Marshals arrest Chestnuthill shooting suspect in the Bronx

United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Harrith Saleem Brown in the Bronx on two criminal homicide charges resulting from a double shooting in Chestnuthill Township.

Brown, 23, had past addresses in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

On Dec. 4, 2019, the Pennsylvania State Police investigated a homicide in 1700 block of Silver Maple Road, Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County.

Brown is the fourth suspect charged in the Dec. 3 shooting of Dylan Beinert, 22; Khalil Durante, 23; and Walter Howard Durante at a home in the Sun Valley area of Chestnuthill Township. Beinert died at the scene and Khalil Durante later died at a hospital, while Walter Durante was left in critical condition.

On Dec. 17, troopers obtained an arrest warrant charging Brown with criminal homicide, robbery and lesser included offenses. Attempts to find Brown were unsuccessful, and the case was adopted into the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force.

Marshals on Friday arrested Zaire Unique Burkett, 20, of Whitehall.

According to state police, three men traveled to the home to steal money and marijuana from Beinert. A co-defendant, 21-year-old Matthew Burke of East Stroudsburg, confessed to actually shooting Beinert and the Durantes, according to court documents.

On Wednesday, at 2:25 p.m., members of the task force checked a home in the 400 block of East 136th Street in the Bronx, New York, and arrested Brown as he tried to flee. He was turned over to the New York Police Department Central Booking Unit to await extradition to Pennsylvania.

Another suspect charged was a woman accused of helping to set up the victims under the guise of buying drugs, and on the night of the shooting provided the accused shooters with information about the location of drugs and guns inside the house.

At 6 a.m. Friday, members of the task force checked a home in the 700 block of South Eighth Street, Allentown and arrested Burkett without incident. He was turned over to the Pennsylvania State Police and was arraigned Friday afternoon.

The shooting happened at a home on Silver Maple Road in the Sun Valley section of Chestnuthill Township just after 10:30 p.m. Dec. 4.

Three defendants have been charged with criminal homicide in the case: Burkett, Burke, and Deani Powell, 19, of Easton.

Eric Deshawn Gulley, 41, of Allentown, is facing a firearms charge.

The USMS Fugitive Task Force in the Middle District of Pennsylvania consists of 20 state, county and local police agencies, including: the Pennsylvania State Police; the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; and the Scranton Police Department — all which participated in this investigation. The USMS New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force played an integral part in this arrest.

Additional information about the U.S. Marshals Service can be found at http://www.usmarshals.gov.