An Alabama jury returned a guilty verdict Thursday in connection with the 2019 death of Aniah Blanchard. According to Al.com, Macon County jury found 36-year-old Ibraheem Yazeed guilty of murder and felony murder. He had initially been facing capital murder, but with convictions on lesser charges, he will escape the death penalty. The jury began …
An Alabama judge dropped a capital murder charge Tuesday against a man accused of killing 19-year-old college student Aniah Blanchard, in 2019. According to ABC 33 News, Judge Tom Young dropped one of the three capital murder charges against Ibraheem Yazeed, 36. The decision came shortly before closing arguments began in Macon County. Jury deliberations …
An Alabama jury has begun deliberations in the murder trial of Ibraheem Yazeed, the man accused of kidnapping and killing 19-year-old Aniah Blanchard in 2019. Prosecutors asked the jury to find Yazeed guilty on two counts of murder, one for murder while committing a kidnapping and the other for murder while committing a robbery, WBRC …
A key witness for the prosecution in the Aniah Blanchard capital murder case took the stand Wednesday. According to WSFA, 12, Ibraheem Yazeed is currently on trial in Tuskegee, Alabama, facing three capital murder counts, in connection with 19-year-old Blanchard’s 2019 death. Witness Antwon “Squirmy” Fisher told the court that on on October 24, 2019, …
Jury selection is underway in Alabama in connection with the murder of Aniah Blanchard, a 19-year-old Homewood teen found deceased in 2019. The selection is expected to continue throughout the next several days, ABC 9 reports. Ibraheem Yazeed, 39, is charged with three counts of capital murder, along with kidnapping and robbery. As CrimeOnline previously …
Carlee Russell’s return home has elicited a strong reaction from community members, particularly parents who have experienced the loss of their own child to violence, including an Alabama mother whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered. Shea Pilkington-Wiley’s daughter, Madison Pilkington, was found murdered in Hoover 18 months ago. The distraught mother is now calling Carlee …
The man accused of kidnapping and killing Aniah Blanchard in 2019 appeared in an Alabama court on Monday and pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. Ibraheem Yazeed, 33, was indicted this month on three counts of capital murder — during a kidnapping, during a robbery, and involving a victim in a vehicle — …
On Tuesday, Alabama voters passed a state amendment which includes several serious crimes in which a suspect can be held without bail. A right to bail for individuals not charged with a capital offense was outlined under section 16 of the state constitution. However, Amendment 1 — called Aniah’s Law — which adds stipulations to …
The teen’s accused killer was out on bail on attempted murder charges when the slaying ocurred
Alabama officials announced Thursday that the suspect in Aniah Blanchard’s murder was formally charged with killing a homeless man in December 2018. Ibraheem Yazeed, 30, was charged with fatally shooting Stephen Hamby, 29, in a wooded area surrounding a Salvation Army in Montgomery. A second victim, Geraldine Talley, 54, survived being shot in the face …
An Alabama judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors have enough evidence to take the murder case against Ibraheem Yazeed, accused of kidnapping and killing college student Aniah Blanchard last fall, to a grand jury. Judge Russell Bush had already found probable cause to send the kidnapping charge to a grand jury, WTVM reported. Blanchard, a 19-year-old …
The man suspected of abducting and killing Alabama teen Aniah Blanchard is facing new charges for allegedly biting a corrections officer late last month. AL.com reported that Ibraheem Yazeed, 30, was charged with second-degree assault for an incident that occurred at the Lee County Detention Center on March 23. According to charging documents, Ibraheem became …
