Weeks of investigative work by South Precinct detectives, Flex officers, and the Technical Surveillance Unit led to the arrests of six young men charged in connection with five separate armed robberies involving victims in apartment complex parking lots.
On March 8 the driver of a blue Chevrolet Suburban, Shaunteze Vaughn, 18, of McMurray Drive, was stopped by officers moments after a 63-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint by two men outside her Tusculum Square Drive apartment at 9 p.m.
The SUV matched the description of the getaway vehicle used in other robberies in the area. The woman’s purse was found inside the Suburban. Vaughn, who was armed with a pistol, and five passengers were taken into custody. During interviews, Vaughn, and Terry McKissack, 17, of Algonquin Trail, admitted they robbed the woman. Vaughn and McKissack along with Akeem Hemphill, 18, of Harper Court, also admitted to committing other similar robberies. The other three passengers, Treon Harvell, 15, of Brenda Court, Timothy Ewing, Jr., 19, of Muskhogean Court, and Duane Wynn, 18, of Hooper Court, were each charged with one count of aggravated robbery.
Vaughn and Hemphill are each charged with six counts of aggravated robbery. McKissack is charged in Juvenile Court with five counts of aggravated robbery. All three are charged in the March 8 robbery and in the March 4 robbery of a woman outside her McMurray Drive apartment. On March 2 they are accused of robbing a man outside his Paragon Mills Road apartment at 10:45 p.m. and ten minutes later robbing two men outside their Linbar Drive apartment. Vaughn and Hemphill are also charged in the February 4 robbery of a man outside his Apache Trail apartment at 5:30 p.m.
Additional robbery charges in other cases are possible.
Akeem Hemphill
Duane Wynn
Shaunteze Vaughn
Terry McKissack
Timothy Ewing Jr
Treon Harvell
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