The warrant for one of two men charged in the Feb. 27 killing of 20-year-old Terrance Frisby in Georgetown reveals details of what led up to the incident but falls short of providing a motive.
The document reveals the actions of the two suspects − Kevin Stone, 61, of Georgetown and Jason Curtis, 24, of Dagsboro − leading up to the shooting.
Stone told police that Curtis was looking to buy some crack, according to his arrest warrant. The first time he met him was when he got in his car in the parking lot of Dunbarton Apartments. A few moments later, the two men went to the door of apartment 203, where police believe one of them opened fire.
Stone told police he didn’t see the shooting and “couldn’t say” if Curtis was the shooter, according to court documents.
What witnesses say happened
The Georgetown Police Department responded to the shooting at the apartment complex just off Route 113 around 8:30 p.m. They found Frisby, a visitor to the apartment, with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a state police news release. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Stone’s warrant says there were three witnesses in the apartment at the time of the murder, but it only includes the statements of two, one of which said they were unable to see the doorway.
The only person in the apartment that was able to give police any substantial information was a woman who had arrived just moments before the shooting, the warrant says.
She identified Stone as one of two men who followed her as she walked across the parking lot and approached the 200 building, according to the warrant. She said she didn’t know the other man, later identified as Curtis.
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With Stone and Curtis nearby, the woman knocked on the door of the apartment, the warrant says she told police. When the door opened, she entered and “gunfire erupted behind her and Frisby fled into the apartment, collapsing in the living room,” according to Stone’s warrant.
What surveillance video shows
Curtis had spent time in apartment 203 earlier that day before leaving in what appeared to be a fit of anger, according to Stone’s warrant. Twenty minutes later, he returned and Frisby was killed, the warrant says.
Curtis first arrived at the apartment around 3:15 p.m. in a silver Hyundai Elantra, staying for an hour or so before driving to a nearby liquor store, the warrant says.
Facial recognition software at the Delaware State Bureau of Identification used images from the liquor store’s surveillance video to identify Curtis, according to court documents.
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He next showed up on Dunbarton surveillance on foot, coming from the direction of the 700 building, where Stone lives, and reentering apartment 203.
Around 7:20, Curtis walked away from the 200 building, with his coat looking “disheveled and the hood unzipped or torn,” police said in the warrant. He appeared “angry” and was calmed by other people in the parking lot before leaving the area in the Elantra, the warrant says.
The car returned around 8 p.m. and parked, with Stone coming out of the 200 building (not the building he lives in) “moments later” and getting in, according to court documents.
The car then left the area and when it returned, 20 minutes or so later, Stone and Curtis got out and approached the door of apartment 203, the warrant says.
After the shooting, Stone ran in the direction of his building, while Curtis took off in the car, court documents say.
The arrests
After both a witness and Georgetown police officers identified Stone as one of the suspects, he was arrested on a conspiracy charge Feb. 28, still wearing the clothes he was seen in in surveillance video, according to court documents.
He confirmed he was one of the men in the video, but said it was the first time he’d met the other man and did not name him, the warrant says.
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The warrant does not clarify whether Stone or Curtis was the shooter.
While in custody at Sussex Correctional Institution on the conspiracy charge, Stone was further charged with possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and first-degree murder. He is being held on a $1,060,000 cash bond.
Curtis was arrested March 3 at a home in Berlin, Maryland. He remains in the Maryland Department of Correction’s custody, pending extradition. Upon arrival in Delaware, he will be charged with first-degree murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and second-degree conspiracy, according to police.
A trial date has not yet been set.
Shannon Marvel McNaught reports on Sussex County and beyond. Reach her at smcnaught@gannett.com or on Twitter @MarvelMcNaught
