Prosecutors say a defendant in a recent East St. Louis shooting death killed his friend so that he wouldn’t have to take the fall for a Belleville killing that occurred almost a year earlier.
The alleged motive — which the defense vehemently rejected — emerged Wednesday in St. Clair County Circuit Court during a pretrial detention hearing for 18-year-old Rashad M. Bonner.
Bonner and 21-year-old Damontez F. Williams are charged with first-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old Dewayne T. Wright in East St. Louis…