Two people allegedly involved in the death of a man in a fall from a ninth-floor window in Charleston have returned to West Virginia.
Martez “Quick” Griffin, 23, of Charleston, and Lisa Ferrebee, 43, of Charleston, were booked into South Central Regional Jail in the early morning hours Wednesday, according to a regional jails employee. They were taken into custody by Arkansas State Police in Little Rock after an alleged robbery that led to a man's death Sept. 22.
Griffin is charged with one count of felony murder. Ferrebee is charged with accessory to felony murder.
Charleston police charged three men with felony murder and Ferrebee as an accessory after Bryson “B” Ward, of Detroit, died in a fall from the window at Charleston's Vista View Apartments during the alleged robbery. Felony murder is a charge used when someone is killed in the commission of a crime, in this case robbery.
Police said they found Ward dead outside 1311 Renaissance Circle, the result of a fall from the window of apartment 912 shortly before midnight, as well as evidence of a struggle inside the apartment.
Tyler Ferrebee, 23, of Dunbar, and Brian “BK” Parks, 26, of South Charleston were also charged with felony murder, as well as first-degree robbery. They were arrested and arraigned in Kanawha Magistrate Court on Sept. 24.
Charleston Police Lt. Steve Cooper, chief of detectives, previously said that several thousand dollars was divided between several people.
Surveillance video shows the three male suspects in the hallway outside the apartment at about the time police received a disturbance call, according to criminal complaints filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.
Lisa Ferrebee, Griffin's girlfriend, lives in apartment 912, according to the complaints.
A witness told police that Griffin stays off and on in the apartment with her, the complaint says. The witness said she had been with them earlier in the day Sept. 22, and that Griffin had been angry with the victim.
Cooper said Griffin and Ward knew each other from their hometown of Detroit and had traveled back and forth between there and Charleston often.
The day after the death, Tyler Ferrebee, Lisa Ferrebee's son, went to the Charleston Police Department to be interviewed. He said he had been present when Griffin and Parks formed a plan to “steal B's s--- and cut off his” genitals, according to the complaint. He said he agreed to drive them to 1311 Renaissance so they could complete the robbery.
Tyler Ferrebee said Parks and Griffin went into the building while he waited in the car, the complaints say.
He allegedly then took Parks and Griffin to the Dunbar Plaza Hotel. During the ride back, Griffin said, “We beat the hell out of B,” according to the complaints.
Tyler Ferrebee said he later learned from Parks' girlfriend that Ward had been killed from a fall from a window, the complaint says. Ferrebee admitted to receiving $2,000 cash from the robbery.
Asked for details about how Ward fell from the window, Sgt. J.A. Hunt said that information “should be disclosed closer to the trial date.”
Griffin and Lisa Ferrebee were arraigned by video Wednesday, according to magistrate court employees.
Cooper has said previously that all four suspects were being charged with first-degree robbery. Griffin and Lisa Ferrebee had not yet been arraigned on those charges as of Wednesday afternoon, according to magistrate court staff.
Reach Erin Beck at erin.beck@wvgazette.com, 304-348-5163, Facebook.com/ erinbeckwv, or follow @erinbeckwv on Twitter.