Two weeks after his codefendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to decades in prison, the second person charged with murder in the deaths of two cousins at a party off Rim Road in 2023 was found not guilty at trial.
After a week of testimony, a Cumberland County Superior Court jury found Tre’Shaun Lewis Geddie, 24, of Fayetteville, not guilty. Geddie was acquitted Aug. 21 of two counts each of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder and one count each of discharging a weapon into an occupied property and felony conspiracy to commit murder. He was charged in the shooting deaths of Alzy J. Diamond II, 24, and Aljarez Ivory Elliott, 18, and the shootings of two others.
The jury’s verdict came 14 days after Geddie’s codefendant, Tyrone Demetrius Washington, 23, of Fayetteville, pleaded guilty to identical charges Aug. 7. Washington was sentenced to at least 32 years in prison, according to court records…