Two arrested for Roxbury shooting murder
By adamg - 4/1/08 - 5:19 pm
Shawn "Shanks" Daughtry, 27, and Demtrius "Demeet" Wardsworth, 19, both of Roxbury, are to be arraigned tomorrow in Roxbury District Court on charges they tried to rub out two men on Codman Park in Roxbury last September - succeeding with one of them.
On the evening of Sept. 20, police found two people suffering from gunshot wounds at 60 Codman Park. Both were brought to Boston Medical Center. Urel Duncan, 29, died. The other man, a 19-year-old whose identity police are withholding, survived.
Wardsworth was already facing had been cleared of a charge of assault with intent to murder in connection with a separate incident last June, in which he and another accomplice allegedly drove up to a Dorchester home and started shooting.
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Once again...
...execute 'em.
Nope...
Build a halfway house of sorts next-door to Mumbles and make them all live there. After stripping that bumbling cheeseloaf of his taxpayer-funded armed security detail, of course.
Update: Wardsworth only faces the Codman Park charges
According to the Suffolk County DA's office, the earlier charges against him were dismissed. However, his alleged accomplice in that case, Orlando Waters, 19, of Roxbury, still faces charges:
Update: Daughtry and Wardsworth ordered held without bail
Next court appearance is May 1, according to the Suffolk County DA's office.
The Globe reports from the arraignment that prosecutors charge the two went out that day in search of some random people to shoot. Daughtry's lawyer argued he should be let out on $10,000 bail because he never fled and wanted to be with his young son.