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February 27, 2006
Another St. Elmo Slaying
Chattanooga police charged a 19-year-old man with murder Saturday night, hours after an owner of the Okie-Dokie Market #5 was found behind the counter of her store, dead from a gunshot to the chest. Police said Charles Nash confessed to shooting Ok-Hui Brown, 64, in a robbery – as well as admitting to another robbery several blocks north. Brown was found by two neighborhood children and pronounced dead at the corner market, located at 5601 St. Elmo Avenue. A Chattanoogan.com report quotes police as saying Nash "shot the clerk with a silver and black semi-automatic gun and robbed the store of a cash register and video recorder machine."
Neighborhood reaction to the killing of the woman nicknamed “Mrs. Okie” was severe. “We are very angry and upset, if that store on 55th [Street] and all of the drug dealers on that street were gone, chances are very good that Okie would still be alive,” wrote Theresa Wood on the st-elmo.org mailing list. “It is of little consolation that the murderer has been caught. I can certainly assure you that Mr. Brown has no sympathy for the 19-year-old killer and all I have to say is that this is felony murder which is a death penalty offense and I will be watching the prosecutor’s office on this one.”
News Update | By mesh | 08:53 PM
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