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       ~ Don Grant, 27Jan22, (OK) ~
       By: BuzzC Date: December 10, 2021, 10:43 pm
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       Donald Grant Oklahoma Death Row--
       March 31, 2021
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       Donald Grant was sentenced to death by the State of Oklahoma for
       a robbery murder. According to court documents Donald Grant
       would enter a hotel and in the process of robbing it would shoot
       and kill two employees. Donald Grant would be arrested,
       convicted and sentenced to death.
       On July 18, 2001, Appellant entered a LaQuinta Inn in Del City,
       ostensibly to fill out an employment application. In reality,
       Appellant had planned to rob the hotel in order to obtain money
       to post bond for a girlfriend, Shlonda Gatewood (who was in the
       Oklahoma County Jail at the time), and was prepared to kill any
       witnesses to the crime. Appellant may have been motivated to
       strike this particular business because another girlfriend of
       his, Cheryl Tubbs, had been fired from employment there a few
       months before;  in any event, Appellant was familiar with
       the layout of the property and the location of video
       surveillance equipment.
       When Appellant saw the hotel manager, Brenda McElyea, he
       approached her with a pistol in his hand and ordered her to walk
       to a storage room, where he fatally shot her once in the head,
       and slashed her neck and back with a box knife to make sure the
       knife was sharp enough to use on his next victim. Appellant then
       left the storage room and approached another employee, Suzette
       Smith, in the break room. Appellant ordered Smith at gunpoint to
       give him the money from the hotel register, which she did.
       Appellant then ordered Smith to walk back to the manager’s
       office, where he shot her three times in the face. Smith
       continued to struggle to escape, so Appellant brutally beat her
       and cut her numerous times with his knife. He hit Smith in the
       head with his pistol, attempted to break her neck, and threw a
       computer monitor on her head in an effort to stop her
       struggling.   Eventually, Smith succumbed to her wounds
       and died in the office. Before leaving the office, Appellant
       took personal property from Smith’s purse. Appellant then left
       the hotel and walked to a nearby discount store, where he
       abandoned his pistol and some traveler’s checks he had taken in
       the robbery. He then called a cab to take him to the home of
       Cheryl Tubbs. Later that day, Appellant used money from the
       robbery to pay Shlonda Gatewood’s bond, which was about $200.
       Appellant and Gatewood then used a stolen car to drive from
       Oklahoma City to New York City, where Appellant had family.
       About a month after the murders, Appellant was arrested in New
       York and returned to Oklahoma.
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       #Post#: 490--------------------------------------------------
       Re: ~ Don Grant, 27Jan22, (OK) ~
       By: BuzzC Date: January 30, 2022, 3:59 pm
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       NYC native executed in Oklahoma for killing two hotel workers in
       2001--
       January 27th, 2022
       A New York City native was executed by lethal injection in
       Oklahoma on Thursday morning for killing two hotel workers
       during a 2001 robbery.
       Donald Grant, 46, who grew up in a city public housing complex
       during the 1980's, was put to death at the Oklahoma State
       Penitentiary in McAlester after an unsuccessful bid to halt the
       execution.
       “Yo, God, I got this,” Grant said in his last words in front of
       seven witnesses. “No medication. I didn’t take nothing. Brooklyn
       for life,” he said.
       He also chanted incoherently and continued speaking after his
       microphone from inside the execution chamber was turned off.
       Grant, during a clemency hearing last November, admitted to
       murdering Brenda McElyea and Felicia Suzette Smith at the La
       Quita Inn in Del City. He said he committed the slayings to
       eliminate witnesses to the robbery.
       The women were found shot and stabbed.
       Following the murders, Grant fled to the Big Apple and was
       arrested at his sister’s Bronx apartment.
       Shirl Pilcher, the sister of McElyea, witnessed Grant’s
       execution and said her family finally felt justice had been
       served.
       “Although Donald Grant’s execution does not bring Brenda back,
       it allows us all to finally move forward knowing justice was
       served,” Pilcher said, according to the Associated Press.
       Grant was the first person executed in the U.S., in 2022 — and
       the third in Oklahoma since the state resumed lethal injections
       in October.
       He sought a delay in the execution, arguing to a federal judge
       that he should be restored as a plaintiff in a lawsuit
       challenging the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s lethal injection
       method of execution.
       The judge, an appeals panel and the U.S. Supreme Court denied
       Grant’s request.
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