The third person involved in an attempted theft of drugs from a Mountain Home residence that involved gunfire has now been jailed with his bond set at $500,000.
Eighteen-year-old Tyler Yount, who lists a Harrison address, was booked March 8. He is expected to be charged with criminal attempt to commit murder and aggravated residential burglary.
Yount himself was reported to have been shot twice by the homeowner during the incident and was taken to a Springfield hospital.
Two other men allegedly involved in the shooting appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court recently and pled not guilty to the charges against them.
Twenty-year-old David Brace of Flippin and 21-year-old year-old Dylan Decker of Norfork are also charged with attempt to commit murder in the first degree and aggravated residential burglary.
Decker is also charged with being a felon in possession of a weapon.
Mountain Home police received a call just before 6:30 a.m. February 25 reporting a shooting at a mobile home along East 16th Street. When officers arrived on scene, they discovered a male in a bedroom of the residence who had been shot in the stomach.
The victim who lived in the home said he did not know who shot him. One of the intruders was reported to have worn a ski mask the other a red bandanna.
The victim said he returned fire. Officers were contacted and told a male, later identified as Yount, had arrived at the emergency room at Baxter Health with a gunshot wound.
Yount was interviewed while waiting to be flown to a Springfield hospital.
He is reported to have admitted to entering the residence with the intent of stealing drugs. Yount identified Decker as being involved.
Yount said a third man, who was confined to a wheelchair, was also a member of the party but he did not know him. He said he only knew the man as “Wheels” and that he was confined to a wheelchair. The third man was eventually identified as Brace.
According to investigators, Brace remained in the car while Yount and Decker walked to the house from where they had parked the vehicle.
Yount was reported to have told officers that he kicked the door to the residence twice before it gave way allowing him to go inside. He had a pistol in his waistband. He said the victim was in a bedroom. The victim fired a pistol and hit Yount twice.
Yount admitted he also shot the victim during the incident and that he fled the residence and was taken to the hospital.
Investigators reported finding blood in the entry, bedroom, the front porch and the driveway.
Police also contacted Decker who pointed the finger at Brace as the one who had devised the plan to steal drugs from the residence. Decker said he was to be paid $1,000 by Yount to assist.
Yount allegedly picked up Brace on his way to Mountain Home and Decker near Mountain Home Christian Academy.
When they got to the residence, Brace is alleged to have provided firearms to the group.
Brace said it was Yount who contacted him and told him about the plan to steal marijuana from the victim’s home and told Brace he would pick him up. Brace also said Decker knew there were drugs in the residence.
Investigators were told that, in the past, Decker had gotten a “bad deal” from a female living in the residence and wanted to get the marijuana from her.
Brace told investigators Decker was driving and that Decker wanted to abandon Yount as the men were fleeing the scene of the shooting.
Brace said he was not in favor of leaving Yount. He said he told Decker that the wounded man needed to go to the hospital.
Yount is reported to have told the other suspects he had dropped his gun at the scene. A black pistol was found in the driveway, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Decker is alleged to have taken Brace to Flippin and Yount to the Baxter Health emergency room. Yount was later taken to a Springfield hospital for treatment.
Decker and Brace also have $500,000 bonds set.
BRACE FREE ON SIGNATURE BOND
At the time of the incident, Brace was free on a signature bond in a Marion County criminal case in which he was charged with stealing items from a home, including a handgun.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Brace had been among a group of people visiting in the home of the victim in June 2022. After the visitors left, the residents noticed several items missing, including a .45-caliber handgun.
On June 17, two days after the report was made, former Marion County Sheriff Clinton Evans contacted Brace as he sat in a car parked at the Marion County Law Enforcement Center.
Evans reported the odor of marijuana was coming from the vehicle. A search did turn up illegal substances including an assortment of pills.
The gun reported stolen from the residence was also found in the car. The victim provided the case that held the gun and the serial numbers matched the gun found in the vehicle.
A signature bond is a promise made by defendants that they will pay a set amount of money if they fail to appear in court.
In Brace’s earlier theft case, the amount had been set at $5,000.
Unlike other bonds, defendants are not required to put up any cash to obtain a signature bond. It is based on “trust in the defendant’s integrity.”
A document concerning the signature bond is filed in Brace’s Marion County case, but it has not been signed by Brace on a line that seems intended to acknowledge a “promise to appear.”
Medical reasons are often the reason no cash bonds are approved.
Brace is confined to a wheelchair. He was seriously injured in a car wreck in late November 2021.
Brace’s mother made an appearance in Baxter County Circuit Court when Brace appeared on his Baxter County charges to ask that her son receive the medical treatments necessary because of injuries he received in the accident.
Circuit Judge John Putman said the woman needed to make the request to the sheriff.
A civil lawsuit filed against the driver of the vehicle involved in the crash that injured Brace is pending in Marion County.
When the recent shooting in Mountain Home took place, Brace was free to move about according to court documents even though he had no cash bond in place in his new Marion County case except his word that he would show up for court appearances.
Charges involving the shooting in Mountain Home resulted in the filing of a petition to revoke Decker’s probation on a drug case filed in May last year.
He pled guilty and was sentenced to five years probation. A special condition of his probation was to complete the 14th Judicial District’s Drug Court Program.
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