Justice For Betty

Finally, after 16 months, the killer of Betty Pinkney has been caught.
From the LVRJ: It’s been 16 months since Joseph Pinkney lost his teenage daughter to a stray bullet at a rowdy house party.
Although more than 80 people were at the party and many witnessed the shooting of Betty “Jay” Pinkney, Las Vegas police didn’t have enough evidence to arrest the man suspected of firing the fatal shot -- until now.
Demetrius Black, 20, also known as “Meak Meak,” was charged with murder Wednesday in the January 2012 shooting of the 17-year-old, closing the case on one of the valley’s few recent unsolved homicides.
“We needed somebody to step up and say, ‘I saw it,’” said Joseph Pinkney, 63. “Whoever did this needs to be in jail.”
As it turns, out, Black already was.
Black, along with cohorts Nigel Hinton, 19, and Jamal Johnson, 20, were arrested last year in a series of armed taxicab robberies in December 2011 and January 2012.
Hinton and Johnson, who were at the party with Black, are already in prison for their roles in the robbery spree. Black, who has been at Clark County Detention Center since March 2012, has four pending robbery cases.
Betty was killed about 12:45 a.m. during a house party at 4208 Tattersall Place, near Craig Road and Lamb Boulevard. She had been dancing with friends when an argument broke out between friends of Black, a Gerson Park Kingsman gang member, and Mike Logan, known as “Mikee Cityy,” according to a Las Vegas police report.
Logan had disrespected Hinton on Facebook, Black’s girlfriend, Starshae Pacheco, told police.
Pacheco, who also attended the party, told police Hinton and Logan got into a fist fight and the party began to disband.
Fearing a shooting would follow the fight, some partygoers left. Betty and her friends briefly left but returned after the dust seemed to settle.
Pacheco went outside with Black and walked across the street, where Black pulled out his gun and opened fire on the house, she told police. He fired once in the air before shooting six or seven shots at the house, according to the report.
The random gunfire sprayed at least 16 bullets throughout the small two-story home. A 32-year-old woman, Karen Sinatra, was shot twice but survived.
Homicide Lt. Ray Steiber said Betty and Sinatra were innocent bystanders.....
Police linked Black to the shooting through the suspected murder weapon, a Glock model 17 9mm pistol that had been the service pistol of Clark County court marshal Ronald Lee Brooks....
During their investigation of the shooting, homicide detectives asked for a follow-up interview with the son but were denied by his father....
Steiber said detectives also received numerous tips, many anonymous, that linked Black to the crime. Police also subpoenaed Black’s Facebook and cell phone records, which showed he lied to police about his involvement, according to report.
Although the case may have disappeared from public view in the year since Pinkney’s death, Steiber said detectives never stopped working.  http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/man-charged-murder-2012-shooting-high-school-girl
I have written about this case many times in the last 16 months because I knew Betty because she was a student at my school I teach at and because she interacted with the special education students I work with.
While the cops solved this case, this case showed how pathetic the Black leaders are in this community.
Black leaders in Las Vegas, such as Lawrence Weekly, Ricki Barlow, William Horne, Stephen Horsford. Stephen Brooks (before he went off the deep end), ministers, other politicians and other supposed Black leaders in Las Vegas were silent.  To them, it was just another Black on Black crime with a gang member involved and they didn't want to get involved.  They believe if they diss a gang member, they diss the Black community, even if an innocent Black girl was killed.
Many people knew who Killed Betty but they remained silent because they were either afraid of revenge or didn't get involved.
Well, when you have Black leaders doing the same, why should some young Black kids do something differently.