Ray Lewis and the Super Bowl Murders: The Buckhead Stabbing Case
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Joe
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In January 2000, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and two friends were charged with the murders of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar outside an Atlanta nightclub during Super Bowl weekend. The investigation revealed tactical knives purchased days before, a missing blood-soaked suit, destroyed photographs, and a code of silence that nearly derailed the entire case. What started as a champagne bottle to the head ended with two young men from Akron bleeding out on a Buckhead street, while one of football's biggest stars faced life in prison. The trial exposed deep fractures in witness testimony, questionable police tactics, and a self-defense claim that would shock the nation when the jury delivered its verdict after just five hours of deliberation.
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| 0:00.0 | Super Bowl Sunday 2000. While the St. Louis Rams celebrated inside the Georgia Dome, |
| 0:08.3 | two men from Akron, Ohio were bleeding to death on a Buckhead Street. At the center of it all was Ray |
| 0:13.8 | Lewis, one of the NFL's most feared linebackers, wearing a cream-colored suit that would disappear |
| 0:20.0 | by sunrise. |
| 0:21.6 | This is a story of a champagne bottle, tactical knives bought at a sporting goods store, |
| 0:26.6 | and how silence became the most powerful weapon of all. |
| 0:29.6 | ... January 31st, 2000. |
| 0:56.6 | The St. Louis Rams had won Super Bowl 34 in Atlanta hours earlier. |
| 1:01.3 | Confetti fell inside the Georgia Dome, and if you were in Atlanta that weekend, you were at the center of the universe. |
| 1:08.0 | Ray Lewis was 24 years old, already a Pro Bowl linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens. |
| 1:13.1 | On the field, he was ferocious. Off the field, he moved with an entourage like many athletes did |
| 1:19.1 | in that era. Two guys in that circle were Joseph Sweeting and Reginald Oakley. Sweeting had known |
| 1:26.1 | Ray Lewis since Miami. Oakley was newer to the group, |
| 1:29.5 | from Baltimore, and according to witnesses, he had a volatile streak. Jason's Baker was 21. Richard Lawler |
| 1:37.3 | was 24, both from Akron, Ohio. They'd moved to Atlanta during the late 1990s, economic boom, |
| 1:43.8 | trying to build something. |
| 1:45.6 | Richard Lawler was a barber. |
| 1:47.5 | Lawler was so skilled that clients would hand him $100 for a fade. |
| 1:51.5 | He loved to draw and he loved to sing. |
| 1:53.9 | His fiancé was pregnant with their daughter, India, who'd be born months after his death. |
| 1:59.1 | Lawler was the oldest of nine kids. |
| 2:01.8 | Jacenth Baker went by Shorty. He was an artist and a painter. Both parents died when he was young. |
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