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Two Men Get Life In Prison For 2015 Murder
May 6, 2017
Two Escambia County men have been convicted of a 2015 murder.
Gerial Martell DeLoach, and Charles Demetries Boutwell were both found guilty of the charge of first degree premeditated murder. The jury deliberated one and a half hours before returning a guilty verdict as charged.
Judge Scott Duncan sentenced both to life in state prison without the possibility of parole.
On the morning of August 11, 2015, the victim Dewayne Silas, met the two defendants by a white Chrysler Sebring inside the Oakstead Mobile Home Park. The defendants dropped Silas off at the back gate of the trailer park, then drove around to the outside of that back gate. Boutwell beckoned the victim to come back outside the gate through a hole in the fence. Silas exited the trailer park, DeLoach and Boutwell shot him a total of nine times with a pistol and a rifle.
DeLoach and Boutwell then fled the scene in the white Sebring and ditched the vehicle off of Mobile Highway. The vehicle was later recovered with Silas’ blood on the passenger door in addition to DeLoach’s palm print.
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