By Mrs. Eileen Hunter — about the author.
In March 2001, when Levi Williams, Jeremy Staten and Chavez Staten were killed at 221 Greenwood Drive in Monroe, Tony Hunter was employed as a welder’s helper at James Machine Works. (R. 2238; 2022 application, Statement of Facts.) (Full transcription.)
The 2022 application sets out what his supervisor at James Machine Works, Ronald Davidson, testified: that Tony Hunter “worked a full week during the week of March 5–10, 2001, except for Thursday the 8th which was a day off, and a full 39 hour week the following week, March 12–16, 2001.” (R. 2239.)
The first of those weeks runs to March 10, 2001, the date of the homicides. The second is the week that followed them.
The work is also the reason the record gives for the red truck. On March 7, 2001 he leased a red 2000 Ford F-150 from Enterprise “to get back and forth from work.” (R. 179.) (The red truck.)
The other half: a work record accounts for hours on the job, not for the evening of March 10. For that evening the record has a separate source: Brenda Graves confirmed to investigators on May 8, 2001 that Mr. Hunter was at the March-birthdays party until at least 7:30 p.m., and “she did not see him after 7:30 p.m.” (R. 185.) The rest of the night rests on the account set out in the 2022 application. (The alibi the jury never heard · the alibi file.) That application was denied on February 1, 2023 without an evidentiary hearing. (Procedural history.)
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