NEW: A federal jury has convicted Derick Irisha Brown in the 2019 deadly abduction of 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney. Brown, 32, was convicted of kidnapping that resulted in death and one count of conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim.
No state trial dates have yet been set.
Peeples told jurors a story about watching the Veterans Day parade in Birmingham last week from the window of his downtown office. “She found her kidnappers. She found a hand that covered her nose and mouth,’’ Peeples said. “She found evil. She didn’t find one monster, she found two.”Following the verdict, Peeples said he was thankful the jury stood up for justice, and for Cupcake.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler presided over both trials. While Stallworth’s trial was held in Birmingham, Brown’s attorneys successfully sought to have her trial moved to Tuscaloosa because of pretrial publicity. Then, a short time later, a 12-year-old girl said Stallworth stopped her as she was leaving cheerleading practice at Hayes K-8 and asked her if she wanted some candy. She ran away.
Since their 2019 arrests, Stallworth and Brown have blamed each other for the abduction and death of Cupcake. In closing arguments, Milner told jurors the evidence showed that Brown entered into an “evil plan” with Stallworth to kidnap a child.“When Stallworth brought that 3-year-old baby girl to the car, she should have rolled the window down and yelled. When they traveled to the Jet Pep gas station, instead of putting money down for gas, she should have grabbed that phone and called 911. When she was alone in that car, she should have taken that baby’s hand and gotten her to safety.
“We will never the exact horrors of what happened inside that apartment. But we know the defendant does,’’ Milner said. “We also know the defendant knows exactly what happened to her body. This defendant stripped this little girl of all her humanity. She removed her clothes…took her to that construction dumpster and dumped her in it.”
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