THE HOVEY STREET QUADRUPLE MURDER

5 Suspects (Davis (30), Frazier(36), Hobson(30), Coleman(21) and Warren(24)) in the Hovey Street Murders were in court today to with charges ranging from murder, conspiracy to commit robbery, attempted robbery, burglary, unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, carrying a handgun without a license and criminal confinement. The most seroious charges were for Davis whom prosecutors will seek the death penalty.

Davis and Frazier told police they broke into a house on the 3200 block of North Hovey Street in search of at least 50 pounds of marijuana and cash, while Coleman and Hobson waited outside in an SUV, according to a probable cause affidavit prepared by police. Warren helped plan the robbery, the affidavit said, but did not go to the house with the others.

Davis told police that Frazier fired the shots, but Frazier said it was Davis who confronted Gina Hunt (24) and her son Jordan, 2 years old and Andrea Yarrell(24) and her daughter Charlii, just 4 month-old, who were hiding behind a bed, each with a child in her arms, pleading and crying, the affidavit said. Frazier said the women told them the drugs already had been taken from the house and that Davis started shooting, the victims received several shots to the head and the torso, the affidavit said. Coleman and Hobson said they saw Davis with the .40-caliber Glock police say was used to kill the victims, the affidavit said.

This was a senseless crime with a motive that included a hunt for drugs and money. These men knew where the drugs were and these women endangered their own lives as well as the lives of their young children by "keeping their stash where they rested". With that being said, they still did not deserve to die.

Police had been called to the home at other times. In August, burglars stole $5,000 worth of sweat suits, jewelry worth $250, a $4,500 plasma TV and a $200 table, according to reports. In November, Dana Davidson, 44, reported that her car’s window was busted out while parked outside the home.

Monday night, Andrea Yarrell was on the phone with her boyfriend, Gene Boyd, when the attackers came in, said Boyd’s mother, Annie Boyd. She said she called 911 after speaking to her son, who is at the Indianapolis Men’s Work Release Center, serving time in a drug case.“He heard the shots,” said Boyd, 55. “He was on the phone. They were talking and she heard something at the door.”Boyd said her son heard Yarrell waking Hunt before the connection cut off. He called back.“He heard the shot, then heard Gina holler out: ‘Those are my babies!’ ” Annie Boyd said. “After that, the phone went dead again.”A spokeswoman at the work release center said Gene Boyd was not granting interviews.Annie Boyd said her son and Andrea Yarrell had been in an off-and-on relationship for about 10 years and had reconnected recently. He was not Charlii’s father, she said, but he loved the little girl. Boyd said she regarded Yarrell as a daughter.“She just wanted to raise her daughter,” Boyd said. “Pretty little girl. She couldn’t wait to put a barrette in her hair.”The suspects are “cruel,” Boyd said. “That’s the devil in somebody.”