Detroit, Lexington suspects arrested, charged in Alexandria Drive, Osage Court homicides

Suspects in three of Lexington’s 26 homicides this year were arrested Tuesday and charged with murder.

Antonio Gaskin, 43, of Detroit, is accused of killing 24-year-old Marquis Harris and 25-year-old Sharmaine Carter in October. Gaskin was taken to the Fayette County Detention Center along with 19-year-old Jo’Qwan Jackson, who is accused in last week’s killing of 23-year-old Damontrial Fulgham, police said.

Harris and Carter were found dead inside an apartment on the 1300 block of Alexandria Drive on Oct. 16, according to police.

Their causes of death have not been released, but police were directed to the apartment when someone called anonymously and reported a relative had been shot, according to Lt. Andrew Daugherty.

The suspect in their murders, Gaskin, was arrested in Frankfort by the U.S. Marshals Service with assistance from Frankfort police and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, according to Lexington police. He has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of failure to report a death, police said.

While they were investigating, detectives talked to a Lyft driver who said he had taken Harris from Detroit to Lexington on Oct. 15, according court records. When the Lyft driver dropped Harris off on Alexandria Drive at about 9 p.m. that night, the driver saw a man —later identified as Gaskin — waiting on the sidewalk to talk to Harris.

The driver watched as Harris and Gaskin walked to Harris’ apartment together, according to court records. Surveillance video also showed Harris and Gaskin walking to the apartment at 9:11 p.m., and a neighbor reported hearing gunshots at 9:12 p.m.

Harris and Carter were not found until police received the tip about 10:55 a.m. the next day, according to court records.

Police later talked to a witness who said he was in the apartment with Harris and Carter the night of the shooting, but that they’d been in “good health when he left,” according to court records.

Detectives also spoke with a taxi cab driver who said that he had driven Gaskin from Cincinnati to Alexandria Drive, and that Gaskin had walked into an apartment and returned to the taxi not long after, according to court records. Gaskin told the taxi driver that Harris was dead but did not report the death to emergency services, an investigator wrote in a complaint warrant.

Forensics investigators found latent fingerprints matching Gaskin in the apartment where Harris and Carter were shot, according to court records.

Detectives also obtained cell phone records that — along with the “narrow time-frame in which the homicides could have reasonably occurred” — gave them cause to charge Gaskin with two counts of murder, according to court records.

Jackson of Lexington is accused of shooting Fulgham multiple times in the head and body on Dec. 10, according to court records.

Officers were dispatched to Osage Court near Woodhill Drive for reports of shots fired and found two victims outside with gunshot wounds, police said. Fulgham, died at the scene, and a 22-year-old man was taken to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital for treatment, according to Lexington police.

Through “investigative sources,” police identified Jackson as a suspect, according to court records.

Jackson was arrested in Lexington Tuesday night and charged with murder, police said.

Police have arrested suspects in 14 of the city’s 26 homicides this year.

This story was originally published December 18, 2019 at 7:37 AM.