GUILTY OH - Lt. William Walker, 45, dies in contract killing, Cleveland, 3 Nov 2013

[OkieGranny]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/reward_boosted_to_12000_in_sla.html

Tipsters who help bring about an indictment in the killings of Lt. William Walker or Firefighter Theodore Wright could earn $12,000 from each case, Frank Szabo, president of Cleveland Firefighters Local 93, announced Tuesday.

Walker, 45, was shot multiple times in the chest. Someone ambushed the off-duty firefighter in November 2013 in the driveway of his Lampson Road home on the city's East Side...

Wright, Jr., 58, died in May 2014 after crashing his truck into utility pole on Claasen Avenue near East 71st Street. Police called to the scene found Wright, of North Royalton, had been shot before the 3 a.m. crash.

Past MSM coverage:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/11/hundreds_attend_vigil_for_slai.html

“He was a great firefighter and paramedic,” said Patrick Kelly, Cleveland’s interim fire chief. “I’m a better man for having known Will Walker.”

On Sunday, an unknown assailant shot 45-year-old Walker multiple times in the chest in the driveway of his Lampson Road home. Police on Thursday said there are no new developments in the case.

Walker is survived by his wife and two children. Uloma Curry, who Walker married in July, did not attend the candlelight vigil.

 

[rosie_lee]

Sara Goldenberg (@SaraGoldenberg): https://twitter.com/SaraGoldenberg?s=09

Court docs: Uloma Walker-Curry, wife of #Cleveland firefighter William Walker, charged with his paid-for-hire murder http://t.co/OfyqcpQ3ni

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Firefighter William Walker's wife hired a hit man.

 

[rosie_lee]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/09/wife_of_slain_cleveland_firefi.html

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The wife of slain Cleveland firefighter Lt. William Walker paid several people to murder her husband, according to a Cleveland Municipal Court charging document.

Police took Uloma Walker-Curry, 44, into custody Tuesday. She is charged with aggravated murder.

Walker, 45, was ambushed outside his East Side home on Nov. 3, 2013. He was shot several times in the chest before the gunman left in a car.

Walker-Curry, who was home at the time, made a frantic 911 call seconds after her husband was shot. (Listen to the entire recording here.)

Walker-Curry married the firefighter in July 2013.

 

[michmi]

Whoa...she marries him in July and by November he is dead. How sad for him.

 

[rosie_lee]

http://fox8.com/2015/09/09/wife-acc...eveland-firefighter-made-hysterical-911-call/

CLEVELAND- She played the mourning widow at his funeral and called 911 after he was shot. Now, the wife of Cleveland Fire Lt. William Walker has been charged after investigators said she plotted his murder.

Uloma Walker-Curry, 44, is charged with aggravated murder. Cleveland police officers arrested her Tuesday afternoon.
[...]
Then, in August, prosecutors charged Chad Padgett, 21, with aggravated murder in connection with Walker’s death. Investigators said Padgett had been dating Walker-Curry’s daughter and sent text messages seeking the gun that was used in the murder. Padgett pleaded not guilty. Investigators said more arrests could come.

More at link

 

[rosie_lee]

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-...urder-of-cleveland-firefighter-william-walker

CLEVELAND - The second person charged in the murder of an off-duty Cleveland fire lieutenant was his wife, court dockets confirm.

William Walker was gunned down on Cleveland's east side in 2013.

Uloma Walker-Curry was charged with aggravated murder in Walker's death, police confirmed Wednesday.

According to court documents from the Cleveland Municipal Court, Walker-Curry paid several men to murder her husband.
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Sounds like she will be staying in jail for a while.

 

[rosie_lee]

Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylor19): https://twitter.com/ScottTaylor19?s=09

4 indicted for Aggravated Murder for roles in November 2013 slaying of Cleveland firefighter Lt. William Walker. http://t.co/oUokbLnmHS

 

[rosie_lee]

http://www.cleveland.com/court-just...l?hootPostID=ecf01038f057a8fbdb6f8d3c7eb72ac2

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Four people were indicted Monday in the 2013 murder of Cleveland firefighter William Walker, including Walker's wife.

Uloma Walker-Curry, 44, had been committing financial fraud in her husband's name and hired someone to kill him, according to a statement from the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office.

Prosecutors contend that Walker-Curry was nervous that her husband would find out about her actions and incorrectly assumed that she could get money from his life insurance policy to pay for her debts.

She first reached out to Chad Padgett, her daughter's boyfriend, who recruited his cousin, Christopher Hein, who in turn hired Ryan Dorty to perform the hit, according to the statement. The four face charges of aggravated murder, murder, conspiracy, and felonious assault.

