SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Of the three men arrested after a deadly shooting in the parking lot of a Sanford Best Buy, two have been indicted on murder charges while a state attorney’s office has charged the other.
Khalil Hunter, 22, and James Nelson III, 22, were indicted on Tuesday by a Seminole County grand jury on charges of first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm, the 18th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
Shunavious Dorsey, 21, was charged by the state attorney’s office on Wednesday with accessory after the fact to a capital felony, tampering with evidence and grand theft of a firearm, the release states.
The Dec. 17 shooting killed 21-year-old Terance Pope Jr., who had arranged to meet up expecting Hunter and Dorsey to buy two iPhones at a nearby Verizon store before selling them to him for cash, according to the release. Hunter allegedly shot Pope during a confrontation, the release states, adding Dorsey then grabbed a gun that Pope had brought before he and Hunter left the scene in a Volkswagen Jetta which Nelson was driving.
It took more than three weeks for all three men to be arrested. Dorsey and Hunter were booked first on Jan. 9 — initially on charges of robbery with a firearm and first-degree murder — before Nelson turned himself in days later.
Hunter, Nelson and Dorsey await trial in the John E. Polk Correctional Facility, the release states.
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