2 men arrested in double shooting
Another still sought for questioning in 2006 attack in Cross
By Nadine Parks
The Post and Courier
Gadson (left), Porter (center), King (right)
Two homicide suspects on the run after a 2006 double shooting in Cross were captured this week in unrelated traffic stops in South Carolina. Another man is wanted for questioning.
Berkeley County sheriff's deputies are looking for Marquel Joel "Donkey" Gadson of Eutawville for questioning in the September 2006 deaths of two Jamaican men who had been living in a mobile home on S.C. Highway 311 and using fictitious names.
Jerome Porter, 20, was arrested after a traffic stop Tuesday in Lexington County, said Dan Moon, public information officer for the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office.
Moon said David Dominick King, 22, was arrested after a separate and unrelated stop in Orangeburg County on Thursday.
"Sometimes you get lucky," Moon said.
Porter and King each face two charges of murder and a first-degree burglary charge, Moon said.
Another suspect, Henry James Clark, 30, of Orangeburg was arrested last year on the same charges.
It took officials weeks to determine the victims' true identities.
Moses Williams, 44, was found dead in the backyard of the mobile home when authorities arrived. Vincent Irving, 26, later died at Medical University Hospital.
Detectives said that the shooter wore body armor and that the incident was related to the drug trade.
To provide information on Gadson's whereabouts, call the Sheriff's Office at 719-4170 or Crime Stoppers at 554-1111.
Reach Nadine Parks at 937-5573 or nparks@postand courier.com.
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theronce (anonymous) says...
I thing the magic age is "20"...as opposed to "teenagers", who have no capacity to distinguish right from wrong or the ability to choose one from the other.
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