Tuesday, January 26, 1999
2 plead guilty in slaying
Sentencing hinges on testimony against 3rd
BY DAN HORN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Medina Freeman waited nearly three months to see two of the men accused of robbing and killing her son.
When she finally got her chance Monday in court, she could barely stand to look at them.
“They don't feel what I've been feeling,” she said, sobbing. “I brought him into this world, and they took him out.”
Although she left the Hamilton County courtroom sobbing, Ms. Freeman remained seated long enough to hear Nathan Carter and Ishmell Foster admit their involvement in the shooting death of her son, Quincy Freeman, 20.
Mr. Carter, 24, pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated robbery and faces a sentence of 18 years to life in prison. Mr. Foster, 22, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery, and faces an 11-year sentence.
Both men had been charged with aggravated murder and aggravated robbery. Their plea agreements are contingent on their willingness to testify next week against a third defendant, David Lee, 26.
Prosecutors have said Mr. Carter was the gunman and Mr. Foster and Mr. Lee participated in the robbery.
While their attorneys tried to work out the agreement with prosecutors, Mr. Carter and Mr. Foster sat in handcuffs just a few feet from Ms. Freeman.
Shaking and crying, she directed several angry comments at the two men. “They think this is a joke,” she said.
She got up to leave several times but returned to see the defendants enter their pleas before Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman.
Robbed near market
Assistant county prosecutor David Prem said Mr. Freeman was shot once in the head during a robbery late on Nov. 3 near Findlay Market.
He said they forced Mr. Freeman to the ground, went through his pockets and then shot him in the head with a .357 revolver.
Ms. Freeman has said her son, a Queen City Vocational student, was robbed of everything but a beeper and two nickels.
Judge Ruehlman said he would sentence Mr. Carter and Mr. Foster after they have testified against Mr. Lee, who is charged with aggravated murder and aggravated robbery.
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