Attempted Robbery of 25-Year-Old Tuscaloosa Man Ends With One Suspect Dead and the Other Charged With Felony Murder
Key Takeaways
- Kurtae'vious Earl Tyson, 22, and Daronte Collins, 22, of Oxford attempted to rob a 25-year-old Tuscaloosa man in the parking lot of Magnolia Apartments on October 10.
- Shots were fired during the attempted robbery, and Tyson was critically wounded and later died from his injuries.
- Collins was charged with felony murder, first-degree robbery, attempted murder, and shooting into an occupied vehicle.
- Collins is being held in the Tuscaloosa County Jail without bond and has not been convicted.
- Police have not publicly stated who fired the shot that struck Tyson.
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TUSCALOOSA, AL — An attempted robbery in an apartment parking lot the night of Oct. 10 left one of the two suspects dead and the other charged with his murder, according to the Tuscaloosa Police Department.
Police said they were notified around 7:30 p.m. that a shooting victim had been taken to DCH Regional Medical Center, as reported by WBRC. Investigators traced the shooting to the parking lot of Magnolia Apartments on Highway 69 South, where they processed the scene and spoke with witnesses.
Police said Kurtae’vious Earl Tyson, 22, and Daronte Collins, 22, both of Oxford, attempted to rob a 25-year-old Tuscaloosa man. Shots were fired. Tyson was hit and critically injured. He later died from his injuries.
Collins was charged with felony murder, first-degree robbery, attempted murder, and shooting into an occupied vehicle. He is being held in the Tuscaloosa County Jail without bond.
Police have not publicly said who fired the shot that struck Tyson, and that is the question I want answered. Was the 25-year-old carrying his own gun and drew it when the two closed in on him? Was there a fight over a weapon, with Tyson catching the round in the struggle? Did the target strip a gun off one of them and fire it? Or did Collins fire into the vehicle and hit his own partner? WBRC’s report does not say, and each of those sequences reads very differently for anyone thinking through how he would handle the same moment.
The charge sheet still says plenty. Felony murder means a participant in a dangerous felony can be held responsible when someone dies during that crime, even if he never fired the round that killed the person. The attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle counts mean police allege Collins himself fired into a vehicle with someone inside it during the robbery.
Robbery is treated as a violent felony because the threat is to the person. That is the whole reason the felony murder count exists. When a crime like this goes sideways, Alabama law puts the death on the men who started it, not on the man they picked out.
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The charges against Collins are allegations, and he has not been convicted. No charging decision regarding the 25-year-old has been announced.
Two men drove in from Oxford, chose a target in a parking lot at 7:30 on the night of Oct. 10, and the robbery fell apart on them. One is dead. The other is sitting in the Tuscaloosa County Jail charged with his partner’s murder.
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