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WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando published May 6, 2022: Fatal shootings of 2 teens in Flagler County believed to be connected. Crime Stoppers in Flagler County is increasing the reward for information leading to the arrest of the shooter that killed a 16-year-old boy in Bunnell earlier this year.
News4JAX published June 14, 2022: 3 accused in murders of 2 Flagler County 16-year-olds amid ongoing ‘beef’ between ‘wannabe’ gang. 3 accused in murders of 2 Flagler County 16-year-olds amid ongoing ‘beef’ between ‘wannabe’ gangs, sheriff says.
News4JAX,
written by Anne Maxwell, I-TEAM and general assignment reporter and Travis Gibson, Digital reporter/editor
Tuesday June 14, 2022
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – Three men have been arrested and a fourth person is being sought in connection with the shooting deaths of two 16-year-olds in Flagler County.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of Tyrese Patterson, 20, Steven Monroe, 23, and Davondre Williams, 18, who are all members of “Get Stepped On” from the Palm Coast Area. They are accused in connection with the murder of 16-year-old Noah Smith. Terrell Sampson, an 18-year-old and part of the “Bunnell Side” gang, is the fourth suspect being sought. He’s also accused of attempted second-degree murder in Smith’s death.
Williams is also accused of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder with a firearm in the homicide of 16-year-old Keymarion Hall.
Hall and Smith were not the intended targets, Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said. He said those bullets were meant for Sampson, the fourth person wanted in connection to one of the shootings.
Smith was killed Jan. 12 and Hall was shot nearby on May 3.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said the murders were the result of a “beef between two groups of wannabe badasses.”
Social media footprints played a large role in evidence gathering and showing pre-meditation, the Sheriff’s Office said. Investigators said multiple social media profiles, interactions, messages, comments, aggressive music content and pictures were used to piece together the alleged involvement of all four suspects.
The sheriff says rival groups known as “Get Stepped On” or “GSO” and the “Bunnell Side” shot at each other from cars over a period of several months and posted threatening photos and videos on social media.
Monroe, who made rap music under the name “Kreek2kutt,” released a song in April that investigators said references the shooting of Smith in which he says, “I could be smokin’ on Terrell, but that boy be takin’ flight.”
Sampson was the intended target of the shooting in January that left Smith dead, investigators said.
“I want the community to understand the magnitude of an investigation like this,” Sheriff Staly said. “Detectives had to not only find the evidence, but work through multiple stories that didn’t match the evidence, while certain members of the community preferred to take street justice into their own hands. Multiple incidents took place involving a handful of subjects that were linked to these senseless murders. Detectives worked endless hours to build solid cases and I hope these guys all get maximum sentences for their violent crimes.”
The three suspects are being held at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility on no bond, while Sampson is still being sought.
Several other people who investigators said are all loosely related to the murder investigations are also in custody and accused of various drug charges, weapon/violence-related felony offenses or probation violations.
“These were difficult cases based on the intertwining of the suspects, relatives and friends wanting to settle disputes with street justice,” Staly continued. “I’m very proud of everyone that worked so hard and their dedication to finding justice for Noah and Keymarion and their families. All four of these dirt bags played an active role in taking lives of these two young victims and will be spending their futures behind bars. I hope today’s arrests help bring closure for the families knowing the murderers and their accomplices are being held accountable.”
Ernest Hall Jr., Keymarion’s grandfather, offered tearful gratitude to the investigators.
“I just want to say thank you to our sheriff’s department,” Hall Jr. said. “This don’t make sense, young people killing each other.”
The Sheriff’s Office said on Jan. 12, members of Bunnell Side, including Sampson, were standing on South Anderson Street when a car operated by members of GSO started taunting them. Sampson threatened to shoot at the vehicle and after it passed, he fired at it and missed, deputies said. The vehicle then circled back around and Monroe and Patterson, who were inside, started shooting, hitting Smith, who investigators said was friends with Sampson and was standing with him. Smith was killed by the gunfire.
On May 3, the sheriff said, Monroe and Williams of GSO were driven to East Booe Street and South Pine Street, where they opened fire, killing Hall and wounding someone else.
WESH 2 News published June 14, 2022: Flagler County sheriff says 3 people arrested in shooting deaths of 2 teens. Flagler County sheriff says 3 people arrested in shooting deaths of 2 teens.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
written by Patricio G. Balona
Tuesday June 14, 2022
BUNNELL – Two teens shot and killed here earlier this year were innocent bystanders caught in the violence between two wannabe gangster groups that used street justice to settle their differences, said Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly.
At a press briefing on Tuesday at the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center in Bunnell, Staly announced that his investigators have arrested three people in the murders of Noah Smith, 16, and Keymarion Hall, 16, who were Flagler-Palm Coast High School students.
Smith was shot and killed on Jan. 12 and Hall was shot on May 3. Both were killed in south Bunnell.
