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Charges Filed In Two Local Homicides

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published August 4, 2017 at 5:16 AM EDT

Columbus police have filed charges against three suspects in a pair of July homicides. 24-year-old Damon Wright and his 22-year-old sister Asia are charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Martin at an East Fifth Avenue gas station.  The two are at-large. 21-year-old Darwin Lopez is charged in the July 25 shooting death of Jose Peralta at a Petzinger Court apartment complex. Police have not disclosed the motives in the cases.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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