Third Pierce County Teenager at fatal shootout

Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)

A third person was charged with a fatal shootout, which was interrupted after a suspected vehicle experience in Tacoma.

The public prosecutor accused Dominick Blair Byrd, 18, according to court documents on Friday two second -degree murder cases. Byrd is accused of having fatally shot the 53 -year -old James Marsh in front of the victim's house.

During his indictment, Byrd was included in Byrd. The Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Pierce County, Barbara Mcinvaille, set his deposit at 1 million US dollars, as recorded.

Elijah Alexander Andrews, 18, was charged on January 15 before Pierce County's Supreme Court for two second -degree murder, reported the news tribune. In his name, a plea of ​​the non -ludiocians was occurred. The judge in this case ordered that the name of the third accused, the 17-year-old boy, is not published publicly while the investigation has not yet been completed.

Detectives identified by a testimony, telephone protocols and a phone call between the teenager and Andrews as the third suspect in Marsh's death.

The police were sent to the 4800 Block of the North 18th Street at 2:21 a.m. in order to receive reports on fired shots. Marsh was on the street in front of his house when the officials arrived. He was injured from several gunshot wounds and later declared dead at 2:37 a.m., according to a probable document.

The officials spoke with 911 calls, the reported to see an older silver vehicle experience in the North 18th Street. On the other side of the street was also a vehicle that was parked in front of another house and the documents show how the driver's door is open.

Marsh's girlfriend told the detectives that she slept before the police arrived, the prosecutors wrote. When she woke up to the police who knocked on her door, she found that Marsh was no longer in the house.

Through their investigations, detectives from surveillance material learned that three people were in the middle of a vehicle in the neighborhood. Two people looked in Marsh's Land Rover Range Rover and one vehicle on the other side of the street, the prosecutors wrote. Film material showed that Marsh came onto the street in which there were two people and the lights flashed between the cars.

People ran back to their vehicle and drove off. Film material supposedly showed that it was also involved in a third person.

After the arrest of the unnamed teenager on January 10, detectives checked a prison call between him and Andrews, in which they discuss someone called “Dom” in which he surrounded himself, the public prosecutor wrote. The teenager and Andrews claimed during the call that three of them were there during the shootout.

In a police database, Detectives learned that Andrews was listed in a police report with Byrd, the prosecutors wrote. A witness who was close to Andrews told the detectives that “Dom Byrd” was the third person who was involved in the murder and was the person who “fired the weapon”.

Byrd's telephone recordings also showed that his phone was in the area in which Marsh was sent to the scene shortly before the police were sent to the scene. His phone was also in the area in which another vehicle occurred in front of the shootout, the prosecutors wrote.

The officials arrested by Byrd on Wednesday after leaving his apartment wrote the prosecutors.

Byrd was not previously convicted of a crime, as recorded.

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