GUILTY SC - Nevaeh Lashy Adams, 5, mother found murdered, Sumter, 5 Aug 2019 *Arrest*
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Thinking of Nevaeh and her mommy today.
I am awaiting Justice for this family and other victims of
(dj)No capital letters for this murderer!!!
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JAN 29, 2020
More than $700,000 used by state agencies in full-scale search for missing Sumter 5-year-old
State agencies involved in the months-long search for missing 5-year-old Nevaeh Adams spent more than $700,000 in an effort to bring the little girl home.
FEB 5, 2020
Family plans to keep Nevaeh Adams' memory alive, six months after her death
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“I don’t believe that’s her. I can rest with her being gone. What they’re saying, it just doesn’t rest with my spirit,” said Adams.
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“I believe she’s in the landfill, they just didn’t find her,” he said.
Police have refused to comment on those allegations and said what they’ve released should speak for itself, but Adams wants more.
“Something a little more, bigger. Something that’s going to really confirm that it’s her as opposed to some bones or piece of a skull,” said Adams.
However, he does believe his daughter is dead.
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More than $700,000 used by state agencies in full-scale search for missing Sumter 5-year-old
State agencies involved in the months-long search for missing 5-year-old Nevaeh Adams spent more than $700,000 in an effort to bring the little girl home.
FEB 5, 2020
Family plans to keep Nevaeh Adams' memory alive, six months after her death
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“I don’t believe that’s her. I can rest with her being gone. What they’re saying, it just doesn’t rest with my spirit,” said Adams.
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“I believe she’s in the landfill, they just didn’t find her,” he said.
Police have refused to comment on those allegations and said what they’ve released should speak for itself, but Adams wants more.
“Something a little more, bigger. Something that’s going to really confirm that it’s her as opposed to some bones or piece of a skull,” said Adams.
However, he does believe his daughter is dead.
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FEB 6, 2020
Nevaeh Adams' dad believes daughter's remains haven't been found
It’s been six months since a Sumter County mother and her daughter were killed.
“You want to love as much as you can, because you just never know,” said Dupray Adams, Nevaeh’s father. “I’m able to look at pictures and videos a little better without shedding a tear.’’
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Nevaeh’s father still remembers the last time he saw his daughter and Sharee and what he’s heard about their final day alive.
“Nevaeh made her mom go to church that Sunday and they joined Trinity Missionary Baptist Church. Pastor Weston said they had gotten saved and everything, so it was all preparation,” he said. “But the last thing I remember saying to Sharee was I was proud of you.”
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At this time no trial date for Johnson has been set, according to officials.
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Nevaeh Adams' dad believes daughter's remains haven't been found
It’s been six months since a Sumter County mother and her daughter were killed.
“You want to love as much as you can, because you just never know,” said Dupray Adams, Nevaeh’s father. “I’m able to look at pictures and videos a little better without shedding a tear.’’
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Nevaeh’s father still remembers the last time he saw his daughter and Sharee and what he’s heard about their final day alive.
“Nevaeh made her mom go to church that Sunday and they joined Trinity Missionary Baptist Church. Pastor Weston said they had gotten saved and everything, so it was all preparation,” he said. “But the last thing I remember saying to Sharee was I was proud of you.”
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At this time no trial date for Johnson has been set, according to officials.
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FEB 27, 2020
A Proper Burial for Nevaeh
What does it take to find a needle in a haystack?
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By developing algorithms, Reed was able to mathematically determine where to search – they’d need to go 10 feet deep – and what it would take:
Roads would have to be built; medical personnel, evidence recovery teams and a forensic anthropologist for any bone identifications would have to be on site. The search area would have to be covered each night.
Even with all of this, Wurtz and Reed put the probability of finding the child’s remains at “low.”
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Roark said that each morning – they started early to beat the record heat – the searchers held devotion at the site where they had mounted Nevaeh’s photograph. The first week, they found a glass angel in the pit, which they called “Nevaeh’s Angel.” A sign from heaven. Nevaeh is heaven spelled backward.
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With just one week left before they would have to abandon the search, a firefighter discovered what proved to be the needle in the haystack. Now they could bring Nevaeh home.
