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November 27, 2007

Trial of convicted killer's alleged accomplice under way

PROVIDENCE -- Six months after a Central Falls man was convicted of murdering one woman and shooting another, the man's nephew and alleged accomplice Barry Offley went on trial today.

Offley, 20, "revered" his uncle, 29-year-old Alonzo P. Shelton, and "looked up to him," Offley's defense lawyer, Terence Livingston, said in his opening statement in Providence County Superior Court.

On the early morning of July 27, 2006, when Shelton's estranged girlfriend Julie Lang was shot and her friend, Jessica Imran, 24, was murdered, Livingston said, Shelton was the killer.

Offley had gone with his uncle to Imran's 88 Lawn Ave. apartment in Pawtucket because, Livingston said, he thought they were going to have sex with the women, or "hook up."

In his opening statement today, prosecutor Paul Carnes said Julie Lang, despite being shot four times, was taken to the hospital after the shooting.

"And when she was finally realeased from the hospital, months later," Carnes said, "she identified this defendant as the person who shot and killed her friend Jessica Imran and shot at her."

-- Journal staff writer John Castellucci

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