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Double Murder Trial Of Cantonment Man Delayed
April 6, 2011
Trial has been delayed for the man accused of the stabbing death of a pregnant Cantonment woman and her baby.
Phillip Arnold, 65, of Cantonment, is facing two first degree premeditated murder charges for the stabbing deaths of Angela Castella Brown and her newborn child on July 5 in Cantonment.
Judge Jan Shackelford has granted a motion for continuance filed by Arnold’s public defender; Arnold’s trial is now set for June. The court has also denied a motion to dismiss charges against Arnold for the death of the newborn.
Brown, who was six months pregnant, underwent an emergency C-section after she was stabbed. The newborn, later named Angela Chambers, died just over seven hours after being delivered.
Arnold, 65, of 349 South Chipper Road, fatally stabbed Brown in the chest, according to the State Attorney’s Office. Arnold and Brown were neighbors, and that was their only known connection, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies were dispatched to the stabbing at a mobile home at 349 South Chipper Road about 8:35 p.m on July 5. When they arrived, witnesses told deputies that Arnold fled into a nearby wooded area. As deputies were arriving in the area, EMS personnel advised they had seen a black male running down the railroad tracks on South Chipper Road.
Witnesses at the scene reported observing a black male known to them as Arnold running from the scene moments before they discovered the victim, according to the Sheriff’s Office. K-9 officers attempting to track Arnold discovered a knife that was believed to be the murder weapon. As deputies were surrounding the area to search for Arnold, he called sheriff’s dispatchers about 9:10 p.m. Arnold said he was at a home at 2473 Stacey Road and that he wanted to turn himself in. He was taken into custody without incident.
Brown was the mother of seven other children.
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3 Responses to “Double Murder Trial Of Cantonment Man Delayed”
lets not throw a rope and cover our faces. This man as all men have a right to a fair trial. Now what is messed up is after a guilty reading of life. We now have to take care of him to his day. Now think about it, now long will he live on the streets. The cost of live could be so much lower.
i agree shae!!! stop waisting time!! he killed a women and child……go ahead and put him on a rope so we don’t have to pay to keep this sicko in jail! this world wouldn’t be so crazy if things like this were handled like they use to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, come on! Quite wasting the tax payers money! We already know he’s guilty by his own admission. This trial has been delayed too long already. Pretend we’re in the old west and get a rope.