Last month Emanuel Isaac Parada now age 22 was sentenced to prison for the 2023 murder of Ja’Kez Kyiesh Johnson.
Emanuel Isaac Parada Photo Courtesy MCSO
3 years ago Parada shot Johnson several times. Ja’Kez Kyiesh Johnson was taken to the hospital and a few days later died.
According to CMPD:
On Saturday, July 8, 2023, shortly before 5:00 p.m., officers responded to an Assault with a Deadly Weapon call for service in the 5000 block of Curtiswood Drive. Upon arrival, officers located a male victim with multiple gunshot wounds. MEDIC transported the victim to Atrium Health Main with life threatening injuries..
On Thursday, July 13, 2023, the CMPD’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team (VCAT) arrested a 15-year-old juvenile suspect and Emanuel Isaac Parada (DOB: 11/30/2003).
Parada, who was 19 at the time, was also charged with possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana and possession of a stolen firearm. At the time he killed Johnson, he had just been convicted on weapons charges and sentenced to probation and community service.
Last month, Parada pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case with a plea deal that would not only drop the first degree murder charge but also the drug and weapons charges.
Parada was sentenced to 157-201 months in prison and ordered to pay on May 14, 2026 by Mecklenburg Superior Court Judge William T. Stetzer.
The sentence calls for 157-205 months, but basically that means 13 years less his time served he'll be eligible for release on parole in less than 4 years.
Cedar's Take:
If you're black or if your child is black judges like Stetzer and DA's like Merriweather place little on black lives. About $10,000 the amount of restitution order to be paid by the killer to help the family with funeral costs.
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These immigrants have come in and taken over the jobs all of the jobs prior generations of young Black males took. This guy needs to be deported so our youth can have a chance to make a little money and learn entrepreneurship. Ja'Kez never had a chance when the opportunity is taken before you can prove yourself.
ReplyDeleteDamn right. Because of these illegal aliens, these young black males are now forced to sling dope at corners and gas stations. Because of the lack of stolen job opportunities, these young black males are now forced to work overtime al nights now too. Lets make american great again and deport these aliens.
DeleteMy Black friends can't even sling a dime bag nowadays. Thats the Venezuelan job. If I need party pills, I gotta call an amigo. Bring back the days where a brother could sell enough to keep gas in his Charger instead of having to steal guns for date money.
DeleteExactly! Either Home Depot or sling dope! You can’t have both. Otherwise go back to your filthy country across the ocean!
DeleteI was in Home Depot and they literally had a homosexual working in Landscaping. Like a flamer gay type. These jobs should be given to proud black kings.
DeleteFacts. We didnt venture over seas just to have our land we worked hard cultivating taken over by some homiesexuals.
Deletemy grandmama could grow doorknobs in old tires full of clay. She'd be rolling in her grave watching some limp wrist tell her what soil to use for maters. Where the Black man in overalls at?
DeletePeople working at Home Depot actually help you? The most interaction I've had with those people is them pointing out the obvious at the shelf I'm already looking and then being confused when I ask a simple question. I don't think most of them could tell you where the exit is and more than half of the men's room shitters are usually occupied by employees at any given time
DeleteBased on future income earnings that’s a low figure, heck the police dept pays more than that when the kill someone.
ReplyDeleteAnother officer committed suicide, and the guy had a wife and kids. Why let it get to that? Those kids are crippled in life now. We can’t hire people like that anymore .
ReplyDelete“Hire people like that” People like you are the problem, another officer worn down and feeling they’ve reached a limit… clearly you’re not a “brother” they could turn to.
DeleteOr maybe he wasn’t cut out for the job.
DeleteOr he worked a high stress job that is made a complete sh!t show by zero leadership. We will never know what made him give it all up.
DeleteFailure by their supervisors and brass
DeleteAlways blame up, when you can’t blame yourself. I like it.
DeleteI blame my horrible Capt for me not making the Sgt list. Now I'm still working nights in Metro
Delete1312 usually blame goes downward
DeleteI blame Chief for my short-comings.
DeleteShe is running out of excuses. Stop taking photos and start staffing the shifts.
DeleteCaptains gonna captain. They get told what to do by the Major who gets told what to do by the Omegas, CMS, Mayors Office, or Govco Center.
ReplyDeleteYou choose to stay in the mess and believe the lies that are told to you every week.
Of note no word of the death in the news…
ReplyDeleteCharlotte on another lynching exhibition after our strong beautiful Black leader Dr Crystal Hill. The already took out her husband. This city just can't stand a proud Black leader at the top, the always takes them out.
ReplyDeleteNo, they go after the money and get caught doing fraud and illegal deals. It’s easy pickings for the Feds.
