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Police Make Second Arrest In Bronx Homicide
Updated 12/27/2008 12:23 PM
By: NY1 News

A 15-year-old is facing charges in the stabbing death of a man whose body was found outside a Bronx building last week.

Police said Sharell Butler is charged with murder, manslaughter and assault in the death of John Hopkins-Drago, 22.

James Medina, 23, is also under arrest in connection with Hopkins-Drago's death.

Cops said Medina helped Butler by tampering with the crime scene.
Medina is charged with hindering prosecution and criminal possession of marijuana.

A building super found Hopkins-Drago's body in an alleyway on Pelham Parkway last Sunday. He had been stabbed multiple times in the head and neck.

Police said Hopkins-Drago lived several miles from where his body was found and had not been reported missing.




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