Neighbor who ‘shot Cannon Hinnant’, 5, while he was riding his bike ‘will face the death penalty’, Nancy Grace predicts
A NEIGHBOR who allegedly fatally shot Cannon Hinnant as the five-year-old was riding his bike will “face the death penalty”, predicts crime pundit Nancy Grace.
She was speaking on Fox News about Darius Nathaniel Sessoms, 25, who has been charged with murdering the North Carolina boy.
The dad said he never had any confrontations with Sessoms.
"There wasn't anything between me and him, any bad blood whatsoever, for him to have a reason to do this."
After the killing, Sessoms is alleged to have run back to his house and then fled.
He was apprehended in Goldsboro by members of the US Marshals Service.
Doris Lybrand, who witnessed the shooting, told the outlet Sessoms ran up to the boy, put the gun near his head and fired before running back into his house.
“My first reaction was he’s playing with the kids. For a second, I thought, ‘that couldn’t happen.’ People don’t run across the street and kill kids,” she told the outlet.
Lybrand said she realized the gun was real when she saw Cannon's father’s reaction to the shooting.
She quickly went inside her home, locked the door and tried to call 911.
“You don’t expect to see somebody shoot someone,” she added.
Sessoms has been charged with first-degree murder and his being held without bond, he is due in court on August 25.
Bonny Waddell, the boy's heartbroken mother, took to Facebook to express her grief.
“This was not just because my baby was riding a bike!” wrote the grieving mother. “Don’t let this social media and news fool you!”