Dennis Carr didn’t find out who killed his “son.” But he got some of the answers he was looking for.
Carr (pictured) sat down with the mayor and police chief at City Hall late Thursday afternoon to air his concerns about the pace of the investigation into the Nov. 28 murder of 21-year-old Bambaata Carr at Crown Street’s Sinergy Lounge.
Dennis Carr, Bambaata’s uncle, raised him. He considers Bambaata like a son.
While grieving the young man’s death, Dennis Carr said, he wanted to know why the police hadn’t found the killer.
He left Thursday afternoon’s sit-down reassured. He and the Rev. Boise Kimber, who set up the meeting on Carr’s behalf, left the office saying they are convinced the police are working hard to solve the crime. They said they learned the police have leads on potential suspects.
“Things are going appropriately. They have their people on top of it,” Kimber said.
Police Chief James Lewis said later that he walked Carr through the process that a murder investigation typically takes, and explained the need to work methodically.
“If we jump too fast and talk to the wrong people at the wrong time,” that can potentially ruin a case, Lewis said.
He declined to disclose details of the investigation publicly. He did say “detectives feel they have good potential leads. They haven’t hit a wall.”
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