DeleteTell me how a school super handles money? I'll wait. That's like calling JJ a fraud for getting a buyout when he left. Charlotte's school system is a shining hill showing how a Black woman can lead the most diverse district in NC into the future. Teachers want to work there, students get turned into tomorrow's leaders. This is all about that white Karen who lost her school board seat. I will hold judgement until everything comes to light. Hold your head up high Doctor Hill. You should be proud.
DeleteTeachers quit every week you dumb n*gg*r. It’s horrible there
DeleteYou highlight the challenge I present. To be a strong leader in Charlotte, you have to overcome this institutional racism. Teachers quit, but professional educators stay on until they qualify for retirement benefits. CMS ranks in the top 75 of districts in NC for quality of work. Facts
DeleteCMS was ranked last place in education for years, while receiving the most funding.
DeleteMost dangerous buildings in the city. More assaults than a jail, too
DeleteWell our school nurse can administor drugs to students without killing them on the regular
DeleteMCSO need to come take some health classes at Hawthorn Heath Magnet school
Hill was DEI and endorsed cover ups
ReplyDeleteMore murders this week in North West Area. Good thing we have a new office there. Robbin’s needs to open that jail ASAP
ReplyDeleteCMS ranks 1 in diversity and 1 in administration salary and benefits. This is the result most cities would kill to have
ReplyDeleteActually…safety and smaller class sizes are the main desires
DeleteJonathan Thomas is our new chief, so he must have seen something that Hill was doing wrong. Good job Chief Thomas
ReplyDeleteBut the CMS police are not worthy of conducting an investigation of the superintendent activities.
DeleteHill, Lyles, Foster
DeleteWhat’s the common factor?
Beautiful strong Black woman LEADERS. We need a monument to all of these special leaders who have made Charlotte what it is
DeleteHave you been downtown? It’s empty and full of homeless. The grass needs mowing off Eastway Drive. The traffic is horrible and Uni City has been a killing ground.
DeleteThe traffic is horrible because Charlotte has become a magnet for people moving here for opportunity and the federal DOT has not provided the resources to expand rapid transit and affordable solutions like extra electric buses. A toll lane to take out generational Black neighborhoods is not the answer. We have unhoused people due to public landlords driving up housing costs for the marginal worker. If we took those owned. communities and managed them with an equal allotment for affordable housing, this problem removes itself overnight.
DeleteWalk Biddleville and tell me this city isn't thriving. When we had white folx as the mayor, it was neglected. Today it is a shining example of urban renewal in Charlotte. I propose that the Gateway Station be named the Lyles Center.
CMS needs to apologize publicly to Dr Hill and give her the post back before she moves to another metro school district. Chicago would pay a ransom for her leadership and results.
Happy Juneteenth🎈. Obama was a far better president than little orange clown. Obama has been living in MAGA’s head rent free. This administration shows that without white privilege whitey couldn’t make it. Man, you can’t even get the reflective pool right. Who are all these snowflakes going to blame next for their incompetence. We are the laughing stock of the world.
ReplyDeleteDumbest comment of the year award right here
DeleteThe truth always hurts.
DeletePlease list below all things invented, created and built by blacks:
DeletePeanut Butter
DeleteSongs
Dance Moves
Peanut butter is the only thing I could come up with...George Washington Carver for the win baby lmfao
DeleteOur proud Black leaders run Charlotte. We are a minority in citizens, but majority in leadership here. We are building a massive gap between us (Charlotte) and the rest of NC income-wise.
DeleteWe have a retiring mayor who has shattered the ceiling for so many proud Black women. We have successful events in our downtown core, with streets named after our wonderfully proud Black institutions like Brooklyn Village and Good Sam Hospital. We will soon have a newly built club in our neighborhood that celebrates the proud heritage of having a wonderful night out. We have an HBCU right in the heart of our side of town that is a leader in education in the area.
And by the way, America doesn't get to the moon without Black people doing the work we were never credited for.
I love this post above.
DeleteHidden Numbers.
1136, stock market hit all time high this week, eliminated biggest terror threat in the world, UFC fight was successful, inflation is down,
ReplyDeleteYeah, Juneteenth though
And then you wake up. Come back to reality man. UFC 8.7 million viewers successfully? Inflation down😄. Iran again closed the strait🤫
ReplyDeleteWe need a Vi Lyles statue in the beautiful new airport that she had renovated in her time as mayor. A fitting tribute to our mahogany queen!
ReplyDeleteAgreed! And a DeCarlos Brown Jr statue at the East/West Blvd station! Both of these pillars of the community should be immortalized!
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