2nd suspect in killing of 9-year-old boy in Durham linked to gang in a ‘violent feud’
Two more people have been charged in the fatal drive-by shooting of 9-year-old Z’Yon Person in Durham last summer.
Court documents now link two of three people charged with killing the Raleigh boy to a gang involved in an “extremely violent feud” with another gang in Durham.
Dival “Paco” Nygee Magwood, 21, and Derrick Lamont Dixon, 27, were indicted Monday on charges of first-degree murder, felony conspiracy to commit murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious bodily injury, five counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of discharging a weapon into an occupied property causing serious injury and three counts of discharging a weapon into an occupied vehicle/residence.
Magwood and Dixon are currently in federal custody on recent possession of a firearm by a felon charges.
Anthony “Lil Tony’ Nathaniel Davenport, 24, was arrested last month on murder and other charges in the death of Z’Yon, who was riding in a car with his aunt, sister and cousins to get snow cones when he was fatally shot from another car in Durham on Aug. 18.
Z’Yon’s 8-year-old cousin was shot in the arm.
Eight Trey Gangster Crips
Court documents indicate that Davenport, his rising rap group 83 Babies, and Magwood were associated with a violent gang known as the Eight Trey Gangster Crips.
An affidavit supporting the federal possession of a firearm charge against Magwood says he was a member of the Eight Trey Gangster Crips, which the Raleigh-Durham Safe Streets Task Force says “is responsible for a significant portion of the violent crime and drug distribution in the Durham area.”
The Eight Trey Gangster Crips grew out of Los Angeles in the late 1960s. It operates locally in the Oxford Manor and Liberty Street public housing communities and has taken over part of McDougald Terrace public housing complex after the recent arrest of high-ranking Bloods gang leaders, court documents state.
‘Extremely violent feud’
While the Crips have longstanding feuds with Bloods, court documents state, more recently Eight Trey members associated with the Oxford Manor and Durham’s Braggtown neighborhood “have been involved (in a dispute) with a non-traditional neighborhood-based gang known as the O-Block and the Food Lion Projects,” the documents state.
The task force began investigating the Eight Trey Crips in the summer of 2017 and determined they were involved in drug distribution, shootings, and armed robberies in the Durham area.
The task force started investigating “the extremely violent feud” between the Braggtown-area Eight Trey Gangster Crips and O-Block in early 2019, the documents state.
Other search warrants linked the drive-by shooting that killed Z’Yon to a dispute between the two gangs, but named individuals who haven’t been charged. It is The News & Observer’s policy to generally not name people named in warrants who have not been charged with a crime in the case.
Magwood’s previous convictions include felony conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon and misdemeanors carrying a concealed weapon and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Dixon has been convicted of robbery with a dangerous weapon, three counts of felony breaking and entering, drug possession and other felonies.
The investigation into Z’Yon’s killing is ongoing, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call investigators at 919-560-4440, ext. 29284 or CrimeStoppers at 919-683-1200.
This story was originally published November 19, 2019 at 3:25 PM.
