Details emerge in Springfield double homicide involving brother and sister
Hours before her brother was shot and killed in an attempted robbery she is accused of helping orchestrate, Tarrin Dicks made a post on her Facebook page that referenced her sibling.
"Til death do us apart," the 19-year-old wrote Wednesday, shortly before Springfield police said Dicks, her brother Trevin Dicks, and three others planned to rob a man later that evening.
Tarrin Dicks reportedly exchanged text messages with the man the group targeted, and they agreed to smoke marijuana together. The man told police that, shortly after Tarrin picked him up in an SUV she was driving around 12:30 a.m. Thursday, he was ambushed by two men who suddenly appeared from the cargo area of the vehicle with guns.
A struggle ensued, according to the police report, and the man said he fired several rounds from his own gun toward the backseat and fled from the vehicle, which was parked in the street in the 200 block of East Erie Street near an apartment complex. The man's friend, who said he witnessed the incident after hearing gunshots from inside an apartment, said he also fired shots toward the car.
Trevin Dicks, 21, and alleged assailant Reggie Carey, 19, were both driven to a local hospital where they died of their wounds. Someone in the group appears to have driven the wounded men to the hospital, where police made contact with Tarrin Dicks, Isaiah Crabb, 18, and a juvenile, who arrived in the vehicle.
The juvenile and Crabb admitted to having roles in the attempted robbery, according to the police report, but Tarrin Dicks said the deadly shooting was random.
"(Tarrin) said she stopped at a stop sign in a neighborhood when a black male walked up to the vehicle and started shooting inside from the passenger side," the police report read. "(She) claimed not to know who the shooter was and denied having contact with anyone in the area about meeting."
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Police located and interviewed the man who was allegedly targeted by the group and fired the shots, and his friend who said he also fired shots. Their names are not mentioned in a police report because they have not been charged with a crime.
Crabb, according to the police report, said the plan was for Carey and Trevin Dicks — a man arrested in 2019 for an armed robbery, which he filmed and posted to Snapchat, according to the Kansas City Star — to ambush the man from inside the car while he and the juvenile came in to help from outside the vehicle. The goal was to reportedly rob of him of his marijuana and split it among the group.
Prosecutors charged Tarrin Dicks and Crabb on Thursday with charges of second-degree murder, attempted robbery and armed criminal action. Though they didn't fire the deadly gunshots, Missouri law allows for a murder charge when someone dies during the commission of a felony.
"Dicks set up the robbery which resulted in the death of two of her associates," a probable cause statement concluded. "Crabb was involved in a planned robbery which resulted in the death of two persons."
Ryan Collingwood covers a wide range of topics for the News-Leader with an emphasis on public safety. He can be reached by phone at 417-258-8174 and email at rcollingwood@news-leader.com. You can also follow Ryan on social media at X.com/rwcollingwood
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