*Three counts of homicide
*Two counts of felonious assault
*5 counts of kidnapping
*One depend of conspiracy
*One depend of getting weapons whereas beneath incapacity
Henderson, Poke, Bryant and Smith had been indicted on the next expenses:
*Two counts of aggravated homicide
*Three counts of homicide
*Two counts of felonious assault
*5 counts of kidnapping
*One depend of conspiracy
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