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Felix Brothers Will Stand Trial For Mark Gentle’s Murder
posted (April 19, 2016)
Today several charges were dropped against the Felix brothers - Maurice and Emory. They were both charged for shooting 27 year old Mark Gentle and 34 year old Calvin Cumberbatch on May 25th, 2015. Both Gentle and Cumberbatch were sitting on a step in front of their house that Monday night when a vehicle pulled up and 2 men let off a barrage of gunfire, and sped off. Cumberbatch was treated and released for his injuries but Mark Gentle, known as Mark Vernon died a week after on June 8th 2015.

Now in terms of the court case against the Felix brothers - they were initially charged with 2 counts of attempted murder, 2 counts of dangerous harm, and 1 count of use of deadly means of harm. But today at the Preliminary Inquiry, those charges were dropped in relation to the shooting of Calvin Cumberbatch. That is because after Cumberbatch was released from the hospital, he did not give a statement to police and stated that he did not want to press charges. Now the Felix brothers will only stand trial for 1 count each of murder and attempted murder. The murder is for the Mark Gentle's shooting - which, as we told you, led to his death a week later. And the attempted murder charge was brought against the brothers because Gentle's mother, recently deceased businesswoman Pamela Cumberbatch was also in the house at the time of the shooting. Although the attorney for the Felix brothers, Arthur Saldivar had some issues with Pamela Cumberbatch's statement to police - among other witness statements - Magistrate Sharon Fraser told him that any other submissions or queries would have to be made at the June session of the Supreme Court. That court session is set for June 21st.

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