Because of the emotional attachment to Nevaeh, most of the agencies involved in the search did not request reimbursement for their personnel’s time, Roark said. Even so, the cost loomed around $1.2 million. The emotional investment? Even higher, said Roark. “How do you say we’re not going to do this?” he said of the search.
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A Proper Burial for Nevaeh
What does it take to find a needle in a haystack?
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By developing algorithms, Reed was able to mathematically determine where to search – they’d need to go 10 feet deep – and what it would take:
- 392 searchers
- 839 shifts
- 60 to 80 support personnel
- 7,672 search hours
- 4 million pounds of search material
- 48 state and local agencies
Roads would have to be built; medical personnel, evidence recovery teams and a forensic anthropologist for any bone identifications would have to be on site. The search area would have to be covered each night.
Even with all of this, Wurtz and Reed put the probability of finding the child’s remains at “low.”
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Roark said that each morning – they started early to beat the record heat – the searchers held devotion at the site where they had mounted Nevaeh’s photograph. The first week, they found a glass angel in the pit, which they called “Nevaeh’s Angel.” A sign from heaven. Nevaeh is heaven spelled backward.
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With just one week left before they would have to abandon the search, a firefighter discovered what proved to be the needle in the haystack. Now they could bring Nevaeh home.
Because of the emotional attachment to Nevaeh, most of the agencies involved in the search did not request reimbursement for their personnel’s time, Roark said. Even so, the cost loomed around $1.2 million. The emotional investment? Even higher, said Roark. “How do you say we’re not going to do this?” he said of the search.
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AUG 5, 2020
Family remembers Nevaeh Adams, mother one year after killings
A year has passed since the killing of Nevaeh Adams and her mother at the hands of her mother's ex-boyfriend.
“We can’t get it out of our heads and out of our minds,” said Elijah Nelson, Nevaeh's grandfather. “We really miss her.”
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The pandemic has delayed Johnson's court date, but Nelson said his wife is anxious for closure.
“Just knowing that he’s just sitting there and killed her daughter and grand baby. She wants justice and it’s just not happening fast enough for her,” he said.
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As time goes on, they say her legacy will live on in all of them and they will continue to fight for her until she receives justice.
Johnson was charged with the murders of Bradley and Adams and was denied bond last August.
Family remembers Nevaeh Adams, mother one year after killings
A year has passed since the killing of Nevaeh Adams and her mother at the hands of her mother's ex-boyfriend.
“We can’t get it out of our heads and out of our minds,” said Elijah Nelson, Nevaeh's grandfather. “We really miss her.”
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The pandemic has delayed Johnson's court date, but Nelson said his wife is anxious for closure.
“Just knowing that he’s just sitting there and killed her daughter and grand baby. She wants justice and it’s just not happening fast enough for her,” he said.
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As time goes on, they say her legacy will live on in all of them and they will continue to fight for her until she receives justice.
Johnson was charged with the murders of Bradley and Adams and was denied bond last August.
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AUG 5, 2021
Nevaeh Adams, Sharee Bradley death anniversary | wltx.com
As EN sits on his front porch, he thinks about how it could have been if his granddaughter Nevaeh Adams were still alive.
Thursday is the death anniversary of Adams and her mother Sharee Bradley. The pain of their passings still weighs heavily on EN two years later.
"My wife and I, we sit out here all the time and just think how we can just see her on this deck doing her own thing. She'd be jumping from lap to lap," EN said. "People have their tendency of coming to you saying, 'Man, I know how you feel.' Oh, you do? You been through that? ... Not a day go by we don’t think about them or mention their names.”
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EN said they're still hoping closure will come at the suspect's trial.
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According to Sumter County Solicitor Ernest Finney, the coronavirus has slowed the process, but they could hold a trial by the end of the year.
"There are two important evaluations that have to be done on anyone who is charged with this type of serious crime," Finney said, "and one of the evaluations has been completed. We are waiting now for the other evaluation to be completed because just like the courthouse was shut down, the Department of Mental Health was also shut down for a while."
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Also see: Sumter community remembers Nevaeh Adams and Sharee Bradley
Nevaeh Adams, Sharee Bradley death anniversary | wltx.com
As EN sits on his front porch, he thinks about how it could have been if his granddaughter Nevaeh Adams were still alive.
