Trial Starts in Diaper Suffocation Case

The trial began Monday of Demarcus Crawford, one of four people charged in the 2008 death of Tedla Lemma at his home in unincorporated Lilburn, WSBTV reported.

Crawford and accomplices robbed Lemma, gagging him with an adult diaper that suffocated him, according to the report.

Lemma, an emigree from Ethiopia, ran a convenience store with his brother and had been robbed three times, reports say. During one of the robberies at his store, he was shot and paralyzed.

Quincy Marcel Jackson, said to be the leader of the four, was sentenced to life in prison. Marshae Brooks and Lorna Araya also face charges in the case, according to other reports.