Woman shot in Durham home invasion dies : : WRAL. Durham, N. C. — A Durham woman shot during a home invasion last month has died, police said Thursday. Esther Mae Leak, 7.

A Durham woman shot during a home invasion last month has died, police said Thursday.

March 1. 9 when a man forced his way into her home in the 3. Burnette Street, police said. Leak's 5. 1- year- old son also was shot but has since recovered. The gunman stole the son's 2.

Chevrolet Cruze, and police spotted the car the following day and arrested the driver, Jemar Sherray Beulah Jr., after a chase that ended when the car crashed into a tree off Dearborn Drive and burst into flames. Beulah, 2. 0, of Durham, was charged Thursday with murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He has been in jail since his March arrest on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and one count each of robbery with a dangerous weapon, possession of a stolen vehicle, larceny of a motor vehicle, felony fleeing to elude law enforcement officials, aggressive driving and reckless driving.

Leak's son, who was also shot during this home invasion, is out of the hospital. He said he is still healing and is heartbroken because his mother was his best friend.

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Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders. Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders. Location. Cheshire, Connecticut. Date. July 2. 3, 2. Target. Petit family.

Attack type. Home invasion, kidnapping, sexual assault, arson, murder. Weapons. Deaths. 3Non- fatal injuries. Perpetrators. Steven Hayes. Joshua Komisarjevsky. The Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders occurred on July 2.

Jennifer Hawke- Petit and her two daughters were raped and murdered, while her husband, Dr. William Petit, was injured during a home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut.[1]The Hartford Courant referred to the case as "possibly the most widely publicized crime in the state's history".[2] In 2. Steven Hayes was convicted of the murders and sentenced to death. His accomplice, Joshua Komisarjevsky, was found guilty on October 1. January 2. 7, 2. 01. In August 2. 01. 5, the state of Connecticut abolished the death penalty. Therefore, on that date, all death sentences were changed to life- in- prison, even if that sentencing took place prior to the date that the death penalty was abolished.[4][5]Background[edit]Late in the afternoon of Sunday, July 2.

Jennifer Hawke- Petit and her 1. Michaela Petit went to a local grocery store in Cheshire, Connecticut. They picked up food for Jennifer's pre- birthday meal that Michaela planned to prepare for her. During their trip to the grocery store, they attracted the attention of Joshua Komisarjevsky, who followed them home.[6][7]Steven Hayes messaged Komisarjevsky: "I'm chomping at the bit to get started.

Need a margarita soon." Hayes then texted, "We still on?" Komisarjevsky replied, "Yes." Hayes' next text asked, "Soon?", to which Komisarjevsky replied: "I'm putting the kid to bed hold your horses". Hayes then wrote: "Dude, the horses want to get loose. LOL."[8][9]Home invasion[edit]According to Hayes' confession, the two men had planned to rob the Petit house under cover of darkness leaving the family bound, but unharmed. Hayes attributed the outcome to a change of plan. Upon their arrival in the early hours of July 2. William Petit sleeping on a couch on the porch.[1. Komisarjevsky struck William on the head with a baseball bat found in the yard and then tied him up at gunpoint in the basement.

The children and their mother were then bound and locked in their respective rooms.[1][1. Hayes said that he and Komisarjevsky were not satisfied with their haul, and that a bankbook was found which showed an available balance. A gas station's video surveillance shows Hayes purchasing $1. Petit home.[8] After returning to the house, and unloading the gas, he took Jennifer to the bank.

The prosecution later claimed that this was evidence of premeditated murder.[1. Hayes convinced Jennifer to withdraw $1. Bank surveillance cameras captured the transaction which shows Jennifer Hawke- Petit, on the morning of July 2. The bank manager then called 9. Jennifer was still with the teller. The manager reported to the 9.

Jennifer left the bank and was picked up by Hayes, describing his clothing as he drove away with her. The manager stated that Jennifer had indicated the assailants were "being nice", and she believed they only wanted money.

