by Alex Lloyd Gross
April 8, 2023
It started as a minor fender bender on April 3 ,2023. Had it ended there, police probably would not have even been called. It ended with one man dead and another under arrest, charged with Third Degree Murder.
At two vehicles, racing down streets, some of them one way streets. Derek Escribano, 22 was arrested earlier in the week, after police investigated and then discounted his claims of self defense. Both vehicles stopped on the 2000 block of Mercy Street, when a vehicle illegally parked blocked in one of the vehicles, forcing him to stop.
When it was over, 32 year old Darren Whitfield was dead, having been shot multiple times. Escribano ,of the 1900 block of South 19th Street has been charged with third degree murder.