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MySpace gives clues to cops

Posted by admin On January - 3 - 2009

Detectives are using the social networking sites MySpace and Facebook to help make their case against a Durham teen charged with killing another teenager and shooting two others.

Deamonte Tavaris Brooks, 18, is charged with murder in the Nov. 8 death of Nathan Elmore, 18, during a party at a townhouse on Glendale Avenue. Brooks is also charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, in the shootings of Christopher Hunter, 16, and James Downey, 21.

Search warrants made public Thursday show that investigators with the Durham Police Department accessed user accounts at MySpace.com and Facebook.com seeking evidence in the case.

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