NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — It’s been a struggle to seek justice in the shooting death of a convenience store owner in Norfolk after a murder charge was withdrawn for one of the suspects, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to a lesser charge.
Dennis Hisle had been charged with second-degree murder in connection to the death of James Carter, owner of the Triple C Convenience store on Lindenwood Avenue who was shot and killed last December. However, Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi withdrew that charge against Hisle, saying the evidence points to a different person who killed Carter.
Last December, Carter, 84, heard loud arguing outside his convenience store, and, when he went outside to find out what was going on, he was shot and killed.
Fatehi, in explaining the dropped charge against Hisle, said it was his brother, Bruce Hisle, rather, who killed Carter. In a plea agreement (see below), Dennis Hisle’s murder charge was dismissed.
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“It means that we withdrew them, asked the judge to drop the murder charge and the related charges,” Fatehi said. “We did that because we reached the conclusion that Dennis Hisle did not commit the murder.”