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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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