Two men are facing homicide charges stemming from a fatal shooting two years ago, apparently over an ex-girlfriend.
Easton police Wednesday charged Omar Robinson, 35, and Patrick Hughes, 36, with criminal homicide and conspiracy to commit criminal homicide.
The incident happened around 5:40 p.m. on Nov. 23, 2012, in the 100 block of West St. Joseph Street in Easton.
When police responded to the scene for a report of shots fired, they found the victim, Ervin Holton, suffering from gunshot wounds. He died at the scene.
"This case is not an easy case," said Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli. "It's a complicated case."
Surveillance video from the Sole Mio Restaurant showed a dark-colored minivan parking in the 200 block of West Madison Street and two men exiting the vehicle moments before the crime.
The video, police said, shows the two men running south toward the location of the shooting, and moments later running back to the minivan moments after the crime.
An eyewitness told police the minivan was a dark Honda Odyssey.
The Odyssey was traced to Robinson's then-girlfriend Lisa Doorley, and Robinson told police he had possession of the minivan between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Nov. 23, 2012.
Court papers indicated that Patrick "Rue" Hughes was selling heroin to a source working with the police in late November 2012.
He told police in an interview that he dated Nicole Green until he was sent to prison, and he said he was released on Nov. 1, 2012.
He also told police he was longtime friends with Robinson and they talked regularly on the phone.
On July 3, 2013, police talked with Hughes' cellmate at the Northampton County Prison and that Hughes bragged to him about being involved in Holton's murder.
In court documents, the cellmate went on to tell police that it was "his work" and that "his boy O" did help him with the homicide since he owed money. Hughes also told the cellmate, officials said, that the shooting was over his girlfriend dating another man.
"We're not going to speak on specific motives due to the ongoing investigation," said Lt. Matthew Gerould, Easton Police Department.
Some of the testimony came during a grand jury hearing in 2013 during which both suspects testified. Morganelli said the goal was to help shake out more facts in the case.
"The police did a great job on this and they put together a lot of pieces," added Morganelli. "The grand jury basically put the rest of the puzzle together."
Hughes is currently in the Northampton County Prison after pleading guilty in August 2013 to drug charges. He was sentenced to 21 to 42 months on the drug charges.
Robinson, of the 2100 block of Edgewood Avenue in Easton, turned himself in Thursday night around 6 p.m.
Police had searched a home in Palmer Township and another home in New Jersey to no avail while looking for Robinson. Police were calling him "armed and dangerous" when he was at large.
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