DA: 4 More Arrested, Charged In DeGennaro's Murder

Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler announced the arrest of four suspects in connection with the homicide of famed local musician  during a news conference Friday afternoon. 

Heckler said Tatyana Henderson, 18, of Bensalem, and three people from Trenton, N.J.: 18-year-old Kazair Gist, 19-year-old Jermaine Jackson and 20-year-old Breon Powell face charges of criminal homicide, possession of instrument of crimes with intent, burglary and several related felony offenses.

An investigation linked the four to the shooting death of 56-year-old DeGennaro inside his home at 17 Crabtree Drive in Levittown, Bristol Township on Dec. 28, 2011.

Gist and Jackson were apprehended Thursday in Trenton by U. S. Marshals and await extradition to Pennsylvania.

Bristol Township police said they arrested Powell Friday after he turned himself into authorities. He remains in county jail on $5 million bail.

Tatyana Henderson was already in Bucks County prison after failing to make bail on theft charges linked to a February incident in Falls Township, according to court records.

A fifth suspect, 17-year-old Danasia Bakr, of Morrisville, and faces criminal homicide, burglary and five related charges. Bakr will be tried in court as an adult, according to court documents.

The four suspects were charged this week after a three-month long investigation involving federal, state, county and multiple townships law enforcement units.

"Without the coordinated and dedicated effort of scores of people in each of these organizations, together with an enormous commitment of time and personnel by the Bristol Township Police and the Bucks County Detectives, these murderers would not have been brought to justice," Heckler said.

County Commissioner Charlie Martin praised the work of law enforcement during the murder investigation and said, "We will do what it takes to hold the guilty accountable."

Heckler used the media within the past few weeks to warn the suspects before they were arrested this week that police knew who they were and were coming for them.

On the night of Dec. 28, 2011, officials said the suspects were en route to rob a subject, they believe to have resided on Crabtree Drive, who owned them money. As they pulled from the Levittown Parkway onto the tree-lined residential street, where DeGennaro lived, they noticed a 2007 black Volkswagen that was listed as being "for sale."

The suspects made contact with the owner, Nick Wilson, via cell phone and tried to lure him outside so they could rob him; he told them to come back in the morning. Moments later, the suspects busted into DeGennaro's home, believing he was the owner of the car.

After two gunshots, the suspects raced to their cars and sped off. Breon Powell, then, reportedly told the two teenage girls he had to shoot DeGennaro because he charged at him.

DeGennaro was found dead minutes later by his roommate. He had suffered a shotgun blast to the chest, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

Investigators used Bakr and Henderson's cell phone records to put them at the scene of the crime.

DeGennaro’s sister, Linda, told NBC 10 earlier in March, she wished the murders would "live in prison for the rest of their lives."

The 56-year-old guitarist played and toured with several world-renowned musical acts during his career. He was a member of Kingfish, a group often compared to the Grateful Dead and had his own group called The Danny DeGennaro Band.