Modified Tue, Apr 06, 2010 02:24 PM
Man arrested for murder mistakenly releasedRALEIGH On April 2, the state department of correction released William Otis "Jabo" Bryant from custody after he had served a little less than a year in prison for multiple felony violations.
But before authorities at the Bertie County Correctional Center set Bryant free, they should have checked with the Wake County Sheriff's Office.
The sheriff's reported today that Bryant should have never walked out of prison unescorted. Instead, he should have been placed in the custody of Wake sheriff's deputies who had charged him and his brother in February with first-degree murder, authorities reported today.
Wake Sheriff Donnie Harrison said his office expected to receive Bryant on April 2. "We filed the paperwork," Harrison said today. "Somehow or another, it slipped through the crack." Officials with the N.C. Department of Correction were unavailable for comment this afternoon.
Bryant, 40, is wanted on charges of first-degree murder and possession of a convicted felon, Stephens stated in a press statement today.
The charges stem from the 1999 shooting of a taxi driver in the parking lot of West Lake Elementary School in southern Wake County, authorities reported.
The sheriff's office charged Bryant and his brother Eric Reney Bryant in February with the slaying of Anthony Jaboin, 24, who died of a shotgun wound to the face.
Bryant was behind bars at the time of his arrest for murder, serving a sentence for narcotics after he was convicted in Wake County, Harrison said.
The Wake sheriff's office did not realize there had been a mistake with Bryant's unescorted release until yesterday at 8 a.m."He's got family here. Maybe he will come back here and try to find his relatives. Maybe he will turn himself in."
Anyone with information about Bryant's whereabouts should call the Wake County Sheriff's Office at 919-856-6911.
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Wake County Sheriff's Office solves 1999 Cold Case
2/16/2010
For Immediate Release
February 16, 2010
The Wake County Sheriff's Office has charged a second person in a Cold Case Homicide that occurred in 1999. Today Wake County Sheriff's Office investigators charged William Otis Bryant with First Degree Murder of Anthony Jaboin.
Jaboin was murdered in the parking lot of West Lake Elementary school on Saturday, September 11, 1999.
Earlier this month Bryant's brother, Eric Reney Bryant, was also charged with First Degree Murder in the same case.
The investigation is continuing.
INCIDENT: Murder /(COLD CASE)
INCIDENT DATE / TIME: 9/11/1999 @ approximately 3:30 PM
INCIDENT LOCATION: 4499 West Lake Rd Apex, NC (West Lake Elementary School))
VICTIM /RESIDENT: Anthony Jaboin (age 24 @ time of the crime))
SUSPECT: William Otis Bryant and Eric Reney Bryant)
CHARGES: Murder 1st Degree)
Bond: No Bond)
Phyllis A. Stephens
Public Information Director
Wake County Sheriff's Office
919.856.6941 (O)
Posted by: Tre Benson | April 06, 2010 at 03:34 PM
William Otis Bryant, Jr has turned himself in after receiving a call from his parents. Shortly after 11:00 a.m. today, Bryant was arrested without incident at his parents' home, 2641 Sheffield Street, Apex, North Carolina
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