MURDERED for refusing to join the Bloods.in the 2006 shooting of a Bloods gang member he said that was trying to force him into the gang, prosecutor spokeswoman Casey DeBlasio said yesterday.Demetrius Hendley, 24, of Thompson Street, was sentenced to 10 years in prison earlier today for his guilty plea to aggravated manslaughter admitted shooting 22-year-old Rahquan Jackson to death on November, 26, 2006, then fleeing to North Carolina, where police arrested him three months later.
Prosecutors say the shooting occurred when Jackson and another man came to Hendley’s home to buy marijuana and a dispute erupted. Officers found bullet holes in the walls of the defendant’s house along with his wallet.A witness identified Hendley as the shooter, and he later confessed to authorities that he shot Jackson because he and other gangsters were trying to force him into the Bloods.Hendley initially said he shot Jackson is self defense, but Assistant Mercer Prosecutor Tom Meidt said he may have been under duress, but that could not be considered self defense.
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