Raymond Warren is
INNOCENT
It all started. . . .
July 10th, 1994
Shortly after midnight on July 10th, 1994, Wendell Simpson was shot three times in his automobile in Dayton, Ohio, causing his automobile to crash into the porch of a nearby house. Unfortunately, Simpson did not survive. Around the time of the crash, witnesses indicated that a Brown Buick pulled past Simpson’s vehicle and parked on the other side of the road.
Before the shooting occurred, Raymond (16 years old at the time) was walking with his two friends to one of their houses to fix a scooter. Known as the neighborhood mechanic, Raymond could be found fixing scooters with his friends all the time. Simpson drove up to Raymond and his friends to ask for drugs, but the group said they didn’t have any and Simpson drove off. Raymond and his friends were on another street – away from the crime – when they heard gunshots and started to run.
Police arrived and talked to multiple witnesses who revealed that after the shooting, the passengers of a Brown Buick approached Simpson’s car, reached over his deceased body to turn the car off, moved his head back-and-forth, and bent down to look by Simpson’s feet. The Buick showed signs of having collided with another vehicle. These men were never considered suspects.
Instead, when Raymond rode back home on his scooter later that night, he was stopped, questioned, and taken to the police station. Even though Raymond was with his friends, away from the scene, at the time of the shooting, Raymond was targeted as the scapegoat in the murder of Wendell Simpson.
Raymond waived his right to counsel and fully cooperated with law enforcement, believing the truth would come out. Unfortunately, it never did.