Thursday is the death anniversary of Adams and her mother Sharee Bradley. The pain of their passings still weighs heavily on EN two years later.
"My wife and I, we sit out here all the time and just think how we can just see her on this deck doing her own thing. She'd be jumping from lap to lap," EN said. "People have their tendency of coming to you saying, 'Man, I know how you feel.' Oh, you do? You been through that? ... Not a day go by we don’t think about them or mention their names.”
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EN said they're still hoping closure will come at the suspect's trial.
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According to Sumter County Solicitor Ernest Finney, the coronavirus has slowed the process, but they could hold a trial by the end of the year.
"There are two important evaluations that have to be done on anyone who is charged with this type of serious crime," Finney said, "and one of the evaluations has been completed. We are waiting now for the other evaluation to be completed because just like the courthouse was shut down, the Department of Mental Health was also shut down for a while."
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Also see: Sumter community remembers Nevaeh Adams and Sharee Bradley
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Trial for man accused in death of Sumter mom, 5-year-old Nevaeh Adams begins
Daunte Johnson is accused of killing Sharee Bradley and her daughter Nevaeh Adams, 5, before putting the child's body in a dumpster.
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Noting:Trial for man accused in death of Sumter mom, 5-year-old Nevaeh Adams begins
Daunte Johnson is accused of killing Sharee Bradley and her daughter Nevaeh Adams, 5, before putting the child's body in a dumpster.
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The prosecution first called RBJ, the manager at Lantana Apartments when Bradley was a tenant. James testified that she received complaints to her office about Johnson and Bradley arguing.
The night of Bradley's death, James says Bradley's son, who was 12 at the time, came to her after finding his mother unresponsive in their home.
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Bradley's son was next to take the stand. He said he woke up and walked downstairs to find his mother wrapped in a rug and bloody.
His testimony was mirrored, in part, by Sumter Police Detective James Kearney who responded to the scene after Bradley's death. He described blood stained walls, furniture and floors. He also showed images of what prosecutors say was Bradley's body with a mop bucket nearby. Inside the bucket, images showed the mop sitting in a red-watery pool.
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According to Solicitor Finney, the prosecution is not seeking the death penalty, by request of the family.
Police describe accused killer as 'clean up man' in fake murder-for-hire of Sumter mom, child during trial
Day two of witness testimony in the Daunte Johnson trial began in Sumter Wednesday.
Johnson is charged with murder in the deaths of Sharee Bradley, a former girlfriend, and her five-year-old daughter Nevaeh Adams.
During opening statements, Third Circuit Solicitor Ernest "Chip" Finney began laying out the State's case against Johnson saying he was armed with a "large folding knife" and insulted Bradley hours before her death.
Finney also alleges that Johnson attempted to clean the scene before being brought into custody near her home at the Lantana Apartments.
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Day two of witness testimony in the Daunte Johnson trial began in Sumter Wednesday.
Johnson is charged with murder in the deaths of Sharee Bradley, a former girlfriend, and her five-year-old daughter Nevaeh Adams.
During opening statements, Third Circuit Solicitor Ernest "Chip" Finney began laying out the State's case against Johnson saying he was armed with a "large folding knife" and insulted Bradley hours before her death.
Finney also alleges that Johnson attempted to clean the scene before being brought into custody near her home at the Lantana Apartments.
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Detective McFadden said Johnson's testimony was inconsistent, because initially he said he spent the night on Suzie Rembert, then changed it to the home of the woman who lived near Bradley at her complex.
Other investigators that take the stand say they were not recording when Johnson allegedly confessed to killing Bradley and her child in a fake murder-for-hire plot.
“His job at first was just to get rid of the bodies of Sharee and Nevaeh, that he was supposed to be the cleanup man and, I remember when he went into it, just being horrified at what I’d just heard and he was supposed to put the bodies in a car and light the car on fire," Sumter Police Detective John Melton, who questioned Johnson, said. "He was supposed to get paid a sum of money, $5,000. I could tell by sitting there and talking to him that that wasn’t the truth.”
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Later in the evening, other investigators testified that Johnson did confess on tape to wrapping Nevaeh up and putting her in the trash. They also say he was recorded allegedly discussing the crime while being transported in the back of a patrol car.
