Ohio Man Who Killed Black Uber Driver Convicted Of Murder

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In April 2025, we reported on the tragic and mindless killing of 61-year-old Black girl Lo-Letha Corridor, who was shot and killed by then-81-year-old William J. Brock, who held her at gunpoint, took her belongings, shot her when she tried to flee, after which shot her two extra occasions as the 2 received right into a bodily wrestle — all as a result of he assumed she was a part of a phone rip-off she had nothing to do with.

On Wednesday, Brock was convicted of homicide.

In response to the Related Press, Brock, now 83, was convicted of homicide, felonious assault, and kidnapping, and is scheduled to be sentenced subsequent week.

As we beforehand reported, Brock pleaded not responsible to the fees in 2024, and his legal professional reportedly argued he shot Corridor in self-defense, and the scammer had made threats towards him and his household, which might be irrelevant, contemplating there was no proof Corridor was a scammer.

Right here’s what NBC 4 Ohio reported in April 2024:

The sheriff’s workplace stated when deputies and a number of different companies arrived, they discovered Corridor on the bottom with a number of gunshot wounds, and Brock with accidents to his head and an ear.

Earlier, a male scammer had known as Brock and instructed him one in all his relations was in jail. The scammer then threatened the 81-year-old man and demanded cash. Concurrently, that very same scammer or an confederate positioned an order on the Uber app for Corridor to select up a package deal for supply from Brock’s property. She wasn’t conscious of the calls Brock had acquired when she arrived at his residence, in accordance with investigators.

The Uber driver was unarmed, didn’t make any threats or calls for and didn’t assault Brock. Corridor solely approached Brock’s residence and requested concerning the package deal she was despatched to select up via the app, the sheriff’s workplace stated. In response, Brock pulled out a revolver and held her at gunpoint, demanding to know the identities of the scammers. He additionally took Corridor’s telephone to forestall her from making calls, and the sheriff’s workplace stated Brock didn’t name 911 both.

When Corridor tried to get in her automotive to get away, Brock shot her. Throughout a wrestle between the 2 on the automotive door, he shot her two extra occasions, investigators famous. After this alternate, Brock known as 911.

Even when it by no means occurred to Brock that perhaps a random Uber driver wasn’t in on the alleged extortion name and was simply doing her job, there was no purpose to shoot an unarmed aged girl who posed no risk to him, which is what prosecutors argued.

“The actually unhappy half about that is that we all know there are nonetheless criminals on the market,” Clark County Prosecutor Daniel Driscoll instructed reporters after the decision. “We all know that the scammers, the parents who began this, haven’t been delivered to justice.”

Nonetheless, the actual ethical of this story is that the white American fantasy of vigilante justice — “the very factor that arguably birthed the likes of Kyle Rittenhouse, George Zimmerman, and the three white males who participated within the homicide of Ahmaud Arbery,” as I wrote beforehand — is getting individuals, most frequently Black individuals, killed, and the killers are far too seldom held accountable.

Thankfully, that seems to not be the case this time. Though we’ll have to attend for sentencing to make sure.