[New York Post] A group of pistol-packing teens and a 12-year-old girl are facing murder charges after they allegedly robbed and shot to death a rising country music star in Nashville, police said.The accused killers accosted 24-year-old Kyle Yorlets behind his home and opened fire when he refused to give them his car keys, they said.
The suspects were identified as Diamond Lewis, 15; Roniyah McKnight, 14; Decorrius Wright, 16; as well as the 12-year-old and a 13-year-old boy whose names were withheld because of their ages.
Prosecutors plan to charge them as adults, the Nashville Tennessean reported.
Police said the victim had been a random target.
"He’s an absolute, absolute innocent victim," police spokesman Don Arron said. He added, "none of the five individuals [arrested] are a stranger to the system or this police department."
Cops had been out searching for the 12-year-old, who had run away from home, since Thursday morning, the newspaper said.