A suspected drug deal that turned into a robbery led to a June 30 shootout and the arrest of five men, including one charged several days later in another shooting, according to law enforcement and court documents.
The incident began in Greenville off of Thomas Langston Road in the area of Vancroft Circle, where Tyion Jacque Harrell, 18, told investigators he was in a vehicle with Yaushen Kyreese Dade-El, 20, and Je’Von Naieem Evans, 18, according to a search warrant.
Harrell told investigators he was with the men to buy marijuana, the warrant said. He said he pulled out his phone to pay when the other two men began to drive and Dade-El pulled out a handgun, the document said.
Dade-El told Harrell not to do anything stupid, Harrell told investigators. Harrell then jumped out of the moving vehicle on Regency Drive, and the other two men drove away.
Court documents said Harrell told officers he went to Dade-El’s residence at 2321 Mills Road later that day to speak with the man’s mother and get his phone back.
When he arrived at the residence he saw Dade-El outside on the porch and called to him, he told investigators. He said Dade-El turned, racked the slide of his handgun and fired two rounds that struck the Harrell’s Tahoe, the warrant said.
Harrell said that he ducked his head and sped off. He confirmed that others in the truck returned fire.
The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office initially reported that deputies responded to a report of shots fired at 6:19 p.m. at the home on Mills Road, which is just west of Ivy Road and about a mile east of D.H. Conley High School.
Nobody was located at the scene, but a man later arrived at the Pitt County magistrate’s office to report his vehicle had been shot, the sheriff’s office said at the time.
Deputies on July 3 charged Dade-El with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and shooting into an occupied vehicle in connection to the shooting incident.
Greenville police also charged Dade-El with first-degree kidnapping, robbery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of felony conspiracy in connection to the alleged drug deal.
Evans, 18, 623 Bronty Road, was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, first-degree kidnapping and felony conspiracy on July 2, according to arrest reports.
As the investigation continued, sheriff’s investigators obtained arrest warrants for Harrell and two men identified as occupants in his vehicle during the June 30 shootout.
Harrell, Cameron Amani Thames, 18, and Dontaivon Tymere Waller, 20, each was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and felony conspiracy.
Harrell and Thomas were charged on July 17; Waller was charged on July 18. Waller also was charged with probation violation. Documents did not provide street addresses for the men but said they lived in the Winterville area.
Arrest warrants for Harrell, Thames and Waller said that an AR-15 was used in the shooting. Pitt County Detention Center records indicated Tuesday that Dade-El is the only man charged in incidents who remained in custody there.
On July 6, Greenville police charged Waller with accessory after the fact in connection to a drive-by shooting at the Pitt Street Mini Mart, 1701 Pitt St., where Joshua Isiah Walker, 23, of Greenville 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. Two other men also have been charged as accessories.
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