CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man is charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a man and woman during an ambush-style robbery in the city's West Boulevard neighborhood.

Lawrence East, 27, is charged with aggravated murder. He is not in police custody and a warrant was issued Monday for his arrest.

He was released from prison in March and is free on bail in a felony drug possession case.

East is accused of firing the shots that killed Khadijah Baker, 25, and Eric Mason, 32.

The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 on Fidelity Avenue, near West 117th Street.

East and two other men waited outside their home and ambushed them when they returned, court records say.

The group tried to rob Mason and Baker and East fired several gunshots, according to court records.

Mason died from a gunshot to the back, police said. Baker was found about two blocks away with a gunshot wound to her thigh, police reports say. She died two days later from that injury, according to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner.

Mason told police before he died that he knew East and that he was the person that shot him, according to police reports.

The report does not provide a motive for the shooting or list was was taken during the robbery.

East is currently free on $2,500 bond in a separate drug possession case where police found heroin, crack and cocaine in his car on Aug. 18, police said. He pleaded not guilty in that case.

East is also still on post-prison release supervision stemming from a 2015 burglary conviction. He was released from prison March 13.

He also was convicted in 2013 of breaking into a home, then running from police when they caught him inside the home, and in another burglary in 2011 when he ransacked a home and stole several guns.

East also has prior convictions for drug trafficking, drug possession and theft.

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