NASSAU- A woman and her accomplice have been convicted of the murder and armed robbery of her lover.
Prosecutors alleged that Raquel Johnson arranged the murder and armed robbery of ZNS radio announcer Scott Richards at Bonefish Pond National Park off Cowpen Road on May 26, 2016.
Richards and Johnson went there in his Dodge Durango SUV to have sex and they were accosted by Richard Bevans, who shot and killed Richards after robbing him of an iPhone.Johnson was not harmed during the incident.
After witnessing the murder, she didn’t notify authorities about what happened.
Instead, she caught a bus home.
Police on patrol of the nature reserve found Richards near dead several hundred feet away from his vehicle. He was wearing a condom.
Johnson turned herself in to police on May 28 and was arrested as a suspect in the murder.
She allegedly confessed to arranging the murder with another man.
However, police did not charge that man after they verified his alibi.
Months later, police arrested Bevans in relation to the incident.
They also recovered the murder weapon, a 9mm pistol, after Bevans told them where he’d stashed it.
Bevans told police that he killed Richards because he’d “molested him.”
During their trial, Johnson and Bevans backed away from their statements to police, which they claimed were obtained through oppression.
However, the jury accepted that the admissions were made voluntarily and convicted them.
Bevans and Johnson will return to court on August 31 for sentencing.
