Accused shooter in Kingston Frazier case indicted for capital murder

The man accused of pulling the trigger in the death of 6-year-old Kingston Frazier in May has been indicted for capital murder by a Madison County grand jury.

District Attorney Michael Guest said Byron McBride, who was 19 at the time of the shooting, was indicted on Wednesday.

Dwan Wakefield and DeAllen Washington, both 17, were also taken before the grand jury on charges of accessory after the fact, but it's not clear what the outcome was.

Guest said he will release more details on Thursday morning.

Kingston was in his mother's vehicle when it was stolen from the parking lot of the Kroger on I-55 in Jackson early in the morning on May 18. Ebony Archie told police she had left the vehicle running and Kingston asleep in the back because she could see a deputy on duty guarding the parking lot from where she parked.

The disappearance of the vehicle and the child inside set off an Amber Alert and a massive manhunt, but the boy's body was found later in the abandoned vehicle in rural Madison County.

According to testimony in the preliminary hearings, McBride, Wakefield and Washington went to the Kroger parking lot on I-55 North frontage road near Wendy's restaurant to sell marijuana to someone in the parking lot.

It was then that McBride is alleged to have stolen the Kingston's mother's vehicle with the little boy inside.

Mississippi Bureau of Investigations Investigator Trent Weeks testified in the preliminary hearings that McBride initially said it was Washington who killed Kingston, but later confessed to doing it himself.

Wakefield allegedly told authorities that McBride told him he was stealing the Toyota Camry to get back to his home in Holmes County.

Weeks said Wakefield told police that McBride called him while traveling on I-55 North and told him a child was in the car. Weeks said Wakefield said he told McBride to drop the child off somewhere but that McBride said he was "going to off the kid."

Weeks testified that information gained through the investigation showed the stolen vehicle had run out of gas and that McBride asked Wakefield and Washington to come pick him up. They picked him up in the same silver Honda Civic seen in a surveillance video from the Kroger parking lot when Archie's vehicle was stolen with her child in the back seat.

Wakefield was granted $275,000 bond earlier this month.

His attorney, Tom Fortner said he believed the capital murder charge against his client would be lessened once the grand jury convenes.