Zachary Latham claims that when he fatally stabbed William Durham, he was acting in self-defense. The family of Mr. Durham claims he had an additional motive.
South Jersey neighbors Zachary Latham and the Durham family did not get along. They eventually had a fatal conflict.
Mr. Latham’s driving was the main topic of contention. The Durhams: William Sr. , his wife Catherine, and their two sons — believed he was careless behind the wheel and repeatedly confronted him about it, according to the family’s attorneys.
Mr. Latham recorded their interactions in videos that he posted online, and in April, they turned especially tense. In one, after Ms. Durham criticized his driving, he called her “Karen” to tease her. More than three million people have watched a TikTok video that Mr. Latham posted of the episode.
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On May 4, according to the authorities, the tensions erupted into a violent altercation. At the conclusion of the incident, Mr. Durham, a 51-year-old corrections officer, had died, and Mr. Latham, an 18-year-old National Guard private, had been accused of being the murderer.
Even though they are also facing charges for their roles in the deadly altercation, Mr. Durham’s family is now accusing Mr. Latham of carrying out the murder in order to become “TikTok famous.”.
In addition to charging Mr. Dot Latham with manslaughter and other offenses, the Cumberland County prosecutor also accused Ms. Dot Durham and her sons of assault and trespass. The prosecutor, Jennifer Webb-McRae, did not specify who started the fight or why in a news release announcing the charges; however, each side blames the other in a jumble of contradictory accounts.
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The killing was described as a “horrific tragedy” at a court hearing in May by Nathan Perry, Mr. Dot Latham’s public defender, according to nj . com. However, Mr. Dot Perry maintained that his client had acted in self-defense and that “the Durhams to a very, very fair extent visited this great sadness upon themselves.
According to a court document, Mr. Perry stated in the same hearing that Mr. Latham was seen by the Durhams as “the James Dean of the neighborhood.