Son hopes justice will be served in Charlotte mother's 1991 slaying

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A grand jury heard evidence Monday against a prime suspect nearly 30 years after a Charlotte mother was killed. Police have been trying to make a case against Louis Samuels since 1991.

Exzavier Hoey was 6 years old when his mother, Yulanda Hoey, was shot to death in the Hidden Valley neighborhood in 1991.

Before she was killed, Yulanda Hoey told her sister that if something happened to her, she was with Samuels, her boyfriend, police said.

Samuels would go to federal prison later that year on weapons charges, but he was never charged with killing Yulanda Hoey.

[Evidence destroyed in 1991 cold case murder, documents say]

Channel 9 reported two years ago that federal agents threw out evidence police had gathered in the case, including blood and a possible murder weapon.

Now prosecutors have taken their case against Samuels to a grand jury.

“I don't know him,” Exzavier Hoey said. “I've never seen him. I don't want to know him. I don't every know if he did it.”

Exzavier Hoey is ready to let the courts handle justice in his mother's case.

After she was killed, his grandmother stepped in and raised him. He's now telling his story of survival, struggle and finally success in an autobiography called “Rearview Mirror.”

“That's in the past,” he said. “I'm living with my mother right here and my grandmother right here, and I'm living with my two children.”Cold case detectives took the case to prosecutors earlier this month because Samuels is due to be released from prison in the coming months.

The grand jury’s decision whether to indict Samuels will be Tuesday.

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