Franklin County detectives say four teens plotted to burglarize a home in Galloway and now, one is dead and the three others are charged with his murder.

Franklin County detectives say four teens plotted to burglarize a home in Galloway and now, one is dead and the three others are charged with his murder.

Shortly after five Sunday morning, 18-year-old Adam Pickens dialed 911. “Hello, I have a shot friend. I really don't know what to say right now, I stayed [SIC] the night at a friend's house. I don't even know where I am right now,” Pickens says during the 911 call.

Detectives say Pickens was at a house on Dovalon Place, the home of 17-year-old Reb Barbee. The teen had been shot about an hour earlier, but Pickens refuses to relay any details of the shooting.

“That's it. I don't know how to tell you, ‘cause I don’t know what happened. I didn't want to get him in trouble. I don't know how it happened. He came in the front door, to be honest, he came in the front door with a gun wound and we are trying to stop the bleeding, and he is lying on the floor and I don’t know what happened, I think he is dying and I would like some help please.”

Adam Pickens

Franklin County detectives say Pickens, and two 17-year-olds helped Barbee break into a home on Hubbard Drive. A woman asleep upstairs awoke to find the teen in her house, wearing an Insane Clown Posse mask and wielding a knife. Detectives say that woman shot Barbee in the back before he ran out of the house.

Sherriff Zach Scott says Pickens tried to make up a story during the 911 call because he didn’t know what to do. Those decisions, Scott says, sealed their fate. “They went out to commit a crime and someone got killed and they were trying to cover their tracks and during this time period somebody dies.”