In the Philadelphia area, a 19-year-old man has been charged with shooting his brother dead over an argument about a pickup basketball game.
Amir Byrd, a 10th-grade student at Upper Darby High School, was charged with shooting his brother, Anthony, earlier this week.
According to reports, a group of young men had been playing a game at the YMCA in Haverford Township. Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt said the brothers were playing pickup basketball with other youth. One brother won the first game and then the second game.
While back at home, Anthony was taunting Amir over the games.
“They were going back and forth on each other talking at each other,” Bernhardt said.
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A witness revealed Amir Byrd went to the second floor of the home and retrieved a firearm. The argument continued as Amir Byrd fired nine shots from a .40-caliber Glock handgun, police said.
Police would arrive to find the victim lying on the kitchen floor with a gunshot wound to the head. Police recovered the handgun in a closet in a middle bedroom.
Byrd confessed to going up to his bedroom, loading the weapon in his room prior to the incident then coming downstairs and shooting his brother, investigators said.
He was charged with criminal homicide, murder in the first degree, murder in the third degree, two counts of recklessly endangering another person, and possession of an instrument of crime and held without bail.
