21-year-old man is charged in fatal shooting

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By Deanna Boyd

dboyd@star-telegram.com

FORT WORTH -- A 21-year-old Fort Worth man was charged Wednesday with murder in the shooting of a man during an argument about drugs, authorities said Thursday.

Airel Santos is accused of killing Dwaine Plummer, 24, who was found shot in the chest Dec. 9 in an apartment in the 5100 block of Flamingo Road.

Investigators learned that Plummer sold drugs from the apartment, homicide Sgt. Cheryl Johnson said. Santos met Plummer there, they argued, and Santos shot Plummer, she said.

Santos was arrested Dec. 13 on a murder warrant. He was transferred Thursday from the Mansfield Jail to the Tarrant County Jail. Bail was set at $300,000.

Plummer's brother, Deshunn Plummer, was shot to death in November 2010 in Fort Worth in what police said started as a fistfight over drugs and gang activity and escalated into gunfire.

Deanna Boyd, 817-390-7655

Twitter: @deannaboyd

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