Chicago man among two charged with fatal shooting in Hammond

Two men, including a Chicago resident, have been charged with fatally shooting a 23-year-old man Thursday afternoon in northwest Indiana.

Alante Dava Green and Robert A. Stone, both 23, have been charged with the murder of Iyuan Yarbrought, according to a criminal complaint filed in Lake County court. Stone also faces one felony count of assisting a criminal.

Yarbrought was discovered shot on the curb about 2:20 p.m. Thursday in the 1000 block of Drackert Street in Hammond, authorities said.

Stone drove his red 2007 Honda Accord from his home in Chicago to Hammond to hang out with Green on Thursday morning, according to the affidavit. When Green got into Stone’s car, he noticed Green had brought a Glock handgun box. He asked Green if there was a gun in the box and Green said no.

Green told Stone to drive to Drackert Street in Hammond and they parked the car, according to the affidavit. Green told Stone about a man that lived on the block who he had a problem with and that he was going to “whip his ass.” Green told Stone to pull up next to the man, and Green reached under the front passenger seat, pulled out a handgun and started shooting.

One of the first officers at the scene asked Yarbrought who shot him and he identified the shooter as Green, according to the affidavit. Witnesses told police they saw a red four-door Honda with Illinois plates speeding away.

Yarbrought, of the 5400 block of Hohman Avenue in Hammond, was taken to Franciscan St. Margaret Health in Hammond, where he died at 4:35 p.m., according to the Lake County coroner’s office.

Stone and Green then drove to Green’s home in East Chicago and threw away the empty box of bullets, according to the affidavit. They got back into the car to drive to Indiana Harbor, but were pulled over by police and taken into custody.

Green told investigators he had an off-and-on girlfriend and found out she had also been dating a man he knew as “Quick,” according to the affidavit. He identified a photograph of Yarbrought as “Quick.” Yarbrought and Green had argued over the phone several times over the past several months.

Green claimed Yarbrought was a rapper who threatened him in a song he posted on social media, according to the affidavit. He told investigators he was “like a detective to track Quick’s every move” and asked Stone to drive him to Hammond. He claimed Quick had it coming and “it is what it is,” but that Stone had nothing to do it.

Stone told police he had no idea Green was going to shoot Yarbrought until he pulled out the gun.

The handgun was recovered from under the seat in Stone’s Honda, according to the affidavit. The empty box of bullets was also recovered from the garbage can.