Reply #170: Student shot, killed after apparent robbery

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04/18/2009 01:57 PM
Student shot, killed after apparent robbery
By: News 14 Carolina Web Staff


GREENVILLE, N.C. – Police say an 18-year-old high school football player at J.H. Rose has been shot and killed after a robbery. Police say Kenneth Sprouse shot Tony Turnage after he and a number of other Rose students robbed Sprouse at his apartment.

Early Friday morning, investigators say Turnage and two other teens stole money, drugs and a computer from Sprouse’s apartment on East 10th Street while two other students waited outside. Police say Sprouse fired a shotgun at them as they were leaving, hitting Turnage in the back.

Turnage was left outside the emergency room at Pitt Memorial Hospital, where he later died. Sprouse now faces murder charges ...

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