NEWS AT TEN ON THE TRIAD CW STARTS NOW. CLOSURE FOR A TRIAD FAMILY. ALMOST SEVEN YEARS AFTER THEIR LOVED ONE WAS MURDERED. THE SENTENCING HEARING TODAY FOR DONTRELL WARREN’S KILLER. AND A MURDER SUSPECT CLAIMS MISTAKEN IDENTITY. THE SHOCKING MOMENTS IN COURT AND WHAT 911 CALLS ARE REVEALING ABOUT HIS ARREST. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. FIRST, WE ARE WAITING TO GET MORE DETAILS FROM WINSTON-SALEM POLICE ABOUT A BAD CRASH ON A BUSY ROAD THIS EVENING. IT HAPPENED AROUND 630 TONIGHT ON UNIVERSITY PARKWAY HEADING INTO DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM. OUR PHOTOJOURNALIST AT THE SCENE SAW TWO MANGLED VEHICLES WITH ONE CAR APPEARING TO HAVE CRASHED INTO A LIGHT POLE. NO WORD TONIGHT OR AT THIS TIME ABOUT INJURIES OR WHAT LED UP TO THAT CRASH. POLICE SHUT DOWN UNIVERSITY PARKWAY FROM 14TH TO NORTHWEST BOULEVARD WHILE THEY CONTINUE THEIR INVESTIGATION ELSEWHERE. TONIGHT, A LOCAL FAMILY IS FINDING SOME PEACE AFTER THE MAN WHO KILLED THEIR LOVED ONE WAS SENTENCED. WXII, 12 KELLY KENDALL SPOKE WITH THE FAMILY OF DONTRELL WARREN, WHO WAS MURDERED IN WINSTON-SALEM ALMOST SEVEN YEARS AGO AND KELLY, WHAT WAS THE MOOD IN THE COURTROOM TODAY? CHRISTINE, DEVANTE IT WAS EMOTIONAL AS DONTRELL WARREN’S MOTHER AND SISTER, SPOKE OF THEIR LOSS IN COURT. THEY DESCRIBED HIM AS FUNNY AND KIND AND SAY HIS LIFE WAS CUT TOO SHORT BY THE DEFENDANT, DAQUAN CATES. CATES RECEIVED A SENTENCE OF 22.5 TO 27.5 YEARS IN PRISON. STORE WITH A FRIEND ON 23RD STREET. AS WARREN WALKED UP THE STEPS OF HIS HOME’S FRONT PORCH, INVESTIGATORS SAY DAQUAN CATES ATTEMPTED TO ROB HIM BUT ENDED UP SHOOTING HIM THREE TIMES IN THE BACK WITH A RIFLE, THEN FLED. WARREN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE DIED FROM HIS INJURIES. HE WAS JUST 21 YEARS OLD AND LEFT BEHIND A TWO YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. HE WAS FUNNY. HE WAS THE LIGHT OF THE ROOM. HE. ASHLEY WARREN IS DONTRELL OLDER SISTER. SHE SAYS HER BROTHER LOVED TO COOK AND HELPED HIS FAMILY IN ANY WAY HE COULD. VERY LOVING SON. LOVED MY PARENTS TO PIECES. UM, VERY GREAT FATHER. UM. HE WAS VERY DEDICATED. HE WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING HIS DAUGHTER GROW UP. UM, I CAN’T SAY ENOUGH GOOD THINGS ABOUT HIM. HE. HIS LIFE WAS CUT SHORT IN COURT. HIS MOTHER, ANTOINETTE WARREN, SAID SHE HELD HER SON AS HE TOOK HIS LAST BREATHS. SIX YEARS LATER, SHE SAID HER FAMILY IS STILL FEELING THE PAIN OF HIS LOSS AND WANTS TO SEE CATES BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. THE 26 YEAR OLD WAS ARRESTED IN 2023. ON THURSDAY IN FORSYTH COUNTY COURT. HE PLED GUILTY TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGES. I FEEL LIKE, UM, FOR SOMEONE TO LOSE, UM, THE MAJORITY OF THEIR LIFE, UM, IT IT HAS SOME TYPE OF WEIGHT TO THAT, SO I’M HAPPY FOR THAT TURNOUT. WARREN’S SISTER SAYS THE FEELING OF LOSS WILL ALWAYS BE THERE. BUT DESCRIBE TODAY’S SENTENCING AS THE END OF A CHAPTER. SHE ADDED SHE IS HOPEFUL THAT WARREN’S DAUGHTER, NOW NINE YEARS OLD, WILL REMEMBER PIECES OF HER FATHER. IN WINSTON-SALEM, I’M KELLI KENDALL, WXII, 12 NEWS. NEW TONIGHT. NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER A FIGHT THAT LED TO GUNFIRE IN DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM TODAY. POLICE SAY IT HAPPENED AROUND 430 THIS AFTERNOON NEAR FOURTH AND TRADE. OFFICERS SAY THE FIGHT LED TO A GUN BEING FIRED AT LEAST ONCE. POLICE SAY THIS APPEARED TO BE AN ISOLATED INCIDENT. FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF A WINSTON SALEM WOMAN KILLED IN HER HOME ARE SHOCKED AND CONFUSED TODAY. THE MAN ACCUSED OF MURDER SAYS HE DIDN’T DO IT. JOSHUA DAVIS WAS INSIDE THE COURTROOM AS THE SUSPECT MADE SEVERAL STUNNING CLAIMS. 