"I just want to let everyone know August 19 2006 Joe Renner and Joe Shafer died and me and Samatha were hurt. I'm sure a lot of you really don't give a **** about me. Fine whatever you have your reasons I don't blame you but really think about it. Both of them knew what they were getting in to. Yes it's my fault because I was the driver but think about how many of you did what I did. ... Now don't get me wrong I take full responsability for everything that happened, but when you sit and say everything your saying think about what you probley did the day before that or maybe that night. You all take that risk. I never though it was gonna happen to me and it did. I learned from that I lost two very good friends of mine and a lot of people did."

In January 2007, for the murder of his friend Joseph Duprey, after he posted pictures of Duprey on his MySpace page with the words "Rest in Peace" and "LTM" ("Live Through Me") next to them -- before Duprey's death was reported to police. According to police, the murder was the result of a dispute over a gun Powell had borrowed from Duprey.

Police arrested him on three counts of murder, as he posted pictures of Jason Blake and Kenneth Blain (both of whom were killed in 2006) next to the pictures of Duprey.