A man who terrorized a Fayetteville neighborhood in August 2022, by stealing a car and wallet, shooting a woman and days later killing a man pleaded to the charges last week in Cumberland County Superior Court.
Karon Peair Streets, 21, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, discharging a weapon into occupied property, possession of stolen property, breaking and entering a motor vehicle and larceny of a motor vehicle in the Aug. 11 killing of Cesar Ivan Viera-Medina, 33, and the Aug. 4 theft of a car and shooting of a woman.
Streets was sentenced to 16 to 20 years in prison, court records show.
In exchange for the pleas, charges of larceny, robbery, possession of stolen goods and assault with a deadly weapon were dismissed.
Streets entered an Alford plea to the charges, thus maintaining his innocence but admitting the state had enough evidence for a conviction. It is treated the same as a guilty plea.
Related: Car theft preceded fatal August shooting in Fayetteville, arrest warrant says
The facts of the case
Streets' crime spree began on Aug. 4, 2022, when he drove off in a Mercedes left idling in the parking lot of a Ramsey Street convenience store, according to the records.
The record states that after reporting the vehicle stolen, the Mercedes owner called his girlfriend to pick him up.
Tashira Williams told police she was leaving her Windsor Drive home to pick up her boyfriend when she saw his Mercedes driving toward her. Believing her boyfriend was playing a joke on her, Wiliams walked up to the Mercedes and Streets shot her.
Williams told police that a gunshot wound to her hip had caused her to lose the use of her left leg and a gunshot to her back was "dangerously close to her heart," according to the record.
A warrant was issued for Streets' after his fingerprints were found on the abandoned Mercedes the following day and his image was captured on the convenience store cameras.
More: Man pleads guilty to hit-and-run death of Cumberland County deputy
But before police could pick him up on the warrant, Streets was marauding the neighborhood again — and this time it would prove deadly, the record shows.
About 8 p.m. on Aug. 11, 2022, Streets was at his home in the 200 block of North Windsor Drive when he ripped a 9mm Glock out of his roommate's hands and forced her at gunpoint to retrieve a magazine.
Then, the record states, he ran down the road and fired gunshots into his earlier victim's home.
At the time. Williams and her boyfriend were inside, as was Viera-Medina, who was shot in the arms and chest. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Court records state that Streets was captured by a doorbell camera entering the front yard and shooting through the front door and front window.
He escaped as police were arriving.
Two days after the killing Streets was arrested at his mother's Baltimore County home after a brief armed standoff, the record states.
The judgment states that in addition to the 23 months in credit he received for time spent in jail awaiting trial, he was ordered to pay $11,610 in restitution, jail fees, attorney fees and court costs. The judge also recommended educational and vocational training and a mental health evaluation while Streets is incarcerated.
Streets was transferred to prison July 19, according to records.
Public safety reporter Joseph Pierre can be reached at jpierre@gannett.com .
This article originally appeared on The Fayetteville Observer: Man pleads guilty in 2022 Fayetteville crime spree that ended in deadly shooting
Most Popular
Comments / 0