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Homicide Victim's Death May be Connected to Other Crimes
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KSPR News
Story Created:
Aug 29, 2008 at 4:16 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Aug 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM CDT
More details surface after Springfield’s seventh homicide victim.
Prosecutors have not charged anyone in the death of 20-year-old Raymond Khalid
Khalid was found shot to death Thursday morning.
Khalid popped up on Springfield police's radar four days before someone killed him.
His name showed up in a police report about a Monday hotel robbery at Crystal Suites.
Khalid and several other people were listed as victims or witnesses of the armed robbery.
KSPR found two of those same names were also Khalid's co-defendants in a felony drug case.
Police say Khalid sold crack cocaine to an undercover Springfield officer in April of last.
His case, that was bound over this June, will never make it through the court process because of his death.
Khalid was killed Thursday in-between two apartment buildings at the Glenwood Manor Apartments on north Delaware.
He was found in his boxers.
Neighbors say he was also tied up.
Kspr has learned two other suspected drug dealers, Janolee Johnson and Raymond Richardson lived at Glenwood Manor.
Richardson and Johnson were charged at the same time with Khalid for selling crack cocaine.
Court documents list the pairs address as apartment G-1.
The same apartment where neighbors say an argument turned deadly.
Days before the shooting, all three had another run-in with the law at the Crystal Suites.
A police report lists them as victims or present during an armed robbery.
Police say jewelry, clothes, 800 DVDs and money were stolen.
They won't say if the robbers are the same people they're looking for in Khalid's death.
Police declined to comment on Khalid's past or connections, saying they did not want to jeopardize their open investigation.
Neighbors told KSPR yesterday that the apartment complex is no stranger to crime.
Less than 24 hours after the homicide, two men were arrested on drug charges at the complex.
This is the city's second unsolved homicide of the year and the third homicide this month.
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