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According to the prosecutor's office, a flurry of text messages from the night of the murder shows the men searching for a gun, which they refer to as a "ham." Another text message talks about when Walker was expected to get home. And a series of final texts were sent after the shooting, including one that said "We gotta body," prosecutors say.

More at link...

 

[rosie_lee]

http://fox8.com/2015/09/17/four-charged-in-murder-of-cleveland-firefighter-to-appear-in-court/

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Four suspects indicted in the murder of Cleveland firefighter William Walker will appear in court this morning.

Uloma Walker-Curry, 44; Chad X. Padgett, 21; Christopher N. Hein, 22; and Ryan L. Dorty, 23, are charged with aggravated murder, murder, conspiracy and felonious assault. A juvenile is also listed as a co-conspirator.

Walker-Curry, the victim’s wife, was arrested on Sept. 8 while Padgett was taken into custody last month.

More at link

 

[SurfieTX]

One of Walker-Curry’s three children, a daughter who asked to only be referred to by her first name, spoke with FOX 8 about the arrest. Jessica said she actually moved out of state years ago because of her rocky relationship with her mother.

She called her mom hurtful and a pathological liar, but said she never imagined she could also be a cold-hearted killer.

“I cannot, I cannot even think how this is possible,” Jessica said. “But I wouldn’t put it past her. I’m so disgusted. I’m hurt… The way she performed at the funeral... I feel really really bad.”

Jessica didn’t know her sisters boyfriend, who is also charged in the case, but met him at the funeral and described him as unemotional and detached. She isn’t sure if she will contact her mother in jail, and said right now her thoughts and prayers are with the Walker family.

http://fox8.com/2015/09/09/wife-acc...eveland-firefighter-made-hysterical-911-call/

 

[Kip]

I find it incredibly depressing that not one of the four men arrested reported the murder plot to LE.

 

[rosie_lee]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/04/woman_admits_to_helping_set_up.html

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 19-year-old woman admitted Thursday*to participating in a murder-for-hire plot involving Cleveland firefighter.*

The woman, who was 17 at the time of the killing, pleaded guilty to delinquency charges in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court in the August 2013 slaying of Lt. William Walker.

Prosecutors said Walker's wife, Uloma Walker-Curry, had her husband killed to cover up financial fraud she committed in his name.

Walker-Curry was nervous that her husband would find out about her actions and incorrectly assumed that she could get money from his life insurance policy to pay for her debts, prosecutors say.

According to court filings:

Walker-Curry gave the then-17-year-old girl cash. The girl gave the money to her boyfriend, Chad Padgett. He*recruited his cousin, Christopher Hein, who in turn hired another man, Ryan Dorty, to perform the killing.*

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Investigators uncovered a flurry of text messages from the night of the murder that show the men searching for a gun, which they referred to as a "ham," according to court records. Another text message talks about when Walker was expected to get home.

A final series of texts were sent after the shooting, including one that said "We gotta body," prosecutors say.

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The teenager is not scheduled to be sentenced until after Walker-Curry, Padgett, Hein and Dorty face trial or enter pleas. Such an arrangement usually means a co-defendant has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Suspect in Cleveland firefighter's death pleads guilty - June

http://www.cleveland19.com/story/32335857/4-face-aggravated-murder-charges-in-cleveland-firefighter-william-walkers-death-ryan-l-dorty

One of the four adults charged in the murder of Cleveland Firefighter William Walker in November 2013 plead guilty to aggravated murder Wednesday.

Ryan Dorty was the hired gunman.

Dorty is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2014 of an unrelated aggravated robbery in which he used a gun.

He'll be sentenced on the new charges August 10.

Can't find anything on Dorty being sentenced or the trial dates for the other co-defendants.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Man pleads guilty in Cleveland firefighter's murder-for-hire plot

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/11/man_pleads_guilty_in_cleveland.html

A 23-year-old Cleveland man has agreed to serve 28 years in prison for serving as a middleman in the 2013 murder-for-hire plot of his girlfriend's stepfather, a veteran Cleveland firefighter.

Cuyahoga County prosecutors reduced an aggravated murder charge against Chad Padgett to involuntary manslaughter in exchange for his testimony at trial in the Nov. 3, 2013 slaying of Cleveland Fire Lt. William Walker.

Padgett accepted the deal on Monday and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy, aggravated robbery and kidnapping charges before Common Pleas Judge Matthew McMonagle.

Padgett, Dorty and the daughter all agreed to testify against Curry and Hein, and will be formally sentenced following their testimony.

