This is 27-year-old Tyrone Spellman.
He is also known as Anwar Salahuddin.
Tyrone Spellman likes to do two things -
- Doing drugs
- Playing Xbox games
On the 7th of September, 2006, Tyrone Spellman had spent the day sitting in a front bedroom, playing Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon on his older brother’s Xbox system. This is understandable, as Ghost Recon is an excellent game worthy of long playtime.
For a while, Tyrone Spellman let his daughter, 17-month-old Alayiah Turman, play with one of the Xbox controllers. She did that happily, sitting next to her daddy, until Tyrone Spellman put her on the bed next to him in order to concentrate more fully on the 3-dimensional gaming goodness.
Alayiah Turman started to fuss, like 17-month-olds will. She grabbed the controller, which Tyrone Spellman had placed on the bed.
With the graceful dexterity for which toddlers are known, Alayiah Turman pulled the controller cord, which caused the entire Xbox system to fall over.
With the burst of violent anger for which people featured on People You’ll See In Hell are known, Tyrone Spellman punched his 17-month-old daughter right in the face.
Twice.
Then Tyrone Spellman aka Anwar Salahuddin, picked up his little girl and threw her down, as hard as he could, onto a wooden chair with only a few cushions to break her fall.
The reason Tyrone Spellman snapped?
The only reason I snapped ’cause I thought she broke my brother’s $600 Xbox and I don’t have any money to pay him back.
Alayiah Turman’s head was cracked like a walnut. Her father had cracked her skull, breaking it in three places.
Thinking quickly, Tyrone Spellman, aka Anwar Salahuddin, moved his daughter’s broken body to another room, where it was posed near a barbell in a feeble attempt to make the death look like an accident before emergency personnel arrived.
Doctors figured out what had happened fairly quickly and Tyrone Spellman, who has three prior convictions on drug offenses in two different states, became the prime suspect. Brought in for interrogation, Anwar Salahuddin aka Tyrone Spellman confessed what had happened after 24 hours of questioning by homicide detectives.
There was a trial.
The defense attorney, Bobby Hoof, worked hard to get his client off. Hoof claimed that his client was innocent, that the confession had been coerced and that the child’s mother, Mia Turnman, who has a history of child neglect but was 8 months pregnant at the time, was responsible for killing Alayiah Turman.
This defense didn’t convince the jury, who returned a verdict of guilty for the charge of third-degree murder on the 29th of January, 2008.
Tyrone Spellman aka Anwar Salahuddin, faces a maximum penalty of a 23 to 47 year prison sentence.
By the time he gets out, according to our calculations, the Xbox 2160 will be out.
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Let’s hope he gets his own videogame in prison… the beatdown of child killers
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that will be some hardcore realistic screen shots and effects huh? not only will the controller vibrate, but his entire body will be apart of the game…
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Well, if the damn kid hadn’t pulled the X-box over then none of this would have happened.
Gotta go. I’m hungry and my wife better have dinner on the flippin’ table.
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“’cause I thought she broke my brother’s $600 Xbox”. My first reaction would be to yell a word that I would not want my daughter to repeat. It sounds like the Xbox 360 is OK, so why isn’t the baby?
You’ll be doing some 360’s yourself and I hope that the General Population takes care of this POS long before his sentence is up, because as a taxpayer I’d much rather support our troops, build highways, etc… than feed POS!
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Exactly, we need more like him. What nerve of her to interrupt his game?! He was probably playing Call of Duty 4, that game kicks ass!
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The child was clearly not even worth $600.
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i love the voting choices on this one lol
in before glory???
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Justice will be served. And hell waits for thee.
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If part of the police’s “sensitivity training” is getting sprayed with pepper spray/mace and getting “tazed” so that they’ll understand the pain that they will put a perp in, then maybe these POS should undergo the same sort of things with regaurds to what they put their victims through!
Think of it as “sensitivity rehabilitation”. Just think about the number of criminals who would think twice about re-offending after attending such training. I am sure that they’d gain a much better understanding of what it is like to be a victim…. Yeah right…. they’d just be scared shit knowing what was in store for them.
BUT I am sure that the GP would be happy to provide “sensitivity rehabilitation” for free!
To put it simply (I threatened my X in laws with this) “What you’ve done unto others will be done unto you”
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I feel ill.
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I am an overweight, not-quite-middle-aged, die-hard agnostic white woman born and bred in the bible belt/corn belt/bread basket midwest of the U. S. of A. I’ve never deliberately, physically assaulted anyone in my life. Given some time, alone, in a room with this POS, I would do my damndest to make him feel the terror and pain that his little girl experienced at her daddy’s hands.
