Duct Tape Murder Suspect Jailed

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Marietta, Georgia
10/24/2007

A man Marietta police said is behind a robbery that left a video game store manager dead, was expected to appear in front of a judge on Wednesday evening.

The Game Stop on Cobb Parkway is still closed and flowers are gathering in front of the entrance in memory of store manager Matthew Cherry….
MURDERED VIDEO STORE MANAGER
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By the time Marietta police interviewed Patrick Graham, 34, and transported him to the Cobb County Jail early Wednesday morning, they believed they had the goods on him. Graham was picked up shortly after midnight at an apartment complex on South Cobb Drive….
PATRICK GRAHAM & POLICE
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Graham is charged with murdering Game Stop manager Matthew Cherry by wrapping duct tape around his head, cutting off his breathing, forcing him to suffocate. A co-worker and the co-worker's father were tied up with duct tape but not gagged.

This was an important arrest for Marietta police. Remember, they had to watch the video inside the store that showed how Matthew Cherry died. Though many people have the impression the suspect unintentionally smothered Cherry, police said it was no accident -- that Graham was in the store while Cherry died.

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Case closed by the amerikwan jewdicial system. Nigger mumbles it did it and kwans say they won't kill it. The nigger is on video robbing the store, so the only thing I can think is that the actual murder was not recorded. Why else would they cut a deal with this nigger?


Nigger admits to killing White Man


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COBB COUNTY, Ga. —

A man nigger pleaded guilty Tuesday in what prosecutors call the tortuous murder of a Marietta store manager.

Prosecutors Kwans were surprised, saying the killer, Patrick Graham, has never cooperated or shown remorse. In court, he muttered few words when he made his plea. It keeps him off death row but will send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Graham admitted to robbing the Marietta GameStop store in 2007 and accosting store manager Matthew Cherry, a 21-year-old Kennesaw State student, at gunpoint. Cherry, a co-worker and the co-worker's father were forced into a back room.

Graham later brought Cherry back out to clean out the cash register, and even though he cooperated, Graham beat him and tightly wrapped duct tape around his head.

“The medical examiner's conclusion was the victim was beaten and bound and was suffocated, and this was a slow and tortuous death, lasting at a minimum a minute and a half, but potentially minutes before he passed from the duct tape being placed around his head and neck,” Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Jesse Evans said.

Graham kept his head bowed and eyes closed as the prosecutor told the judge in detail what had happened that night. The case so affected the Marietta Police Department that many who worked on the case came to see the final chapter closed.

But for Matthew Cherry's family and the other victims, it was too painful to come to court and re-live that night.

“As he summarized what had happened that day, it all came flooding back, but I just hope that brings some closure to the families,” Detective Jonnie Moeller said.



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(error in story, not M.S. post)

Torturous vs. tortuous

Torturous, with two r’s, means of, related to, or causing torture. It’s easy to remember because it contains the word torture. Tortuous means having or marked by repeated turns or bends. Some of its synonyms are twisted, complex, winding, and complicated.

Some tortuous things might feel torturous, and some torturous things involve tortuous twisting or straining, and in these senses the words share common ground, but they are far from interchangeable. Torturous refers to the pain or agony involved in something, and tortuous emphasizes its twisting or complex nature.

A third similar word, tortious, is sometimes confused with tortuous. Tortious means of or relating to tort (i.e. damage, injury, or a wrongful act done willfully, negligently, or in circumstances involving liability).

Examples

Delphine LaLaurie and her husband Leonard, performed nightmarish and torturous surgery on their slaves in their Royal Street house in the 1830′s. [South Dakota Politics]

Investors fear Spain has not learnt the lessons of the tortuous restructuring of banks in Ireland … [Financial Times]

He made many mistakes and rendered his final journey torturous because he and his colleagues hauled their own sledges … [Telegraph]

They have forged ahead on this tortuous journey to get their dream bookstore built. [Valley Sun]

Few things in life are more torturous than losing a loved one to Alzheimer’s disease. [Star News Online]

But the path to the referendum promises to be tortuous. [New York Times]

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