Man dies 13 years after Skid Row shooting

Markie Anderson, 44, a black man, died at California Hospital on Sept. 20 after being admitted for gastric pain and dizziness. According to LAPD Central Division Lt. Paul Vernon, investigators have concluded that Anderson was suffering complications from a 13-year-old shooting injury, thus making the death a homicide.

Anderson had been shot near 5th and Crocker streets in downtown Los Angeles in 1994. The shooting rendered him a paraplegic, and he lived on Skid Row thereafter in a wheelchair. Sheila Burton, a black woman nicknamed "Chocalate" who police described as a drug dealer, was convicted of aggravated assault in the case and served five years in prison. After Anderson's death last month, however, police arrested her again, within a couple blocks of where Anderson had originally been shot. She was back on Skid Row, in the same area. She now faces a murder charge.

Comments

[Johnny]

Ms. Burton was convicted in the shooting of Mr. Anderson and did her time. Now the state wants to try her again for the same crime, albeit a different charge. Has anyone in this state heard of double jeopardy? Please, leave the poor woman alone.

[Pam]

Double jeapordy counts in murder. She did not murder him the first time, Therefore, she will be tried w/ the murder this time. He died from those injury's years later. Leave the poor woman alone? She murdererd someone. She's not some poor old woman, she's a murderer!

[gee]

if that is the case, then you know how many people would have to be going to jail? come on he didn't die at the time which was several years prior, she served her time, go after the unsolved instant murders, this page is full of them!!!!!

[ruben]

Wow this really is going to be an intersting case, i wonder what the otcome is going to be. I guess we can't decide til we hear all the facts, and let the justice system take it's course

[mark]

"leave the poor woman alone"?

Were talking about murder here, not shoplifting!!!!!!

[Jay]

Served only five years for putting a guy in a wheelchair and making him suffer for 13 years, only to die painfully?

I hope she gets the needle.

[Rick]

How much of the deceased victims lifestyle contributed to his death. Was he still abusing alcohol and drugs after the shooting. The article said he was still living in the skidrow area where he was shot. Smoking of cigarettes, abusing drugs/alcohol, not taking prescribed meds and poor diet are something that might of contributed to his death.

[Ernesto]

They will offer a deal. It will be hard to prove that it is the wounds from 1994 that caused the death.