CANTON
Aggravated murder charges have been filed against the third suspect in last week’s fatal gas station robbery.
Darrell L. Newman, 19, of 3611 Ellis Ave. NE, is being held at the Stark County Jail Tuesday in lieu of $4 million bond.
Newman was initially arrested at 9:37 a.m. Friday in the 2400 block of 21st Street NE by Canton police and agents with the FBI Safe Streets Task Force on felony warrants charging him with obstructing justice and receiving stolen property, Stark County Jail records said.
The obstructing justice charge was related to the robbery investigation, but the receiving stolen property charge stemmed from a prior, unrelated incident, said Capt. Dave Davis, who heads the police department’s detective bureau.
Newman remained jailed until he was charged Tuesday morning in connection with the Sept. 22 robbery of the Marathon gas station at 2201 Ninth St. SW, Stark County court records show.
Newman faces two counts of aggravated murder and one count each of aggravated robbery and complicity to felonious assault, Davis said Tuesday morning.
Canton city Prosecutor Ty Hauritz said Newman is charged with aggravated murder “because of the deaths of two individuals during the commission of a robbery.
The officers filed the complaints for aggravated murder. Guns were involved in the planned robbery. Ultimately, it’ll be up to the grand jury to determine the appropriate charges.”
Police who had been called at 9:23 p.m. to the gas station shortly after the robbery arrived to find that the clerk had been shot twice — one in the leg and once in the hip.
He told them that he had fired back when three men came to rob the gas station, Davis has said.
The officers found Ronnie Lawson and Antonio Gracia nearby. Both men later died from their wounds.
Davis said Tuesday that the third man, identified as Newman, was not injured in the shoot-out.
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