COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH ) – For the second time in three weeks, a man has been indicted by a grand jury, this time over an alleged deadly drug deal.
According to Franklin County Court of Common Pleas documents, Dewarin Powell was indicted on two counts of murder and one count each of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and having weapons under disability.
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Powell, 22, along with 29-year-old Shavez Hargrave, 20-year-old Monique Vance, and 30-year-old April Brumfield, is accused in the death of 27-year-old Remarcus Smith-Heagler, who crashed his car after he was shot on the East Side this summer.
Columbus police said Smith-Heagler was in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in the 5000 block of Cedar Drive, in the Pine Hills neighborhood, when Powell and Hargrave attempted to rob him during an alleged drug deal.
Police said Powell and Hargrave shot Smith-Heagler while he was trying to escape. Smith-Heagler crashed his car about a block away before he was taken to a hospital in critical condition. He was died two days later .