At 4:05 p.m. on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008, the Emergency Communications Center alerted Charlottesville Police officers that a stabbing had just occurred in the area of 2nd St. S.E. and Garrett St. at the entrance to Friendship Court.
Charlottesville Police officers arrived at the entrance to Friendship Ct. to find two victims of an apparent stabbing. The first victim, 20 year old Joshua Lee Gibson of Charlottesville was found lying on the ground. Gibson was treated by Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad and Charlottesville Fire department personnel at the scene and transported to the University of Virginia Medical Center. Gibson was pronounced dead at the University of Virginia Medical Center a short time later.
The second victim, a 44 year old Charlottesville resident was treated at the scene and transported to the University of Virginia Medical Center where he remains in a stable condition.
As the victims of this incident were being treated by Charlottesville rescue and fire personnel, Charlottesville police officers located the suspect in an apartment in Friendship Court. The suspect is identified as 26 year old Lamont Jermaine Blakey of Charlottesville. Blakey is charged with 1st Degree Murder and Malicious Wounding. The suspect is pictured below.Blakey is currently being held at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail with no bond.
Charlottesville Police detectives continue to investigate this incident to determine the precise circumstances of this stabbing. Initial investigation into the incident indicates the suspect and victims may have known each other.
Charlottesville Police detectives are asking for your help. If anyone has information about this incident please contact Crimestoppers at (434) 977-4000.
Lamont Jermaine Blakey
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Tagged as: Charlottesville, Crime, stabbing
damn, he looks like a pretty mean dude.
Did Scowly write this, is it a press release, or what?
Would everyone stop shooting and stabbing each other? Come on people. I wish everyone would stop having the guns and the knives and the weapons and duke out their problems wtih their fists like a real man.
I think friendship court is having a boy named sue complex.
i heard scowly is lazy and republishes stuff from press releases and anonymous birdies
I SWEAR he’s paid a cell phone bill at my store.
…but not recently.
/mc-fail
He’s got some kinda creepy viral lip-funk? Ought to have that looked at before it spreads to friends and family. Should keep him pretty safe in the cellblock, though, dontcha think?
Sub prime mortgage denizen. Oh, I’m sorry I mean low income I mean affordable housing beneficiary.
Victim of this cruel cruel world. I’m sure he was just misunderstood and was turning his life around. With the 12 baby mamas. And the herpes.
Man, some of you people are acting like jerks. This guy has allegedly committed a crime, and you’re all-in with the ad hominem. Even if the guy were found guilty, you would sound like douchenozzles with this level of character assassination. For shame.
Fine, fine, Stanley, we’ll wait until the trial is over…. funkiller.. oh, wait, I mean, oops.
@10 Hey most people who took personal shots at the accused can’t take it when you some kidding at then.
That’s what I’ve learned by lurking here.
ok. whoever does that soviet russia thing has GOT to take a shot @12
/will pay you
@10 Stanley, thanks for taking up the torch with this one. Was thinking the same thing. Once again, love that Cvillain is “making posts interesting to readers” by posting a shot of someone not yet convicted of a crime…and posting one of him in a prison jumpsuit is a nice touch. Way to take the high road.
@9 just shitty, seriously.
i hope the guy is innocent, but either way he should get that thing looked-at by a competent HMO or healthcare-network physician. eeeew.
and that’s NOT a prison jumpsuit. only halloween costume-burglars/prisoners wear black-n-white stripes. county pen wears orange i think, or some other tasteful monochrome. i think the B&W is mere fashion. I was wearing a black camel-hair blazer and a white pima-cotton shirt earlier this evening, with no felony-charges pending.
/adequately straddling the fence, gang?
ooh, “straddling” makes me think bad thoughts.
/donning hair shirt
and that’s NOT a prison jumpsuit. only halloween costume-burglars/prisoners wear black-n-white stripes
No, you’re wrong. That most emphatically is the outfit given to folks who appear in court via video in the Charlottesville courtroom located right off the playland of the downtown mall, and yes it’s problematic attire, and yes I think it’s stupid and discriminates against the innocent-till-proven-guilty, and yes I object to posting mugshots, unless cVillain got bought by the Drudge Report, in which case, it’s a lost cause.
