MOBILE, Ala. (WALA/Gray News) – An Alabama man out on bond for murder is accused of committing another homicide.
Investigators in Mobile say Nyyon Sanders shot Joseph Evans Jr. at the Dauphin Gate apartments on Monday night.
Nyyon Sanders allegedly let the battery in his ankle monitor die before committing the second crime.
Now, the private electronic ankle monitoring company is under fire again.
Presiding Circuit Court Judge Wesley Pipes identified the company as Accupoint and said there have been issues in the past.
District Attorney Keith Blackwood says he’s very concerned about how this crime happened.
“It’s just an absolute worst-case scenario that everyone in the community dreads,” Blackwood said.
Nyyon Sanders was arrested Wednesday morning after a search warrant in the area of Bankhead Street and Euclid Avenue.
The victim’s family says they’re furious after finding out he was already on bond for murder.
“How many times is it going to take for a person to kill someone? Just like the second time, how many chances is he going to get?” Joseph Evans Sr. said. “It’ll be a third time for someone’s family to go through what me and the first family done went through, so I hope justice is served.”
According to Blackwood, Nyyon Sanders shouldn’t have been in that area to begin with.
“From what I understand, Nyyon Sanders allowed his ankle monitor to go dead after 5 p.m. and within four hours, had committed the murder,” Blackwood said.
Last month, Accupoint was under fire after a murder defendant violated the conditions of his release by going to a casino in Mississippi.
Pipes says it’s “certainly an option” to cut ties with Accupoint in the near future.
Pipes also said he reached out to the company Wednesday afternoon. His office is working to figure out what happened from multiple agencies and is exploring several options for the best way to electronically monitor suspects while out they are out on bond.
According to Mobile police, Nyyon Sanders was on bond for a 2022 murder he allegedly committed with his brother, Kevin Sanders.
Court documents state that bond has been revoked for both brothers. The documents also say the brothers were together during both of the alleged crimes.
Kevin Sanders is not charged in the November murder, according to court documents, but he did violate his bond by allegedly riding with Nyyon Sanders to an area outside of his permitted travel.
Blackwood called it a failure by the private ankle monitoring system.
He says the company wouldn’t have been alerted that Nyyon Sanders’ battery died until 8 a.m. the next morning.
“Yet another case where you’ve got a private ankle monitoring company that was tasked with monitoring someone that’s out on bond,” Blackwood said. “That did not happen in this case and this defendant is alleged to have committed yet another murder.”
The district attorney says he’s ready for the sheriff’s office to take over, but it all boils down to money.
“It all comes down to funding for our law enforcement agency to be able to take this task on,” Blackwood said. “You have to have personnel to do that. You have to have the equipment. The sheriff’s office is, again, ready, willing and able to take this on.”
Accupoint has not responded to requests for comment.
The trial for the 2022 murder is scheduled to start Jan. 13, 2025.
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