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Overcast Woodmere murder suspect caught
By Michael Orbach
Issue of August 20, 2010/ 10 Elul 5770Residents of Woodmere can breathe a sigh of relief with the arrests of two Brooklyn men who police say murdered a 20-year-old in the Saddle Ridge neighborhood of Woodmere in a home invasion in mid-June.The Nassau County Homicide Squad arrested Edward Williams, 30, and Anthony Jackson, 23, on August 12. Each man is charged with murder in the second degree in the killing of Tristan Theodore Hughes.
They are accused of breaking into Hughes' family's home in the early hours of June 15. After robbing the house, the two armed men allegedly forced Hughes and an unidentified friend into a car that belonged to Hughes' parents. Hughes' friend managed to escape the vehicle but when Hughes tried to get away he was shot in the chest. The attackers sped away while Hughes staggered through backyards until he reached a neighbor's home and called for help. He was pronounced dead at South Nassau Communities Hospital at 10:45 that morning.
The Hughes family had moved from Elmont to a home on South End in Woodmere only months before the murder.
