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Weekend of Violence Begins with Double Murder for Double-Riders
Mon, March 27, 2017
And we start our coverage of all these murders with the first two that occurred in the city. It happened early on Saturday morning when two men - one 34 and the other 59, were double riding on a bicycle on Kelly Street. Near to Chon Saan Restaurant, a white car pulled up and opened fire with two guns. Both men were shot twice in the head, and they both died on the spot - strewn across the street with a bicycle between them.

It's a very unusual double murder and Daniel Ortiz went looking for answers today:...

Daniel Ortiz reporting
Pain, loss, and disbelief...these were but some of the complex emotions that the families of 34-year-old Byron Marshall and 59-year-old Nelson Noralez were struggling with today when we got a chance to speak with them.

They were still trying to understand what prompted their double murder on Saturday night.

Marcy Casey-Marshall - Wife of Byron Marshall
"People might say that my little girl don't understand, but she and her dad was so close together and every minute she is asking me for her father. I can't even give her a response, because she doesn't even understand what is dead."

Fredrick Moody - Brother of Byron Marshall
"I didn't expect when they told me that he got shot, I don't expect him to be here."

Reporter
"You didn't expect him to be in the city."

Fredrick Moody - Brother of Byron Marshall
"I know he was in Valley. When that happened to him and they told me that, I took a long time to believe it, but it happened."

Chester Noralez- Nephew of Nelson Noralez
"To tell the truth, everybody is stunned at what happened. A man who is about 60 years old, a young guy from Pomona just came to recreate early morning and catch the bus and home back just shock the community right now."

Gilbert Nunez - Friend of Nelson Noralez
"The pain was so hurt that I couldn't stand the pain, I got down and cry and walk away. I couldn't stand it. It was really hurt, because he is not a violent person like that. I am the violent man and stuff, but he always tells me to quit that violence, it doesn't pay anything. He use to always advise me and stuff."

"It hurts me. Up to now I still have the agony. I feel it. It hurts a lot."

The incident happened at the corner of Matron Roberts and Kelly Streets at around 2:30 that Saturday morning. It is believed that the men went out to play poker, and while on the way home, they were shot from behind by an unknown gunman:

ACP Dezerie Phillips - OC, Eastern Division North
"Police were called out to corner Kelly Street and Matron Roberts Street, where two male persons identified as Byron Marshall and Nelson Noralez - were seen with gunshot wounds to the head. They were both transported to the KHMH and they were pronounced dead."

"From what we have been able to gather so far is that both persons; one was riding a bicycle, the other was walking alongside the bicycle and they were walking on Kelly Street when a lone gunman came up from behind them and fired the fatal shots."

Chester Noralez - Nephew of Nelson Noralez
"Well all I know that they were a gambling place on Freetown Road, they left the spot about a little bit after 2am, went to Nurse Seay Street to another friend's house I believe to play poker and I understand that on their way there on Kelly Street, they were brutally shot he and his friend."

Police say that all possible motives are being looked at, but they haven't been able to definitively establish the reason why these men were killed.

Chester Noralez - Nephew of Nelson Noralez
"All I could say that maybe both of them were walking on Kelly Street and maybe somebody just idle with a gun wanted to shoot somebody, because they just ran behind them and shoot two of them and just ran away after that. I can't say."

ACP Dezerie Phillips - OC, Eastern Division North
"As to why they were targeted is still unknown to us."

Reporter
"They weren't robbed of anything?"

Chester Noralez - Nephew of Nelson Noralez
"His belongings and everything were there; his bicycle, money - everything on them. Nothing was taken."

Daniel Ortiz, 7News
"Were the two gentlemen their belongings anything taken?"

ACP Dezerie Phillips - OC, Eastern Division North
"We don't have anything to confirm that anything was taken from them."

The Pickstock area knows Nelson Noralez as no sort troublemaker to be gunned down so mercilessly. In fact, the elder gentleman is firmly believed to have been a law-abiding citizen.

Chester Noralez - Nephew of Nelson Noralez
"He was a good and loving man. He loves his kids. He showed love to the community, maybe he help the young boys now and again with food and so forth, but I don't know what is the outcome to have somebody killed him like that."

Gilbert Nunez - Friend of Nelson Noralez
"He is always try to help the kids and help other people. He wasn't a violent man. He was good. Everybody that knows him, knows that he is not a violent man."

In fact, Nelson Noralez actually volunteered his time and effort to the neighborhood pre-school for the past 8 years.

Voice of: Teacher
"He was a very helpful person to us here at the school. Anything we needed we call him and he would left what he was doing and come and assist us here."

The family of Byron Marshall have pretty much the same perspective on him. They say that he was a good husband and a good father.

Fredrick Moody - Brother of Byron Marshall
"My brother he was peaceful, loving. He was not about fight, kill or hurt anyone. He just likes to play card. That's all."

Daniel Ortiz, 7News
"Having lost the love of your life, how are you handling it?"

Marcy Casey-Marshall - Wife of Byron Marshall
"Well people might say that it's just because of right now, but I think he takes all the love someone should get from me again. I don't say that I don't love my baby, but he was with me and that connection that we had, we barely even quarrel. There always say there is no perfect relationship, but this relationship was too perfect for me. Like I still think this is a dream."

Notably police found four 9 millimeter shells at the scene as well as one 2.23 rifle expended shell. 2.23 rounds are usually used in assault rifles like AR - 15's.

Byron Marshall leaves behind a son and a daughter, and relatives of Nelson Noralez tell us that he has a grown son living in the US.

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