Teen Killed In Drive-By After Coming To Defense of Female Friend

[Chi-Town B]

A Dallas teen celebrating his high school graduation was gunned down Sunday morning after he came to the defense of a female friend who was being harassed by cat-callers, police and witnesses say.


Ledajrick Cox, 18, died about 1:45 a.m., just hours after he graduated from high school, KDFW-TV reports. Two of his friends were also shot, but are expected to survive.

The shooting happened at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Irving, police say. Cox and his friends were in a car when they were shot at by a gunman in another vehicle, according to police.

A 17-year-old, Jeremiah Robinson, has been identified as the shooter and charged with murder, Irving Police announced Tuesday in a press release. Police said the driver and another person in the car have also been identified by detectives, but it is not clear if they are facing charges.

 

[Golden]

sad all over. even the shooter was just a kid.

 

[Chi-Town B]

A second suspect has been arrested in a drive-by shooting that killed a Carter High School football player and prom king hours after his graduation.

Courtney Wright, 26, was booked on a murder charge Wednesday, one day after the arrest of 17-year-old Jeremiah Robinson, the alleged shooter, on the same charge. Both men are being held in the Irving Jail.

Ledajrick “LD” Rajae Cox, 18, was killed in the shooting near an Irving convenience store early Sunday. Two other victims were wounded. Numerous tips led police to the suspects.

Police have identified another passenger in the car but have not decided whether to charge him.

Wright has a lengthy rap sheet in Dallas County that includes convictions for assault, vehicular burglary, evading arrest and drug possession.

He was arrested in late April on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon after he was found with a shotgun, court records say. He posted bond and was released from the Dallas County jail on May 11, just two weeks before Cox's slaying in Irving.