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Randy Manning
(Mugshot: BERGEN PROSECUTOR)
Brian “Kampane” Stoute (IAMKAMPANE.COM)
Randy K. Manning, who used to live on Belmont Street in Englewood before moving to Brooklyn, is being held on $2 million bail, charged with the murder.
Authorities have “not ruled out the possibility of further arrests, including other(s) who may have been aware of the murder and who may have assisted Manning in its coverup,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said early Saturday afternoon.
Manning, 31, went with the rapper late Monday to the vacant Tryon Avenue home after hitting malls in Paramus and stores elsewhere, Molinelli said.
Sometime after they broke in, Manning shot Kampane — whose real name was Rhian Stoute — with a .40-caliber handgun several times in the head and chest, the prosecutor said. Manning then set a fire to try and destroy the evidence, he said.
As CLIFFVIEW PILOT has reported exclusively, Stoute was shot once in the head, once in the neck and once in the shoulder.
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“The shooting may have been related to a dispute or involvement over money” and not Stoute’s “status as a performer,” Molinelli said.
He said Manning took off in Stoute’s Chevy Tahoe after the killing, returning to Brooklyn. On Tuesday morning, he went back to the murder scene, “removed the charred body of Rhian Stoute from the house and placed it into the rear cargo” of the vehicle, the prosecutor said. He then drove it to Paramus, “where he randomly selected Village Circle West” and abandoned the SUV there, he said. Natuchka Etienne, Delroy Clarke (Mugshots: BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR)
As he ran from the Tahoe, Manning tossed clothing and other evidence — although investigators haven’t yet found the murder weapon, Molinelli said.
Walking up to Route 4 and Forest Avenue, he called and was picked up by a friend, Delroy Clarke, 23, of Belmont Street in Englewood, the prosecutor said.
Clarke is being held on $50,000 bail, charged with hindering Manning’s apprehension.
Also charged is Manning’s girlfriend, Natuchka Etienne, also 23, who Molinelli said “tried to create a false alibi” for him. They lived together on Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn, records show. Etienne is being held on $10,000 bail.
Manning, who is unemployed, served a little over a month in jail before being released on probation for two years after he was convicted in April 2008 of eluding police, records show. He is now charged with murder, felony murder, burglary, illegal weapons possession, desecration of human remains, arson, witness tampering and hindering apprehension.
The latter charge “arises from (his) attempts to influence various witnesses in the case,” Molinelli said.
All three are scheduled for court appearances Monday in Hackensack.
The case was cracked by Molinelli’s Major Crimes Squad, the Paramus Police Department and the Englewood Police Department.
Investigators on Friday and Saturday morning recovered undisclosed evidence at two addresses on Belmont Street and on Tryon Avenue, as well as at Manning and Etienne’s Brooklyn apartment, the prosecutor said.
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