See No Evil on ID: What happened to Stephanie Powell-Anderson?

Publish date: 2024-06-04

Stephanie Powell-Anderson, a worker at the Exchange Wilco general store on Trawick Street, Raleigh, was lethally shot during an equipped burglary in April 2008. The crime location was found by her life partner, Fred Hewitt. Stephanie surrendered to her wounds at the medical clinic.

A chilling observation video later uncovered the occasions that prompted the shooting episode as the looter constrained the casualty to open the safe. Specialists associated the wrongdoing to a line of comparable homicide, endeavored murder, and thievery cases. They distinguished the suspect as Armond Devega in the wake of getting a urgent tip from one of his exes.

A forthcoming episode of ID’s See No Abhorrent will return to Stephanie Powell-Anderson’s case this Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at 9 pm ET. The outline of the episode, named Go along or Die, states:

At the hour of her passing, Stephanie Powell-Anderson used to live in Raleigh with her three kids from her most memorable marriage and her then-life partner, Fred Russell Hewitt. She worked at an Exchange Wilco odds and ends shop on Trawick Street and was entrusted with consistently opening the store at 4.30 am.

Fred used to come by the store consistently to buy a paper and invest energy with her prior to going to work. Yet, on April 10, 2008, he strolled into the crime location and tracked down the mother-of-three drooped behind the counter. He called 911 dispatchers around 5.15 am, mentioning a rescue vehicle at the Wilco odds and ends shop on Trawick Street.

At the point when specialists on call showed up, they saw Fred sitting adjacent to Stephanie, who was lethargic, while the previous was totally uninformed about what had occurred. He expected she had a coronary failure in light of the limited quantity of blood at the scene. Stephanie was taken to an adjoining medical clinic, where she died from the injuries.

After a post-mortem, the clinical inspector expressed that she died of a shot injury to the chest. With little to go with, investigators from the Raleigh Police Office at first addressed Fred on the grounds that he was quick to show up at the scene. Analysts consequently found the store’s observation film covering the front entryway and the front and behind the counter.

CCTV video showed a tall African-American man, wearing a dark hoodie and a blue handkerchief covering their face, moving toward Stephanie Powell-Anderson while she was opening the store. The man then took out a weapon and constrained her to open the store at gunpoint. Stephanie was heard shouting all through the episode as he constrained her to open the safe. He shot her when she neglected to consent.

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The veiled man then endeavored to open the protected himself yet without much of any result. He left the store minutes before the casualty’s life partner, Fred, showed up. Fred was then precluded as a suspect, and the specialists thought about the episode an instance of a bungled burglary.

Different comparative cases in and around Raleigh and a urgent tip from a lady professing to be the supposed looter, Armond Devega’s ex, drove specialists to the man with a broad lawbreaker record of equipped burglary. Armond was captured on October 24, 2008, from his folks’ home after specialists tracked down shoes with comparative prints to those from the crime location.

Armond was seen as at fault for the first-degree murder of Stephanie, a charge of endeavored first-degree murder, and six of eight counts of burglary with a gun connecting with various wrongdoings he perpetrated beginning in January and October. He was given life in jail without the chance of parole on the homicide accusation and 57 to 72 years for different charges.

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