14-year-old Cameron Speaks of Statesville was sentenced Wednesday for the January 2021 shooting death of Cristean Colon. Speaks faces a minimum of 20 years in prison, authorities said. On January 16th of 2021, the Statesville Police Department responded to 1415 Rolling Lane in reference to a homicide. During the investigation, the suspect was identified as Cameron Speaks. Speaks was charged and taken into custody on January 18th, 2021,” according to SPD. In court Wednesday, the judge handed down the decades-long sentence for the murder. Speaks received a sentence of 20 to 25 years for second-degree murder and 31 to 50 months for discharging a weapon into an occupied dwelling. He will also be placed on 36 months of supervised probation once he completes his prison sentence, a news release stated.