Hein and Curry have maintained their innocence in court filings and continue to fight the charges. They are scheduled to face trial in February.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Final co-defendant agrees to testify against Cleveland firefighter's widow accused of soliciting his death

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/06/final_co-defendant_agrees_to_t_1.html

The last remaining middle man charged in the murder-for-hire plot of a veteran Cleveland firefighter struck a plea deal Wednesday that will see him serve 18 years in prison.

By doing so, Christopher Hein became the fourth and final co-defendant to turn against Uloma Curry-Walker in what prosecutors call the hired hit of Curry-Walker's husband, Lt. William Walker.

The agreement came hours after jury selection was set to begin in the trial of Curry-Walker and Hein on aggravated murder and conspiracy charges in Walker's Nov 3, 2013 slaying.

 

[rosie_lee]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/06/wife_of_slain_cleveland_firefi_2.html



Updated on June 26, 2017 at 3:15 PM
Posted on June 26, 2017 at 3:14 PM

BY CORY SHAFFER, CLEVELAND.COM
CShaffer@cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Uloma Curry-Walker offered her daughter's boyfriend $10,000 to kill her veteran Cleveland firefighter husband, then left her husband's cremated remains behind in his car and moved to North Carolina after the deed was done, prosecutors said.

Lt. William Walker's ashes were found by Cleveland police in the back of Walker's car in a J.D. Byrider car lot after the car was repossessed, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Blaise Thomas told jurors Monday during opening statements in Curry-Walker's murder-conspiracy trial.

Curry-Walker, who sat motionless in a patterned dress with a black blazer, faces up to life in prison without parole if convicted of aggravated murder in her husband's Nov. 3, 2013 death at his home on Lampson Drive near the East Cleveland border.

Here are a few takeaways from Monday's opening statements:

1. Birth of the plot

Curry-Walker and Walker dated for about two years before they married, Thomas said. Unbeknownst to Walker, Curry-Walker went on a "spending spree" and racked up significant credit card debt in Walker's name.

Thomas said Curry-Walker pushed for a smaller wedding with little ceremony in the summer of 2013, and they were quickly married in a civil ceremony to establish herself as the beneficiary on Walker's city pension and life insurance policy.

She then went to her daughter's boyfriend, Chad Padgett, and offered to pay him $10,000 to "take out" Walker, Thomas said. Padgett, a marijuana dealer, accepted the offer and reached out to his cousin, Christopher Hein. Hein trafficked in firearms, and eventually secured a 9mm semiautomatic that he gave to Ryan Dorty, who lived in the
Dorty ambushed Walker as he walked into his house about 8:30 p.m. carrying a bag of food from McDonald's, Thomas said.

Curry-Walker gave Padgett some of the money, and he distributed it among Hein and Dorty, Thomas said. But Curry-Walker said she would have the rest of the money once the insurance payout came, Thomas said. She never paid the full amount, Thomas said.

More at link...

 

[thistle]

Wow, so cold...it's a pity this poor man ever crossed paths w/ this crazy woman.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Wife of slain Cleveland firefighter convicted of murder-for-hire plot

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/07/wife_of_slain_cleveland_firefi_1.html

Uloma Curry-Walker was found guilty of aggravated murder, conspiracy, felonious assault and other charges in the Nov. 3, 2013 slaying of her then-husband of four months, William Walker.

Common Pleas Judge Sherrie Miday set Curry-Walker's sentencing for Aug. 8.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Wife who bought Cleveland firefighter's murder gets life without parole

Common Pleas Judge Sherrie Miday sentenced Uloma Cury-Walker to life in prison without parole for soliciting the November 2013 killing of her then-husband of four months William Walker because Miday believed Curry-Walker could kill again.

"You took a life with no remorse, no consideration of the lives you would destroy," Miday told Curry-Walker. "Do I think you could come up with another plan if you were back in the community? Absolutely."

She showed little emotion as family members of Walker, including his adult daughter, sobbed and recalled the life of a man who loved nothing more than to be with and provide for his family, and serve his community.

Curry-Walker only shed tears when a fellow firefighter spoke about Walker's service as a Free Mason and a mentor to his fellow firefighters.

Walker represented the "essence of a firefighter," and was what children wanted to be when they grew up, Miday said.

"I don't think she understood the magnitude of the man she took," firefighter Derek Trip said.

http://prosecutor.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/2017-08-08-pr-Curry-Walker-Sentenced-to-Life.aspx

In 2016, Chad Padgett pled guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter with Conspiracy and was sentenced to 28 years; Ryan Dorty pled guilty to Aggravated Murder and was sentenced to 23 years to life. Curry-Walker’s daughter was sentenced in juvenile court. Last month, Christopher Hein pled to Aggravated Murder and Conspiracy and was sentenced to 18 years.