WCNC has picked up where Creative Loafing started the other week and investigates why a manifestly dangerous man was allowed to roam free — until he wound up being charged with killing someone.
Mecklenburg County District Attorney Peter Gilchrist is now apologizing for how William Levesque was handled, but something still does not quite make sense.
WCNC has Gilchrist on the record saying that even though Levesque — who has more than 50 charges on his record and spent one year in prison for a probation violation — fired off a round that Alicia Torres says hit her in the leg, that incident would not be enough to put Levesque behind bars again. Huh?
This sounds far too much like Gilchrist trying to get his department off the hook for what happened four months after the Torres shooting incident — another shooting involving Levesque that left Elaine Monger, 16, dead.
Gilchrist’s office could have charged Levesque with assault with a deadly weapon in the Torres matter and taken it to trial. But as even flat-out murders do not go to trial in Mecklenburg, that, of course, is impossible.
