{"id":13840,"date":"2012-04-09T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13840"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:38:56","slug":"five-men-charged-with-kidnapping-and-murder-of-two-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13840","title":{"rendered":"Five Men Charged With Kidnapping and Murder of Two Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 Five men have been charged in the abduction and slayings of two Michigan women who were kidnapped and stuffed in a car trunk at gunpoint, a prosecutor said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne County <strong>Prosecutor Kym Worthy<\/strong> announced the charges during a morning news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The men are being charged in the deaths of friends and roommates <strong>Abreeya Brown<\/strong>, 18, and <strong>Ashley Conaway<\/strong>, 22, who were abducted on Feb. 28. Their bodies were discovered March 25 in shallow graves in a wooded area on Detroit\u2019s west side, not far from their home in Hamtramck. The women had been bound and shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon Cain<\/strong>, 26, <strong>Miguel Rodriguez<\/strong>, 24, <strong>Reginald Brown<\/strong>, 24, <strong>Jeremy Brown<\/strong>, 19, and <strong>Brian Lee<\/strong>, 25, all of Detroit, are charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of torture and two counts of unlawful imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said <strong>Conaway<\/strong> may have been targeted for telling police that <strong>Lee<\/strong> and <strong>Cain<\/strong> shot at her nearly three weeks before the abduction.<\/p>\n<p>The two men face attempted murder charges in that case in Wayne County Circuit Court, where they are accused of shooting at <strong>Abreeya Brown<\/strong> and <strong>Conaway\u2019s<\/strong> car on Feb. 8. Witnesses have said <strong>Cain<\/strong> had been romantically pursuing <strong>Conaway<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Worthy<\/strong> said the case serves as a reminder about the importance of witness protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 Five men have been charged in the abduction and slayings of two Michigan women who were kidnapped and stuffed in a car trunk at gunpoint, a prosecutor said Saturday. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced the charges during a morning news conference. The men are being charged in the deaths of friends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}