This time, the parole board noted that Carter is assessed as low risk for violence and has engaged with multiple programs to address issues with empathy and violent behavior. Since then, Carter has remained in prison, and was denied parole in 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016. He then went to his sister's house, drank alcohol and took drugs before returning to the McCoy house with a gas can to set the fire. McCoy, her 22-month-old daughter Cassandra, her 3-year-old nephew Joseph Blanks, her 19-year-old brother Gerald McCoy, and her mother Barbara McCoy, 39, all perished in the blaze.Ĭarter told the parole board in a prior hearing in 2016 that he and Renee had dated for about a year and a half before she broke up with him the day of the murders. Carter had pleaded guilty to five counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, Renee McCoy, and her family in the fire, which he set at around 2 a.m.
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