Dark-Skinned Duo Arraigned in Connection with the Drug-Related Murders of Two White Men

Samson Ezekiel Washington, left, and Devon Lee Wyrick.

If you wouldn’t steal bananas from a couple of baboons, why would you steal drugs from a couple of niggers?

That’s just being foolish.

The Tribune-Democrat:

Two men from Ohio were formally arraigned on Monday in connection with the 2017 drug-related murders of two local men whose skeletal remains were found in a wooded area in Conemaugh Township, Somerset County.

Devon Lee Wyrick, 24, and Samson Ezekiel Washington, 26, both of Columbus, were arraigned before Somerset County President Judge D. Gregory Geary for homicide.

Wyrick and Washington are accused of killing Damien Staniszewski, 19, of Duncansville, and James Edward Smith, 32, of Portage.

 Both men pleaded not guilty.

District Attorney Lisa Lazzari-Strasiser said she will not seek the death penalty.

If convicted, Wyrick and Washington face life in prison.

State police in Somerset alleged that Staniszewski and Smith were murdered as retaliation after the pair allegedly stole drugs from Washington’s “stash house” in Johnstown’s 8th Ward. The pair were reported missing in March 2017, and hunters found their skeletal remains in September 2017.

Damien Staniszewski, left, and James Edward Smith.