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WILKES-BARRE — A city police detective testified Thursday three people leaving a domestic disturbance were returning to a Darling Street residence to pick up a forgotten item when they were shot on North Street.

Police believe Dazon Wykie Turner, 21, fired multiple rounds from a 9mm firearm, instantly killing Carlos Taffanelly, 47, of Paterson, N.J., and injuring Liliana Giraldo and her daughter, Jamielynne Giraldo, on Oct. 5.

Before undergoing surgery to a gunshot wound to her leg, Jamielynne Giraldo told police her boyfriend, Turner, was the gunman.

Turner surrendered two days later on an arrest warrant charging him with criminal homicide and four counts of aggravated assault.

Prior to Turner’s preliminary hearing before District Judge Thomas F. Malloy Sr., assistant district attorneys Angela Sperrazza and Brittany Quinn added two counts of criminal attempt to commit homicide.

After more than two hours of testimony, Malloy determined prosecutors established a case against Turner, sending all the charges to Luzerne County Court.

Turner’s attorney, Leonard Michael Gryskewicz Jr., suggested Turner acted in either self defense or did not intend to kill Taffanelly and injure the two women.

Officer Erika Oswald testified about one hour before the shooting, she and another officer responded to a domestic dispute involving Turner and Jamielynne Giraldo at 46 Darling Street. Oswald said she did not observe any injuries, noting Jamielynne Giraldo agreed to leave the residence and await her father from the Stroudsburg area.

Oswald said Jamielynne Giraldo declined to wait for her parents at city police headquarters.

Oswald said the gunfire was reported about one hour later, 12:10 a.m., on Oct. 5, on North Street. When she arrived, she saw the two women and Taffanelly on the ground.

Taffanelly did not show any signs of life, Oswald said, as she concentrated at performing life saving measures on the two women, including placing a tourniquet on Jamielynne’s leg where she suffered a gunshot wound.

“He had appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head,” Oswald said.

County Coroner Frank Hacken said an autopsy on Taffanelly revealed he suffered seven gunshot wounds. A gunshot wound to the head and a gunshot wound to the neck were fatal wounds, Hacken said.

Det. Charles Casey testified Taffanelly and the two women left the Darling Street residence, but one of the women forgot an item at the house. As they traveled on North River Street to return to Darling Street, they passed Turner driving the opposite direction.

Casey said Turner turned around and followed, then passed Taffanelly, before turning onto North Street where the shooting occurred just before Darling Street.

Before Jamielynne Giraldo was taken to a hospital, she told officers, “Jeep, Jeep, Jeep,” and later allegedly identified Turner as the gunman, Casey said.

Casey said a vehicle search resulted in Turner owning a 2014 Jeep Liberty, which was located at his parents house in Tannersville, Monroe County, at about 2 a.m. on Oct. 5. No firearm was found in the vehicle, Casey said.

Neither Liliana Giraldo and Jamielynne Giraldo testified during Thursday’s proceeding.

Gryskewicz suggested there was no testimony placing Turner at the scene. If he was at the scene, Gryskewicz believes he acted in self defense because Taffanelly had parked his vehicle illegally on North Street intending to fight Turner.

Turner, who lived at the Darling Street residence, remains jailed at the county correctional facility without bail.

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