Riverside man scheduled for trial in Barstow in rapper's death

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A criminal trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday for a Riverside man charged with the execution-style shooting death of an aspiring rapper in June 2008, prosecutors confirmed.

Dudzai Pswatai has been charged with murder, robbery, kidnapping and torture in the death of Robert Raymond Mastrangelo, whose body was found in a drainage ditch along the 15 Freeway.

Pswatai, 20, of Riverside, is scheduled for trial in Barstow Superior Court.

Pswatai also faces a charge that the act was to promote of a street gang.

mike.cruz@inlandnewspapers.com

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