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Today Shanterrica Madden (pictured left) is scheduled to appear in court for her connection to the death of her roommate, the Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) basketball player Clantina "Tina" Marie Lapae Stewart (pictured).
At 6:48 p.m. on Wednesday, Murfreesboro Police Department received a 9-1-1 call about a disturbance at the women's apartment, the school newspaper reports. The cause of the altercation hasn't been confirmed but one can only wonder what would have drove Madden to murder. The officers arrived to find Stewart stabbed and she was sent to the Middle Tennessee Medical Center after the stabbing but died because of the severity of her injuries.
Authorities reported that 18-year-old Madden was charged with first-degree murder of 21-year-old Stewart and has been transferred to the Rutherford County Jail.
Born October 17, 1989, the victim was a Memphis native, junior at MTSU and a guard on women's basketball team the Blue Raiders. The team is the the No. 1 Seed team in the East and Stewart averaged 5.5 points, 2.5 rebounds in 28 games and started in 13 games this season.
The players are scheduled to play in the Sun Belt Conference tournament Friday but the "biggest concern is with Tina and her family. The team is devastated, but we'll work through this together ... one step at a time," said Chris Massaro, MTSU's athletic director.
Her aunt Diane Williams told AOL News that Stewart's parents, Ida and Adrian Jackson, are at the university and that the family is going through a "very hard time" but is "doing OK."
It's unfortunate that two college student's futures were damaged because of an argument but Madden deserves punishment if she is indeed guilty of the murder. If charged, she at least has a chance to attempt to turn her life around after serving her sentence. Stewart, on the other hand, was cheated out of an opportunity to further her dreams.
An impromtu candle-light vigil was held Wednesday night and The Daily News Journal reports that students and faculty planned another vigil Thursday night, with campus counselors available to those grieving her loss. Friends, teammates and mourners can also leave a note on Stewart's memorial page. She leaves her parents and three syblings.
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By: Robert on 3/03/2011 4:38PM
Watch your children's friends. Get them out the ghetto if they have any talent. Talk to your children no matter what age constantly. Black people have problems with discussing issues. Don't wait till it's your child and then want to kill someone who took your child's life. There is a lot of jealousy with our people talk to your kids about their relationships. We are losing too many intelligent students to murder and jealousy. GET OUT THE HOOD IF YOUR KID IS GOOD!
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By: clarke on 3/08/2011 10:55AM
What is all that s**t about "THE GHETTO" and "THE HOOD" Robert? Didn't THIS happen at a College? As if people don't get killed EVERYWHERE. SHUT YO DUMBASS UP!!!
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By: mike on 3/11/2011 10:02PM
yeah thats the answer get as far away from your people as you can move around white people where you will be loved and accepted clarke is right shut up.
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By: Greg on 3/03/2011 6:28PM
My God, didn't we just only yesterday see another stabbing death in Brooklyn, New York with ..."yes again two black women"? I also just minuets ago viewed another article here on BV's about a black women in Mississippi who put her "3 year old" into the oven, and turned it on! Now, again here we have ...yet again "two black women", and another stabbing death! What is wrong with these black women? And, black people in general that seem to think that violence is the only way to resolve personal conflicts, many centered around little more than pettiness, and jealousy! This is exactly, and sadly the kind of continuing "ghetto" mentality that is rampant, and accepted in the black community! In spite of what others may say, or feel the "HOOD" is nothing more than a killing field! Why aren't black leaders like Al Sharpton spending more time in the black community focuing of, and addressing these very kinds of issues? Instead of always wanting to be on the cable news networks,,,just talking and talking as usual? or, going to Arzona to march with Latinos?
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By: Angel Moreno on 3/07/2011 1:08PM
You wannabe black person...lol. You are addicted to BV and black people. You are a poor excuse of an impersonator. Get outa that back bedroom of the trailer and get a life.....smh!
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By: diamond on 3/05/2011 5:46PM
um greg there is nothing wrong with black woman it is about people in general lets not go into all the wrong doing white folks do to their children because i can run a list down to you fool! whats wrong with black women whats wrong with you im curious as to why you are even posting on BV i swear the things people post if you cant seem to post sh*t that make sense why post @ all
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By: CuriousMind on 3/05/2011 9:21PM
I have decided that Greg is a miserable gay bastard. Baby, sorry that a black woman hurt you so badly that you hate all women. Was it your mom? You need serious help...in the meantime...bend over and take it "like a man"
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By: Yasmeen Woods on 3/03/2011 7:46PM
I Knew Shanterrica personally, and she wasn't a bad person at all, she is a very friendly, sweet, and intelligent girl. If this was an act of self defense, she shouldn't have to face any punishment, and the HOOD doesnt have anything to do with, not everyone in the HOOD is a BAD person, don't criticize people from where they are from, its been people who have done bad things and are from the suburbs and no one says anything about them. Yea Im from the hood and i will rep the hood until the day i day, so dont judge anyone based off of where they are wrong, thats just wrong
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By: RBALLA on 3/03/2011 9:26PM
Yeah, you make a good point.
People shouldn't judge until the whole full story come out.
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By: Vanessa on 3/04/2011 6:30AM
"Yea Im from the hood and i will rep the hood until the day i day, so dont judge anyone based off of where they are wrong, thats just wrong"
You must be another black college student.
English major?
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