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ROCK HILL Police have charged a Rock Hill teen in a Friday shootout that left one teenager dead and another person in critical condition.
Kennedy Fitzgerald Chisholm, 19, was charged with murder Saturday.
Rock Hill Police spokesman Lt. Brad Redfearn said Chisholm is charged in Friday's incident, which closed roads, locked down schools and shut off power in east Rock Hill.
The incident is still under investigation and it is unclear how many people were involved in the shootout, but a police report released Monday sheds more light.
Tommy Leon Barber Jr., 18, of Rock Hill was shot and killed outside a home on Catherine Street after "multiple suspects" came to the house armed with weapons, police said.
Barber was found on the ground behind 358 Catherine St. with a Glock pistol in his right hand, according to police reports. He was wearing Latex gloves, and the gun found with him had been reported stolen in Rock Hill.
The second person shot in the incident, Tryson O'Bryan Jones, 19, of 601 S. Jones Ave., Rock Hill, was found in a small brown Honda car that crashed backward into a utility pole on Workman Street. There was a rifle in the car, police reports say.
Jones remained in critical condition Monday at Carolinas Medical Center.
Chisholm, of 847 Spring St., Rock Hill, is charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, attempted armed robbery, criminal conspiracy and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to York County Sheriff's Office records.
Chisholm was booked at the Moss Justice Center in York on Saturday night, jail records show. His bond was denied, a jail official said.
Chisholm has been convicted of drug possession charges in 2006, according to a criminal background check. He was also arrested on charges of buying or having alcohol earlier this year, according to the State Law Enforcement Division.
Tommy Leon Barber is the second teenager in eight days to be slain in Rock Hill, but Redfearn said that the two cases are not related.
On Oct. 1, Tyrone King, also 18, was robbed, shot and killed on a Byars Street porch in the Hagins-Fewell neighborhood.
Two suspects - Donte Reid, 17, and 22-year-old Samantha Ervin - remain in custody, charged with King's murder. Charges were dropped last week against a third suspect.
