VIDEO: Detroit man pleads guilty to murdering 2 women in Charleston in October 2021
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — A Detroit man on Monday was sentenced in connection to the killing of two women in Charleston back in October 2021, family members of the victims told 13 News.
They said Marquis Goodman, 24, of Detroit, was sentenced to a total of 80 years in prison.
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Goodman pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in February 2024. Before that, he pleaded not guilty to murdering Bria White and Kytiana Belcher on Charleston’s West Side.
Court documents said that Charleston police officers responded to the 300 block of Hunt Avenue on Charleston’s West Side on Oct. 8, 2021, at around 1:30 a.m. due to a complaint of gunshots in the area.
Once on scene, officers found a woman, identified as White, lying unresponsive in the entryway to Given’s Crankshaft. She had suffered numerous gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on the scene.
Police tried to locate White’s domestic partner, Belcher, at her residence but were unsuccessful. Then, at around 7:55 a.m., units found another woman, identified as Belcher, lying along the fence line of a residence on the 1000 block of Grant Street. The woman had suffered a gunshot wound to her throat and was pronounced dead shortly after.
Upon reviewing Belcher’s phone, police found a Snapchat video from 1:17 a.m. showing a man wearing a blue zip-up jacket with white stripes on the sleeves, black shorts and a “Michael Myers” mask covering his face. White could be seen in the video walking behind this man. This was 13 minutes before the shots fired call, police said.
According to court documents, police also reviewed surveillance cameras in the area and found footage of three subjects in the area as well as the man fleeing the area near where Belcher had been shot.
He was seen running toward the intersection of Main Street and Marion Street and appeared to remove several articles of clothing. He was also seen placing an unknown item in the 1000 block of Main Street at around 1:29 a.m. Police later searched that area and found a firearm.
Detectives also found the blue zip-up jacket, an open-face ski mask and the Michael Meyers mask near Main and Marion Street.
Police said they collected several witness statements during the investigation, one of which said he saw both Belcher and White at his residence the night of Oct. 7 with a man, known as “KJ.” After speaking with other witnesses, police discovered that “KJ” was Marquis Jermayne Goodman, a man from Detroit, Michigan.
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Court documents said that video surveillance placed Goodman with White and Belcher in the Littlepage Terrace area at around 12:56 a.m. on Oct. 8, 2021.
Goodman was arrested in Detroit on Oct. 14, 2021, and extradited to Charleston on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021.