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On-camera killing suspect charged in separate 1998 slaying of minister
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man charged in a killing that was videotaped by surveillance cameras has also been charged with fatally shooting a Baptist minister nearly seven years ago during a prayer service.
Authorities are broadening their investigation of Juan Covington, 43.
"We are looking at him for other murders," police Chief Inspector Joseph Fox said. "We are looking at him for other incidents beyond the scope of Philadelphia."
Covington was charged Thursday with fatall
y shooting Patricia McDermott while she was on her way to an early shift as an X-ray technician at Pennsylvania Hospital in May. He was ordered
held without bail.
During the investigation, authorities found evidence that led to the charge filed against Covington on Friday in the unsolved death of his cousin, the Rev. Thomas Lee Devlin.
Devlin, 49, was shot a half-dozen times by a masked gunman who entered the Divine Shepherd Baptist Church while he was holding a prayer meeting in August 1998.
Fox would not say specifically what led police to charge Covington in Devlin's death. He also would not comment on the motive in McDermott's killing.
Authorities said they were led to Covington by tips from people who said he resembled a composite sketch released by police.
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McDermott suspect charged in 1998 killing
Juan Covington, 43, is charged with murder in the shooting of the Rev. Thomas Lee Devlin, his cou
sin.
The man police say confessed to killing hospital technician Patricia McDermott was charged Friday with murdering his own cousin - a Baptist minister gunned down as he preached in 1998 - and is being investigated in other killings and crimes in Philadelphia and beyond, police said.
Chief Inspector Joseph Fox would not say how investigators linked Juan V. Covington, 43, of Logan, to the long-unsolved execution of the Rev. Thomas Lee Devlin, 49, at his sister's home on Old York Road. He would not discuss a motive or say whether tests on two handguns and a shotgun found this week in Covington's North 11th Street home provided the link.
"It will come out at the preliminary hearing," Fox said at a news conference outside Police Headquarters. But, he added, "There
were wit
nesses."
Covington was charged with murder and related offenses in the Devlin slaying. He was arraigned Friday in the McDermott killing and was being held without bail, with a preliminary hearing set for Wednesday.
Thomas
Devlin's mother, the Rev. Mary Devlin of West Mount Airy, was devastated to learn that Covington, her sister's grandson, might be the masked man who burst into the basement of a home and riddled her son with bullets as he stood on a red-carpeted platform leading his weekly prayer service.
"That's family," she said. "It's very hard, very hard."
Devlin said her son had borrowed $2,000 from Covington to get his car out of a repair shop.
"My son owed him some money. Juan called me, and I said, 'Juan, he doesn't have the money, but we'll get the money together.' He didn't call me back."
Then came her son's killing on Aug. 19, 1998, as he led two followers in prayer at
his sister&#
39;s home at 4601 Old York Rd. - less than a mile from where Covington was arrested Tuesday night.
At the time of Devlin's killing, police thought it might be related to a child-custody battle between the preacher and an ex-girlfriend.
"That was my best son. That boy was a man of God," Mary Devlin sai
d. "He [the killer] took part of me when he took that child."
Devlin, one of nine children, was a gifted singer, held a black belt in karate, and had served with the U.S. Coast Guard in Vietnam, according to his family.
Mary Devlin said that after the killing, as friends and family flocked to Devlin's home to comfort her, she was struck that Covington did not come by.
"I got on the phone, and I called him. Juan came after I called, but he didn't say much."
The Rev. David Devlin, Thomas Devlin's brother, said: "I knew Juan from a child. He wasn't raised that way."
Covington, a fired SEPTA driver who
worked for a co
mpany that hauls medical waste from hospitals - including Pennsylvania Hospital, where McDermott worked - was described by neighbors and former coworkers as quiet and quick to take offense.
He drove buses for the transit agency from May 2, 1983, until his discharge on Sept. 20, 2001, for "work-performance issues," according to SEPTA.
During extensive questioning this week at
Police Headquarters, Covington told investigators he stalked McDermott, a radiology technician, because she pushed a cart into him and activated a machine that exposed him to radiation, detectives said.
