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Two Juveniles Charged With Shooting Man, 71, During Armed Robbery
May 7, 2022
Two juveniles have been charged with shooting a 71-yaer old man in the face with a pellet gun during an armed robbery in Escambia County.
Tykie Smith, 14, and Juan-Yeia Smith-Wyer, 16, are charged in connection with the incident at a convenience store on Johnson Avenue at Airway Drive.
Deputies said the victim was cashing a $100 winning lottery ticket when Smith-Wyer asked him for $20 of his winnings. The victim told the teen no and left the store. As the man walked through the parking lot, Smith approached the man and pointed a black Glock pellet gun directly at him.
Smith demanded cash and then shot at the victim from point-blank range six times, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
The suspects’ getaway car was located by deputies behind a shed outside a house in the 600 block of Smiley Avenue.
Smith was located inside the shed, along with the white hoodie he was wearing during the robbery and an empty CO2 cartridge. Smith-Wyer and the black Glock pellet gun were found inside the home.
Smith was charged with attempted robbery, aggravated battery, and criminal mischief. Smith-Wyer was charged with accessory to robbery and concealing evidence.
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10 Responses to “Two Juveniles Charged With Shooting Man, 71, During Armed Robbery”
Dave Simpkins is right in his comment. It’s almost a foregone conclusion that these two “children” will likely get a sweetheart plea deal and probably probation with anger management class – which they will probably violate several times all in the name of “restorative justice” before a judge has no choice but to actually take them off the street.
Unfortunately, when you combine the massive number of cases combined with comparatively few assistant state attorneys (i.e. 1 attorney covering over 100+ cases at a time) – and extremely lenient judges (not all though) you get the mess that is this – I am willing to bet that this isn’t these juveniles’ first time in handcuffs. ECSO hands them repeat offenders with good cases but they remain in the street – after taking a deal.
I hope NorthEscambia follows up with this story.
No. The state attorney will only give them a slap on the wrist. These two will be out back in society in just weeks.
Prove me wrong. You cannot.
Put them in jail for 4 or 5 years and maybe they will learn what they did but probably not. If the judge doesn’t give them some hard punishment the next time their going to do it to the wrong person and their pour parents will be arranging their funeral.
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Pathetic the way these kids act. We’re they not taught any morals whatsoever? There should be more charges considering the man’s age. Hope he’s ok.
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be street thugs.
Likely will be back on streets quickly.
Juveniles not realizing the impact of what they were doing and all.
Lucky the victim was not of a mind to shoot back in legit self-defense.
Why is jail a revolving door? Is the fox watching the hen house?
Charge them as adults. They are old enough to know better. Too bad the gentleman didn’t use his 2A stand your ground rights.
i’m guessing they are back out on the street now.
10-20-Life law should apply