Man charged with murder in Christmas slaying of Augusta couple

Twenty-nine-year-old David Marble Jr., of Rochester, appeared Wednesday before a Superior Court justice in Augusta Judicial Center.

He faces charges including second-degree assault and leaving the scene of an accident that caused serious injury in the hit-and-run crash in Rochester.

Marble, 29, is accused of shooting and killing a young couple in their SUV on Christmas Day.

Their bodies were found early Friday morning in a sport utility vehicle parked on Sanford Road in Manchester, not far from the home they shared on Easy Street in Augusta. A Rochester investigator tells the Democratic and Chronicle that police have been actively seeking Marble since October 30.

Attorney information for Marble wasn’t immediately available. Responding officers found both of them dead.

Attorneys Pamela Ames and David Geller represented Marble and Ames said she briefly met Marble after the hearing.

Marble was arrested Tuesday afternoon after a traffic stop.

Marble, who’d been living in an apartment in Augusta, was booked into the Kennebec County Jail and was expected to be in court Wednesday or Thursday.

Police have said the killings are drug-related, but have not offered more details about the case. He was charged with beating and robbing a man in Rochester in 2010, the Kennebec Journal reported. NY state records show he was sentenced to prison and released on probation in May 2011.