Tyler Yount (Photo courtesy of Baxter County Sheriff’s Office)
One of three men charged with involvement in an attempted theft of drugs from a Mountain Home residence during which an occupant was shot pled guilty to charges stemming from the incident during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Eighteen-year-old Tyler Yount was charged with attempt to commit murder in the first degree and aggravated residential burglary. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison after changing his plea.
Mountain Home police received a call just before 6:30 a.m. February 25 last year from the residents of a mobile home along East 16th Street. When officers arrived on scene, they discovered a male in a bedroom of the residence who had been shot in the abdomen.
The victim told police he did not know who shot him. He said one of the people who entered the mobile home wore a ski mask and the other a red bandanna.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the victim said he returned fire. Officers were contacted and told a male, later identified as Yount, had come to Baxter Health for treatment of gunshot wounds.
It was reported the resident of the mobile home had shot Yount twice.
He was late transferred to a Springfield Hospital and brought back to the Baxter County Detention Center after being released.
Yount was interviewed before being flown to Springfield and admitted to entering the residence with the intent of stealing drugs. It was reportedly Yount who identified 21-year-old Dylan Decker as being involved.
Yount also told police a third man, who was confined to a wheelchair, was also involved. He said he only knew him as “Wheels.”
He was later identified as 22-year-old David Brace of Flippin. According to the probable cause affidavit, Brace remained in the car while Yount and Decker walked to the mobile home from where they parked their vehicle.
Brace uses the wheelchair due to serious injuries he sustained in a car wreck in late November 2021.
Yount told officers he kicked the door to the residence twice before it gave way and allowed entry.
He said he had a pistol in his waistband and admitted he had shot the victim twice as he lay in bed, and the victim had returned fire, hitting Yount twice.
Yount told investigators he had fled the mobile home and was taken to Baxter Health.
Investigators reported finding blood in the entry, bedroom, the front porch and the driveway of the residence.
Decker was said to have pointed the finger at Brace as the one who had devised the plan to steal drugs from the residence. Decker said he was to be paid $1,000 by Yount for his participation in the plan.
Yount allegedly picked up Brace on his way to Mountain Home and later picked up Decker near Mountain Home Christian Academy. When they arrived at the East 16th address, Brace is alleged to have provided firearms for the group.
Brace said it was Yount who had contacted him and told him about the plan to steal marijuana from the victim’s home. Brace reported Decker knew there were drugs in the residence.
Police were told that, in the past, Decker been the victim of a “bad deal” with a female living at the residence and wanted to steal marijuana from her as pay back.
Decker is now in the Grimes Unit of the state prison system in Newport. His probation in a 2023 Baxter County drug case was revoked based on a number of violations, including the new charges stemming from the shooting
He was given three years in prison on the revocation.
Brace is scheduled to reappear in circuit court July 21.
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