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Three plead guilty to federal gun charges in connection with convenience store homicide
DAYTON — Three suspects in the August 2008 slaying of a convenience store manager pleaded guilty to federal gun charges on Wednesday, Dec. 30.
The three appeared before U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Rose, who accepted the plea agreements.
Trevor J. “Boss Man” Trammell, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of Use and Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence. Under the plea agreements, Trammel will serve 25 years in prison.
Thaddius S. “Man” Core, 22, and Charles A. “Ed” Calahan, 24, both pleaded guilty to a single count of Interference with Commerce by Threats or Violence. Both will serve 14 years in prison.
The sentencings are set for March 26.
The three were arrested Jan. 15. At the time, Dayton police identified Trammell as a member of the Dayton View Hustlers street gang.
The charges stem from the Aug. 12, 2008 shooting death of Abdellah Ouqessou, 33, the night manager of the Kwik ‘N Kold, at 4121 Prescott Ave. just east of Gettysburg Avenue.
The suspects, with the help of a juvenile, planned the robbery, according to the statements of facts filed with the plea agreements. The statements do not identify the juvenile by name.
The juvenile introduced Trammell to Calahan so that Calahan could provide guns for the robbery. The juvenile also told Trammell that the store closed at 1 a.m.
About 12:45 a.m. on Aug. 12, the four went to the parking lot, where Calahan, Core and the juvenile acted as lookouts. About 1 a.m., Ouqessou, a Moroccan immigrant, was locking up the store when Trammell approached him with a handgun and demanded money.
“Trammell thereafter fired approximately four rounds at Ouqessou, resulting in at least one round striking him in the lower abdomen. Ouqessou collapsed and was heard screaming in agony,” according to the statements of facts.
Ouqessou died later at Miami Valley Hospital.
The arrests of the three named suspects were part of a coordinated effort, using both local and federal law enforcement officers, to target gang activity. That effort, coordinated by Dayton police Chief Richard Biehl, started about two months earlier.
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