44 YEAR OLD CLIFTON MCMILLAN ARGUED WITH THE JUDGE IGHT IN THE COURTROOM. HE CLAIMED INVESTIGATORS HAD THE WRONG MAN IN COURT. CLIFTON MCMILLAN CLAIMED THIS WAS A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. HE ADAMANT THAT HIS REAL NAME IS JAMAL HUDSON. POLICE SAY MCMILLAN SHOT AND KILLED 54 YEAR OLD SANDRA RAMSEUR INSIDE HER HOME ON BAILEY ROAD WEDNESDAY AFTER AN ALTERCATION. BROADCASTIFY AUDIO REVEALS THAT POLICE ENGAGE IN A SEARCH FOR MCMILLAN IN THE SURROUNDING AREA. ALL UNITS ARE ON LOOKOUT FOR EQUIPMENT. CLIFF MCMILLAN LAST, HE RAN A RED SHIRT WITH BLACK PANTS LASTING HEADING NORTH FROM THIS LOCATION. THAT’S NO WHERE IN THE WOODLAND KERNERSVILLE LAST PATROL CARS COME INTO THE WOODLINE. ALL RIGHT, LET’S FOCUS CLEAR THE HOUSE FIRST. EVERYBODY ELSE SET UP A PERIMETER AT THIS TIME, THE MOTIVE IS STILL UNCLEAR. AND FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE DESPERATE FOR ANSWERS. I DON’T UNDERST, WE DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY HE SHOT HER. RAMSEUR EX-HUSBAND IS NOW HELPING HER GRIEVING FAMILY GET THROUGH THIS TOUGH TIME. YOU KNOW, WE’RE STILL IN SHOCK. UM, YOU KNOW, SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL PERSON. PERSON BEAUTIFUL INSIDE AND OUT. AND WE’RE JUST. WE’RE JUST. WE JUST CAN’T BELIEVE IT. HE ADDS SHE LOVED HER CHILDREN, HER GRANDCHILDREN AND HAD A SMILE FOR ANYONE SHE MET THAT SHE WAS JUST A VERY GOOD PERSON, THAT SHE LOVED LIFE AND SHE LOVED PEOPLE, AND SHE DID NOT DESERVE WHAT HAPPENED TO HER. POLICE SAY THEY FOUND MCMILLAN IN A NEARBY HOUSE WHEN THEY TOOK HIM INTO CUSTODY. IF CONVICTED, HE COULD BE FACING THE DEATH PENALTY AND HIS NEXT COURT DATE IS SCHEDULED FOR MAY 9TH IN WINSTON SALEM. I’M JOSHUA DAVIS FOR WXII 12 NEWS. WXII 12 NEWS HAS REACHED OUT TO WINSTON SALEM POLICE ABOUT THIS CASE. AND WHILE THEY SAY THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL SUSPECTS, IT’S THEY’VE NOT ADDRESSED MCMILLAN’S CLAIMS OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. ALSO HAPPENING NOW. UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS ARE PUSHING BACK AS PRO-PALESTINIAN RALLIES INTENSIFY ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES. CAMPUSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. PROTESTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, WHICH HAVE INSPIRED A NATIONWIDE MOVEMENT, CONTINUED FOR A NINTH DAY. JENN SULLIVAN IS TRACKING THE UNREST. TENSIONS RISING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES AS PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS ARE MAKING THEMSELVES HEARD. WHAT DO YOU PROTECT? WHO DO YOU SERVE? AS PROTESTS ESCALATE, MANY LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS AND UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS ARE PUSHING BACK. POLICE ARRIVE IN RIOT GEAR AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY IN BOSTON THURSDAY. PROTESTERS LINKING ARMS TO FORM A CHAIN AND PROTECT THEIR ENCAMPMENT. UNIVERSITY IS SUPPOSED TO BE A PLACE WHERE THERE’S DISCUSSION AND, YOU KNOW, THE FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND YOU BRING ALL THOSE POLICE IN THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS. IT’S ABOUT CONTROL. I WILL LIVE FOREVER. SIMILAR SCENES AT EMORY UNIVERSITY IN ATLANTA. POLICE PINNING THIS DEMONSTRATOR TO THE GROUND. STUDENTS HOLDING SIGNS READING POLICE OFF OUR CAMPUS NOW ARE. OTHERS YELLING AT POLICE TO STOP. I JUST SAW POLICE USE UNNECESSARY VIOLENCE FOR PEACEFUL PROTESTERS. I SAW POLICE KNOCK STUDENTS TO THE GROUND. REPORTER THESE COLLEGE