GPS tracks murder defendant traveling throughout D.C. within hours of shooting

By D.C. Witness Staff - March 21, 2018
Court | Homicides | Suspects |

A GPS tracker shows one of the defendants in a 2014 murder trial traveled from one corridor in the city to another immediately after allegedly shooting Willard Carlos Shelton.

A witness told the jury Tyrone Height, who, at the time, was on probation for an unrelated crime, was located at the scene of the shooting on the 2500 block of Pomeroy Road, SE on Aug. 31, 2014, around the time Shelton, 38, was killed. Height’s device showed him leaving the scene and traveling to Northeast D.C. in the early morning hours on Sept. 1, 2014.

Height, 25, and James Young have been charged with first-degree murder while armed.

Additionally, a firearms expert testified that shell casings and damage to nearby cars showed bullets were more than likely coming from one direction, which invalidates any claims of self-defense.