@15 It’s a prison jumpsuit. When people are detained, that’s what they get. Once people are convicted, they get the orange ones.
@16
hmmmm… BP i’m suddenly not NEARLY as busy as i thought i was two seconds ago.
@17, 18
No sh*t? That’s, no joke, just WRONG. That’s basically a declaration that the guy’s been pre-judged guilty. i had NO idea. Effed up. You write an outraged letter yet? It’d be worth it.
@19 That’s not even the half of it. Often, criminal defendants appear before the court — and juries, when applicable — in full shackles (hands and feet) as well (depending on the charges, the mood of the sheriffs, etc.)
hope i’m never in wrong place at wrong time - thinking anyone would convict me on the spot in similar garb
yeah that’s pretty fucked. in my mind, due process gives a defendant the right to represent himself the way he chooses, in appearance as well as verbally. i also have a lot of bourbon in my mind right now, so i could be way off base.
@22: nah, you’re right. Drunk. And not in jail (apparently). But right.
@22
Nobody i’m sure would begrudge you the right to defend yourself wearing green tights, a festive red applique beard, a tam o’shanter and waving a blackthorn walking stick at the judge, sloshing your Guinness at the jurors with every gesture…
@ Stripey Suit and Bag-Marked-SWAG
All agreed that the jumpsuits are f*cked, i cannot help snarking that the Barry Manilow collar on the photographed exemplar is pretty fashion-forward.
Parlie:
I hate to be the one to point this out, but isn’t Garrett Square
(where the stabbing occurred) sorta near the IX building:
http://cvillain.com/2008/10/06/charlottesvilles-secret-parking-spots/#comment-86328
………………”i carry a knife, and hope i never have to use it.”
[do you from time-to-time wake up in the zoo covered in blood with a half-eaten sheep beside you?]
there should be a jail on the internet. like a place where you could send people that act like assholes… let them build their own economy with commodities like soap and cigarettes, and a vast array of skills like bullying, extortion, and illegal, violent sex acts. the moderators could just do whatever they like, and maybe sometimes help control the flow of narcotics, never forgetting to take a small finder’s fee.
it would be just like… the internet.
@26 or college.
ha yeah, college is jail for people who spend their days gazing longlingly through the window to their future through the bars of casual sex and the shackles of unbridled revelry, wishing for the promises of a future filled with mortgages, car maintenance, and the slow, nagging hum of the insecurity that says, “ya just have to work a little harder, then it’ll be ok.”
“the bars of casual sex” — like Blue Light, X-Lounge et al?
well played sir.
what? i’m just a little worried that, if there are them that are oh-so-offended that anyone of us could possibly find ourselves in this sort of position, wouldn’t we want to be treated with just a little dignity. attending college is such a privilege, that I really don’t get the reference…. soooo don’t think that this guy is a college student. Don’t believe that being accepted at UVA as a student gives anyone any free ride, but let’s face it folks, there are those who are not UVA students, who are challenged in so many, many ways, who find themselves the victim of their own bad choices. having grown up in this town, there are many, many different backgrounds at work, here. this guy could be innocent, but again, he could be soooo guilty. Sorry, but he looks the part.
out, gotta go, peace
this guy could be innocent, but again, he could be soooo guilty. Sorry, but he looks the part.
Yep. That did it. I’m checking out for awhile.
but either way he should get that thing looked-at by a competent HMO or healthcare-network physician. eeeew.
yeah because healthcare is SO affordable and everyone’s got it!
aaaw, man, that kind of came out wrong, didn’t mean anything racist or anything like that, he just doesn’t look all that warm, fuzzy
@33 For real, yo. Good call.
@35: Oh, would he be more warm and fuzzy if he were white and blonde?
@31
then again, you have the UVA kid who stabbed his fellow-athelete in the gym a few years back.
@33
with you on this. but it’s the stripey suit that does it. Parlie in that suit with his knife-quote in form of a tattoo on his forehead would look just as guilty.
@34
the health department or the CDC then, maybe? I think that thing has actually GROWN overnight.
Why does everything have to be racial? That is a picture of a mean looking dude.
