NC: Man Found not Guilty after nearly three years in jail

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A jury found Weldon Teasley not guilty Thursday of murder in the 2012 shooting death of his girlfriend’s son.

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The situation could have been diffused at 1:14 a.m., Stockdale said, when officers arrived on scene and told Cynthelia Quick, in order to have her son removed from the home, she would need to go to the magistrate’s office to swear out a warrant.

The situation again could have been diffused at 1:40 a.m. when officers were dispatched a second time, he said. Teasley left the bedroom where he had been sleeping and walked outside to talk to police, who advised him of the warrant process.

“Mr. Teasley could have said, ‘Cynthelia, come on. Let’s get in the car. We’re going to the magistrate’s office,’” Stockdale said. But, instead, the man asked an officer, ‘‘If I shoot him with my shotgun, what will you do?”

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