NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. —Bond has been denied for two South Carolina teenagers accused of fatally shooting a good Samaritan who helped them pull an SUV out of a ditch.
News outlets report 19-year-old Michael Odell Anthony Dupree-Tyler and a 17-year-old male suspect, both of North Charleston, were in bond court Tuesday night on murder charges in 45-year-old Chadwick Garrett’s death.
An arrest affidavit states Garrett agreed to pull the suspects’ SUV out of the ditch for $20. Witnesses told police that when Garrett finished, he asked the suspects about the money at which point the 17-year-old suspect took out a gun, firing several shots, striking Garrett in the chest.
The affidavit says the teenager then got into the SUV while Dupree-Tyler drove.
Online jail records do not list attorneys for the suspects.
“During the investigation, it was learned that the victim was assisting two black males in pulling a Dodge Durango out of the ditch,” police said in a news release, according to Fox Carolina. “After the victim got the vehicle out of the ditch, the two suspects then robbed and shot the victim.”
A woman who lives nearby said she heard gunshots.
“I heard about three gunshots because I was sitting down getting ready to eat, I thought it was firecrackers,” the unnamed woman told Live5News. “It’s dirty, evil.”
She says her husband looked outside. “He saw a van in a ditch, and that white truck was pulling the van out. He can’t hear but he said he heard the pop too,” she added.
Epoch Times contributed to this report.