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Investigators describe landfill search in death of Sumter mom, child during accused killer's trial
Daunte Johnson is charged with murder in the deaths of Sharee Bradley, a former girlfriend, and her five-year-old daughter Nevaeh Adams.
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JUN 23, 2022
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Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the jury trial of Daunte Johnson ...
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Third Circuit Solicitor Ernest “Chip” Finney called Laura Hash, a forensic scientist with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, to the stand Thursday.
She testified that there’s a high probability that the sample from the mop handle at the murder scene can be tied back to Johnson.
Prosecution also questioned Paul Meeh, a forensic DNA analyst with SLED, about other items from the scene that they believe indicate that murders took place there.
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Dr. Nicholas Batalis, a forensic pathologist with MUSC, conducted an autopsy on Bradley and determined that she had been stabbed at least 14 times, including on the arms, the face and in the back of the neck.
At the time of the murders, Sumter police said that within hours, Johnson confessed to killing both Adams and Bradley. Investigators claim he also confessed to using a large folding knife in both killings.
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The trial will resume Friday morning. Johnson was not present in the courtroom Thursday afternoon, but Judge R. Ferrell Cochran Jr. told defense he’s advising that Johnson be present on Friday in the event there is a verdict in this case.
Prosecutors rest case in trial of Sumter man charged with murder in deaths of former girlfriend, her 5-year-old daughter
Johnson faces two murder charges, and charges of possession of a stolen vehicle and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.
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Third Circuit Solicitor Ernest “Chip” Finney called Laura Hash, a forensic scientist with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, to the stand Thursday.
She testified that there’s a high probability that the sample from the mop handle at the murder scene can be tied back to Johnson.
Prosecution also questioned Paul Meeh, a forensic DNA analyst with SLED, about other items from the scene that they believe indicate that murders took place there.
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Dr. Nicholas Batalis, a forensic pathologist with MUSC, conducted an autopsy on Bradley and determined that she had been stabbed at least 14 times, including on the arms, the face and in the back of the neck.
At the time of the murders, Sumter police said that within hours, Johnson confessed to killing both Adams and Bradley. Investigators claim he also confessed to using a large folding knife in both killings.
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The trial will resume Friday morning. Johnson was not present in the courtroom Thursday afternoon, but Judge R. Ferrell Cochran Jr. told defense he’s advising that Johnson be present on Friday in the event there is a verdict in this case.
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JUN 24, 2022
A man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a Sumter five-year-old girl and her mother almost three years ago.
The judge handed down the penalty Friday not long after a jury convicted Daunte Johnson for the 2019 deaths of Sharee Bradley, a former girlfriend, and her daughter Nevaeh Adams. The panel of men and women took about two hours to return guilty verdicts on all counts.
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As he handed down his sentence, Judge Ferrell Cothran said, "It is no reason to murder anybody, but especially no reason to murder a five-year-old child."
A man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a Sumter five-year-old girl and her mother almost three years ago.
The judge handed down the penalty Friday not long after a jury convicted Daunte Johnson for the 2019 deaths of Sharee Bradley, a former girlfriend, and her daughter Nevaeh Adams. The panel of men and women took about two hours to return guilty verdicts on all counts.
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As he handed down his sentence, Judge Ferrell Cothran said, "It is no reason to murder anybody, but especially no reason to murder a five-year-old child."
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JUN 26, 2022
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After nearly three years of waiting, Dupray Adams, Nevaeh's father, says the verdict was the closure the family needed.
"It was a long time coming," he said. "I cried... It’s justice done for my daughter and her mother."
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While the trial is over for Johnson, he may face court in another state.
According to Third Circuit Solicitor Ernest "Chip" Finney, Johnson has a pending charge of involuntary manslaughter in Missouri.
Sharee Bradley, Nevaeh Adams
After nearly three years of waiting, Dupray Adams, Nevaeh's father, says the verdict was the closure the family needed.
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After nearly three years of waiting, Dupray Adams, Nevaeh's father, says the verdict was the closure the family needed.
"It was a long time coming," he said. "I cried... It’s justice done for my daughter and her mother."
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While the trial is over for Johnson, he may face court in another state.
According to Third Circuit Solicitor Ernest "Chip" Finney, Johnson has a pending charge of involuntary manslaughter in Missouri.
