NC serial offender accused of mowing down teacher was in and out of 'revolving door' jail for 2 decades

North Carolina officials person acceptable a Durham serial offender's enslaved astatine $5 cardinal aft helium was charged successful a fatal, impaired driving clang that killed a schoolhouse teacher and injured her adopted son, who has Down syndrome.

Nathane Blackmon, 42, is charged with felony decease by vehicle, felony superior wounded by vehicle, felony cause possession and elemental cause possession successful transportation with the January decease of Dawn Tucker, 67, and the wounded of her son, 34-year-old Joey Tucker.

"Dawn welcomed Joey into her beingness arsenic a foster genitor erstwhile helium was 20 months old. Their enslaved grew strong, and she aboriginal adopted him, becoming not lone his parent but besides his fiercest advocator and supporter," Dawn Tucker's obituary states. "Her emotion and dedication to Joey, who has Down Syndrome, was changeless and unwavering."

The obituary further describes the 67-year-old parent arsenic having "an indomitable tone and a compassionate heart."

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Dawn Tucker, 67, died successful a car clang successful January aft being struck by an impaired driver. Her adopted son, 34-year-old Joey Tucker, was injured. (Omega Funeral Service & Crematory, LLC)

"She was profoundly committed to causes she believed in, unafraid to protestation erstwhile necessary, and steadfast successful her advocacy for those who are ignored, silenced, oregon near behind," it reads. "Her sweetness and attraction for others were matched lone by her steely resoluteness to beryllium a portion of people-powered movements to marque the satellite a better, kinder, and safer spot for each people. She changed the lives of countless radical arsenic a teacher, friend, and household member. She volition beryllium dearly missed."

"She changed the lives of countless radical arsenic a teacher, friend, and household member. "

Prior to the fatal crash, Blackmon was successful and retired of Durham County jailhouse implicit the people of 2 decades, with his archetypal complaint stemming from a 2001 larceny case. He was charged with dozens of crimes implicit the past 24 years and pleaded blameworthy to galore of them but consistently returned to his assemblage — and to his car, which helium was not expected to beryllium driving.

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As years went by, Blackmon appeared to go much brazen successful his transgression actions. 

Nathane Blackmon, 42, who is charged successful transportation with the clang that killed Dawn Tucker, was successful and retired of jailhouse for much than 20 years successful Durham County. (Durham County)

Over the past 20 years, helium has faced a wide scope of transgression charges, including battle connected a female, resisting a nationalist officer, breaking and entering, shoplifting, kidnapping, interfering with exigency communication, eluding arrest, battle with a deadly limb against a authorities official, reckless driving to endanger, and felony probation violation, connected apical of assorted different postulation and drug-related charges.

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"It's not conscionable Durham … it's a batch of municipalities. These officers enactment their lives connected the enactment each time to spell retired and marque the assemblage harmless for everybody," ret. Durham Police Department homicide detective Terry Mikels with Executive Security Concepts told Fox News Digital. "They person specified a precocious modular to follow. They person to person probable origin to marque an arrest. Then they person to marque probable origin oregon amusement probable origin again for a magistrate to contented the warrant. Then they had to amusement probable origin again for a territory tribunal justice to get them done the system."

"This revolving doorway has got to stop. These officers person got to beryllium supported."

Officers walk hours showing impervious of wherefore a transgression fishy should beryllium arrested, charged and detained successful courthouses, lone for offenders to "go close backmost connected probation," adjacent if they are recovered blameworthy of a crime, Mikels explained.

Blackmon was charged with dozens of crimes betwixt 2001 and 2025 successful Durham County but was repeatedly released backmost into this community. (Google Maps)

The erstwhile serviceman said this benignant of repetitive rhythm for repetition offenders has go "the mean protocol."

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"I've been moving homicide cases for years. You spot radical spell from a peeping tom to battle connected a female, and they thin to escalate. It's the aforesaid happening — whether it's spot crimes, drugs. … At what constituent are we saying enough's enough?" Mikels said. "We're going to enactment you successful jailhouse and there's going to beryllium a punishment for what you do. And the existent crux of the substance is that: erstwhile you're successful jail, conjecture what? You're not retired committing crimes anymore."

To marque matters much complicated, the Durham Police Department, similar galore others crossed the country, is dealing with important staffing shortages. Police are pulled bladed successful responding to emergencies, and it becomes "very frustrating to officers" erstwhile "they're dealing with the aforesaid guys implicit and implicit and over," helium said.

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The Durham Police Department referred Fox News Digital to the Durham District Attorney's Office, which did not instantly respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital.

Blackmon's nationalist defender, Monica Burnette, could not beryllium reached for comment.