District Judge Joshua Wolson rejected the deal prosecutors made with Oliver’s attorney to give him 27 and a half years. Under the plea deal, prosecutors dropped the charge of kidnapping resulting in death.īut in May 2022, U.S. Ironically, Oliver had earlier pleaded guilty in January 2022 to having and firing a gun that day, as well as to stalking and conspiracy to stalk and kidnap. Federal prosecutors also contended at Oliver’s trial that he fired the shot that maimed Banner but jurors acquitted him of having a firearm that fateful day. The courtroom part of the saga ended last week when a federal judge handed down a life sentence to Dion Oliver, whom a jury convicted of ordering the kidnapping of Perkins before she was murdered. “Why? The person you were looking for, you didn’t even get.” “These guys set out to seek revenge on somebody who did something to them, and as a result my daughter is dead,’’ Marcy Perkins said during a court hearing last year. Their crimes led Perkins’ mother to decry the senseless gun violence that continues ravaging sections of Wilmington and other communities. The men had decided to kill Stanford because he and a friend had robbed and pistol-whipped two of them a month earlier, according to court records and testimony. Joshua Potts and his bedridden son Ja’Shown Banner.

“It’s never gonna go away,’’ his father, Joshua Potts, said this week. Banner takes nearly two dozen medications, and has had more than a dozen surgeries, with two more scheduled for the fall. He survives only with the aid of a ventilator. Now 12, the boy his family calls “Lj” remains bedridden and unable to talk or move his limbs. Instead, an errant bullet struck 6-year-old Ja’Shown Banner in his face and lodged in his spine as the child rode in his mom’s SUV. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor

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