Two men have been charged in connection with a fatal shooting outside a Bordentown convenience store, Burlington County prosecutors said Thursday.
Justford Doe, 23, and Giovanni Varanese, 21, have been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and other offenses stemming from the Nov. 5 killing outside a 7-Eleven and Valero gas station at the intersection of Route 130 North and Farnsworth Avenue.
The shooting left Daniel Patterson, 22, and Mason Knott, 21, dead.
Bordentown Township police were called at about 11:30 p.m. to the convenience store after Patterson, a Philadelphia resident, came into the store after being shot in the parking lot and asked for help. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office. Knott, of Wrightstown, was transported to a hospital in Trenton, where he died.
The assailants fled in a Jeep, which they crashed in Florence Township, the prosecutor’s office said.
Doe and Varanese are being held in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, but will be extradited to New Jersey to face the charges, according to the prosecutor’s office.