POLICE BEAT
POLICE
Wai'anae shooting suspect charged
Advertiser Staff
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Patrick W. Deguair Jr., who listed no local address at his booking, was charged at 9 p.m. Saturday with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of Jermaine Michael Duckworth, 24, whose body was found by a tourist March 27 at 11:29 a.m. on rocks below a cliff several hundred yards from the beach.
Duckworth was arrested Nov. 27 at One'ula Beach Park as a suspect in a Ma'ili home invasion robbery on Kulaaupuni Street, in which six people were robbed at gunpoint of cash, jewelry and credit cards by four masked men wearing T-shirts emblazoned with a white "DEA" logo.
A March 28 autopsy performed by Dr. William Goodhue determined Duckworth suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head and suffered other injuries that led him to conclude manner of death was homicide, a court document stated.
The affidavit said homicide investigators were told by witnesses that Deguair restrained Duckworth at a residence on March 27 before driving him to Yokohama Bay where "he shot him in the back of the head with a pistol equipped with a silencer and then pushed Jermaine off the cliff to the rocks below."
Deguair was arrested by police Thursday night at the Pagoda Hotel at 9:45 p.m. on suspicion of third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug and possession of drug paraphernalia after a warrant search of a room.
While in custody for the drug offenses, Deguair was arrested for questioning about Duckworth's murder at 1 p.m. Friday.
In addition to second-degree murder, Deguair was charged with kidnapping, use of a prohibited weapon (silencer) and two other firearm offenses stemming from the Duckworth case. He also is charged with the two drug-related offenses from his initial arrest.
