POUGHKEEPSIE – The two men facing felony charges for the shooting death of a Marist College student’s father on Sunday at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel have told law enforcement that they are homeless.
Many people have questioned Mid-Hudson News and Dutchess County officials about how two homeless men were staying in a room at the hotel and if Dutchess County had placed them in the hotel as temporary housing.
Mid-Hudson News has confirmed that the room was rented in the name of a private citizen that is cooperating with authorities.
Dutchess County Department of Community & Family Services (DCFS) Commissioner Sabrina Jaar Marzouka issued a statement on Tuesday denying the county’s involvement in housing the two suspects at the hotel. “ The two suspects, named by the Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department in connection with the October 2 shooting tragedy at the Courtyard by Marriott in Poughkeepsie, were neither known as Department of Community and Family Services clients nor placed in that hotel by Dutchess County.”
The commissioner noted that the county does not use the Courtyard by Marriott for the county’s housing needs.
Roy Johnson Jr., charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon told authorities that his last known address was on Silver Fox Lane in Hyde Park. Co-defendant Devin Taylor, charged with two felony counts of criminal possession of a weapon indicated that his last known address was 2633 South Road, Apt. H1 in the Town of Poughkeepsie.
