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Jun 20, 2008 5:55 pm US/Central
Two Charged With Killing Garland Music Producers
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James Broadnax was arrested in Texarkana.
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Demarius Dwight Cummings was arrested in Texarkana on June 20, 2008.
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Two men accused of a North Texas double-murder, and arrested in Texarkana, are now in police custody in Garland.
Police say the pair killed Christian-music producer Matthew Butler and his friend Steve Swan. Butler and Swan were gunned down outside a recording studio. A bicyclist discovered the bodies near State Street and Glenbrook about 1 a.m. Thursday.
Demarius Cummings and James Broadnax are both facing capital murder charges. When the two 19-year-olds were arrested in Texarkana they were driving a vehicle stolen from the Garland murder scene. Police say the music producers were victims of a random robbery and were killed because they just happened to walk outside. Butler, who owned Zion Gate Records, and Swan were shot several times, officials said.
It's believed the suspects took a DART train to Garland for the specific purpose of robbing someone.
"We don't know how it came to be the fact that they ended up shooting and killing them both. But from all appearances, and again from what we're learning, it appears robbery was the motive," explained Joe Harn with the Garland Police Department. "After they killed them then they took the car and left."
Butler's wife, Jamie, says she is thankful the men have been captured and showed emotional mercy for them. "I believe that these men really are good people, they just had bad circumstances. They just had bad things that were in their heart and caused them to do this," she said. Another element of the investigation happened before Cummings and Broadnax were arrested. Authorities say a relative of Cummings, in the Dallas area, contacted police after she says he talked about the robbery and murders. The woman told authorities she had seen Cummings in the stolen car and wrote down the license plate.
Bail for both Broadnax and Cummings is set at $1 million.
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