A Niagara County Court jury on Thursday afternoon convicted a Florida man in the murders of two members of a North Tonawanda motorcycle cl...
A Niagara County Court jury on Thursday afternoon convicted a Florida man in the murders of two members of a North Tonawanda motorcycle club.
Andre L. Jenkins, 36, of Deland, Fla., had been indicted on charges of first- and second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. The jury found him guilty on all charges after deliberating for nearly seven hours over the course of two days.
Sentencing is set for Oct. 21. Jenkins could receive life without parole.
Police said he killed Daniel “DJ” Szymanski, 31, of Getzville, and Paul Maue, 38, of Buffalo, with single gunshots to the back of the head.
The killings occurred shortly before 3 a.m. Sept. 6 as the victims sat in a car parked behind the Kingsmen clubhouse at 322 Oliver St., North Tonawanda.
Maue was sitting in the driver’s seat and Szymanski in the front passenger seat when they were killed.
Paul “Rebel” Gilmore, a Kingsmen member who found the bodies, said that as he came outside, a man on a motorcycle passed him shouting, “L.K.D.K.” Gilmore testified that’s a Kingsmen slogan, standing for “Live Kingsmen, Die Kingsmen.”
Rene Faulkner, a Portville woman who accompanied Jenkins on his trip from the Olean Kingsmen clubhouse to North Tonawanda, testified that after Jenkins had made two runs from a North Tonawanda bar to the Oliver Street clubhouse – prosecutors said the murders occurred on the second of those trips – they rode back to Olean, with Jenkins throwing a gun and an ammunition magazine away on the Route 219 Expressway.
On Sept. 23, police found the gun, a 9 mm Glock, and the magazine two miles apart on the 219. Mark R. Shaw, a Niagara County firearms expert, testified that the gun was the murder weapon, based on comparison with the bullets removed from the bodies.
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