Police arrest 3 fugitives in Mass.

DeQuina

Webster

Yagman

Three Ladson roommates fled the state last week after Jason Gadsden's shooting death and were arrested early Friday in Massachusetts, Berkeley County authorities said.

Ronald Webster, Adam DeQuina and Joevea Davis Yagman lived together at Lot 10 of Christie's mobile home park on Royle Road, about a block from where the 21-year-old Gadsden was found dead in his truck Sept. 25.

Webster has ties to Massachusetts, and U.S. Marshals and state and local police in Peabody and Lynn, Mass., arrested the roommates, Berkeley County Sheriff's Office public information officer Dan Moon said. He said extradition procedures should be forthcoming.

Gadsden's funeral was held later Friday.

About 11 p.m. the night of the shooting, Berkeley deputies found Gadsden's 1994 Ford pickup truck in a ditch on Royle Road. Inside, Gadsden was dead of a gunshot wound to the head, an affidavit said.

A witness had heard a "pop" and then saw a man in a hooded sweatshirt run from the truck.

Moon said Webster, 34, will be charged with murder. He is accused in an affidavit of being the shooter.

Webster had borrowed a friend's cell phone that night and was seen walking away from his mobile home wearing a hooded sweatshirt, the affidavit said.

It said Gadsden, who lived a few miles away in Summerville, had received phone calls from that cell phone number between 10:30 and 11 p.m.

After the shooting, Webster did not return his friend's cell phone, and he didn't show up for work the next morning, the affidavit said. Other affidavits show that Webster and his roommates fled to Massachusetts after the killing.

DeQuina, 32, and Yagman, 40, will be charged with misprision of a felony, Moon said. Their affidavits said they had personal knowledge about the homicide and that they unlawfully failed to provide it to law enforcement.

Webster and Yagman have no criminal history in South Carolina, the State Law Enforcement Division said. DeQuina's record includes a conviction on a May charge of resisting arrest. Massachusetts criminal records were not available Friday night.

Gadsden's criminal history in South Carolina shows arrests for charges of marijuana possession, manufacturing substances with intent to distribute and breaking into an auto or tanks where fuel is stored.

He was never convicted, the record shows. His death was the eighth homicide of the year in Berkeley County.

Reach Nadine Parks at 937-5573 or nparks@postandcourier.com.