Accused murderer surrenders at the jail
♦ He is charged with felony murder in a July shooting death in North Rome.
The Rome man accused of shooting a 40-year-old to death in North Rome on July 3 was turned himself in at the jail on Monday.
Stephano Tyrique Green, 20, turned himself in Monday afternoon at the Floyd County Jail. He is charged with felony murder.
Warrants had been taken out by the Rome Police Department for Green for the July 3 shooting death of 40-yearold Derricus Whatley which took place around 5:50 p.m.
Floyd County 911 received a call about a vehicle accident with injury near the intersection of Tolbert Street at North Avenue. Other callers told 911 the driver had been shot.
Upon officers’ arrival they found Whatley in his vehicle near 207 Tolbert St. with a gunshot wound. They began rendering first aid until emergency medical personnel arrived.
Whatley was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Green is the second former RHS football player involved in a shooting death recently; Derricus Javez Devonte Smith was the victim of a shooting in May.
There have not been any direct connections that indicate the two crimes are related.
Investigators following leads in the Smith homicide raided a home at 1505 Gordon Ave. in North Rome and arrested eight local residents, ages 17 to 61, on drug and weapons charges.
No one has been charged with homicide at this time.
Police discovered Smith’s body in the early hours of May 21 with a single gunshot wound to the head near 307 Perkins St. shortly after 2 a.m., police said at the time. Witnesses reported a black Dodge Challenger with several passengers was seen leaving the area.