Murder Suspect To Stand Trial Again For Same Crime
Posted August 31, 2009 7:29 am.
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A 23-year-old man acquitted in a 2004 murder will stand trial for the same crime once again.
On Thursday, Warren Abbey’s acquittal was overturned in the court of appeals and a new trial was ordered.
Abbey is charged with first degree murder in the Scarborough shooting death of 19-year-old Simeon Peter, who was gunned down while walking his girlfriend home in January 2004.
Abbey was allegedly associated with the Malvern Crew at the time, a gang embroiled in a turf war.
He was taken into custody Saturday afternoon and he’ll appear in court on Monday.
Abbey has a tattoo of a teardrop under his eye. That symbol can mean that a gang member has killed someone who belongs to a rival gang.
However, a jury in his first trial did not hear about the significance of the tattoo.
