INCIDENT: Homicide
DATE: January 22, 2009
LOCATION: Williams Mill Pond Road, Delmar, MD
NARRATIVE: Update to yesterday murder investigation. The Wicomico Bureau of Investigation and the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit have been investigating the murder of Anitra Pirkle which first came out just after 8:00 PM on 1/22/09. The below listed individuals have been arrested and charged. They are being held at the Wicomico County Detention Center.
Members of the investigation learned the suspects asked the victim to take them to the Delmar area. Once in route they began to force the victim to go where they said. Once reaching the location where the victim was found, the suspects forced the victim from the vehicle. Once out of the vehicle, the victim was fatally stabbed by the suspects. At that point the suspects fled in the victim’s vehicle. They drove several places in the vehicle before returning to each individuals residence. The vehicle was reported and detectives located it on Roger Street at Princeton Ave. Suspect Barkley entered the vehicle and was subsequently stopped and questioned. This started a chain of events that lead to the arrest of all three suspects.
Anyone with additional information is requested to contact the Wicomico Bureau of Investigation at 410-548-4898 or Crimesolvers at 410-548-1776.
ACCUSED*: Alvira, Kenneth Benjamin AA/M 16 YOA Salisbury, MD
Barkley, Brittany Leineigh AA/F 19 YOA Salisbury, MD
Brinkley, Briana Marie AA/F 19 YOA Salisbury, MD *include first/middle/last names, age, race, city or town of residence
CHARGES: First Degree Murder
Second Degree Murder
Armed Carjacking
Carjacking
Motor Vehicle Theft
Assault First and Second Degree
Weapons Charges
DISPOSITION: Held without bond WCDC
INVESTIGATING DETECTIVE Trooper First Class Metzger/Sgt Cook
RELEASING AUTHORITY Sergeant David Owens
MSP Wicomico Bureau of Investigation
DATE: January 23, 2009 TIME: 2030 Hours
Wicomico
Bureau of Investigation
It is a shame Maryland is trying to get rid of the Death Penalty!!
ReplyDeleteGood job guys! Glad they are off the street. Sad that they are so young. My prayers go out to the family of the victim.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT'S what I call timely police responce. kudos
ReplyDeleteTwo murders this week? good thing the chiefy and mare sayz crime is down. shanie says we don't have no crime
this is how groff not paying for groff pays off
This shows we need the death penalty and gives the public an idea of what types of offenders local high schools are dealing with every day. There are some dangerous kids in our community.
ReplyDeleteI want to see these three punished, but it is a shame that essentially four young lives have been lost here in this situation.
ReplyDeleteWhat would make three people, not just one wacko, but three, stab a poor girl who was no threat to them. And oneof them another girl. I can't believe these scumbags just got caught up in the crime spree thing.
ReplyDeleteI hope that we hear when their trial is. I want to be there.
We need to hold the judges accountable by making them look out on every violent crime trial will all seats taken by citizen judges. They will only be accountable when they realize WE MEAN BUSINESS ABOUT THIS.
There are too many situations where these creeps get out of jail early and harm someone else. WE can change that trend. We have to.
Thank God. I would hate to be the family of the deceased. I would HATE to be the family of these thugs. PIECES OF SCUM!!!!
ReplyDeleteNothing more, nothing less...
Brittany is male or female, I'm confused.
The 16 year old will be charged as an adult and I think they should all be fried!
It was very very nice of her to give a ride to these stranger, being the nice person she was known to be, and look what happened.
Unbelieveable. No wonder they thought they were looking for 2 men that one is a bull dyke. If they can't get death give them natural life like they did that Tanya girl that was involved in the murder of George Taylor down in Fruitland about 15 years ago. She was only 15 and is still rotting in prison. Personally, I think they need to do as was suggested some time ago. Do away with the electric chair and get a couch. Let them hold hands while they're being fried.
ReplyDeleteHEY Chief Webster. Did you see how that was done, in less than 24 hours? THAT is how you do police work.
ReplyDeleteGood job WBI and SUSI. Keep up the good work. We the citizens of the county are behind you all 100%
Briana, it's really a shame your grandfather just died. Just think of how he's looking down on you tonight. You sitting in a jail cell with your thug friends.
ReplyDeleteMiss Pirkle is in heaven tonight, I would love to think that she's there next to your grandfather and he is hugging her.
Mrs. Ann Pirkle, this whole community is behind you in this difficult time.
