FRESNO (KMJ) — A 19 year old man, accused of the double homicide of two brothers in northwest Fresno, found himself in front of a judge Tuesday morning.
The first appearance in court for Domenek Greenberry featured not only the accused himself, but watching the proceedings were many family members and friends of the two brothers he allegedly shot and killed on Thursday October 1st.
The 19 year old is being charged with the double homicide of Willie Ford and Denzel Ford, close to the intersection of Fresno’s San Pablo and Barstow. But instead of pleading either guilty or not guilty, he’s going to entering his plea in one week’s time.
According to his attorney, that’s to give the defense time to organize themselves.
“At the arraignment he would actually enter a, most likely, a not guilty plea”, says attorney Scott Baley, who was the one speaking on Greenberry’s behalf during the hearing. “Just because of the seriousness of the consequences and the allegations”.
“That didn’t happen today, we just continued the arraignment one week”.
That expected plea is despite Fresno Police saying he confessed to the crime soon after his arrest. He’s currently being held on a $3.2 million bail, and awaiting a new arraignment due Tuesday October 5th.
Outside the courtroom where Domenek Greenberry made his first appearance, family and friends of the two killed say the 19 year old’s eventual sentence should be severe.
“He’s in the courtroom smiling, he needs to get the death penalty”, says the victim’s sister Mercedes Ford. She says she’s there to see justice for both of her brothers.
“They was friends, you feel me. How would you murder two boys who was your friends?”.
Fresno Police are now stepping their presence in the neighborhood where it all happened.
“We’re also having our violent crime impact team along with our MAGEC – multi agency gang enforcement consortium – and our gun crime unit, all focusing their efforts”, says Fresno Police Deputy Chief Pat Farmer.
Officers are also keeping locals up to date with what’s happening.
“Who’s staying there, who lives in that particular location that are causing us the most problems. And if the managers are not aware of what’s been going on we’re making them aware”.
