Freedom short-lived, five men re-charged for graveyard murder

Leon Gray

In other news from the courts, five men had a brief taste of freedom last Tuesday after eight months on remand for the 2009 murder of Randy Coye.

Kenroy Humes

They were acquitted because police did not provide a case file after numerous requests and the preliminary inquiry could not start.

Kareem Smith

But less than a week later, the case file has been located and the five men are once again behind bars.  Twenty-one year old Leon Gray, twenty-three year olds Kareem Smith and Deshawn Mena, twenty year old Kenroy Humes and twenty-seven year old Edwin Flowers were re-arrested after the Crimes

Edwin Flowers

Investigation Branch of the Police Department wrote to the DPP requesting authority to re-charge the men. All five were arraigned today for Murder and Conspiracy to Commit Murder, while Flowers was additionally charged with Abetment to Commit Murder.

Deshawn Mena

They are all to reappear in court on July twenty-third. Coye was murdered on October second, 2009 in a brutal attack where he was badly beaten and then shot. His body was found three days later in the Lord Ridge Cemetery.