A nearly four-year-old murder in Michigan was solved with the assistance of the Playstation basketball game the victim was playing when he was shot, federal authorities said this week.
daushawn lamarr Guthridge, 41, was fatally shot on July 10, 2019 during a burglary at his Flint home in a case that led police to ask for public help.
Darel King was charged Monday in connection with that 2019 armed robbery and murder, according to newly unsealed court documents.
An affidavit supporting King’s arrest, written by Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent Dustin Hurt, did not identify the victim.
However, Hurt’s narrative precisely matches the publicly disclosed circumstances of Guthridge’s murderto date, the time on the clock and the block, Kent Street, near Seymour Avenue, where the fatal shooting took place.
An anonymous caller claimed to have been remotely playing an online Playstation 4 basketball game with the victim at the time of the murder, and that audio of the murder had been recorded by the game.
«We heard all the arguments and more shots,» the informant told investigators, according to the affidavit. «I hope this video helps.»
The recording, given to investigators by the informant, captured the dispute between the victim and the killer, according to Hurt, who transcribed the suspect’s demands for cash and «bows,» slang for a package of marijuana.
«Don’t move. Talk fast. Where’s the money? You’ve got thirty seconds, bro,» the suspect said, according to the affidavit transcript.
«I’ve been sitting outside your house since before, man. Where the shit Money in? You have thirty seconds. Do you think I’m playing? If I don’t find money in twenty seconds, brother, if I don’t find bows and money in twenty seconds, brother, I’m sorry.»
A short time later, the officer said he heard 12 shots on the recording, according to the court document.
King had already been on investigators’ radar for this murder and witnesses identified his voice as the man shouting commands on the PlayStation recording, according to Hurt.
The case is being investigated by the US Attorney’s Office because a drug-related robbery exposed King to federal laws governing violent acts. in the context of interstate commercean agency spokesman said.
King is being held without bail and his next court date is set for June 5. His defense attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
claudia johnson and toby lyles contributed.