Lester Street Murders: The Suspect They Almost Missed

Jessie dotson was sentenced to death after he killed six people, including his two young nephews, at a home on lester street in march 2008. The survivor and key witness from the 2008 lester. A survivor of the infamous 2008 lester street massacre is reacting to his uncle, jessie dotson's call for his conviction to be overturned. Dotson, 35, who had served almost 14 years in prison for a 1994 murder, was convicted of shooting to death his brother, cecil, 30, on , at 722 lester st. And then eliminating witnesses, including marissa williams, 27, shindri roberson, 22, hollis seals, 33, and cecil's children, cemario, 4, and cecil ii, 2.

When the memphis police department hurried to 722 lester street, they found a situation so horrifying that several officials were inconsolable. Read the slab city murders: 15 chilling details you need to know. Jessie dotson, the man serving time on death row for killing six people, including multiple family members and children in 2008, is asking the court to set aside his conviction. The evidence presented at trial established that during the early morning hours of , while at cecil's home on lester street in memphis, the defendant shot cecil, williams, seals, and roberson multiple times, killing them. According to the final autopsy reports: