Crime & Safety
Arrest Made In Norristown Double Homicide
Another look at one of the biggest stories of 2015. Man charged in the shooting deaths of two 26-year-olds who were childhood friends.
November 6, 2015
NORRISTOWN, PA - Murder charges have been filed against a man arrested on Thursday in the shooting deaths of two young men in a Norristown apartment building, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday.
Obrian Stephen Lewis has been charged with the murder of Quentin Watson Jr. and Marcel Edwards.
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Lewis was captured outside of the Park Place Apartments on 721 Sandy Street on Thursday morning.
Watson and Edwards, both 26-years-old and childhood friends, were discovered dead on Thursday morning in adjacent apartments, each having suffered several gunshot wounds.
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Lewis will be arraigned at 11:15 a.m. before Magisterial District Judge Margaret E. Hunsberger.
For more information on the case, please see Patch’s previous coverage.
Image courtesy Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
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