Detective: Jackson triple homicide that killed 2-year-old was premeditated
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) — Bond was denied again for one of the men accused of killing three people, including a 2-year-old, in Jackson.
Devon Modacure was back in court Tuesday. He is charged with three counts of capital murder, burglary, armed robbery, auto theft and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
Modacure is accused of killing 2-year-old Camari Givens, the child’s mother, 26-year-old Keyana Weathersby, and her sister, 30-year-old Erica Weathersby. His case will now be bound over to a Hinds County grand jury.
“His phone was the location at the time of the homicide along with the other co-defendant,” said Detective Terrence Jackson, who’s with the Jackson Police Department.
How the killings unfolded
Jackson said the killings were premeditated.
He said Modacure, Jordan Carter, Cornelius Carter, who are not related, and Cornelius Carter’s girlfriend, Mikala Young, went to a home on Queen Alexandria Lane on June 27.
“The original plan, she (Young) said they were going to buy some weed, some marijuana,” Jackson said. “Then as they continued to drive, that’s when they start loading the guns, putting on (ski) masks, and that’s when they discussed about killing everyone inside.”
Jackson said it was a robbery scheme that turned into murder. While on the witness stand, Jackson told the court the suspects found out Givens recently won a lot of money and sold marijuana.
The homeowner the suspects planned to rob is the 2-year-old’s father, Cadelmon Givens. He knew Jordan Carter, according to police.
Jackson testified that once the suspects made it to the scene, Modacure got out of the vehicle and removed the tag from the white Expedition they were in. According to Jackson, Jordan Carter called and told Givens he was outside.
Once Givens made it outside, Modacure approached him, according to police.
“Mr. Givens stated that an individual was coming up behind the vehicle with all black on, had a handgun, and told him not to run,” Jackson said.
Jackson told the court that Givens took off running while Modacure and Cornelius Carter began shooting at him. Jackson said Givens hid behind a neighbor’s house and called 911.
Modacure and Cornelius Carter are then accused of going inside the home and killing everyone inside.
While on the witness stand, Jackson detailed how the three victims were killed.
“Keyana was in the front room,” Jackson said. “She was fired upon multiple times. She was sitting on the couch, she was killed on the couch. Erica was a 30-year-old who was actually running down the hall. She was later found in the bathroom in the rear bedroom with multiple defensive wounds. Also, we observed the 2-year-old that was laying on the bed with multiple gunshot wounds.”
Other suspects, relationship to case
In court, Jackson said Young drove the three other suspects to the home on Queen Alexandria Lane.
Police say the suspects stole roughly two pounds of marijuana, which they split up among themselves.
Cornelius Carter and Jordan Carter, both 28, were arrested on capital murder charges and also denied bond.
After fleeing the scene, Young allegedly dropped off Jordan Carter near his home. She then went to stay the night with Cornelius Carter, her boyfriend.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Young’s attorney told the judge the 26-year-old thought she was taking the male suspects to the house strictly to buy marijuana, and she did not know anything about the planned robbery. The defense also argues Young did not leave the scene sooner because she was being held against her will.
Out on bond at the time of the killings
Court records show Modacure’s criminal history stretches back more than a decade.
Jackson police first charged Modacure in 2012 with shooting into an occupied vehicle, and a grand jury indicted him on motor vehicle theft months later. In 2014, law enforcement arrested Modacure for possession of a stolen firearm, a charge that was later remanded to his file.
Modacure pleaded guilty to robbery, carjacking, motor vehicle theft and shooting into a vehicle in October 2015. He was sentenced to 10 years, six of those were suspended. Modacure served less than two years in MDOC facilities after earning credits for extra responsibilities as a trusty and additional programs in which he participated.
Less than a year after his release, a confrontation with Jackson police ended with him being shot. He later pleaded guilty to a federal felon-in-possession charge and served three years in federal prison.
Court records indicate that Modacure was indicted on two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, possession of a stolen weapon and convicted felon in possession of a firearm. He later took a plea deal that reduced his charge to simple assault on a law enforcement officer, a misdemeanor, and Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd sentenced Modacure to five years, with four years and 364 days suspended. The remaining counts were remanded to his file, and the state declined to enhance the charges by charging him as a habitual offender.
Video obtained by 3 On Your Side appeared to back up Modacure’s claim. His case reached the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where his claims were dismissed with prejudice.
When Modacure was arrested in connection with the triple homicide, he was out on bond, still waiting for a grand jury indictment on multiple drug felonies and felony fleeing. He had been waiting on that since January 2025, court records show.
Just weeks before the killings, Capitol Police arrested Modacure and charged him with drug possession for counterfeit oxycodone. An unlisted judge in the Capital Complex Improvement District initially held Modacure on no bond, but on May 26, reduced his bond to $100,000.
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