Posted on 05/17/2006 4:14:14 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
HAZLETON - Hazleton police charged two men yesterday with the shooting death of a borough man last week.
Pedro Cabrera and Joan Romero, both 23 and Hazleton residents, were charged with criminal homicide and ordered held without bail in the slaying of Derek Kichline, 29. Police said Cabrera and Romero are illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic.
According to police, the men shot Kichline in the head at point-blank range at 11:40 p.m. Wednesday in front of his East Chestnut Street home, and he died early Thursday at Hazleton General Hospital. Cabrera also faces a murder charge in New York City, police said.
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