2 People Murdered Inside Home

Alabama Mobile  Two people were murdered inside a home in Mobile Wednesday morning and Police say Derrick Penn pulled the trigger.
by Kimberly Curth
Published: Wed, May 27, 2009 - 2:35 pm CST Last Updated: Wed, May 27, 2009 - 2:43 pm CST
Two people were murdered inside a home in Mobile Wednesday morning. Police say Derrick Penn pulled the trigger. Penn is accused of shooting and killing his estranged wife, Janet Penn, and her boyfriend, Demetrius Powe. It happened around 1:15 A.M. on Eagle Drive. Police say Janet Penn's 19-year-old daughter flagged them down to let them know there had been a shooting inside her home. When police arrived, they say the suspect was coming out the back door. One neighbor we spoke with says shots have been fired before in the neighborhood, but now she says she and her daughter will stay inside more, "it worries me because we have children and you know a bullet doesn't know any names. It could have came out the door as far as he knew or whoever knew," said neighbor Katrice Earl. Derrick Penn was taken to Metro Jail and charged with 2 counts of murder. He will be in court Friday for a bond hearing.
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thats coming down hard on right and just

This woman was trying to get protection from this guy and wound up dead before any action was taken.  That seems like a redundant theme here in Mobile.

this type of crime (crime of passion) is not a black on black crime…it happens to more & more women every day & sometimes even to the husbands…although b.o.b crime is on the rise-this does not fit into that category. it seems almost every month there is some guy who takes his entire family ( and they’re usually white). but i do agree that the black leaders need to make that speech again because this generation of young blacks def needs to hear it! i get tired of hearing about senseless killings, drug deals, and overall stupid crimes committed by the young blacks in society today.

I totally agree with you that all ethnic backgrounds kill or get killed. I just disagree when certain Associations opinions are plastered all over the news when they turn a killing into a “Race Issue”. I just don’t understand if NAACP, JJ and AL S. why do they not speak up again more black on black crimes such as this one.
I am not saying they should be here on this case but as a whole across the nation. It seems the only time you see them is when like I said they can turn it into a “Race Thing”.

People of all ethnic backgrounds kill or get killed in domestic violence cases.  Not sure I understand the point you are trying to make.

My original point was that we see something like this in the news one day and then there never seems to be a follow-up.  In this case they apparently caught the killer red-handed, which is a small degree of closure.

On the other hand, two Hispanic women were killed assassination style in front of their children during the middle of the day a few weeks ago.  Nothing has been written about that case since.  That means that there is a killer, or killers out there that could be waiting to do this again one afternoon.  Yet, the general public has been told nothing about the status of the investigation.

OK, I will try this without sounding racist. We see this type of thing more and more these days, Black on Black crime’s. They seem to out number any “White on Black or Black on White” crimes by a long shot. Had this been a mixed race shooting chances are the NAACP would have been all over this. Why doesn’t JJ, Al S or the NAACP stand up for the two victoms in this case? I guess the above associations are only around to stand up for the black community when they can make a Race issue out of something, other than that its ok for them to kill themselves off. It’s Sad!

I was only assuming the Ex and Boyfriend were black as well since it never showed a past picture of either but I could be wrong.

Good thing they caught him coming out the back door, or we would never have heard anymore about this.

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