Another arrest in 2014 abduction, slaying

Police have arrested another suspect in a 2-year-old abduction and execution-style slaying in Crescentville.

Brandon McKelvey, 27, was charged with murder, kidnapping, robbery, conspiracy and weapons offenses for allegedly shooting two men, one fatally, on April 17, 2014. Police on Tuesday arrested Nysare Oneil O. Alston, 27, of Germantown, on the same charges.

A third suspect, Ken Thomas, 25, has been held without bail in the case since September 2014, court records show. He pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and related offenses in January and will be sentenced on Tuesday, records show.

Police say Alston, McKelvey and Thomas abducted Carl Johnson, 29, and another man, bound their hands and heads with duct tape and shot them several times before dumping them on Newtown Avenue near Godfrey, an isolated, one-way, trash-choked street.

Johnson, of the 100 block of Magee Avenue, had been shot in his face, back and leg and died at the scene. The second man, 26, survived despite gunshot wounds in his left back and right forearm.

Police listed the motive as robbery.

McKelvey and Alston have previous arrests for assault, robbery and drug and weapons offenses, records show. Alston and two other men were federally indicted in August for allegedly robbing five check-cashing businesses in a seven-month spree that netted them about $125,000, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

- Dana DiFilippo