Ryan Stevenson
They need to be hung on the courthouse steps.
ReplyDeleteAsk yourself one question, if they did that to your child, what would you do? Or want to do?
"Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!"
Carl Lee Hailey, "A Time to Kill"
Is Brittany a dude?
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ReplyDeleteIt is a shame Maryland is trying to get rid of the Death Penalty!!
10:07 PM
Blame that on the liberal dumbocraps you all voted in office. Nobama is no better.
Is this gang related?
ReplyDelete10:14pm it is groaf not groff.
ReplyDeletegroff sounds like off.
bubba says groaf which sounds like loaf... ;-)
Hey Kenneth, Bubba gonna like you in jail tonight. Say hello to Ray Lewis for me. I hear your his type. I can see the romance now... is WCDC still offering Three for Free or is it natural all the way? Nah, forget the condoms you all deserve an Anally Injected Death Sentence (AIDS).
ReplyDeleteAnitra was such a kind a person, i've known her for many many years went thru all grades with her graduated with her in 2002 at wi hi.. she wouldn't ever hurt a sole, probably just being the nice person she is and giving them fools a ride. we all know she's in heaven tonight. i pray for her family. and that justice is served.
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I hope MD keeps the death penalty and begins to USE it with a vengence.
ReplyDeleteThe sad part is that THESE children, the offenders who murdered another child, and she was so young, never think about their own mortality, the future, or anything, only their whims of the moment.
May Justice's whim be death.
Were these kids on the pipe???
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see these thugs in jail were they should be.
ReplyDeleteA little confused though. I read somewhere that the victim was picking up food the Tastee Freeze for her and her sister. . . but she gave these people a ride home with hot food in the car?
"No wonder they thought they were looking for 2 men that one is a bull dyke."
ReplyDeleteDisgusting. Your use of that vile term completely negates anything else you were trying to say.
What kind of psychopaths stab someone to death to get a car and then park it on the street? They are dangerous, wild and stupid. NEVER LET THEM OUT OF JAIL, and since I don't want to pay room and board for them for 70 years, put them to death.
ReplyDeleteIf guilty,the liberal courts will never impose the death penalty.For a crime this vicious and totally senseless, life without parole should be sought. If Davis Ruark won't try to get these animals locked up forever than he ought to find another occupation. How much more of this crime are we going to put up with ? By the way--good work by the police in making arrests so quickly . Hope the judge in the Ray Lewis case doesn't end up on the bench for this trial.
ReplyDeleteWhy they gotta be like that. Don't they know they're giving us a bad name. With Obama in the white house and all you would think these kids would learn how to act. Hope they get what they deserve.
ReplyDeleteThe SPD Chief Police MUST Resign!
ReplyDeleteWOW...so many young lives lost! All 3 of these people are so young. Yet they know right from wrong. How can you ask for a ride and then kill someone in the manner like they did? This shows how ruthless they are and no regard for life! You have to wonder if they were on drugs, I bet they were! Well let them do a life sentence with no chance of parole and grow up like the thugs they want to be!
ReplyDeletethe three little tirds,
ReplyDeleteI guess we'll all be paying for them to sit in ECI eating hersheys ice cream, drinking cokes and shooting pool for the next 20 years,
then again they are young and in maryland, they'll be out by easter...
excellent police work I will say
Sounds as though Suspect Barkley rolled over on the other two. Most likely a lesser sentence....
ReplyDeleteHow can someone be so young and have a heart so hard to the world...
Oops. I thought it was two guys and a girl...my mistake (apparently God's, too)
ReplyDeleteTHE Word THUGS is putting this even too nice for these three pieces of trash! They dont even deserve to take another breath! Its oxygen someone else could breath!
ReplyDeleteYou people are ignorant of our "justice" system. IF they are convicted, they will serve less than 12 years. That means they will be hometown thugs before they are 30. Think they will be reformed? Think they will have payed their debt to society? Think again. Yes, I'm the one who pleads for the death penalty. Again, the willfull taking of innocent life REQUIRES the death penalty! I dare some idiot to dissagree.
ReplyDeletethug life, yea yea, big boi ! thankyou gangsta rap, ignorance breeding ignorance, glamourizing the negative elements of society. life in the hood, street cred, blah blah blah. 3 dumb@#% kids. too bad public hangings are long gone. let all the up and coming thugs / punks see their future
ReplyDeleteBook'em Danno!
ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping us informed, Joe. The Daily times says this morning that no arrests have been made, only a person of interest being detained. Guess they cannot afford good reporters here in Salisbury that can get this same info. Good work, Joe. This poor girl did not deserve this. God be with her and her family and friends
ReplyDeleteThe chick on the bottom looks like she's not coming down from that crack high so good
ReplyDeleteSERIOUSLY PEOPLE-
ReplyDeleteIf EVERY courtroom hearing a crime involving violence to another human being is PACKED with OUTRAGED citizens, who are MAD AS HELL, the judges will see that we mean business.
I hope that sbynews can begin to alert us, the people who live in this area that care about this area, about court dates.....it would be a step in the right direction toward seeing justice served. I attended a murder trial where there were less than 10 people sitting and watching...we need to LOAD the courtrooms with angry people. WE CAN DO THIS, with Joe's help.
WE ARE THE CHANGE WE'RE SEEKING!
can't believe I left DC for this - thought the eastern shore was a nice place -
ReplyDeletenow I'm hearing the SPD is actually afraid of certain areas in the city, SPD officers are only here to get their feet wet and turning over real actual criminal police work to the
county and state?
I sure hope this is bad info.
Do we think Mike Lewis might have enough time to be our mayor on the side?
First of all if convicted of 1st degree murder, they will receive life under the current laws of MD. In this case, if the state can make the carjacking charge stick, it's 1st degree.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not most judges do impose the maximum penalties allowed by law. If convicted of 2nd degree murder the maximum is 30 yrs, manslaughter max is 10 yrs.
At least the middle one aligns her?self with the Bloods, and since they run together, assume all 3 do. There ARE gangs in Salisbarrie.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Barkley won't mind prison at all. That's exactly why we need a death penalty.
ReplyDeleteCharlie Manson was quoted saying he "would get all the drugs and sex he wanted in prison."
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
I'm sure glad crime is down 15% can you just imagine how bad it can be if people went out after dark?
ReplyDeleteA lot of arrests are being made, however how do we relieve these problems for good? We the people's neighborhood's from where ever we roam must join together and walk our streets hand in hand until we can walk them every night!
Take no prisoners
An angel walked among us..!! Rest in peace beautiful Anitra ..Our prayers go out to her mother family and friends
ReplyDeleteI think the judge will impose the proper sentence for these individuals who have no regard for human life. Give these judges a break will ya? They can't lock up everyone who smokes a joint up forever.Davis Ruark will lighten the sentence for them so he can make more room for the kid who smoked a joint.
ReplyDeleteAMEN to anon 11:07!
ReplyDeleteWhere oh where is our common sense?
Some kids one of my daughters went to high school with have already gotten calls from Briana from jail, Delmar is a small town and news travels quick. From what I have gathered this was HERION raising its ugly head again. These kids hit the big time real fast and seems they have thrown there lives away. We have got to get a grip on this cocain and herion in our community, its everywhere and its destroying lives. For the victims family I have no words to express the sorrow I feel for you. I couldnt imagine what I would do if it was one of my daughters. I am truely sorry for your lose.
ReplyDeleteditto
ReplyDelete11:50
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. It's going to take people turning in the ones who are using and dealing, even if the druggies are family members or friends. Our children deserve help. The county needs to go after the kingpins.
dear 7:22 a.m., You forgot to mention air conditioning. Hey, I have a great idea why not make Bennett middle and Bennett High School the new jail. The conditions certainly are deplorable enough for thugs like these 3. Then we could take ECI and make some modifications and have a new air conditioned school! Just think of all the tax money saved!
ReplyDeleteDisgusting. Your use of that vile term completely negates anything else you were trying to say.
ReplyDeleteAnon 12:20, according to whom? The lesbians I know are not thugs. When she gets to MCI-W she will not be considered a lesbian, she will be a BULL DYKE. Somethings will never change, that is one of them. Get over your politically correct self and live with it.
The "ghetto-fabulous thug life" is glamorized via movies,TV and music and there are no role models telling these kids better.Still does not excuse them and I think they should die for their crime but they wont.Its Maryland.They will get 20 yrs each,maybe 10 for the kid who rolled on the others and they will be back out in our community committing crimes again.Their thug buddies will throw parties for them when they get released from prison.You betcha.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts and prayers go out to the Pirkle family....
Davis Ruark needs to go for the death penalty but won't get it so his next step should be a NATURAL LIFE sentence or life and a day.
