A 16-year-old girl was fatally shot in a Kentucky home for allegedly refusing to pick up a strewn bag of marijuana, Kentucky police said.
Scarlett Tucker was pronounced dead at the scene following the shooting, which took place Tuesday, January 3, at a home in Burlington, about 20 miles southwest of Cincinnati.
The Burlington Police Department said three other teenagers witnessed the shooting. His statements led to the arrest of 18-year-old Demarkus Hedges.
“Based on witness statements, a bag of marijuana fell to the bedroom floor and Hedges demanded that Tucker pick it up,” police said. “Tucker turned it down. Hedges then pointed his pistol at Tucker’s head and fired.”
Scarlett and Hedges are believed to have been friends, Boone County Sheriff’s Major Phillip Ridgell told Fox19.
Hedges, of Cincinnati, fled the home and later turned himself in to the US Marshals Service in Covington, Kentucky, police said. He was charged with murder, tampering with physical evidence, and illegal transaction with a minor.
Family members told the outlet that Scarlett had a “bright future that she was excited about.”
Her aunt, Rebekah Williams, told WCPO that she “really embodied the whole ‘Scarlett’ persona.”
Tucker’s family created a GoFundMe account to help pay for the funeral services.
“I think we’re all in shock right now,” Williams said. “I think it hurts all of us involved. I mean, she was 18 years old, she was still a little girl in our eyes,” Williams added.
Hedges is being held in the Boone County Jail on $1 million bail, police said.
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