The Cheshire police response to the bank's report began with assessing the situation and setting up a vehicle perimeter, without revealing their presence.[1. The police remained outside for more than half an hour, taking these preliminary measures, while the assailants were raping and murdering the women inside the house.[1. The police dawdled at the scene, and made no effort to make the assailants aware of their presence.[1. During this time, Hayes and Komisarjevsky escalated the aggravated nature of their crimes: Komisarjevsky sexually assaulted the 1. Michaela.[1. 5][1.

Komisarjevsky, who had photographed the sexual assault of the girl on his cell phone,[1. Hayes into raping Jennifer. While Hayes was raping her on the floor of the living room, Komisarjevsky entered the room and announced that William Petit had escaped. Hayes then strangled Jennifer, doused her lifeless body and parts of the house, including the daughters' rooms, with gasoline. While tied to their beds, both daughters had been doused with gasoline; each had her head covered with a pillowcase.[1.

A fire was started, and Hayes and Komisarjevsky fled the scene. Hayley and Michaela both died of smoke inhalation.[1. William Petit had been able to free himself, escape his confines, and call to a neighbor for help.[2.

The neighbor indicated that he did not recognize him due to the severity of Petit's injuries. In court testimony, William Petit stated that he felt a "jolt of adrenaline" coupled with a need to escape upon hearing one of the perpetrators state: "Don't worry, it's going to be all over in a couple of minutes." Petit then told the jury, "I thought, it's now or never because in my mind at that moment, I thought they were going to shoot all of us."[2. Hayes and Komisarjevsky fled the scene using the Petit family car. They were immediately spotted by police surveillance, pursued, and arrested one block away.[1. The whole invasion lasted seven hours.

The scenario was revealed in a confession by Hayes just hours after the killings. Detectives testified that Hayes smelled strongly of gasoline throughout the interrogation.[2. Each perpetrator blamed or implicated the other as the mastermind and driving force behind the spree.[2. There were even attempts to blame William Petit as an accomplice. Komisarjevsky later kept a diary, entered into evidence, in which he chose to call Petit a "coward" and claimed that he could have stopped the murders had he wanted to.[1. Victims[edit]Jennifer Hawke- Petit (born September 2.

Cheshire Academy, a private boarding school. She met her husband, William Petit, in 1. Children's Hospital when he was a third- year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh and she was a new nurse.[1. Their eldest daughter Hayley (born October 1. Miss Porter's School and was scheduled to attend Dartmouth College.[2.

Hayley had been an active fundraiser for multiple sclerosis research, following Jennifer's diagnosis with that disease.[2. Daughter Michaela (born November 1. Chase Collegiate School before her death.[2. William Petit, the sole survivor of the home invasion, is an endocrinologist in Cheshire. He survived when he escaped via a direct external exit from the basement despite his injuries.[2.

He has not returned to his medical practice since the murders, stating his desire to be active in the foundations set up to honor the memory of his deceased family.[1. He contemplated running for Congress as a Republican, but later decided against it.[2. In the following election cycle, he successfully completed a Congressional run and now serves as a state representative.[3.

Perpetrators[edit]Steven J. Hayes (born May 3. Homestead, Florida)[2. October 5, 2. 01. On November 8, 2. He was formally sentenced to death by Superior Court Judge Jon C. Blue on December 2, 2.

Hayes is an inmate of the Connecticut Department of Correction. His criminal history shows him sentenced for his first offense at the age of 1. Subsequent to sentencing for the Petit murders, and up until August 1. Pennsylvania as part of an interstate corrections compact), he was incarcerated in the Northern Correctional Institution,[3. Somers, Connecticut. The method of execution employed by Connecticut was lethal injection,[3.

Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers.[3. This sentence became an automatic life sentence when Connecticut abolished the death penalty in 2. Joshua A. Komisarjevsky (born August 1. Hayes' co- conspirator in the home invasion and murders. He was born in 1. Benedict Komisarjevsky, the son of theatrical director Theodore Komisarjevsky and dancer Ernestine Stodelle, and his wife Jude (née Motkya).[4. Komisarjevsky remained incarcerated at the Walker Reception Center[4.

His trial began on September 1. October 1. 3, 2. 01. On December 9, 2. On January 2. 7, 2.