‘Let me have your 308 so I can spin’: Testimony given in double homicide from Easter morning

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — A suspect in the double homicide from early Easter morning appeared in Recorder’s Court the morning of Friday, April 26.

Amarion Boone, 19, a validated gang member according to Muscogee County Deputy Sheriff’s Office, appeared for his preliminary hearing in front of Judge Alonza Whitaker. Hunter Ames, Boone’s attorney, pleaded not guilty to all charges on Boone’s behalf.

In court, Sergeant Robert Nicholas of Columbus Police Department’s violent crime unit provided testimony. Nicholas explained that through inmate messages and witnesses at the block party, Boone was placed at 10th Street and Samson Avenue.

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Boone also gave investigators a voluntary statement where he places himself at the scene. This was confirmed by an ankle monitor given to Boone for probation and his cellphone records.

In the testimony given by Nicholas, the believed murder weapon was found with Boone’s cell phone under a car. That gun is undergoing DNA testing.

In his testimony, Nicholas stated “We were able to obtain his social media records. In his social media records, three hours before the incident happens, he is found on social media asking to ‘let me have your 308 so I can spin’ — spin being a common street vernacular for shooting.”

After hearing testimony, Judge Alonza Whitaker bound the case to Superior court and has held Boone without bond on charges of murder and possession of a firearm or knife. Boone is also facing six counts of aggravated assault. Judge Whitaker set a bond for each count at $20,000.

Whitaker ordered Boone to have no contact with the defendants by any means.

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