Opinion ID: 2994844
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Confessions

Text: After their arrest, Jemison and Carter were conveyed to the Rockford Public Safety Building (police station) and questioned. Jemison initially stated that she was a gun collector and had purchased the ten pistols for her personal use, but later recanted this fabrication and, in a signed confession, admitted that she had purchased the guns for Carter. Her statement reads: 3 weeks ago Donial called me and asked me if I wanted to make some money and he was going to pay $300.00 using my FOID card. He used my number to order guns at the Shooting Shack in Rockford and told me only that I had to sign gun forms. . . . Donial never paid me the money and (sic) he said he was, and I did not know what he was doing with the guns. No clue. Carter also initially stated that the guns were purchased for Jemison’s private use as a collector. Later, he also retracted that story and admitted in a signed confession that he was purchasing the guns for a Gangster Disciple named Will who had directed that Tommy Davidson accompany Carter and observe the transaction. Carter told the police: I ran into Will after being jumped by some Urban Lord gang members and I talked to him about being protected because he was a G.D. [Gangster Disciple] and we came to a (sic) agreement that if I could find him some guns that he could help me be protected from the gang members. So last week I came to see Mike Douglas about it and he told me that he would order the guns under my sister’s name [as I requested.] . . . [Will] gave Tommy the money to ride with me to purchase the guns because he didn’t trust me with the money.