‘Cold-blooded execution’: Prosecutor says 19-year-old found guilty in murder of two other teens in Cleveland

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CLEVELAND (WJW) — A 19-year-old man was found guilty Wednesday in the murder of two other teens in Cleveland earlier this year, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office reported.

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Phoenix Brown, who was 18 at the time of the murders, was found guilty on the following counts, according to the prosecutor’s office:

  • Two counts of aggravated murder
  • Four counts of murder
  • Four counts of felonious assault
  • One count of aggravated Robbery
  • One count of grand theft when the property is a firearm or dangerous ordnance
  • One count of receiving stolen property
  • One count of possession of a fentanyl-related compound
  • One count of having weapons while under disability

On Jan. 14, Khalyn White, 17, and Julius Barron, 16, were found shot to death in a stolen Kia Soul that had crashed on a sidewalk near the corner of Warner Road and Jeffries Avenue. The car had been reported stolen in the city two days prior.

Police said they saw Brown run from the scene of the crash and went after him. He was ultimately stopped and taken into custody covered in blood. A gun was also located sometime later and drugs were reportedly found in his pocket…

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