Duo Charged After Deadly Bordentown 7-Eleven Shooting Kills Two: Prosecutor

By Sam Barron From Daily Voice

Two men have been charged with fatally shooting two people outside a 7-Eleven last month, authorities announced Thursday, Dec. 4.

Justford Doe, a 23-year-old Philadelphia resident, and Giovanni Varanese, a 21-year-old Cherry Hill resident are charged with murder in the first degree, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and multiple weapons offenses, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia Bradshaw and Bordentown Township Police Department Officer-in-Charge Lt. Frank Nucera III said.

At 11:30 p.m., on Wednesday, Nov. 5., police responded to the 7-Eleven/Valero gas station on Route 130 and Farnsworth Avenue, after a man, later identified as Daniel Patterson, a 22-year-old Philadelphia resident, walked into the store and said he had been shot in the parking lot, authorities said.

Patterson exited the store, collapsed outside and died at the scene, authorities said. The second shooting victim, Mason Knott, a 21-year-old Wrightstown resident, died after being taken to a Trenton hospital, authorities said.

An autopsy determined Patterson died from multiple gunshot wounds while Knott was killed by a shot to the head, authorities said.

Following the shootings, Doe and Varanese fled in a Jeep and later took off on foot after crashing their vehicle in Florence Township, authorities said.

Doe and Varanese were served with their warrants inside the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, where they are being held on unrelated offenses, authorities said. The Prosecutor’s Office will seek to extradite the defendants to New Jersey, authorities said.