Suspect in killing of North Carolina teens released rap songs about the crime online while on the run

The 17-year-old suspected within the killing of two North Carolina teenagers launched rap tracks on-line that detailed the slayings, a report stated.

Issiah Mehki Ross of Mebane was recognized by the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace Monday because the suspect being the Sept. 17 taking pictures of Lyric Woods, 14, and Devin Clark, 17.

Throughout his time as a fugitive, Ross reportedly posted a number of new songs to his SoundCloud web page below the identify @Mi$tr3, together with one containing the lyrics “headshot” and describing “using spherical with a brand new Glock,” the Information & Observer reported.

In one other track posted simply days after the killings, Ross raps that he “received inside my automobile like I’m sipping on blood. A lot crimson inside my automobile like within the Akorn I belief. Acquired some s–t I can’t discuss, I can’t talk about.”

Police lastly revealed Ross’s identification almost two months after Woods and Clark’s gun-riddled our bodies have been discovered on a gravel street.

Ross was a pupil at Japanese Alamance Excessive Faculty, the place Clark was additionally enrolled, a spokesperson instructed the Information & Observer. He had just lately moved to Mebane and had solely been enrolled within the faculty from Aug. 29 to Sept. 3 of this yr.

Officers had held off on revealing Ross’s identification, regardless of suspecting him of the crime simply 48 hours after Woods and Clark’s our bodies have been discovered, due to the state’s strict juvenile safety legal guidelines, a rule that brought about severe frustration for space residents. Defendants below the age of 18 are robotically tried as juveniles in North Carolina until their case is transferred to Superior Courtroom.

A choose licensed Ross’s case to be transferred to grownup courtroom Monday morning, permitting the police to lastly reveal his identify to the general public.

In line with officers, Ross allegedly shot Woods and Clark beneath a power-line easement someday early Sept. 17 morning. ATV riders discovered the teenagers’ our bodies the subsequent afternoon, and Ross had already fled the state, Sheriff Charles Blackwood stated.

“We had a fairly good concept the place he was going or the place he had gone to and notified legislation enforcement authorities in Delaware,” Blackwood stated.

Ross was apprehended on Oct. 5, 18 days after his alleged victims’ our bodies have been discovered.

Police wouldn’t touch upon the music.

Two others have been charged in Delaware for harboring a fugitive.

Regardless of being tried as an grownup for the murders, Ross remains to be being held in a youth facility, officers stated.

Officers wouldn’t touch upon Ross’s hyperlinks to Woods or Clark, or disclose a doable motive for the shootings, however stated there are “some theories” tied to forensic proof discovered on the scene.

Blackwood stated he’s “very assured” the proof will show Ross dedicated the cold-blooded murders.