Consandra Nicole Tyree and Emily Katherine Starnes, both 16, did the unthinkable when they were charged with murder for their roles in a North Carolina taxi driver’s slaying.
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Tyree and Starnes are accused of being involved in the brutal stabbing death of Yellow Cab Company driver Adam Williams, 32, in a Hickory parking lot in August.
The two girls, along with three men between 18 and 22 years old, are charged with Williams’ death.
According to the Hickory Daily Record, Starnes of Hickory and Tyree of Newton were arrested on Saturday and charged with murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon five months after an initial arrest in relation with the case. They are being held in the Catawba County jail.
Williams was murdered shortly after he arrived to pick up passengers at a Hickory restaurant on August 23 at around 10:30 pm.
Williams was on his shift for less than five hours and was carrying just $39 in fares when his attackers assaulted and stabbed him after arriving at the parking lot of Fuddruckers hamburger restaurant.
While sustaining injuries to his face and throat, Williams managed to struggle down the street to the doorway of the Longhorn Steakhouse.
Employees called an ambulance and he was taken to Frye Regional Medical Centre where he was pronounced dead.
According to Captain Thurman Whisnant of the Hickory Police Department:
“They were the two girls that were with the suspects on the night on the cab driver’s murder. They were heavily involved; they were involved before, during and after the murder.”
Five people have now been arrested in relation to the killing.
Camyron Johnson, 22, and Robert McElwee, 18, both of Hickory, and Matthew Hopkins, 22, of Connelly Springs, were arrested three days after Williams was killed.
Johnson and Hopkins were charged with murder. McElwee was charged with accessory after the fact.
Starnes and Tyree are scheduled to appear in court on May 14.
