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Moments after 15-year-old Tyron Clanton fatally shot two men who were driving him and two friends to a Petersburg housing complex last summer, one of Clanton’s friends turned to the teen and asked why he had done it.

Clanton, a member of a localized version of the notorious Crips gang, replied that his O.G. — short for “original gangster” — had ordered him to do the hit.

Less than an hour earlier, Clanton and his two friends, Talik Warren and Austin Evans, had been socializing with both victims, smoking marijuana and getting tattoos before they all decided to drive to Pecan Acres on the evening of July 19, 2018.

The teens’ hosts — Bernard Spratley, 33, and Leon Lyle, 24 — were unaware they soon would lose their lives.

Investigators would later determine that both men were gunned down with a Petersburg police officer’s personal-use, .45-caliber Glock 21 semiautomatic pistol, which had been stolen from his home just a week earlier.

The officer, authorities would learn, had a distant family connection to Warren — now charged along with Evans as being a principal in the second degree to both murders — and had agreed to let the boy stay with him for several months after learning he was having trouble and needed a place to live.