Five Teenagers Arrested And Charged For Killing Country Musician Kyle Yorlet (Photos)

Five Teenagers Arrested And Charged For Killing Country Musician Kyle Yorlet (Photos)

Authorities in Nashville have arrested five teenagers who are between
the ages of 12 to 16 in connection to the shooting death of country
musician Kyle Yorletof pop-rock band Carverton  

According to a press release from the Nashville Metro Police
Department, on Friday morning detectives charged the underage suspects
with criminal homicide for Thursday’s killing of 24-year-old Kyle
Yorlets. 

Three of the suspects were identified by investigators as Roniyah McKnight, 14; Diamond Lewis, 15, and Decorrius Wright, 16. While names of the two youngest suspects, including a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy, were not released because of their age. 

Police said the children were attempting to steal the 24-year-old
singer’s car and shot him after he refused to turn over his keys.

According to the police, the five kids were in a stolen Chevrolet
Colorado pickup truck in the alley that runs behind Yorlets’ house in
the 32000 block of Torbertt Street when they spotted him outside on
Thursday afternoon.

When they accosted the singer,  they took his wallet and demanded the
keys to his car, which he refused to hand over, they opened fire on
him.

Yorlets who was left wounded managed to make it inside his home,
where he was found by one of his roommates at 3pm. He was rushed to
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead from
his injuries.

Officers later recovered the stolen Chevy Colorado, which they abandoned in the 1600 block of Timberland Drive.

According to Mail Online, the district attorney will decide if the juveniles will be charged as adults.  

Police said the five kids were in a stolen Chevrolet Colorado pickup
truck in the alley that runs behind Yorlets’ house in the 32000 block of
Torbertt Street when they spotted him outside on Thursday afternoon.

The minors accosted the man, took his wallet and demanded the keys to
his car, which he refused to hand over, prompting the suspects to open
fire on him, police stated.

The mortally wounded victim managed to make it inside his home, where he was found by one of his roommates at 3pm.

Yorlets was rushed to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead from his injuries.