Police have identified a man involved with killing a YBC member in North Philly last month, sources say
Melvin Seabron, 20, is wanted and expected to be charged with murder and related crimes for the killing of Dahviair Autry near Eighth and West Berks Streets on March 14.
Philadelphia police have identified a person they believe was involved with the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man affiliated with the Young Bag Chasers last month, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.
Melvin Seabron, 20, is wanted and expected to be charged with murder and related crimes in connection with the killing of Dahviair Autry near Eighth and West Berks Streets on March 14, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Police searched a home near Eighth and Diamond Streets Wednesday morning, looking for Seabron, but he wasn’t there, the sources said.
Investigators are still working to identify at least two other people involved with the crime.
Autry, also known as “Davinchi,” was affiliated with the West Philadelphia-based crew known as YBC. Before his death, he was among few YBC members who remained on the street following a yearslong back-and-forth that left many young men dead and in jail — and after several other remaining YBC affiliates were charged with shootings and murders in a sprawling indictment earlier this year.
Police believe Seabron was among at least two people who had been searching for Autry for several days beginning in early March, circling the block where his mother lived at all hours of the day, said the sources.
On the evening of March 14, police said, two men parked a black Honda Accord on the 1900 block of North Darien Street, and waited for him to come out of his mother’s home.
Around 6:15 p.m., he did — and the gunmen, armed with a rifle and 9mm handgun, jumped out and chased Autry down the block, shooting him multiple times, police said. He died at a hospital a short time later.
The shooters fled in the Honda, which was later found on fire near 17th and Wishart Streets. A gun magazine was found in the grass next to the car, sources said.
In the weeks that followed, detectives reviewed surveillance video and other information to trace the movements of the gunmen before and after the shooting, the sources said.
The investigation continues.
