WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Police in Luzerne County caught up over the weekend with a man wanted on criminal charges he shot his former roommate in the arm earlier this summer.
The suspect, Brevon Marvin Brown, is accused of shooting Deonte Persaud shortly before midnight June 24 in Wilkes-Barre, according to an affidavit filed by city police. Brown was reportedly angry with Persaud, his former roommate, because Persaud planned to move out after Brown requested his whole paycheck for the rent.
Brown opened fire on Persaud while Persaud sat in his car on West South Street and then took off on foot. He remained at large until this weekend.
He was driven to the hospital by his boss, Davaun Jackson, and co-worker, Isaiah Rodgers-Keeney.
Persaud and Rodgers-Keeney worked as security for Jackson's construction company in Monroe County, according to police. Persaud had been driving Jackson and Rodgers-Keeney around before the shooting happened, according to police.
An officer patrolling East Northampton Street on Sunday came across Brown and arrested him. He reportedly gave the police a fake name to try and evade his captors.
Brown was denied bail because he was considered a flight risk. He has a preliminary hearing scheduled July 25 on charges of aggravated assault, providing false identification and for carrying a gun he's barred from possessing because he's been previously convicted of a drug crime.
Jackson and Rodgers-Keeney face their own trouble.
Authorities say that soon after the shooting happened, Jackson and Rodgers-Keeney kidnapped, assaulted and threatened women — two of whom reportedly witnessed Brown shoot Persaud.
Criminal charges against Jackson and Rodgers-Keeney remain pending in the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas. A district judge in July found enough evidence exists to warrant a jury trial.
At the hearing, Jackson maintained his innocence and a lawyer representing Rodgers-Keeney said he had nothing to do with the crime.
