Michael Odell Anthony Dupree-Tyler, left, and Deon Antonio Frasier.
Authorities in South Carolina said two teenagers have been arrested on murder charges after one of them allegedly shot and killed a man who had just helped them pull an SUV from a roadside ditch.
Nineteen-year-old Michael Odell Anthony Dupree-Tyler and 17-year-old Deon Antonio Frasier were denied bond Tuesday in the shooting incident, which occurred Monday night in North Charleston.
Police said a witness asked the victim, later identified as Chadwick Garrett, to help the teens pull a 2016 Dodge Durango from a ditch along a narrow road. Witnesses said he agreed to help, for a $20 fee, according to court documents cited by CBS affiliate WCSC.
After Garrett, 45, helped pull the SUV to the road, he asked the teens for his money, according to documents; Frasier then drew a gun and opened fire, hitting Garrett in the chest, the documents say.
Police said Frasier got into the vehicle and Dupree-Tyler drove them away, according to WCSC.
"I heard about three gunshots because I was sitting down getting ready to eat; I thought it was firecrackers," a neighbor, who did not give her name, told the station. "It's dirty, evil."
North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said in a statement that officers arrived at the scene at about 11 p.m. Monday and found the victim lying in the roadway.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"During the investigation, it was learned that the victim was assisting two black males in pulling a Dodge Durango out of the ditch," Pryor said in the statement emailed to The Washington Post. "After the victim got the vehicle out of the ditch the two suspects then robbed and shot the victim."
After the shooting, a woman from the apartment where the suspects live called police and said the two teens had taken her SUV without permission. She gave a description of the vehicle as well as of Dupree-Tyler and Frasier, according to documents cited by the Charleston Post and Courier.
Once the woman got the vehicle back, however, she tried - unsuccessfully - to call off the police response.
Officers found the suspects at the apartment; following a brief standoff, police took the teens into custody.
Dupree-Tyler admitted to police that he had been at the scene and Frasier admitted that he had shot the victim, according to WCSC.
Frasier also faces a charge of possession of a firearm during a violent crime, according to online booking records.
At the bond hearing Tuesday, Moses Garrett, the victim's father, called the teens "cowards."
"It's so sad; these young babies here, they're getting more and more terrible out there on the streets," he said in court, according to the Post and Courier. "You guys killed a man. Only cowards carry guns."
Dupree-Tyler began to respond before the judge silenced him, according to the Post and Courier.
"With all due respect to the family, they coming at me the wrong way because I haven't murdered anyone," Dupree-Tyler said, according to the newspaper.
Moses Garrett said it pained him to see that his son's accused killers were so young.
"I don't think it was so much robbery as it was hatred of your own brother," he said.
It was not immediately known whether Dupree-Tyler and Frasier had attorneys.
© 2016 The Washington Post
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Nineteen-year-old Michael Odell Anthony Dupree-Tyler and 17-year-old Deon Antonio Frasier were denied bond Tuesday in the shooting incident, which occurred Monday night in North Charleston.
Police said a witness asked the victim, later identified as Chadwick Garrett, to help the teens pull a 2016 Dodge Durango from a ditch along a narrow road. Witnesses said he agreed to help, for a $20 fee, according to court documents cited by CBS affiliate WCSC.
After Garrett, 45, helped pull the SUV to the road, he asked the teens for his money, according to documents; Frasier then drew a gun and opened fire, hitting Garrett in the chest, the documents say.
Police said Frasier got into the vehicle and Dupree-Tyler drove them away, according to WCSC.
"I heard about three gunshots because I was sitting down getting ready to eat; I thought it was firecrackers," a neighbor, who did not give her name, told the station. "It's dirty, evil."
North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said in a statement that officers arrived at the scene at about 11 p.m. Monday and found the victim lying in the roadway.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"During the investigation, it was learned that the victim was assisting two black males in pulling a Dodge Durango out of the ditch," Pryor said in the statement emailed to The Washington Post. "After the victim got the vehicle out of the ditch the two suspects then robbed and shot the victim."
After the shooting, a woman from the apartment where the suspects live called police and said the two teens had taken her SUV without permission. She gave a description of the vehicle as well as of Dupree-Tyler and Frasier, according to documents cited by the Charleston Post and Courier.
Once the woman got the vehicle back, however, she tried - unsuccessfully - to call off the police response.
Officers found the suspects at the apartment; following a brief standoff, police took the teens into custody.
Dupree-Tyler admitted to police that he had been at the scene and Frasier admitted that he had shot the victim, according to WCSC.
Frasier also faces a charge of possession of a firearm during a violent crime, according to online booking records.
At the bond hearing Tuesday, Moses Garrett, the victim's father, called the teens "cowards."
"It's so sad; these young babies here, they're getting more and more terrible out there on the streets," he said in court, according to the Post and Courier. "You guys killed a man. Only cowards carry guns."
Dupree-Tyler began to respond before the judge silenced him, according to the Post and Courier.
"With all due respect to the family, they coming at me the wrong way because I haven't murdered anyone," Dupree-Tyler said, according to the newspaper.
Moses Garrett said it pained him to see that his son's accused killers were so young.
"I don't think it was so much robbery as it was hatred of your own brother," he said.
It was not immediately known whether Dupree-Tyler and Frasier had attorneys.
© 2016 The Washington Post
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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