Vigil message in Warren: Be a peacemaker

WARREN — When three young men headed out April 13 in a borrowed car to kill Marvin Chaney on Wick Street Southeast over some money, they lacked one thing: Someone to tell them to stop.

“Who told them to stop?” Warren detective Wayne Mackey asked a large audience at W.D. Packard Music Hall tonight.

“Nobody,” he answered.

“There was plenty of stimulus to do it [commit the murder]. Just turn on the TV on,” he said.

Mackey was speaking of Eugene Henderson, Eugene Cumberbatch and Marcus Yager of Warren, the three men charged with killing 11-year-old Lloyd McCoy Jr. and Chaney, his sister’s boyfriend.

Henderson and Cumberbatch are believed to have gotten out of the car in front of Chaney’s house at about 9:50 p.m. and opened fire on the house, which contained McCoy, Chaney and others. Yager is believed to have stayed in the car without firing a weapon.

Mackey was one of a dozen speakers who urged the crowd to be peacemakers and to help prevent another tragedy from taking an innocent life.

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