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Last Updated: Mar 3rd, 2009 - 08:22:43 |
A suspect has been indicted as an adult in connection with the murder of Brandon Dishroom in Dinwiddie County.
A grand jury decided on Tuesday Sept. 18 that Dexter Yates could be tried as an adult in connection with the crime. At the time of the incident Yates was a minor. He is charged with murder, two counts of malicious wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle and four counts of the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
On May 30, 2006, Dishroom, a teenager from Prince George County, had gone into the Brickwood subdivision in Dinwiddie with three friends. Betsy Redmond, the mother of Dishroom, said they were heading out of Brickwood when Dishroom was shot and killed.
When they were passing a house words were exchanged between Dishroom, his friends and somebody in front of the house. The person then allegedly shot into the car, killing Dishroom and wounding his friend Quinten Johnson. At the time Dishroom was a senior at Prince George High School, and was supposed to graduate within a few weeks.
Redmond and Diana Johnson, Quinten's mother, have said witnesses said there were several people in the front yard of the house when the shooting took place, but weren't willing to come forward.
Redmond urged any witnesses to come forward because the more witnesses that testified the more likely they were to get a conviction, and whoever did the shooting wouldn't have a chance to kill again.
"I just really want to appeal to those who were actually there, and please put yourself in our place and do the right thing," she said. "With the trial coming up this is the last opportunity to come forward or you're going to have to live with this."
The case will go to trial on Oct. 15 in Dinwiddie County.
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