Is baby-faced 15 year-old Sharell Butler a coldblooded murderer? That remains to be proven in a court of law, but the details are grisly and very disturbing. Butler, also known as “Lady Red,” has been arrested in the stabbing death of John Hopkins Drago. His dismembered body was found stuffed in a garbage bag in the Bronx.
Butler, of the Bronx, was also charged with second-degree murder and robbery in a Dec. 19 home invasion that led to the fatal shooting of Christopher Umpierrie, 24, whom she and another suspect had intended to rob. He was shot in the chest after Butler tried to steal marijuana and cash from him. Law enforcement is going to sock it to her. She will be tried as an adult in both crimes. They ought to lock her parents up for failing miserably in their roles as parents. They seemed to have raised a thug.
Butler was led into a Bronx courtroom Saturday wearing a bandage on her right hand, an oversized white T-shirt and a blank expression on her face as family members looked on.
Butler, a lanky alleged gang member with unkempt poufy hair, was picked out of a lineup by witnesses in one of the crimes and identified by another witness from a photo array for the other murder, said prosecutor Jaimee Nadell said. “She’s a 15-year-old girl,” said Butler’s lawyer Xavier Donaldson, who denied allegations that Butler was involved in the Bloods gang. “She’s scared. She’s just a kid.” Source: NY Daily News
I get so angry when people talk about these alleged criminals in such glowing terms. She’s a thug who was on a dangerous path to sure destruction. Hopkins Drago, 22, who had a history of drug arrests, was estranged from his family and had not been reported missing. Police sources said last week that he had been stabbed at least 40 to 50 times inside a first-floor apartment of a Pelham Parkway building.
She had help. Robert Pastore, 19, was in custody but has not been charged, police said. Police said that they believe Pastore and Butler may have killed Hopkins Drago as revenge for talking to police about a robbery Pastore had been arrested for last year.
“We’re going on the theory that he was killed because they thought he was a snitch,” said a police source, who said Pastore was being held on a statutory rape charge and remains a person of interest in the Hopkins Drago murder. Source: NY Daily News
Here’s my parting question, where is this girl’s parents and what type of life did they offer her? Something went terribly wrong for this young girl and it is a shame that she is now faced with life imprisonment for this heinous crime.
Filed under: Bronx, Christopher Umpierrie, Gang, John Hopkins Drago, Murder and Dismemberment, Sharell Butler, Teenager
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