17-year-old wanted for fatal shooting of teen in Aliquippa surrenders to police

Lamar Seymour, the 17-year-old wanted for shooting and killing another teen in Aliquippa, surrendered to law enforcement today.

Dahvea Sparrow, 15, was shot and killed while leaving a house party in Aliquippa on Saturday.

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Seymour turned himself into the Beaver County sheriff, according to Beaver County District Attorney David Lozier. State police will take him into custody and transport him to the Freedom District Magistrate Office at 2:30 p.m. for a hearing.

“We wish to thank the citizens of Aliquippa for assisting law enforcement and making this arrest possible and we again extend our prayers and sympathies to the Sparrow family and citizens of Aliquippa,” Sparrow said in a news release.

“The young man was ready. The first thing he said to me was ‘I want to turn myself in,” said Blaine Jones who’s Seymour’s defense attorney.

It comes two days after state police put out a warrant for his arrest. Detectives said a witness saw Seymour get into an altercation with 15-year-old Dahvea Sparrow that ended with Sparrow being shot and killed.

“There was a deliberate intentional execution in this case with a .40 caliber firearm to the head and this was targeted,” said Dave Lozier, the Beaver County DA.

Seymour, now charged with murder, will be tried in adult court. The judge denied his bail sending him to the Beaver County Jail.

“He is a danger to the community,” Lozier said.

But Seymour’s defense attorney has a different view.

“He has a very small juvenile record that’s the first thing and number two these are allegations so I don’t know how someone could bring forth the contention he’s a danger to the community and when you make a statement like that you need to have some evidence,” Jones said.

As for the reward money in this case, $5000 from Crime Stoppers and $5000 from the Aliquippa superintendent. The DA said if there is a conviction in this case, it will go to the tipster who came forward.

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