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Journal photo/ Gretchen Ertl
Byron Zepeda, Providence, is arraigned before Magistrate Joseph Ippolito in District Court, Providence, on a first-degree murder charge.

PROVIDENCE -- A 23-year-old Providence man was ordered held without bail this morning following his arraignment in the slaying of another Providence man who was trying to stop a fight.

Byron Zepeda, of Detroit Avenue, Providence, turned himself in to the police last night in connection with the slaying Friday of Richard Robinson in a family disturbance at 652 Douglas Avenue.

The incident started as fistfight between two of Robinson's stepsons. The police allege that Zepeda got involved and shot Robinson, who was trying to stop the fight.

The police had obtained an arrest warrant for Zepeda. He knew that the police were looking for him and turned himself in last night.

Zepeda was arraigned before Magistrate Joseph Ippolito in District Court, Providence, on a first-degree murder charge.

He did not enter a plea.

James Callaghan, special assistant attorney general, told the magistrate that Zepeda is on a 10-year suspended sentence for carrying a pistol without a license and would be brought into Superior Court as a probation violator.

Zepeda, whose hands were manacled in front, appeared in court with his head bowed.

-- Journal staff writer Gregory Smith

Comments

Helen Duffy said:

Gretchen Ertl's photo of Byron Zepeda is very moving. It could be used to talk to kids about the costs of violence, not just the cost to the victims, but to the perpretrators, too.

I nominate this for the year's best ProJo photo.

Link | April 4, 2008 3:48 PM
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MIchaela said:

The remorse shown in this young's man's face is overwhelming. He is already punishing himself.

Link | April 4, 2008 4:51 PM
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