Quit being so Jesse Jackson.
@39
someone must’ve thought he was a cutie and not so mean,
else how would he have got that flesh-eating STD boil on his lip?
Jesus, people. I should just be like Stanley and not even go there anymore. Maybe that picture is not of a “mean-looking dude” or someone who “looks the part,” but of someone who did nothing but got hassled by cops and arrested, charged with a serious violent crime, taken to the station, questioned for a long time, put in a jumpsuit and then had his picture taken. Put yourself in that situation and then take an imaginary look in the mirror at what your expression might be if some cop took your picture.
Just consider, entertain the idea that something like this might be true:
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/118/March05/KangFTX.pdf
ok, done.
Maybe maybe maybe. Hypotheses aside, it’s just rude to take someone’s mug shot and post it up on the internet so people can gawk at the photo and make all kinds of ridiculous assumptions. And it in this case, it was a little “racial”. The guy was described as looking guilty or mean because he’s an unhappy looking black dude.
perhaps best bet would be to delete the Post and comments in entirety.
while it lasts, though, non-racist humor or earnest concern about crime also avoiding discussion of race and stereotyping, might be the best bet. added to over-arching subtext reminder of innocent-til-proven-guilty, etc.
i think i read that 40% of students who go to UVA health center do so with suspicion or evidence of STDs. Since 1/3 of Cville’s population is UVA studentry, and given the aggressive STD lip-funk pictured above, there is a (do the math for me, wouldja?) X-percent chance this guy is a UVA student, a Y-percent chance the guy is a Darden student or graduate, and a Z-percent chance the guy is actually Kyle, who was undergrad UVA Comm-school and consequently the suspicious STD-looking boil is MERELY a burn from Kyle’s seeeegar.
Could we return to the obvious and compelling evidence exonerating the guy above and pegging parlie for the crime?
1. parlie was shithouse drunk and failed to get laid, absenting alibi
2. parlie admitted to carrying a knife and frequenting this swanky part of town
3. parlie was not posting at the time and has no hobbies other than posting
4. parlie wears some kind of facial-furrage similar to that in the picture above
5. parlie has not denied memory-lapse which could have covered this stuff or eating whole sheep
6. parlie is a leprechaun, so could easily have hidden inside a mailbox to avoid police dragnet
7. with his handy pot-o-gold, parlie could have bribed investigating officers and the DA
Parlie is a stabbee, not a stabber.
@45
see @44 #1, above
parlie wasn’t “stabbing” much last nite, ho-ho-ho.
I think both you and parlie get equal amounts of “stabbing” in.
@47
is this based on personal observation, or some higher revelation (madame blavatsky?)
i get more ass than a toilet seat, as my detractors on this website have frequently asserted.
@37 NO, pink p.
and
@39 Thank you, stix.
/still trying to remove foot from mouth…back of hands still smartin’
@42 I agree, but it’s certainly classic cvillain.
See also: http://cvillain.com/2008/07/21/another-shooting/
http://cvillain.com/2008/07/28/uva-footballers-in-trouble-with-the-lawagain/
http://cvillain.com/2008/03/28/first-suspect-arrested-in-interstate-64-shootings-myspace-page-and-more/
-to name a few. All with pics of people wearing prison jumps. All providing endless snarky entertainment and more hits!
Yeah, I’ve never been in favor of those. I think there’s also one where a Hispanic man was arrested with cocaine in Belmont and a huge photo of him was put up there.
On the other hand, if you’re a public figure, like a football player and you do something goofy like try to steal beer from the club, we should be allowed to joke.
or if we’re making earnest and concerned medical recommendations.
cvillains are nothing if not caring and health-conscious, in ourselves or in others.
get that thing looked at!!!!
Cville Weekly, bastion of journalistic integrity and friend to the disenfranchised and sensationalist, nudist, communist, also printed this poor guy’s photo… so Cvillain is off the hook, a bit.
@53 or just part of a somewhat questionable herd.
Let’s not bring republicans into this thread 26 world.
@53
they printed it right next to the tiniest little heart-pendant photo of Kyle saying ‘brother, can you spare a dime’.