TWO MEN CHARGED IN DEADLY BURLINGTON COUNTY DOUBLE SHOOTING

Two suspects have been charged with murder in connection with a shooting last month that left two men dead outside a Burlington County convenience store, officials announced Thursday.

The victims, Daniel Patterson, 22, of Philadelphia, and Mason Knott, 21, of Wrightstown, were fatally shot around 11:30 p.m. on November 5 in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven and Valero Gas Station at Route 130 North and Farnsworth Avenue in Bordentown Township.

According to the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, Patterson managed to walk into the store and ask for help before collapsing outside. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Knott was rushed to a Trenton hospital, where he later died. Autopsies revealed Patterson was shot multiple times, while Knott died from a gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators said the shooters fled in a Jeep, which they later crashed in Florence Township before escaping on foot. The suspects—initially unidentified—were later named as Justford Doe, 23, of Philadelphia, and Giovanni Varanese, 21, of Cherry Hill. Both were charged on November 21.

Doe and Varanese were served with their warrants inside a Philadelphia correctional facility, where they remain held on unrelated charges. Burlington County prosecutors are seeking to extradite them to New Jersey.

The pair faces a list of charges including first-degree murder, first-degree conspiracy to commit murder, first-degree robbery, second-degree eluding, and multiple second-degree weapons offenses.

Varanese’s attorney declined to comment. Doe did not have an attorney listed in court records as of Thursday.