Cigarette linked to deadly attack

The man killed in what police call a random attack may have lost his life over a cigarette.

Police will not comment on a motive in the death of Marcus Tremaine Deveaux Monday night.

But several people — including Jo-Ann Amond, the sister of the man accused in the murder — said the encounter began with a request for a cigarette and ended with the 37-year-old left for dead on a street.

She said her brother told her he was walking with a friend to get cigarettes from a store when her brother’s friend, “asked him for a smoke and the man said, ‘Sorry I have none.’ ”

Deveaux was found by a passerby clinging to life in the area of 22 Ave. and 17 St. S.E. about 8 p.m.

He died before arriving at the hospital.

Police said a second man in custody on unrelated warrants is a possible suspect in the killing, but as of Thursday no charges were laid.

Police could not be reached for comment on Amond’s family’s claims there was another man badly hurt during an attack downtown the same evening.

Darrin Thomas Amond is charged with second-degree murder.