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I thought most 360 controllers were wireless? hmm…
So let this be a lesson, do what a friend of mine and myself have done, pick a controller that’s NOT PLUGGED IN and hand it to the child, let them believe they are playing with you, and they will be happy. When their attention span reaches it’s limit (3 seconds later) and they walk away not thinking, instead of the system crashing on the floor, they have just the troller
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@Kenny Or better yet, turn off the fucking video game and read the kid a book.
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I’ve heard some videogames are on the cutting edge of virtual reality. Let’s put him in one where he is beaten everyday.
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Michael- I hope when you bash wifey’s head in for not having dindin on the table on time, you have the decency to pose her in another room next to some barbells. Class, y’know… it goes a long ways.
And Kenny! What kind of crack are you smoking? It’s all well and good to give a child some non-workable play-troller… but not half as much fun as deliberately keeping them out of the loop!
I’m one of those terrible mothers who gave their children pots and pans with dried macaroni and dried beans to play with in the kitchen when I was cooking. I even let them ‘cook’ their food in a drawer! I know, I know. I’m just evil. I should have let them burn their little hands on the real oven…. then I’d have a good reason to crack their skulls open and pose them in another room like I’d been teasing them by not letting them play with my barbells. Poor things, the barbells just ‘fell’ on their necks!
I remember something like that from when I was a kid. My older cousin swore the ‘hickey’s’ she had on her neck were from the dog stepping on her.
Um, well, without all the child-killing violence, it’s kinda the same?
Video game…child’s life…video game…child’s life. That’s not just ANY video game, dammit! Yeah, hard call to make.
I’m guessing the brain-fry from his previous drug use had nothing to do with it? Nice to know the men are still staying home, minding the house while the womenfolks are bringing in the bacon.
That’s one reason not to bitch at your man about taking care of things around the house instead of working at a job. For some reason the kids seem to get dead quicker that way. Go figure.
Don’t inmates get to watch telly and have ‘playtime’ with video games? Seems like an ironic ‘punishment’.
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will say one thing, contrary to popular belief(only because I’ve seen a couple through my criminal justice degree) most prisons are NOT country clubs. The food is crap and every day it’s the same old routine of numbness and boredom. As for your own education, most have to pay for it, not get it for free as many believe. As to why inmates get things such as tvs, weights etc. It’s not to keep them comfortable but to keep the other inmates and more importanely the guards safe. Prison is not supposed to be a fun place but making it hell will only lead to one thing, a riot. Just look at riots many private correctional facilities have had and you’ll see what I mean.
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“The food is crap and every day it’s the same old routine of numbness and boredom. As for your own education, most have to pay for it, not get it for free as many believe.”
Umm… kinda sounds a lot like adulthood and marriage. If I’d have let him, my ex would have cooked (read: microwaved) tofu-dogs and Boca Burgers every day. Luckily I didn’t let him, and I actually like cooking. Otherwise, sounds the same.
“As to why inmates get things such as tvs, weights etc. It’s not to keep them comfortable but to keep the other inmates and more importanely the guards safe. Prison is not supposed to be a fun place but making it hell will only lead to one thing, a riot.”
Based on that statement, it sounds like it IS just to make them comfortable- comfortable meaning that the guards are safe.
Riots? I’m not against them. Get the correctional (and why do they call them ‘correctional’ when nobody is being corrected?) officers out, lock the gates and let them riot all they want. Take a body count every few days.
Then again, I’m all for encouraging and facillitating suicide in prisons, so what do I know? Shoestrings and belts for every prisoner! Everyone with a conscience can kill themselves, anyone without can kill each other!
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would be nice if the dirtbags would off themselves but the inmates that usually off themselves are mentally ill, not the dirtbags on here. As for the riots.. same thing. Such a pity that the child molesters are seperated from the rest of the inmates, that would be a body count I would enjoy seeing.
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I rather let the dirtbags sit in prision and pay then get to have a riot and people killed. That’s an early release and not for good behavior.
My dumbass friend just got locked up again (this might be a little off because I don’t know if this guy was a repeat offender) but people get so used to the lifestyle and the security of it. There’s not job, no rent to pay. Really, prision life is simple. Yeah the food sucks, but it’s easier there then outside in the real life. I mean my buddy, he’s like my brother, just got out in November after doing a 8.5 month stint and he’s already back in. Some people just can’t function in the real world.
Fortunately for this Tyrone Anwar whatever his name is, there are no video games, but music videos.
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My brother was in jail for awhile (not for a violent offense, it was a weapons violation I think) and he says it was godawful. The place was horribly overcrowded, at like twice the maximum, and there was nothing to do so of course the prisoners ended up fighting one another. This was just jail though, not a prison.
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Well, hell. There’s not much to say about this one I suppose. I’m pretty much at a loss. My boys used to play video games and give my dauther an unattached controller to play with because she bugged the hell out of them to let her play. I, myself, never got into playing video games after I had my kids. I had better things to do. Like, TAKE CARE OF THEM!!! Oh yeah, and my boys never killed her when she accidentally pulled the game off the shelf. Thank God huh?