Arrested are Tyrese Patterson, aka Pooh, 20; DeVandre Williams, aka Dre or Flash, and Stephen Monroe, aka Kreek, 23. The men are each charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Smith and are being held without bail in the Flagler County jail.
Williams is also facing charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder with a firearm in the shooting death of Hall, Staly said.
Investigators are now looking for Terrell Sampson, aka Rell, 18, who is wanted for attempted second-degree murder in Smiths’ death.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said Sampson was arrested May 6 on a warrant for possession of a firearm but was released after posting $100,000 bail.
Sheriff says two groups were engaged in 'street justice' when shooting occurred
In a press briefing on Tuesday, Staly said a group in Palm Coast known as GSO (Get Stepped On) and a group in south Bunnell were engaged in “street justice” after Sampson and members of the Bunnell group shot at a vehicle occupied by members of the Palm Coast group.
“What we believe was a beef between two groups of wannabe badasses, were the events that led up to the homicide,” Staly said.
Four other members of the groups have been arrested on charges ranging from drug trafficking, battery, domestic battery, aggravated assault, armed robbery, and drug possession, Staly said.
In September Jebea Johnson, 18, who with Sampson belongs to the Bunnell group, shot at a vehicle occupied by Williams and Josiah Feimster, aka J5, of the Palm Coast group, starting the violence between the warring groups, Staly said.
Johnson is in the Flagler County jail charged with domestic battery and aggravated assault with a weapon.
Feimster is also in jail charged with trafficking heroin, drug possession and discharging a firearm in public.
The groups targeted each other in attempted robberies, carjackings and drive-by shootings targeting Sampson, violence that eventually took the lives of Smith and Hall, who were innocent bystanders, Staly said.
“I want to emphasize again the victims of the homicides were good kids. They were innocent victims,” Staly said. “They were not intended targets of the drive-by shootings. Terrell Sampson was the intended target of the shooting.”
In 2,500 hours of investigation, Flagler County sheriff’s detectives used a social media post of the groups posing with guns and a rap song to build their first-degree murder case, Staly said.
In April, Monroe, of the Palm Coast group, released a rap song on YouTube named “OK” making reference to Smith’s murder, Staly said.
“Throughout the investigation our Major Case Unit detectives reviewed multiple social media profiles and various social media interactions, messages, comments, aggressive music content, pictures to piece together the events, the involvement of all four main murder suspects,” Staly said. “This helped us prove premeditation.”
Ernest Hall, Jr., the grandfather of Keymarion Hall, who attended the briefing, said he is happy that sheriff's investigators are making progress in the homicides.
"I miss the talks and the smiles with my grandson," Ernest Hall, Jr., said.
"I like the fact that they are doing something about it (homicides)," Ernest Hall, Jr. said.
News4JAX published June 16, 2022: 4th arrest made in deaths of Flagler County 16-year-olds. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced a fourth arrest in connection to the shooting deaths of two 16-year-olds.
New4JAX
written by Marilyn Parker
Thursday June 16, 2022
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced a fourth arrest in connection to the shooting deaths of two 16-year-olds.
According to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office, Terrell Sampson, 18, was arrested for attempted second-degree murder in the death of Noah Smith, 16.
Noah Smith was a Flagler Palm Coast High School student who was shot and killed in January on South Anderson Road in Bunnell.
Sampson was the fourth person arrested in connection to Smith’s death. He is also accused of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder with a firearm in the homicide of 16-year-old Keymarion Hall.
The sheriff’s office said Hall and Smith were not the intended targets when someone was trying to kill Sampson.
Investigators had been searching for Sampson since a warrant was signed for his arrest this week. He was located inside a residence along Wedge Lane. A 30-year-old man was also arrested and charged with harboring a fugitive.
Three men were arrested Tuesday — Tyrese Patterson, 20, Steven Monroe, 23, and Davondre Williams, 18, who are all members of “Get Stepped On” from the Palm Coast area, the Sheriff’s Office said. All have been accused in connection with Smith’s murder.
The Sheriff’s Office is hoping that the recent arrest brings the victims’ families some relief.
News4JAX spoke with Hall’s basketball coach Johnny Hampton, and he said there are days when he is still waiting on the teenager to walk through the door at practice.
“You just want justice, but at the same time, it breaks your heart to see so many of the young people,” Hampton said. “Some of these people grew up together. They’re involved in these murders. They grew up in the same community. Their families know each other. And so it saddens you from that aspect because there are no real winners.”
Hampton not only asked the community to keep praying for everyone involved but also encouraged people to start speaking up.
A detective investigating the case said this is an example of why the community must speak up when they know about a crime.
“They need to take responsibility within their community. They need to take responsibility for the people that are involved in their life,” said John Welker, division chief of Community Policing Division.
Deputies said many of the people arrested in this investigation were because the community spoke up and cooperated.
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