Stuff Black People Don’t Like
November 11, 2015
Freddie Kruger isn’t real.
Pinhead isn’t real.
Jason Voorhees isn’t real.
Zombies aren’t real.
But a black guy, a professed member of the Bloods gang, who put on a Michael Myers mask and then murdered a white deliveryman is reality. [The killing that linked a Halloween mask, a Chinese food order and a frozen gun, Indy Star, 11-9-15]:
On the night of Nov. 3, the phone rang at a Far-Eastside Chinese restaurant and an order was placed:
General Tso’s Chicken, two orders of chicken wings, some shrimp fried rice and a couple of 2-liters of soda.
These would be the last items Mark Miller would ever deliver. An hour later, he would be shot dead.
Prosecutors have charged Peter James Hutchings Jr., 25, and Terri Williams, 17, with Miller’s slaying. Williams is being charged as an adult.
Police found Miller, 27, dead inside his black Ford truck shortly after 10 p.m. after being dispatched to the 2200 block of Windsong Drive on a report of shots fired in the area and a vehicle that had crashed into an apartment building.
Witnesses told detectives that they saw a few people hanging around outside the apartment building on Windsong before the shooting, and that at least two of the individuals had donned masks before shots were fired at Miller’s truck.
To track down possible suspects, investigators said they simply used the number that called in the food order to the China King at 8654 E. Washington St., according to a probable cause affidavit.
The restaurant’s owner told police that he had received another order from that same number on Oct. 30, and that the food was delivered to an apartment in the 9700 block of Shoreland Lane.
Detectives visited the Shoreland Lane apartment, which was leased by Hutchings’ father, and found Hutchings and Williams inside. Hutchings invited police inside to talk, and an investigator dialed the number used to order the Chinese food.
A cellphone on the coffee table in the living room of the apartment rang, court documents said.
During her interview with police, Williams said Hutchings is a captain in the Bloods gang, and that he planned the robbery. When Miller pulled up in front of the apartment building, she said, he opened the door to his truck to get out but then closed it, as if noticing something was wrong, court documents said.
Williams told police that Hutchings, who was wearing a Michael Myers Halloween mask at the time, fired a shot at Miller when he tried reversing and taking off. After the shooting, Hutchings and Williams ran back to Hutchings’ apartment on Shoreland, where he told her to hide the gun in the freezer.
When questioned about the incident, Hutchings changed his story multiple times, according to court documents. He finally acknowledged being at the scene when the shooting occurred but said the gun was fired by another man who was a friend of a friend.
Police recovered the Michael Myers mask by a trash bin on Windsong and a .380 Cobra handgun in the freezer in Hutchings’ apartment.
Hutchings and Williams face charges of murder, attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury and conspiracy to commit robbery. Hutchings also faces charges of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, carrying a handgun without a license and two counts (one felony and one misdemeanor) of carrying a handgun without a license.
In 2009, Hutchings was convicted of robbery. He was released from prison earlier this year.
“Getting this person off the street hopefully means that another mother doesn’t have to get the call at 1 o’clock in the morning that their son is gone,” Miller’s mother, Julie Gardner, told The Indianapolis Star days after the shooting.
Though not one employee at the Indianapolis Star, Fox 59 Indy, WTHR (NBC Indianapolis), WISH-TV (CBS Indianapolis), or RTV6 (ABC Indianapolis) has ever contacted the office of Indianapolis Public Safety and requested data on the suspects/victims of homicides in Indianapolis, SBPDL did.
And for 2015 (January 1 – November 8), these important facts have been reported the Indianapolis Public Safety:
- 125 homicides in Indianapolis
- 36 of the incidents have a black victim/black suspect
- 4 of the incidents have a black victim/white suspect
- 55 of the incidents have a black victim/no suspect (thanks no snitching!!)
- 14 of the incidents have a white victim/black suspect
- 17 of the incidents have a white victim/white suspect
- 4 of the incidents have a white victim/no suspect
So of the 125 homicides, four of the homicides had a white suspect/black victim, while 14 had a white victim/black suspect.
Pretty big story, considering the city of Indianapolis is a majority white city.
But like the horror story ending to Mark Miller’s life, it’s just not one many people want to explore.