A 2001 murder, committed in Asheboro, NC in Randolph County that could've only been described as a "butcher job," was determined by DA Garland Yate's Chief ADA, Andy Gregson, as a justifiable homicide, resulting from an act of self defense. The knife, alleged to have belonged to the victim, Daniel Brown, was described by Detective Scott Maness of the Asheboro PD as a pocket knife. The medical examiner's report identified a large knife. These facts were made known to Mark Brumley, a reporter for the Asheboro Courier Tribune in 2006, witnessed by the former Detective Gary Davis of the Randolph County Sheriff's Office. The medical examiner's report indicated Daniel Brown sustained 28 sharp force injuries. Various wounds, identified as non-fatal and rapidly fatal included one, described as large and gaping approximately 12" in length, wrapping around the left side of the chest from front to back with another, 4" in length that left the bowel exposed. One of three wounds, described as crescenteric, 2 1/2" in length, just above the right ear, resembling a "c," with a second, described as a 6" arrowhead shaped incised wound on the left side of the chest, with a third, described as an incised wound to the 1st and 2nd fingers on the left hand, exposing the bone on both fingers.

A gruesome murder, resulting in 28 wounds with two, identified as rapidly fatal, makes Chief ADA Gregson's determination of self-defense, questionable. 

 

Since the night of June 12, 2001, a killer was allowed to remain among the citizens of Asheboro, NC in Randolph County.

Another murder, precluding self defense, occurring in High Point, NC in Guilford County on October 2, 2004, took the life of Antonio Pryce by a High Point police officer. Mayor Becky Smothers and DA Doug Henderson learned new facts in this case in December 2008. These facts provided enough evidence for DA Henderson to re-open an investigation into the final investigative report, the SBI submitted to the former DA Stuart Albright, who relied upon the report to determine justifiable homicide by a police officer. To date, the facts continue to be concealed from the citizens in High Point and Guilford County by Mayor Smothers and DA Henderson.

In the aftermath of a scandal inside the SBI crime lab, the actions of Mayor Smothers and DA Henderson to conceal new evidence, involving possible errors by the SBI, should be held accountable for any shadow cast on the offices of the mayor and district attorney. 

Murder isn't barred in this state by the statute of limitations, therefore, new evidence showing a different outcome would've occurred if the evidence had been available, warrants the district attorney to re-open an investigation. Has this been done? No! Is it because a new investigation would expose the persons who were responsible for keeping the facts of this murder from the citizens in High Point and Guilford County!