Mother of slain Humboldt State University student Josiah Lawson continues fight for justice four years after he was stabbed to death at college party. - DatelineNBC
April 14, 2017 landed on a Friday that year. At around four in the afternoon, Charmaine Lawson, 47, left work and headed to a doctor’s appointment in Perris, California. Between raising her two kids at home and working full time at Kaiser Permanente, Charmaine had to find time between errands to call her son Josiah, who was attending college over 700 miles away.“Oh, man.
Charmaine first came to the United States when she was 14 years old. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she spent her childhood in Trelawny Parish just outside of Montego Bay. Like most mothers, Charmaine wanted the best for her kids and worked hard to give it to them. Josiah, her oldest, was always there to help out.
When Josiah returned for his second year at Humboldt State in August 2016, he moved in with a couple of girls he was friends with in a house a short walk from campus. That same month, Josiah met Renalyn Bobadilla, a biology major, and the two began dating. Right after that, Kyle Castillo said a fight broke out between Renalyn and Ortega which caused Josiah and Kyle Zoellner to fight. After a few minutes, the fighting ended and the two groups parted ways. Josiah, Renalyn and the Castillo brothers walked away from the house toward Spear Avenue as the other group stayed near the front of the house.
Wright then walked toward his roommate’s car, but turned around when he heard screams coming from the house. As he walked closer, he saw Josiah and Kyle Zoellner wrestling in the grass behind a red 1990s-era Ford Mustang. Renalyn found Josiah laying on the ground in the bushes. Another friend was applying pressure to Josiah’s wounds as police arrived on the scene and arrested Kyle Zoellner. After about 15 minutes, an ambulance transported Josiah to the hospital.
Kyle Zoellner’s preliminary hearing started on May 1, 2017, just two weeks after the stabbing. During a preliminary hearing, a judge acts as a neutral arbiter to determine if there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial. Casey Gleaton, a friend of Kyle Zoellner who was at the party, testified that the next day she was at the apartment Zoellner shared with Lila Ortega. Gleaton remembers Ortega went outside to the car Zoellner had driven to the party the night before and came back in with a bag of chef’s knives. Gleaton testified that she remembered Ortega saying there should be four knives but there were only three in the bag.
that the decision not to indict hinged on the possibility of self-defense, a statement Zoellner apparently never made when questioned at the police station after the incident by then Detective Sergeant Todd Dokweiler. Kyle Zoellner maintains his innocence and has a civil suit pending against the City of Arcata. It alleges that his arrest, detention and prosecution were unlawful; that his constitutional rights were violated and that he was defamed by officers within the Arcata Police Department. The City and Police Department dispute these claims and are contesting the lawsuit.by the National Police Foundation, a non-profit based in Washington, D.C.
Dokweiler was the detective sergeant in charge of the case and questioned Zoellner hours after the stabbing. He told Dateline that he kept the interview brief in part because of short staffing in the police department. Ahearn also said Zoellner has not been reinterviewed, but he is confident he knows who killed Josiah.
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