Jury issues guilty verdict in 10-year-old’s murder

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  • Shell casings are marked as evidence where 16 shots were fired into the back of the home where Damarion Byrd was sleeping. Ocmulgee DA’s Facebook page
    Shell casings are marked as evidence where 16 shots were fired into the back of the home where Damarion Byrd was sleeping. Ocmulgee DA’s Facebook page
  • Rodracius D. Stephens
    Rodracius D. Stephens
  • Shamonica K. Reaves
    Shamonica K. Reaves
    A young life was taken on a Sunday night in 2023 when 10-year-old Damarion Byrd was shot in the back while sleeping in his bed. Two years and a month later, a Baldwin County jury convicted two of the people responsible.Shamonica Kiera Reaves, 35, and Rodracius Demaris Stephens, 41, were arrested March 6, 2023, and charged with felony murder. The community was left in shock.“Our ...

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