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brit, sad to say but society puts up so many roadblocks to felons that prison often does become easier than trying to live in the free world. Our prisons are filled with people that don’t need to be in there, (drug offenders). This guy however is not among them. Child killers deserve nothing less than death in my option.
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Death and hell for this stupid, sick bastard!
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I think drug offenders need to be in there just as bad as anyone else. Think about how many of these crimes are done when someone isn’t given rehab for drug addiction. My friend relapsed, tweaked the fuck out, and started breaking into peoples houses. Drugs inhance the ability and take away the common sense and then their logic blurs and they can’t decipher whats right and wrong. Break into someone’s house….or they can eat their girlfriend. You get the point I hope.
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So send the drug offenders to jail for crimes they committed while under the influence of drugs. Don’t send them to jail for sitting around peacefully in their houses smoking pot.
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Drug offenders need to be in there just as badly as anyone else out there.
My old neighbor was a 40 year old woman and she had 4 kids from the ages 12-18 and she had all of her kids running drugs errands for her. She was selling meth out of her house and letting these children get into it. Talk about messed up. (And the cops are worried about people that have speeding tickets. lmfao)
I don’t care what you say, drug offenders should be in prison. I see these fuckers walking around campus selling these drugs to little kids, I see them putting roofies in drinks at parties, etc. I have seen these idiots walk the streets and hurt others.
EXAMPLE: Rapid City, South Dakota. A young man was tweaking out and he was at his friends house. Well, he freaked out and stabbed this woman 70 times, stole her rings off her fingers (just as someone is walking in the door), steals her jeep and takes off. Do you really think drugs are safe enough for people to have?
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This dumb fuck is worring about a 600 dollar game. that caused him to be somebodys bitch once he touches down his own daughter whats wrong with these people.
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FUCK THE DRUGS THAT BITCH IS SAD …….THEY NEED TO KILL THAT BITCH SLOWLY
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Nice one..lol…love the image..Yeah, that is pretty stupid, I think I would rather worry about the child over the Xbox. I think I would rather break a damn Xbox over sitting in prison. What an idiot.
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(snicker)
Do they even HAVE xboxes in prison? Or hell?
It’s like no more meth cuz you just can’t pay
Like being in prison when they take your xbox away
It’s the cheater codes that you now can’t play
Who would’ve thought… it figures
Isn’t it ironic, dontcha think?
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I didn’t have a hard time clicking the “yes” button on this poll.
You know, this reminds me of a similar situation I found myself in several years ago. About six years ago, when the PS2 was a new thing and cost $300, my husband and I saved up 6 months for one. We gave up desert, eating out, going to the movies, cable TV, an internet connection and all the other modern conveniences that most people take for granted. After having it (the PS2) for two months, we woke up to a horrendous CRASH in the middle of the night. Our young kitten had knocked our PS2 down and, by all accounts, it looked broken! We both shouted out a few choice curse words and I grabbed the kitten to make sure he was okay while my husband examined the PS2 to see if it could be salvaged. The kitten, despite being frightened by the crash, was okay (he’s now 6 years old and lying in my lap as I type this) and so was our PS2. A little troubleshooting and it was fine. In fact, my husband is sitting three feet away from me playing a game on the very same console, 6 years later.
In all of that, I never, ever even entertained the notion of beating our kitten to death for knocking the PS2 down. I was more concerned that he was okay! We could have raised the money for another PS2, but no kitten would have ever been like him (like children, all pets have their own distinct personalities) In short, he was more valuable and we both knew it.
My point here is that a life, (and in the case of this loser, a human life,) is more important than a video game console, no matter how entertaining or expensive it is. It’s a shame this idiot never learned that machines can be replaced, but lives cannot. I even get the feeling that he doesn’t feel that his deadly abuse of his innocent, helpless child is even his fault. I’m glad the courts begged to differ.
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i don’t care if that XBox was 5 thousand, 10 thousand dollars or 500 thousand dollars. you can buy another one. a child’s life is priceless. that man is sick and deserves to die.
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Remember this dumb fuck? He was into his video games too and didn’t care about little kids.
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i wonder which of these his brother would have given more of a shit about-
buying a new xbox, or burying his niece.
my brother would have just picked up and hugged the baby, cursed me out, and garnished my wages until he had enough for a new one. and that would have been fine with me. isn’t that what normal families do? hell, maybe we’re actually the abnormal ones here.
tyrone anwar… noooo… he’d rather punch the baby to death. all the baby food and diapers she required all the time, she was clearly a taker. so why the hell should he have had to spend another $600 behind her when he could just go mortal kombat on her? he even had some barbells laying conveniently close by so he made the obvious choice!
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My brother would have claimed the broken x-box on insurance….
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