Three Winterville men have been charged in connection to a June shootout in southeastern Pitt County that was connected to a robbery in Greenville earlier that day, law enforcement and court documents said.
Tyion Jacque Harrell, 18, Cameron Amani Thames, 18, and Dontaivon Tymere Waller, 20, have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and felony conspiracy in connection to a June 30 shooting in the 2300 block of Mills Road, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Waller was also charged with a probation violation.
The sheriff’s office initially reported that deputies responded to a shots fired report at 6:19 p.m. on Mills Road, which is between N.C. 43 and Ivy Road. No victim was located at the scene but a man later arrived at the Pitt County magistrate’s office to report his vehicle had been shot.
Pitt County detectives who investigated the incident connected it to an armed robbery in Greenville city limits.
Harrell and Thomas were charged on July 17. Waller was charged July 18.
The sheriff’s office on July 3 charged Yaushen Kyreese Dade-El, 20, of 2321 Mills Road, with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and shooting into an occupied vehicle in connection to the incident. Greenville police also charged Dade-El with first-degree kidnapping, robbery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of felony conspiracy.
Court documents said that it was Harrell’s vehicle, a Chevrolet Tahoe, that was fired into. A search warrant in Dade-El’s case file said Harrell told deputies that earlier in the day, Dade-El had robbed him at Vancroft during a marijuana sale.
Harrell told officers he was in a vehicle with Dade-El and Je’Von Naieem Evans, 18, of 623 Bronty Road, who Harrell knew from school. He pulled out his phone to pay for the marijuana when the other two men began to drive and Dade-El pulled out a tan handgun, the document said.
Dade-El told Harrell not to do anything stupid because he knew where he lived, the document continued. At that point Harrell said he jumped out of the moving vehicle on Regency Drive and the pair drove away.
Evans was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, first-degree kidnapping and felony conspiracy on July 2, according to arrest reports.
Court documents said Harrell told officers he went to Dade-El’s residence to speak with his mother and get his phone back. When he arrived at the residence he saw Dade-El outside on the porch and called to him. Dade-El turned, racked the slide of his handgun and fired two rounds that struck the Tahoe. Harrell said that he ducked his head and sped off. He confirmed that others in the truck returned fire.
The warrant went on to say that Thames told police “Tay” started shooting back. Arrest warrants for Harrell, Thames and Waller said that an AR-15 was used in the shooting. Thames also described the gun Dade-El used as possibly silver in color, though he was not certain.
On July 6, Greenville police charged Waller with accessory after the fact in connection to a separate drive-by shooting at the Pitt Street Mini Mart, 1701 Pitt St., where a 23-year-old man was shot in the leg. Waller was in the vehicle with Victor Nasir Rivera, 20, who was identified as the primary suspect in the shooting.
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