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On April 26, 1987, Kerrick Majors, a 14-year-old African-American boy, was tortured and murdered by three white drifters during a racially motivated hate crime in East Nashville, Tennessee. Majors was attacked by the trio after he and his friends accidentally broke a $2 vase at a flea market.
- c. 1972, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
- April 26, 1987 (aged 14), East Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Jul 6, 1999 · Middlebrooks was sentenced to death twice for the murder of Kerrick Majors. His first sentence was overturned by the Court in 1992 because one of two aggravating factors found by jurors - that the victim was killed in the commission of a felony - duplicated the offense of felony murder and failed to narrow the class of death-eligible defendants ...
Aug 8, 2023 · 08/08/2023. Donald Middlebrooks was sentenced to death by the State of Tennessee for the murder of Kerrick Majors. According to court documents Donald Middlebrooks would kidnap fourteen year old Kerrick Majors who would be tortured and murdered. Donald Middlebrooks would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Table of Contents.
Jul 6, 1999 · Middlebrooks by his own admission fully participated in the capture of Kerrick Majors and in the infliction of severe physical and mental pain to the victim by acts of unimaginable cruelty, despite the young victim's pleas for his life.
Nov 29, 2023 · Fraulein Motte. ·. Follow. 8 min read. ·. Nov 29, 2023. -- 4. On April 26, 1987, 14-year-old Kerrick L. Majors was abducted. The next day he was found dead in a grassy lot behind a Walgreens in...
Dec 19, 2016 · Justia Opinion Summary. In April 1987, witnesses saw Middlebrooks and Brewington chase Majors, a 14-year-old black male. The next day, Majors’ body was found near where that incident had occurred. Majors had been tortured. Brewington led police to a bloodstained knife and to Middlebrooks, who resisted arrest.
Jan 13, 2022 · Forensic examiners confirmed that Kerrick suffered unimaginable horrors: One of the stab wounds had penetrated his left lung and pulmonary artery, meaning that Kerrick likely bled to death over a period of ten to thirty minutes after staying conscious through the hours before.
