Friday, Aug. 17, 2007
By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer
HICKORY - Two Lincolnton teenagers wanted in last week's fatal shooting of an 18-year-old Newton man turned themselves in at the Catawba County Sheriff's Office on Thursday.
Grady Tyshone Wilson, 17, and 16-year-old Zir-alyn Phelps walked into the Sheriff's Office shortly after 4 p.m. They were flanked by their attorneys, who told them not to talk to the media.
Wilson, Phelps and three men have been charged with murder in the Aug. 9 shooting death of 18-year-old Zachary Thomas Walker of Newton. Ralph Jerome Mack, 21; Brandon Duncan, 20; and his brother, Joshua Duncan, 18, were charged last week.
Walker was visiting friends at a home off River Road in Mountain View about 12:45 a.m. Aug. 9 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.
Sheriff's Capt. Roy Brown said there were at least 10 people at the home, including the five men charged, when the shots were fired. Nobody else was injured.
Brown said it appears that the men planned to rob the home and were looking for money and drugs.
Though authorities think Mack and Walker were acquaintances, Brown said the shooting appeared to be no more than a robbery attempt.
The five men were being held without bond Thursday evening at the Catawba County jail.
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