More charges filed in shooting
By Steve Herring
Published in News on January 7, 2015 1:46 PM
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MOUNT OLIVE -- Charges have been filed against the father of a 2-year-old boy who was injured in a Christmas Eve shooting that investigators say was the result of an argument over a drug deal.
Charges also have been filed against the mother of the 16-year-old boy who did the shooting.
The child was sitting in his car seat in the back seat of his parents' car when he was hit by a bullet from a high-powered rifle fired by Tyler Chase Sanderson, Duplin County Sheriff Blake Wallace said.
The toddler remains at Vidant Medical Center in fair condition.
The boy's father, Tyqon Chauneal Moore, 28, of Maria Garcia Lane, has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor for taking the child to the residence where marijuana was being used and sold.
Moore was placed in the Duplin County Jail under a $1,000 secured bond.
Sanderson was charged in the shooting, which happened following the argument at a home on Alum Springs Road between Mount Olive and Albertson in Duplin County.
Sanderson is in the Duplin County Jail under a $1.75 million bond on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and shooting into an occupied vehicle.
Detectives with the Duplin County Sheriff's Office have now charged Sanderson's mother, Crystal Gail Sanderson, 39, with felony obstruction of justice for her involvement in removing the rifle used in the shooting from the crime scene.
Ms. Sanderson was placed in the Duplin County Jail under a $5,000 secured bond.
Wallace said that the parents and the child had gone to the Alum Springs Road home on Christmas Eve, where they got into an argument over the sale of marijuana to Sanderson.
The parents got into their car to leave when Sanderson came out of the house and shot into the car.
No one else was injured.