Cherry Hill Man Charged In Double Homicide Outside NJ Convenience Store: Prosecutor

BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP, NJ — A Cherry Hill man was among two suspects charged with murder after a shooting that killed two men last month outside a New Jersey convenience store, authorities said Thursday.

Two men were fatally shot in early November in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven and Valero Gas Station in Bordentown Township, officials said. The suspects, who were then-unidentified, fled the scene in a Jeep and took off on foot after crashing it in Florence Township, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office.

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Prosecutors identified the suspects as Justford Doe, 23, of Philadelphia, and Giovanni Varanese, 21, of Cherry Hill. They were charged with murder Nov. 21.

The suspects were later served with their warrants at a correctional facility in Philadelphia, where they remain jailed on unrelated charges, officials said.

Prosecutors also identified the shooting victims Thursday as Daniel Patterson, 22, of Philadelphia, and Mason Knott, 21, of Wrightstown.

Both men were shot around 11:30 p.m. Nov. 5 outside the convenience store at Route 130 north and Farnsworth Avenue, authorities said. Patterson walked inside the store and requested help before exiting the facility and collapsing outside. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Knott died after being taken to a Trenton hospital.

Autopsies revealed Patterson was shot multiple times, while Knott was killed by a shot to the head, prosecutors said.

Doe and Varanese were charged with first-degree murder, first-degree conspiracy to commit murder, first-degree robbery, second-degree eluding and multiple second-degree weapons offenses.

Burlington County prosecutors will seek to extradite them to New Jersey.

Varanese's defense attorney, Christopher St. John, declined comment to Patch. Doe didn't have an attorney listed in online court records Thursday.