Credit: Bucks County Department of Corrections
The alleged getaway driver in the Danny DeGennaro murder testified Thursday that Jermaine Jackson, 20, of Trenton was the mastermind in the killing plot, according to Philly.com.
Danasia Bakr,19, of the Morrisville section of Falls Township, said the suspects in the killing originally planned to rob the beloved Levittown musician.
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Prosecutors used cell phone records obtained through investigation to outlined a minute-by-minute timeline of Jackson’s movements on Wednesday. On Tuesday, it was stated in court that DeGennaro was targeted because he sold marijuana. A PhillyBurbs.com article stated Jackson’s attorney said his client is a drug dealer and often did business with DeGennaro but had left just before the murder.
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Background from court filings at the time of the five suspects arrests:
According to an affidavit of probable cause, the group was headed to Crabtree Drive in the Levittown section of Bristol Township to rob a “guy” who owed them money when they saw a block 2007 Volkswagen listed on sale on the road. The suspect called DeGennaro’s neighbor, Nick Wilson, who owned the car, and attempted to lure him outside in an attempt to rob him, but he asked they come back in the morning, police said. The late hour and “ghetto” sounds of the callers voice lead to him turning the caller down.
After watching the Crabtree Drive house where DeGennaro lived with his roommate, Jackson, Powell and Gist busted into the home, police said. The suspects told investigators a struggle ensued and the beloved musician was shot in the stomach, according to court documents.
Henderson and Bakr sat outside the house and heard two gunshots. The three men then ran from the outside to the car, and the crew fled to a Trenton parking lot, police said.
Bristol Township police arrived at 10:09 p.m. after receiving a call from the Crabtree Drive house advising that Wilson discovered his roommate with a “hole in his stomach” at the bottom of a set of stairs, court records said.
Emergency medical staff from the Levittown-Fairless Hills Rescue Squad rushed DeGennaro to St. Mary Medical Center. A doctor pronounced him dead at 10:41 p.m.
The coroner later ruled that a single gunshot wound to the chest was what killed the 56-year-old guitarist.
After a three-month-long investigation involving law enforcement in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, all the suspects were in custody by March 2012.
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