Investigators said they were uncertain that was the motive.
McDermott, 48, described by those who knew her as a hard worker and devoted mother, had just gotten off the Route 33 bus at Market Street on May 17 and was walking down Ninth Street when a man who had followed her off the bus caught up with her and shot her in the head with a handgun.
Surveillance cameras at the post office
at Ninth and Market
Streets captured the predawn killing. A short time later, surveillance cameras picked up the same man entering Pennsylvania Hospital.
On the 5000 block of North 11th Street, a resident said that the once-neighborly Covington had changed in recent years, barely speaking as he went in and out of the dilapidated twin home he shared with his son, Joseph Bundy, 18, a 2005 graduate of Olney High School.
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Police are working with law enforcement agencies in other counties to link Covington to other crimes and may expand the search to other cities, Fox said.
Investigators have not recovered the gun that killed McDermott, Fox said. In addition to that weapon, police are "looking for a handful more" that are registered to Covington.
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Alleged Commuter Killer
Faces Second Murder Charge
Suspect Was Subcontractor At Pennsylvania Hospital
The man charged with killing a hospital worker in May as she got off the bus to walk to work is being investigated in the killing of his own cousin in 1998.
The prosecutors' office told NBC 10 News that it has approved charges against Juan Covington in the killing of the Rev. Thomas Devlin, 49, seven years ago.
"It's hard. It's my blood," said David Devl
in, Thomas Devlin's brother.
Sources said Covington confessed to Devlin's killing, NBC 10 News reported. Covington reportedly said he wore a ski mask and shot the minister at least a dozen times while Devlin performed prayer services.
Police said they believe Covington may be involved in other murders in other counties and cities.
Devlin's brother, David spoke exclusively with NBC 10 News about the allegations.
"I knew, being the next oldest son, and growing
up underneath Tom, that it
had to be someone who knew our family, because no one else could get that close," Devlin said.
Investigators said that Covington executed Devlin in the basement of the man's Logan home on Aug. 19, 1998.
"He was lying in a basement suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and the torso. He was subsequently pronounced dead at the scene," said Chief Inspector Joseph Fox, of the Philadelphia Police Department.
Investigators aren't saying how they connected Covington to either shooting, but t
hey did say that they are waiting for ballistic reports to come back on at least three of the guns taken from his home Wednesday night.
Covington Arraigned In Slaying Of X-Ray Technician
Covington was arraigned Friday in Patricia McDermott's slaying. The Center City hospital worker was a mother of two from Elkins Park, Pa.
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PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia police say they've charged a suspect with a killing caught on surveillance cameras.
Videotape shows a man shooting Patricia McDermott in the head as she walked to work before dawn in mid-May.
Officials say the suspect is a subcontractor at the hospital where McDermott worked as an X-ray technician. Police say they have video of Juan Covington at Pennsylvania Hospital shortly after the shooting, wearing clothes matching those worn by the killer.
A homicide detective
says he's unsure if the victim even knew the suspect.
Investigators released tape shot from cameras mounted on several buildings in the hope someone would recognize the killer.
On the video, the attacker is shown following the 48-year-old woman off the bus and walking alongside her for a moment, before shooting her and running off.
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DA Says Video Cameras Solve Crimes -- Including Hospital Worker's Murder
Although Philadelphia police have arrested a Logan man in the on-camera shooting death of hospital technician Patricia McDermott last May in center city, no clear motive has been established.
Surveillance video shows McDermott walking down the street after getting off the Route 33 bus near 9th and Market Streets, then the gunman killing her.
Homicide captain Richard Ross says they may have
had encounters, but he does not know for certain that the victim knew the suspect, 43-year-old Juan Covington:
It wasn't a random thing -- senseless just the same.
Di
strict attorney Lynne Abraham points ou
t a security camera at the US post office building on the block captured the incident, which led to a composite sketch, and a tip to police.
Abraham (above) acknowledges taking heat about privacy issues:
Anybody who thinks that ought to take a look at what happened with the London bombings. That
happened on their bus and subway systems.
She's adamant: Abraham thinks video cameras should be at strategic points all over the city.
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