Posted on 08/09/2010 6:12:42 AM PDT by La Lydia
Two drug couriers from Texas have been charged with first-degree murder in Friday's shooting of two women and two young children in a squalid Prince George's County apartment, police said...law enforcement sources added that the killings stemmed from a drug debt the women failed to pay. PG Police Chief Roberto Hylton said Saturday that Darrell Lynn Bellard, 43, shot the four victims execution-style, firing multiple bullets into each one, and that T'keisha Nicole Gilmer, 18, blocked their escape. Bellard, of Dickinson, and Gilmer, of Texas City, were both being held...
Killed were Dawn Yvette Brooks, 38; Mwasiti Sikyala, 41; Shayla Shante Sikyala, 3; and Shakur Sylvester Sikyala, 4. Brooks was the mother of the children; Mwasiti Sikyala was their paternal aunt, authorities said. All lived in the 6800 block of Third Street where their bodies were discovered 3 a.m. Friday in a garage apartment amid piles of trash and debris.
Police said they do not know why the family was living in such horrid conditions -- in a dilapidated apartment above a garage with no toilet, running water or air conditioning. Police said they have removed tons of trash from the property and found containers of human feces...investigators want to know why they would live like that when it appeared they were profiting from the drug trade...
Law enforcement sources said the dispute was straightforward: Brooks and Sikyala owed Bellard money for drugs, and they could not pay him...
A woman who said she was a relative said the family was not transient and did not live in filth. "We are a proud family," the woman said. "We are from a foreign country, and we respect ourselves." She declined to give her name.
The woman said that the family had immigrated to the United States from Congo...
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ICE, where are you?
Welcome to the glamorous world of drugs.
Drug users? Living in horrid conditions? There's got to be an explanation for this ...
Pictures of perps at http://www.aolnews.com/tag/darrell-lynn-bellard/
Still wish I could find the original story. Apparently the woman immigrated legally.
***Drug users? Living in horrid conditions? There’s got to be an explanation for this ...***
They probably lived in the same conditions in the Congo.
well, it’s still confusing.
They bought an SUV etc., and my guess is they were buying the drugs from a distributor and then selling. If they could buy an SUV why not rent an apartment with -— at least -— a toilet?
No matter where they were from living with your own feces is straaaange...
You're being judgmental. Living with your own excrement may be a sign of great wisdom in the ancient culture of the Congo. As Mayor Bloomberg would say, you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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