8/14/07

Teen is 4th person charged in shooting death at house

Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer

A fourth person was charged with murder Monday in last week's shooting death of a Newton teenager, authorities said.

Authorities Monday had a warraent for Grady Tyshone Wilson, 17, of Lincolnton. He is a suspect in the shooting death of Zachary Thomas Walker, 18.

Walker was visiting friends at a home off River Road in Mountain View around 12:45 a.m. Thursday when a group of men came into the house, said Maj. Coy Reid of the Catawba County Sheriff's Office.

Walker was shot several times in the chest and died at Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory.

Ralph Jerome Mack, 21, Brandon Duncan, 20, and his brother, Joshua Duncan, 18, were charged with murder Friday.

They were being held without bond Monday, Reid said. Sheriff's Capt. Roy Brown said Mack and Walker were acquaintances, but the shooting "appeared to be no more than a robbery attempt."


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