PROTESTS, EMBOLDENED BY DEMONSTRATIONS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK, STRETCHING INTO A NINTH DAY THURSDAY, PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS HAD BEEN WARNED TO DISMANTLE THE ENCAMPMENT. STUDENTS SAY THEY’RE STILL NEGOTIATING WITH THE UNIVERSITY. WE’RE LOOKING AT A COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE OF OF OF AGREEMENT. ON THURSDAY, COUMBIA OFFICIALS SAYING THEY’VE ADDED ADDITIONAL SECURITY ON CAMPUS AND DISCUSSED FURTHER SAFETY MEASURES WITH THE CITY’S MAYOR AND NYPD, JENN SULLIVAN, WXII 12 NEWS. THIS COMES AS ISRAEL LAUNCHES MORE AIRSTRIKES IN A DENSELY POPULATED TOWN IN SOUTHERN GAZA. A TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL IS NOW SAYING IT IS WILLING TO CALL A TRUCE FOR FIVE YEARS OR MORE, AS LONG AS THERE’S AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE. SEPARATELY, PRESIDENT BIDEN AND LEADERS OF MORE THAN A DOZEN COUNTRIES ISSUED A JOINT STATEMENT TODAY CALLING ON HAMAS TO RELEASE ALL OF THE HOSTAGES IMMEDIAELY AND CONSIDER A PROPOSED HOSTAGE DEAL THAT WOULD BRING A TEMPORARY CEASE FIRE. A KEY WEAKNESS CONTINUED TESTIMONY TODAY AT DONALD TRUMP’S CRIMINAL TRIAL IN NEW YORK. DAVID --, THE FORMER PUBLISHER OF THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER, DETAILED HIS ROLE IN THE ALLEGED HUSH MONEY PAYMENTS TO -- ACTRESS STORMY DANIELS AND PLAYBOY MODEL KAREN MCDOUGAL. BOTH WOMEN CLAIMED TO HAVE HAD AFFAIRS WITH TRUMP, A CLAIM DENIED BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT. PROSECUTORS ARE SEEKING TO PROVE THAT TRUMP ALTERED INTERNAL BUSINESS RECORDS TO COVER UP THOSE PAYMENTS. MEANWHILE, THE SUPREME COURT APPEARS READY TO REJECT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S CLAIMS OF SWEEPING IMMUNITY. HOWEVER, IT ALSO APPEARED THAT THEY MAY NOT IMMEDIATELY GREENLIGHT HIS TRIAL IN THE FEDERAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE. MUCH OF THE NEARLY THREE HOUR HEARING FOCUSED ON WHETHER THERE SHOULD BE DISTINCTION BETWEEN OFFICIAL ACTS. PURSUANT TO TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL DUTIES AND HIS PRIVATE CONDUCT. TRUMP HAS CLAIMED PRESIDENTS HAVE IMMUNITY FROM CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. WELL, THE GATES ARE OPEN AND THE PICKING, STRUMMING AND SINGING HAS BEGUN. MERLEFEST KICKED OFF THIS AFTERNOON AT WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND OF COURSE, TO SEE THESE ACTS, YOU FIRST HAVE TO GET TO MERLEFEST. ADRIANNA HARGROVE SPOKE WITH POLICE ABOUT TRAFFIC AND PARKING, AND SHE HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. POLICE CHIEF TOMMY RHODES SAYS THERE WILL BE NO STREET CLOSURES DURING MERLEFEST, BUT REGULAR PARKING IS LOCATED AT LOT A ON STOKES STREET, LOT B AND C ON INDUSTRIAL DRIVE. AS YOU CAN SEE RIGHT HERE, AND LOT D ON ITHACA STREET NOW, HANDICAPPED PARKING WILL BE AVAILABLE IN LOT H ON EXECUTIVE DRIVE NEXT TO THE ONE CORPORATE CENTER, LOT V IS FOR VOLUNTEERS. THAT’S NEXT TO THE HERRING HALL. NOW THOSE OF YOU TAKING THE SHUTTLE, IT WILL LOAD UP ALONG SOUTH COLLEGIATE DRIVE AND DROP YOU OFF ON EXECUTIVE DRIVE NEAR LOTS V AND H. NOW TO SEE A FULL VIEW OF THE PARKING MAP AND A MAP OF MERLEFEST, VISIT WXII 12.COM AND YOU CAN GET ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO ENJOY THE MERLEFEST EXPERIENCE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS SCAN THE QR CODE ON YOUR SCREEN OR HEAD OVER TO THE WXII 12 NEWS APP TO ACCESS OUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE EVENT. YOU WILL FIND ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS SUCH AS CAN YOU BRING A COOLER? CAN YOU LEAVE AND REENTER? AS WELL