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  #1 Federigo Pehrson on 27 Jun 12

   

  The 22-year-old man accused in a shooting that left three dead and yet another three wounded at a weekend party close to Auburn University in Alabama was ordered held with out bail on Thursday and could face the death penalty if convicted.
  
  Desmonte Leonard was told by Alabama District Court Judge Russell Bush he faces three charges of capital murder and two counts of second-degree assault throughout the short hearing in Lee County Justice Center in this eastern Alabama city.
  
  Leonard, who appeared at the hearing shackled at the waist and ankles and wearing a T-shirt and low-hanging jeans, was expected face a sixth charge in the shooting of John Robertson.
  
  Robertson, 20, was in essential condition at a Birmingham hospital, where he underwent surgery Sunday for a gunshot wound to the head.
  
  Leonard turned himself in to U.S. Marshals at the federal courthouse on Tuesday in his hometown of Montgomery, Alabama's state capital. His surrender ended a 3-day manhunt.
  
  Bush denied bail for Leonard. He could be sentenced to death if convicted on the capital murder charges.
  
  Police say Leonard opened fire Saturday night at an apartment complicated near the Auburn campus, killing two former Auburn football players and yet another man dead and wounding Robertson and two others.
  
  These killed included former Auburn football players Edward Christian and Ladarious Phillips. They, along with Eric Mack, a current member of the team who was wounded in the attack, had been members of Auburn's 2010 recruiting class. The Auburn team that year finished that season by winning college football's national championship. The New Orleans Audubon Zoo
  
  A third man, Demario Pitts, also was killed.
  
  Mack and an additional man were treated and released shortly right after the shootings.
  
  This wasn't the initial time Leonard has been charged with gun-connected violence. He was charged in 2009 with initial-degree assault in the shooting of a 16-year-old boy in the crotch. Prosecutors declined to press the assault charge right after the victim swore beneath oath that Leonard was not the gunman.
  
  Two other males, Gabriel Thomas, 41, and Jeremy Thomas, 18, have been charged with very first-degree hindering prosecution during the manhunt in the Auburn case.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The 22-year-old man accused in a shooting that left three dead and yet another three wounded at a weekend party close to Auburn University in Alabama was ordered held with out bail on Thursday and could face the death penalty if convicted.<br /><br />Desmonte Leonard was told by Alabama District Court Judge Russell Bush he faces three charges of capital murder and two counts of second-degree assault throughout the short hearing in Lee County Justice Center in this eastern Alabama city.<br /><br />Leonard, who appeared at the hearing shackled at the waist and ankles and wearing a T-shirt and low-hanging jeans, was expected face a sixth charge in the shooting of John Robertson.<br /><br />Robertson, 20, was in essential condition at a Birmingham hospital, where he underwent surgery Sunday for a gunshot wound to the head.<br /><br />Leonard turned himself in to U.S. Marshals at the federal courthouse on Tuesday in his hometown of Montgomery, Alabama's state capital. His surrender ended a 3-day manhunt.<br /><br />Bush denied bail for Leonard. He could be sentenced to death if convicted on the capital murder charges.<br /><br />Police say Leonard opened fire Saturday night at an apartment complicated near the Auburn campus, killing two former Auburn football players and yet another man dead and wounding Robertson and two others.<br /><br />These killed included former Auburn football players Edward Christian and Ladarious Phillips. They, along with Eric Mack, a current member of the team who was wounded in the attack, had been members of Auburn's 2010 recruiting class. The Auburn team that year finished that season by winning college football's national championship. <a href="http://findneworleansactivities.blog.com/2012/05/16/the-new-orleans-zoo-audubon-story/" rel="nofollow">The New Orleans Audubon Zoo</a><br /><br />A third man, Demario Pitts, also was killed.<br /><br />Mack and an additional man were treated and released shortly right after the shootings.<br /><br />This wasn't the initial time Leonard has been charged with gun-connected violence. He was charged in 2009 with initial-degree assault in the shooting of a 16-year-old boy in the crotch. Prosecutors declined to press the assault charge right after the victim swore beneath oath that Leonard was not the gunman.<br /><br />Two other males, Gabriel Thomas, 41, and Jeremy Thomas, 18, have been charged with very first-degree hindering prosecution during the manhunt in the Auburn case.</div>

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