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Alleged get-away driver charged with murder in New Year's slaying

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By Erin Beck

The man who allegedly drove the get-away vehicle was charged with murder for his role in the New Year's Day shooting in Charleston.

Sean Paul Burdette, 23, of Charleston, was charged with first degree murder and being an accessory before and after the fact to murder, according to a criminal complaint filed in Monongalia County Magistrate Court.

Burdette allegedly drove his van as the get-away vehicle when 20-year-old Shannon Cade was shot on Jan. 1.

Police announced earlier this week that Antonio Carnell Williams II, 23, had been charged with first degree murder in the shooting.

Both Williams and Burdette were arrested in Morgantown on Tuesday.

Cade was shot while sitting at a kitchen table, late at night in a house on the 800 block of Mathews Avenue, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court. He died the next day at an area hospital.

A 14-year-old girl also was shot in the house. She was shot in the head, according to the criminal complaint, but sustained minor wounds.

Williams' arrest stemmed from a tip police received from an eyewitness, Williams' girlfriend, who said she was with Williams at the time of the shooting, said Lt. Steve Cooper, Charleston police chief of detectives.

Police do not believe that Cade was the intended target of the shooting, Cooper has said. Police believe the shooting was the result of a disagreement involving Williams' girlfriend.

According to the criminal complaint, Williams drove to the Mathews Avenue house with his girlfriend, Burdette and an underage girl after hearing that his girlfriend had spent time with another man there.

Williams and his girlfriend got out of the van, but the girlfriend believed he intended to fight the man inside, according to the complaint.

"Instead, Mr. Williams, retrieved a black semi-automatic hand gun from his waist and began firing his weapon at the people inside," the complaint says.

The girlfriend, as she was running away, heard a brief pause and then several more shots, the complaint says.

"Mr. Williams immediately came back to the vehicle and said, 'I've got to get a new gun because this one jammed on me,'" the complaint says.

A 17-year-old also was arrested in Morgantown and was charged with being an accessory after the fact, Cooper has said.

Cade's killing was the third in Charleston over a span of six days last week. Arrests have been made in all three cases.

Reach Erin Beck at erin.beck@wvgazettemail.com, 304-348-5163,

Facebook.com/erinbeckwv, or

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