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Citizens Voice
December 21, 2013
It was all just part of the game.
That was the message Shawn James Hamilton had in court Friday when he and his brother, Sawud Davis, pleaded guilty to murdering three people in cold blood at a Plymouth apartment in July 2012. Hamilton also admitted to murdering a man in Wilkes-Barre the day before the Plymouth massacre.
“We got caught up into the drug game,” Hamilton said in court. “I’m not a monster. … I felt like I was being played with and I did what I had to do.
“I’m not going to say I’m sorry because you can’t just say ‘I’m sorry’ for killing someone.”
Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Vough responded to Hamilton’s apparent apathy by handing down the maximum sentence to each man for crimes committed when Hamilton was 18 and Davis was 16.
“This is one of the most terrible cases that I’ve ever seen,” Vough said. “We have children killing children over nothing, and Mr. Hamilton says it’s a game. It’s not a game. … I don’t know how someone can get so evil in 18 years of life.”
In entering their pleas, the men admitted to a series of murders that shocked Luzerne County in July 2012.
The two-day killing spree began July 6 in broad daylight on Jay Street in Wilkes-Barre, where Hamilton unleashed a flurry of gunfire on an acquaintance from the local heroin trade. Kenyatta Hughston, 22, was shot in the head and clung to life at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township for months until he finally died in October.
The day after that shooting, the brothers shot four people at a Plymouth apartment because they didn’t want to leave any witnesses to a drug robbery, according to prosecutors.
They claimed the lives of Lisa Abaunza, 15, of Duryea; and Bradley James Swartwood, 21, and Nicolas Robert Maldonado, 17, both of 401 First St., Plymouth, where the murders took place.
Nicolas’ brother, Danny Maldonado II, 19, was shot in the head and survived, although he has permanent brain damage, his mother said Friday.
