Teen Charged With Murder Of Johnston County Store Clerk

JOHNSTON COUNTY – The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Garner teenager with murder, robbery, and kidnapping in connection with the fatal stabbing death of a Johnston County store clerk.

At 5:06pm Friday, November 25th, law enforcement and EMS responded to Murphy’s Express at 4993 NC Highway 42 West near Interstate 40 in the Cleveland community. Deputies located the victim, 19 year-old William Hayden Fitzpatrick of Clayton, inside the business. He had been stabbed multiple times and was deceased.

With the assistance of a sheriff’s K-9, the suspect, Alexander Leon Herrera, age 18, of Thunder Ridge Drive, Garner, was found a short distance away from the business. Herrera was taken into custody and interviewed by detectives. Later, he was charged with the fatal stabbing death of Fitzpatrick, the store clerk.

Herrera was held without bond in the Johnston County Jail.

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    • What’s ISC going to do? He still has to serve his sentence here before ISC gets to him. If he’s an illegal immigrant. If not, then he has to serve his sentence like any other American. Crime comes from all races.

      • Please don’t use immigrant and illegal in the same sentence. If you are illegal then you are not a immigrant. You are illegal period.

    • I never said I supported him lol. I agree he should pay for his crime whether be death penalty or life. I just wanted people to be informed what illegal had to do with him? Don’t know the guy or care for the scum. Just because his last name is not Williams or Smith? or looks “White” He’s illegal? As I said crime comes from all races. People are ready to assume stuff just because you have a little bit of melanin in your skin.

  1. Sorry Brett
    but…Just like the local K9 handler murdered by an illegal, the immigration status of this young man will be swept under the rug if he is in the country illegally.

    In this brave new world, you must welcome all illegals, the murderers and all. If you don’t support and welcome them, why you must be a racist! Shame on you for even asking!!

  2. As much as I want to see the problem fixed, you can’t just assume someone is an illegal immigrant because they’re Hispanic. What you can assume is that this dude is not going to do well in prison, with that baby face.

  3. I don’t care if he is black,white,red,purple, yellow. He is an absolute psychopathic monster! Who brutally murdered my nephew. FOR NO, and I MEAN NO reason. Instead of robbing a whole gas station he singled out my nephew, robbed him and stabbed him to death. And then went and sat behind the station. So this was all for what?

  4. BlueK I am so sorry to hear that you lost your nephew such a senseless and tragic thing. It’s so sad in so many levels. Very sorry.

  5. I don’t care about his race or enthicity. Now we have to provide him with three meals a day. We have to provide him with medical, dental, and eye care. We have to cloth him and make sure he has his religious rights. We also have to provide him bedding and security. He’ll never pay for anything including taxes or retribution. The only thing he’ll have to pay is for canteen goods. If he escapes the death penalty, he’s 18 now, he could live a long time. After a lot us will have passed on and he’ll still be living. He’ll find his click in prison and probably live as comfortable as one could in that world. Even if he’s put on death row there are 138 prisoners in NC ahead of him. I don’t care if you’re left or right. We need speedy death row executions. Now I know some of you say executions won’t bring the victim back. I say the executed prisoner won’t kill anyone else.

    • I agree. While my family sits and mourns the loss of my nephew, and we all go to work each day to be productive citizens, we will be paying for him to, in so many ways “live it up” eat, sleep, watch tv, play on a tablet, play games, all while my nephew is 6ft under. Alexander Herrera is an absolute monster. And even if in this life Willam doesn’t get the justice he deserves, God will make sure Alexander gets what’s coming and he will burn in hell for eternity!

  6. I don’t care what ethnicity he is either and yes, murders are committed by all races.

    However, IF he is here illegally, then the open border policy of Democrats is responsible and every single person who voted democrat is responsible for the poor kids death and should be charged with accessory to murder.

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