Friday, January 30, 2015

Gadsden man pleads guilty in Anniston robbery

Brandon Hawkins
A 24 year old Gadsden man pleaded guilty Thursday in Calhoun County to robbing a gas station at gunpoint in 2011, just five days after prosecutors allege that he and another man shot to death a restaurant worker in a separate robbery.
Brandon Vontez Hawkins, pleaded guilty in Calhoun County Circuit Judge Bud Turner’s courtroom to first-degree robbery in connection with a Sept. 16, 2011, holdup at gunpoint of the HR’s Food Mart on Clydesdale Ave. in Anniston.
Anniston police have said that a fingerprint found on a pistol left at that store belonged to Hawkins, who had been arrested before.
Calhoun County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Weems said Hawkins pleaded without any plea agreement between Hawkins and prosecutors.
Weems said his sentencing on the robbery conviction will have to wait, however, until after his trial for a charge of capital murder, which is to take place in August.
Hawkins and another man, 21 year old Donquavious Russell, of Hobson City, both are charged with capital murder in the shooting death of 56 year old Barbara Exum,  on Sept. 9, 2011. Exum was the assistant manager at the Papa John’s on Snow Street in Oxford the day the pizza shop was robbed.

Both Hawkins and Russell were in the Calhoun County Jail on Thursday awaiting trials. Both men were being held without bond.

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