WORCESTER ― The two men who police say carried out Tuesday’s daylight shooting of a mother and daughter on Englewood Avenue have spent time in jail and have links to gangs, court records show.
A search of Worcester court records Thursday showed police have accused Karel Mangual, who was arraigned Thursday, and Dejan D. Belnavis, who remains a fugitive, of being gang members in the past.
Mangual, now 28, was sentenced to three to five years in prison following an alleged retaliatory shooting in 2014 and, according to court records, has a tattoo that reads “RIP Robert Walker.”
Collage Nunez, the brother of Chasity Nunez, the woman killed Tuesday, was sentenced to seven to 10 years in prison in 2016 after pleading guilty to manslaughter in Walker’s death. Also shot to death Tuesday was Chasity’s 11-year-old daughter, Zella. They were sitting in an SUV when shot.
Karel Mangual
Mangual has multiple open cases in district courts in Dudley and Worcester, records show.
He was released on $1,000 bail in March 2023 on allegations from Webster police that include assault and battery on a police officer and carrying a dangerous weapon. A trial in that case is slated for March 2
Mangual also has an open case in Central District Court after Worcester police alleged that they had caught him in March 2022 with 8 grams of suspected crack, which they believe he was selling on Main Street.
In another case out of Dudley District Court from 2023, he is facing charges of being a fugitive from justice after Webster police said he had an extraditable warrant out of Rhode Island for carrying a firearm without a license.
Mangual’s most serious case in Worcester County appears to be the 2014 shooting case, in which, police wrote in court documents, the victim “appeared to be suffering from five gunshot wounds to his groin area.” The victim survived
Belnavis, 27, has been charged in nearly 20 criminal cases in Central District Court, records show, many involving selling of marijuana or domestic violence.
Belnavis was sentenced to six months in jail in 2022 after a jury found him guilty of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
According to a judge’s summary of the allegations in a 2021 court document, Belnavis was accused of threatening a “rival gang member” with a firearm inside Worcester’s Walmart.
Prior to his trial, Belnavis was released on conditions that included wearing a GPS tracker, court records show. He was granted permission to fly to Los Angeles in November 2021 after his lawyer said in court documents that Belnavis was invited to a business function for a clothing line he owns.
Police had not announced an arrest of Belnavis as of Thursday night. He is considered armed and dangerous, and, police have said, was captured on video in Hartford, Connecticut, shortly after Tuesday’s shooting.
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