A Cold Case Rekindled: Men Get 15 Years in Alleged Murder-for-Hire

While the specifics of the case seem vague according to court functions, what is known is that Murad Diggs and Raheem Brown plead guilty of a slaying which took place in 2016. The seven year difference meant that the case of Terrence Kinard’s murder went cold. Things got warmer because of the Wilmington Police. They voiced in 2022 that the pair had been the killers. Through sage cop work, they brought together a collage of different elements that made it possible for the arrests and convictions of the two other men involved in the murder.

This is what is interesting about the legal system. It is a harsh reminder that this is a broken system. While keen and earnest litigators walk into the courtroom every day, judges sit on the bench, and all of the other factors that go into the judiciary, the cracks seem ever present. Even with the brokenness, judicial proceedings still at least provide for cases like this to be from frosty to en fuego. In all, the two of them would’ve been given life behind bars had they not accepted a deal of second-degree murder. What is that for the families? How do you go for life confinement and then just fifteen years? And they’ll probably just be good chess players in the dayroom and be prescribed psychiatric drugs to curb their murderous ways.

Extra witnesses led to the conviction of the both of them. Diggs and Brown both went untouched by the law leading to the case to get chillier. Deputy Attorney General Joseph Grubb just wanted a motive. All he needed to be able to nab his killers involved being present and receptive to the ideas that surrounded the case. That’s it. He discovered that Diggs was on the wrong end of a drug deal and owed thousands of dollars. Once he had this piece of information, he pursued like a puma in the jungle on the hunt for fresh meat. With his tenacity, he brought to justice both of these men. Despite the fact the years went by and no other leads appeared, Grubb attached onto the case nevertheless.

Just like any dramatic work, Kinard called Diggs a friend. It seems as if there is always some affinity involved. The greatest dramatists and novelists ensure that betrayal, backbiting, and contempt can all color a scene of murder. Two of the men knew each other enough to be intertwined in the way of the dollar as well. With Diggs’ alleged arrears, it would make it even more vicious for he and Kinard to have bad blood because of the fact Kinard placed himself in a position to be the one to collect. This of course meant that there would be anxiety, tension, and or beef between the two of them. What makes all of this so despairing is the fact that both men never thought. They didn’t think in all of their dealings. Instead of being thoughtful and rational, they chose to emote and abandon all efforts to form an idea of morality.

Four indictments flew as the feud deepened. With a verbal sparring event at the Christiana Mall, actual fisticuffs, and gunshots fired outside of a Wilmington nightclub twisted the tale even further. Both men brought prison time on themselves, eventually. What made the affair even worse remains the fact that both of them never took to knowing about a craft like engineering. In a final act of devious rage, Wilmington Police found Kinard shot in a BMW clinging to life. He later died at a nearby hospital. According to official papers issued by the court, Diggs enlisted Brown to murder Kinard and was paid by way of drug consignment. Here is a common act within the underworld. Someone might front a kilogram of a substance or a thousand pills and just say “Take this.” The person won’t get the money up front, but will be able to “flip” the work in order to serve patrons of the avenue. The picture painted here is that of the grimey world of drugs that continue to exist. Legalization would prevent such exchanges altogether if narcotics become part of the free market. Until then, we will see more Kinard cases and monstrous behavior carried out in the name of envy and hatred of the good for being good. But who was good in all of this?

Was Kinard a thoroughly moral individual? More than likely, no. It still didn’t mean he deserved to be murdered. Such strife can be settled with rationality. The streets, however, know no love or better still, reason. It is a cycle of the start of force and the never ending sentencing of mostly men of color who continue to be captivated by the allure of the block. Kinard was no different.

Instead, he probably carried himself as just another stooge in the street who caught a bad one. Scenes like this play out all of the time. People get laid down over a brick of cocaine or now a more fashionable drug like fentanyl and the assailants would never think anything of it. Sure the facts of reality would register in their psyche, but they would have to live with the truth of their evil. For the death of anyone who is in the streets, it is always a murky and disgusting place to be. What makes it like this is the reality of what life is actually concerns. The reason why clichés are so well trod upon is because they're true. The chestnut most appropriate here would be “live by the gun, die by the gun.” If the three men had opened up a credit union or applied for a loan to set up an entire community, not to be confused with a simple neighborhood, we wouldn’t be talking about this issue. But the three of them were not smart enough. They ended up with another chestnut: “There’s only two places you will end up, either dead or in jail.”

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