CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Four people accused of kidnapping, torturing and killing a woman in East Cleveland have been indicted on aggravated murder charges.
A grand jury on Wednesday charged Portria Williams, 30; Nathaniel Poke, 22; Anthony Bryant, 18; and Brittany Smith, 32. Each faces two counts of aggravated murder and one count of kidnapping in the shooting death of 22-year-old Alishah Porter.
Williams also faces a weapons charge that accuses her of possessing a gun during the incident, prosecutors said. Investigators recovered the gun.
All four are being held on $2 million bonds after they appeared in East Cleveland Municipal Court earlier this week.
The group is set for a Monday arraignment hearing in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
A fifth suspect, a 17-year-old girl, is also charged in juvenile court. Authorities are still searching for a sixth suspect, Hakim Ali-Shomo, prosecutors said.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said his office is reviewing the case to determine whether to seek the death penalty.
“There were plenty of opportunities for these people to reconsider what they were doing and for somebody to make the right decision and stop this,” O’Malley said. “This went on for hours, and this poor girl was tortured and brutalized. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and we will hold those individuals who have done this responsible.”
The indictment says the abduction and killing of Pointer came on either Nov. 4 or Nov. 5, days after the Nov. 2 killing of 19-year-old Aminjas Shomo in the Cleveland’s Broadway-Slavic Village neighborhood.
Three law enforcement sources previously told cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer that Pointer’s boyfriend was a suspect in Shomo’s death.
A group seeking revenge for Shomo’s death abducted Pointer, drove her around to several locations, tortured and then fatally shot her, East Cleveland police Chief Scott Gardner said.
Pointer’s body was found in an abandoned and burned-out East Cleveland house on Nov. 9.
Prosecutors said they believe multiple guns were used during the incident.
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