Daquan Stevens —Â member of the street gang International Robbing Crew and one of several subjects of the June CL cover story "Gang Mentality" — pleaded guilty yesterday to two murders and a kidnapping. He received three life sentences on top of the 75 years he was already serving.
The murders that Stevens admitted to committing — the 2006 shooting death of Iraq veteran Ryan Harmon, and the 2005 suffocation and beating of business owner Mamadous Barry — were among IRC's more brutal and, certainly, more senseless crimes.
In a 2007 interview, Stevens told police Harmon's murder was carried out after a dispute over parking:
"Me and [fellow IRC member] Marciell [Easterling], one day we sitting in front of Magic City. [They] tried to charge him to park in front of the club. So I laugh. No harm in laughing. [Harmon] was like, 'What the fuck so funny?' I even took time out to explain myself to the man. 'Hey, look bro, it was nothing like that.' I turned back to look at Marciell, and I then turned back around. They done rolled the back window down — then pointed a pistol at me. Marciell got a gun on him. I grab him, tell him no. I pull off. [A couple of days later], me and Marciell seen him again and shot through the back of [Harmon's] truck. [We] went and put the gun up at the house, and that was it. Then we went to the club."
Stevens pumped 14 shots from an AK-47 into Harmon's vehicle, striking and killing him.
Barry was discovered dead in his bathtub in late 2005. He'd been badly beaten, and suffocated after plastic bags were duct taped about his face and head. Fellow IRC member Jeremy Dunn indicated to police witness Gary Lester that the gang had left Barry tied up in the bathroom and that he "must've starved to death." Lester's was the kidnapping Stevens pleaded guilty to. Members of IRC also attempted to suffocate Lester with plastic bag, but he escaped.
Stevens is currently serving his sentence at Hays State Prison
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