BARRE, Vt. (AP) - A Barre man has denied helping a homicide suspect leave the state following the first slaying in the nation’s smallest capital city in nearly a century.
Reginald Jones pleaded not guilty Thursday to accessory after the fact for allegedly helping Jayveon Caballero avoid arrest. Jones had no comment on Caballero, who remains at-large.
Jones, 36, took Caballero to a bus station in White River Junction, Vermont, on Sunday and bought him a bus ticket with Caballero’s money, state police said. Police say the bus was headed to New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York City.
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An arrest warrant has been issued for Caballero, 29, on a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting of Markus Austin, 33, in the parking lot outside of Austin’s apartment in Montpelier early Sunday morning.
Authorities say the two were involved in an altercation outside a bar in Barre. Witnesses say Austin assaulted Caballero’s girlfriend.
The girlfriend, Desiree Cary, pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of selling heroin and cocaine.
The Barre Montpelier Times Argus reports that a state police dive team was searching the Stevens Branch river in Barre on Thursday for something related to the shooting, but State Police Capt. J.P. Sinclair would not say what.
Police have said the shooting was the first murder in the city since the 1920s.
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