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Yefaan Thompson was charged with two counts of murder, conspiracy and weapons offenses, according to Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw.
He was taken into custody April 24 in Westampton by the U.S. Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force and lodged in the Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly.
Thompson is the second person to be charged with fatally shooting Sadiel Gonzalez, 25, and Altarrek Bell, 18, as they were parking their car at the Orchard Park Apartments on March 27, 2021.
Andre Price, 35, of Willingboro, was arrested in the summer of 2021 in Virginia and hit with the same charges.
He is in the Burlington County Jail pending trial.
The investigation revealed that the shootings followed a confrontation earlier in the evening at a water ice store in Willingboro. The defendants are accused of following the victims to the complex, pulling up beside their vehicle, and firing multiple shots before speeding away.
Gonzalez, who lived at the complex, was in the driver’s seat and Bell, a North Carolina resident, was in the back.
Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
The other two occupants were not struck by gunfire
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