Witness to 2000 post-Super Bowl stabbings found slain
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Posted 7:26AM on Saturday, August 24, 2002
DECATUR - A witness to a fatal Atlanta street brawl that led to murder charges against Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was found shot to death in his DeKalb County apartment. <br>
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LeMeitrice Twitty, 29, was a friend of Richard Lollar and Jacinth Baker, who were stabbed to death early Jan. 31, 2000, after a Super Bowl party at a nearby Buckhead nightclub. All three were from Akron, Ohio, but lived in metro Atlanta. <br>
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Lewis pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of police officers in exchange for his testimony against two co-defendants, who were acquitted in the slayings of Lollar and Baker. <br>
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Twitty, a barber like his boyhood friend Lollar, was found shot six times Tuesday. No suspects have been arrested. <br>
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During the 2000 trial, Twitty and three other Akron-born friends testified about the confusing fight, although Twitty's testimony shed little light on it. He said he had not seen the killings and did not know at the time that his friends had been stabbed. <br>
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Minutes after the killing, Twitty was driving a vehicle from which someone fired several shots at Lewis' rented Lincoln Navigator limousine. A flat tire caused by one of the bullets led police to locate the limo.