ReplyDeleteIf he presents his case as callous as the crime he should have no problem getting that sentence.
The facts state these sub humans asked for a ride, commandeered the car, stabbed the woman to death, went joy riding and then went home to sleep as if nothing ever happened. The next day they awaken, go through whatever their routine is, then attempt to go about their business in a car they stole and murdered an innocent woman to acquire. There it is, all laid out short and to the point. Verdict: GUILTY. Sentence: Immediate death.
Kenneth is 100% yellow and black flagging member of the Latin Kings. Gangs are in Smallsberry and if we don't wake up soon, we will become Bmore south. Has anyone noticed the large number of home invasions, armed robberies, and drugs. Salisbury is fertile ground for the gangs to grow. Disenfrancised youth fill our schools. The big question is what are the good citizens of Wicomico County going to do about it?
ReplyDeleteWe are Little Baltimore. A stronger police force is needed.
ReplyDeleteBut no longer can we do it on the cheap. What we pay our police is shameful.
Sorry, but that means an increase in taxes. I see post after post on here about keeping YOUR taxs low. You know what? Got to pay for what you want. I want safe streets, How about you?
I am a a bleeding heart liberal. You know what I say HANG UM!
After reading most of the posts here I think most would agree that if THE ONE(S) who actually stabbed this poor woman to death were PUBLICLY EXECUTED in front of everyone, on TV, cable all news outlets, pictures in the papers and on YouTube and EVERYWHERE ELSE these crimes would come to an end!! Who here wants to be next lying in a pool of our own blood in a cold field on the verge of death just because you did a kind-hearted act?? ENOUGH!! Fry 'em!
ReplyDeleteReally sad kids and kids they are don't have nothing to do with there time but go kill such a pretty girl that had everything going for her. What they should have been doing is reading a good book or at work or something. In other places in the world if you kill a person your life will be taking. I don't understand they will go to jail and live off us tax payers we as tax payers are being punish for crimes they do put there dumb butts to dealth. My heart goes out for the family you are in my prayers. Kids take freedom and life for granted and just think this is our future
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ReplyDeleteThe disenfranchised youth that fill our schools are making no effort to learn anything. Their main goal is to disrupt as much as possible, knowing the school board hates for minority students to be suspended. Taxpayers are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for tons of programs that target this group. Why are we wasting our money when they refuse to work and absolutely refuse to behave?
9:41 AM
ReplyDeleteYou said you were sorry you left DC for this.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe that is the very reason that things are now the way they are here. All the thugs (I dont mean you) leaving Baltimore and DC and coming here.
America needs to get over itself, we give drug dealers decades for dope, the user months if that, for using, we give sexual predators a few months and/or years for destroying our people, hopefully they'll make these A## wipes an example because of media attention and give them life instead of the usual 10-20years. Also America needs to get over itself, we are still just as racist, as the 60s. Is alvira black, bi-racial or hispanic? Is Barkley black or bi-racial? By this I mean mother white father black or hispanic. Stop labeling everything that is half-produced with a black man or woman black as black. There are enough bi-racial individuals around to have different race code. Most I know call themselves bi-racial and/or white anyway. That description of 2 black males and a black female would have been confusing as hell, even for me a black female, except for the black girl who looked like the gizzard had been beating her all night. The gizzard looks bi-racial, the lifers dream date looks arab or hispanic. Even when saying African-american, differentiate the skin tone (light-skinned, dark, possibly bi-racial).
ReplyDeleteOh yeah I forgot to say, I do want to compliment our local police on the quick timely manner this case was solved. When they're unjust I am going to call them that, but when they are on point, I am going to call them on point. Good job
ReplyDeleteHere we go again, deputies assigned to wbi. Not getting a high profile case. Guess Ruark doesn't beleive deputies are qualified to handle this type of case. Go back and look who gets high profile cases since Dave Owens has been in charge. Sheriff you are a Wicomico Coounty Sheriff. Please look at this, you have some good people back there.
ReplyDeleteR.I.P. Anitra.. I'm sorry that it ended in such a way.
ReplyDeleteI know Kenny & Briana personally & I know that neither of them would do such a thing..as for Britany..i could see her doing this..
I just pray that things follow through as they should..Kenny was finally beginning to get his life back to the way it should be..until that night...
Briana,..just the wrong place..at the wrong time....
my prayers go out to Anitra's family...
