Leader in double killing has strong gang ties courierpostonline.com Courier-Post: "Kuasheim Powell, of the 500 block of Berkley Street, was the leader in the group killing of Muriah Huff, 18, of Cinnaminson and Michael Hawkins, 23, of Mount Holly, assistant prosecutor Ira Slovin said during an arraignment hearing for Powell on Tuesday.Powell was the one who shot Hawkins five times in the head during the hours-long killings on Feb. 22 inside the Berkley Street home, Slovin said.A day before Powell allegedly helped kill Huff and Hawkins, police say he shot and injured two 21-year-old brothers near the light rail River Line 36th street station."
''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an...
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