Saturday, November 06, 1999
Tip leads to arrest in Covington drug death
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — A convicted felon from Cincinnati was arrested Friday and accused of killing a transient man found dead in the street.
Covington detectives, acting on a tip from an informant, went to a 10th Street house Friday morning and found Emanuel Coulter, 24. He was charged with murder in the death of Charles Lester Sherman, 41, found dead Oct. 16.
Investigators think Mr. Sherman was killed after he and Mr. Coulter fought over the value of a drug. Mr. Sherman was thought to be buying the drug from Mr. Coulter, said spokesman Lt. Col. Bill Dorsey. “We're still sorting all that out,” he said.
Mr. Sherman was found dead at about 4:30 a.m. leaning against a retaining wall at 10th and Washington streets, about a half block from where Mr. Coulter was arrested Friday. Drugs and a small amount of money were found under Mr. Sherman.
He had fresh needle marks in his arm when he was found, police said, and may have been lying there about three hours. Police have not disclosed how he was killed.
Mr. Sherman was well-known to area law enforcement departments and had a long arrest record — the copy Covington collected on him stretched to eight feet, Lt. Col. Dorsey said.
At the time of the killing, Mr. Coulter was on parole in Ohio for assault. Mr. Coulter, also known as Emanuel Brown, is scheduled to appear in court Monday.
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