Well I personally know Brittany and she wouldn't either. Apparently that's what we thought but cops thought other wise. We don't know the truth of the story and we never will but talking bad about people you don't even know isn't going to bring the girl back or take back the fact that they did it. And if the other two didn't do anything they never would have gotten locked up. There is a such thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And not knowing what a person has been through plays a part to.
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ReplyDeleteARe you high?Do you think anyone,including Ms.Pirkles family,gives a d*mn about Kenny and Briana and their problems?Really? Are you trying to construct a criminal defense for them or are you really serious?Obviously,they were NOT getting their life together and you will not convice me or anyone else with good sense otherwise.
Even IF Brittany was the one who actually stabbed her,those two other lowlifes were there.They could have done something to help her and they had all night long afterwards to go to the police-right?I do not know either of these animals and I am glad I do not but if you want to pray for somebody sweetie,then pray that these thugs are dealt with so that they can never endanger anyone else again.I feel no pity for either of them and bleeding hearts like you make me want to vomit!
Sorry Joe,but considering the way this girl was killed,I have no compassion for her killers!
i dont give a rats a## what ayone thinks Briana is innocent yes i believe she made wrong choices that night..my heart goes out to the family of the murdered girl she didnt deserve that..it is a horrible incident..but takin another persons life isnt going to brng the young girl back..justice needs to be served yes!!god bless everyone!every1 has there own story and none are the same but when you get the right story then talk..
ReplyDeleteUm,sorry to derail you but according to Maryland law Briana is just as guilty as the person who actually wielded the knife or knives because she was there,and FAILED to do anything after the fact to alert the police.Even she was scared of the big girl(and I would be),she had opportunity to spill the beans before she was busted by the cops.Only then did the canary sing,and that was not of remorse,but to save her own butt.She went home like nothing ever happened and still did NOTHING. And by the way,what is the "right story".Do you know facts that the police do not?Then maybe you should step up and call them-oh I forgot thats "snitching"!If you feel she is no danger to society then you take her into her home and keep her off the streets-oh,hide and lock up all the cutlery (thats knives if you didnt know)first.
ReplyDeleteThe first guy, kenney was in my algebra class!!! he sat in front of me!! KICK ASS KENNEY!
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no balen verga putos
To 2:55 about Briana and Kenny Please shut up. All of them were running up and down my neighborhood street day in and out. They were no where near getting their lives together and far from innocent. Brittnay was more of the follower than any of them. Kenny blabbed about the Latin Kings all day long and Briana wanted in as well as Brittnay. This had nothing to do with heroin at all. I dont know about Kenny but I know both girls are in jail most concerned with their current jail house flings they have NO IDEA what is waiting for them....Brittany actually thinks shes coming home any day now. Is it funny or sad? Poor Anitra and her family. A wonderful spirit diminished by 3 young idiots. So many were hurt by this...so many.
ReplyDeleteits a shame i have to babysit them now for the rest of thier lives....
ReplyDeleteTo know Brittany is to love her.No matter what anyone thinks she never was the matermind behind this.She got caught up in a horrible situation.Not a day goes by that she doesn't wish she could have done things differently that horrible night. She prays daily for the victim and her family so everyone BACK OFF
ReplyDeleteI had the "pleasure" of meeting both Briana & Britnay ( who prefers to be called Ace as she wants to be a boy) and I can tell you that there is no remorse... they run around the compound of the prison causing trouble all day and chasing tail. Both pursue gay relatonships. Yes Briana snitched and they both have the twisted idea that they will get out by blaming each other. Ace in my opinion is a sociopath and has no remorse or feelings for anyone other than herself.
ReplyDeleteNiki and very funny that you defend her I remember being there and watching you follow her around like a puppy dog.
So thankful to be done my bid and be away from that place and to have to see any of you again... hopefully they both rot in there for the rest of my life and theirs.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Brittany also and i beg to ,i only slept a few feet away from Ace, an we talked ALOT yes she holds a mask to most but deep inside she had shot of remorse, and sometimes crys because of the situation she is in, but she had also come to accept that she may never come home again. Before you truly make a statement against someone, who are you to judge no one here is God. And what was done want right but we all done our dirt, move on and key them deal with their consequences.
ReplyDeleteWow...... I write Kenny in Prison some of you are idiots...if you really dont know the truth ....dont flap your mouth...did you know the latin Kings shot Kenny in the knee before the murder.And threatned to Kill Him...
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