The ironic thing is that Marcellus Jones is mostly correct. If Marcellus “Ant North” Jones was actually seventeen, instead of his current age of 35, his self identification could be considered highly appropriate.
Five Years ago Marcellus murdered a 23-year-old naïve, young and very white school teacher, Beau Zabel, who moved from Minnesota to Philadelphia to “make a difference by teaching black youth in the inner city”.
White boy Zabel was murdered by Black-man, Marcellus Jones, because whitey only had an iPod and Jones was looking to jack iPhones for reparations. The Cracka’ was carrying the wrong gadget and that frustrated his robber – so Marcellus Jones shot him.
PHILADELPHIA – The suspected killer stewed in Interview Room D as detectives prepared charges against him in a crime that he could not escape – the five-year-old killing of Beau Zabel.Marcellus Anthony “Ant North” Jones had been “mouthy,” as one detective put it, during Wednesday morning’s drive from Graterford Prison to Police Headquarters.
Investigators had retrieved Jones so they could book him in the 2008 killing of Zabel, a teaching student from Minnesota gunned down for his iPod near the Italian Market as he walked home from his night shift at a Starbucks.
The killing of a young man who had come to Philadelphia just six weeks earlier to teach math in the inner city pulled at the conscience of the community five years ago.
Now, in the cramped confines of the Homicide Unit, there would be another step toward justice.
To prepare Jones to be charged with murder, prison guards removed the face mask that the 35-year-old is made to wear to keep him from spitting on people.
At the Homicide Unit, Jones – who is serving a life term after a 2012 conviction for killing a 19-year-old accomplice in the Zabel slaying – shouted when a detective took him to the bathroom.
He was innocent, he said. He had been wrongly convicted the last time around. Where were his rights?
“I’m another Trayvon Martin,” he said.
Sitting in a cramped office, Lt. Mark Deegan of the Special Investigation Unit shook his head.
“We go through this a lot,” said Deegan, who has been working homicides for 15 years. “He is trying to make himself the victim.”
But Deegan and the other investigators who have worked the Zabel case over the years have long known Jones to be something else entirely: a remorseless killer.
“This is one of the ones where you get a lot of satisfaction,” Deegan said. “This guy Marcellus Jones is a thug.”
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To prepare Jones to be charged with murder, prison guards removed the face mask that the 35-year-old is made to wear to keep him from spitting on people.
At the Homicide Unit, Jones – who is serving a life term after a 2012 conviction for killing a 19-year-old accomplice in the Zabel slaying – shouted when a detective took him to the bathroom.
He was innocent, he said. He had been wrongly convicted the last time around. Where were his rights?
“I’m another Trayvon Martin,” he said.
Sitting in a cramped office, Lt. Mark Deegan of the Special Investigation Unit shook his head.“We go through this a lot,” said Deegan, who has been working homicides for 15 years. “He is trying to make himself the victim.”
But Deegan and the other investigators who have worked the Zabel case over the years have long known Jones to be something else entirely: a remorseless killer.
“This is one of the ones where you get a lot of satisfaction,” Deegan said. “This guy Marcellus Jones is a thug.”
(read the full article including backstory of the crime(s))