Beunka Nmi Adams (1982 - 2012)

Born 10 Dec 1982 in Cherokee County, Texas, United States

Died 26 Apr 2012 at age 29 in Huntsville, Walker, Texas, United States

Biography

Beunka Adams Murderer ^[1]

Birth: December 10, 1982 Cherokee, Texas

Death: April 26, 2012 Huntsville, Texas

Parents:

Thomas Lee Adams

Donna Latreece Tucker

Education Level: 10

Occupation: Laborer

Characteristics: Robbery - Kidnapping - Rape

Number of victims: 1

Date of murder: September 2, 2002

Date of arrest: Next day

: Victim profile: Kenneth Wayne Vandever, 24 (convenience store customer)

Method of murder: Shooting (shotgun)

Location: Cherokee County, Texas, USA

Status: Sentenced to death on August 30, 2004.

Executed by lethal injection in Texas on April, 26, 2012

Summary: Adams, (age 21), along with accomplice Richard Cobb, robbed a convenience store in Rusk, Texas. At the time of the robbery, Candace Driver and Nikki Dement were working in the store, and the only customer present was Kenneth Vandever.

Adams and Cobb were wearing masks and after getting cash from the register, forced the two employees and the customer into a Cadillac parked in the lot and drove to a remote location. After forcing Driver and Vandever into the trunk, Adams and Cobb sexually assaulted Dement. They later made all three victims kneel on the ground, shooting all three with a shotgun. Believing all were dead, both fled the scene.

Vandever died from his wounds, but Driver and Dement survived and testified against Adams and Cobb. Accomplice Cobb was convicted and sentenced to death in a separate trial eight months before Adams. Evidence indicated the two met as ninth-graders at a boot camp, after a string of robberies that happened around the same time.

Adams Last Words: Adams expressed love to his family and asked his victims and their families not to be taken over by hate. "I am not the malicious person that you think I am," he said. I was real stupid back then. I made a great many mistakes." The lethal injection was then started. He was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m.^[2]

Sources

• "Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VDJY-Y94 : accessed 9 February 2015), Beunka Nmi Adams, 10 Dec 1982; from "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," index and images, Ancestry; citing Texas Department of State Health Services.
• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5D-FBT1 : accessed 9 April 2016), Beunka Adams, Texas, United States, 27 Apr 2012; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing , born-digital text.

1. ↑ http://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/adams-beunka.htm
2. ↑ http://www.txexecutions.org/reports/482.asp?page=2