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September 11, 2015
Melissa Huggins-Jones had come to Raleigh two years ago to start a new life.
The mother of two was newly divorced in 2013 and had been given an opportunity by the bank she worked for in Tennessee to manage its first out-of-state branch.
In early May 2013, Huggins-Jones moved into an apartment complex off Six Forks Road near North Hills. She selected it, friends and family have said, because she thought it was safe.
Her daughter Olivia, 8 at the time, moved with her, and her son, then 12, stayed behind in Tennessee with his father to finish the school year there.
That new life of Huggins-Jones had barely begun when police say two men and a woman on a robbery spree robbed the 30-year-old mother of her future.
On Tuesday, in a Wake County Superior Court room packed with tearful onlookers, one of those men pleaded guilty to first-degree murder – ensuring himself a sentence of life in prison without parole instead of the death penalty that prosecutors held out as an option.
Ronald Lee Anthony Jr., 25, and an accomplice took turns stabbing and bludgeoning Huggins-Jones, prosecutors said.
Huggins-Jones, known as a dedicated mother and an active volunteer at the Tennessee church she had attended, awoke during the robbery, according to prosecutors, and Anthony and his accomplice killed her so she could not identify them.
Huggins-Jones’ body was discovered May 14, 2013, after her daughter sought help from a nearby construction crew.
A construction worker, who went inside the apartment with Olivia, described the scene to the emergency dispatcher who responded to the 911 call.
“There’s blood everywhere, ma’am,” the caller told the dispatcher. “She’s cold, cold as ice, ma’am, and I can’t … there is no pulse.”
