He bought himself custom-made sneakers and took a date to sit courtside at an NBA game, records show. Simpson bought himself a Chevrolet Corvette and liked to lease luxury cars, including a Rolls-Royce, for thousands of dollars a month, according to an indictment. They bought expensive jewelry and paid for overseas trips with friends, prosecutors said. "The suspects in this case had a complete disregard for anyone but themselves, and because of pure greed, took an innocent woman’s life to send a message,” said Brian Dugan, special agent in charge of the FBI Norfolk Field Office.Ĭourt records paint a picture of a lavish lifestyle Simpson and Jackson paid for by trafficking in kilograms of cocaine over state lines. Prosecutors said Simpson paid the men $10,000 after they got back to North Carolina. Shipman and Evans drove from Greensboro to Norfolk with orders from Simpson to kill whoever stepped out of the house, according to the indictment.īond, 59, was the first person to come out of the house as the killers laid in wait. Simpson hired Shipman, a member of the Trey Gangsters Bloods gang in Greensboro, as a hitman, prosecutors said. Jaquate Simpson, the alleged leader of the Greensboro-based drug operation, was arrested on drug trafficking charges by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation in December 2017. Williams is the person, prosecutors said, who did not pay Simpson $72,000 owed for two kilograms of cocaine. Jaquate Simpson, 38, Landis Jackson, 38, Kalub Shipman, 35, and Nelson Evans, 32, were found guilty on multiple charges each after a trial that lasted almost three weeks.Īfter the killing, Simpson told a member of his gang, “His grandma had to feel it!" and "they caught the lady taking the trash out," according to the indictment. Attorney Jessica Aber said in a statement after the verdict. This drug enterprise took the life of an innocent person, a woman well known to be kind and compassionate to her friends and family, and I hope that today’s verdict brings some measure of justice to her family,” U.S. “This day has been a long time coming, especially for the family of Lillian Bond. The four men face a mandatory minimum of life in prison after the conviction.A man at the house owed tens of thousands of dollars for two kilograms of cocaine, according to investigators.Lillian Bond, 59, was killed when she took out the trash, prosecutors said The leader of a drug trafficking ring told the hitmen to kill the first person to leave the house, court filings say.A federal jury convicted four men from Greensboro, North Carolina, in a murder-for-hire plot that killed a woman in Norfolk, Virginia.
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