As two men sat in a car in a Fay Apartments parking lot Friday afternoon, a pair of killers moved to either side of the vehicle and opened fire from outside, killing the occupants, police said.
Monday, the men accused of firing the fatal shots in the suspected drug-related robbery were ordered held in lieu of more than $2 million bond each.
''This is a capital offense,'' Hamilton County Municipal Judge Nadine Allen said.
James Torann Monson, 24, and Cornelius ''Rex'' Causey, 20, were captured Sunday evening near Snowhill Drive and Rhode Island Avenue in Bond Hill after a stakeout by homicide detectives and members of the regional Violent Crimes Task Force.
Cornelius Causey
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Investigators set up surveillance Sunday on a home on Rhode Island Avenue, based on information provided by witnesses and anonymous callers, said Lt. Greg Snider of the Cincinnati Police homicide unit. Each man was carrying cash and more than an ounce of crack cocaine, police said.
A third person was charged in connection with the case. Donna Mack, 24, was charged with obstructing justice, accused of lying about the whereabouts of Mr. Monson and Mr. Causey.
Ms. Mack listed an address on Sunnyhill Drive in the Fay Apart
ments, less than a block from the scene of the killings, but is not considered a suspect in the deaths.
Police also found an automobile, thought to have been used to escape after the killing, hidden in Avondale, Lt. Snider said. Mr. Causey told police he lived in the 700 block of Glenwood, Avondale, while police reports listed Mr. Monson as homeless.
Searches of the Bond Hill home and the auto showed no sign of the weapons used in the attack that killed Adrian Burnett, 20, of Forest Park, and Kijuan Whitehurst, 24, of Mount Healthy. The pair were slain around 4 p.m. Friday as they sat in a rented white Dodge Neon in a lot in the 2400 block of Sunnyhill Drive.
Investigators are awaiting forensic tests on the bullets that killed the pair, but ''Right now we're operating on the premise that the shots were fired from outside the car, from both sides,'' Lt. Snider said.
Published Nov. 26, 1996.
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