Stephen P. Ashley Jr. showed little emotion Tuesday as he listened to a friend testify how he gunned down a man in a drug-deal gone bad. Ashley, 21, sat beside attorney William Brisbois Jr. and Jeffrey Rupp as orange-jumpsuit clad codefendant Kaleb S. Rosin recalled the events leading up to the slaying of Lonnie L. Houston Jr., a 27-year-old father of five. Rosin, 20, said he and Brett E. Vaughn, 21, accompanied Ashley to a Kawkawlin-area trailer park the night of Nov. 13, where Ashley purchased a .22-caliber pistol from a 16- or 17-year-old in exchange for $100 and some cocaine. Ashley at some point called Houston and asked him to meet in the area of the Meijer in Hampton Township, on the pretext of buying more drugs from him, Rosin said. Ashley already owed Houston money for cocaine, Rosin said.
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