Saturday, July 30, 2011

Which black twin committed the murder?

A possible case of mistaken identity could spell double trouble for Arizona prosecutors trying to get a murder conviction. Sir Xavier Brooks, 19, of Phoenix, was shot dead in a melee outside the Leonardo Da Vinci Code club. Brooks was reportedly backing away from the fight that had spilled outside the club with his hands up when he was gunned down. A few weeks later, police arrested the prime suspect in his murder, African-American Orlando Nembhard, who had fled to Yonkers, New York. Nembhard was thrown into an Arizona jail, and held on $500,000 bail. But new accounts are complicating the case, with some witnesses saying that Nembhard's twin brother Brandon actually committed the crime. Orlando's bail has been reduced to $10,000 and he was released with an ankle monitoring bracelet.

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