Nashville police arrested five juveniles Friday in the fatal shooting of a popular local musician, PEOPLE confirms. The five juveniles, ages 12 to 16, were taken into custody on the charge of criminal homicide in connection with the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Kyle Yorlets outside his Nashville home in the 3200 block of Torbett Street Thursday. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Police say the three boys and two girls were in a stolen red Chevrolet Colorado pick up truck in the alley behind Yorlet’s home when they spotted him outside. “The juveniles interacted with Yorlets, took his wallet and ultimately demanded that he surrender the keys to his vehicle,” according to a Nashville police press release obtained by PEOPLE. “It is believed that he was fatally shot after he refused.” Police say after the Belmont University student and member of the band Carverton was shot, he made it back inside his house where he was found by his roommate around 3 p.m. He was rushed to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he died. In a statement on Facebook, Yorlets bandmates said they were “heartbroken.” “We are in a state of shock and are having to grasp the reality that is now in front of us,” they wrote. “We will never forget Kyle, and though he is gone too soon his legacy is here to stay.” • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. Police found the stolen pick up truck abandoned Thursday evening. The youths were apprehended the following morning in another stolen vehicle, a Hyundai Santa Fe, at the West Nashville Walmart. Police recovered a stolen loaded nine-millimeter pistol inside the Santa Fe. Another loaded and stolen gun that the juveniles allegedly hid in one of the aisles inside the department store was found. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Yorlets family pay for travel and funeral expenses.<doc-sep>A 24-year-old Nashville musician is dead, and five juveniles have been charged in the shooting. Kyle Yorlets, the lead singer of Carverton, was robbed and gunned down behind his home at about 3 p.m. on Thursday. On Friday, three girls, ages 12, 14 and 15, and two boys, 13 and 16, were all charged with criminal homicide after being arrested at a local Walmart. Being charged with criminal homicide in the Yorlets case are 3 girls, ages 15, 14, & 12, and 2 boys, ages 16 & 13. They will be taken to Juvenile Detention. They were all arrested at the West Nashville Wal-Mart. A gun has been recovered as was a stolen car in the parking lot. — Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) February 8, 2019 A Metropolitan Nashville Police Department spokesperson said police had been investigating a 12-year-old girl who had run away from home, reported the Tennessean. During the search, the girl was seen in a Snapchat video in a car “with other young people with guns.” Investigators think the juveniles, allegedly driving a stolen car, were in an alley behind Yorlets’s home, and they approached him to rob him. While they allegedly took his wallet, the shooting is believed to have occurred after he refused to give up his car keys. After the shooting, a wounded Yorlets made his way inside his house and remained there — for an hour or two — before he was discovered by a housemate. He still had a faint pulse, according to the police spokesperson, and was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. However, it was there that he was declared dead. The police spokesperson called Yorlets an “absolute innocent victim.” Police have not yet identified which of the minors pulled the trigger, but said all five are known to police and the court system. Per local law, the three suspects over the age of 13 have been publicly identified. However, many media outlets are opting not to reveal their identities because they are minors. Story continues Yorlets, a vocalist and guitar player, grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania but headed to Music City with bandmate Michael Curry to establish themselves as a pop/rock band, according to the Carverton website. In Nashville, they met Christian Ferguson and Michael Wiebell to “complete the band,” which played at the Firefly Music Festival and has toured across the country. On Friday the band paid tribute to Yorlets, who graduated from Belmont University in Nashville in 2017 and worked at local restaurants, saying, “On February 7, 2019, we lost our brother, best friend and bandmate Kyle Yorlets. We are in a state of shock and are having to grasp the reality that is now in front of us. We are heartbroken. Our condolences for his family and loved ones and all the lives that he touched. We will never forget Kyle, and though he is gone too soon his legacy is here to stay.” The band had an album release show planned for next month, among other scheduled events. The publicist for the band, Jen Appel, said that funeral arrangements are pending, according to the Tennessean. A colleague from the restaurant Pastaria, where Yorlets worked, said he was “such a kind and forgiving person.” She asked people to “send prayer and good thoughts towards the Yorlets family, his girlfriend, his friends and extended work families.” A GoFundMe has been established to help with funeral costs and travel expenses for Yorlets’s family. So far it has met over $7,000 of its $10,000 goal. Read more from Yahoo Entertainment:<doc-sep>
Nashville police have arrested five minors in connection with the death of a 24-year-old musician who was shot during a robbery at his home. Kyle Yorlets, a member of the rock band Carverton, was shot outside his Nashville home Thursday and was found inside by one of his housemates around 3 p.m., according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. He was later pronounced dead at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The five juveniles, ranging in age from 12 to 16, have been charged with Yorlets' murder, police said. The minors were allegedly in a stolen Chevrolet Colorado truck in the alley that runs behind Yortlets' home when they spotted him inside, according to authorities. They then "interacted with Yorlet, took his wallet and ultimately demanded that he surrender the keys" to his car, officials said. Police believe Yorlet was shot when he refused. Police found the stolen truck Thursday evening and later apprehended all five suspects at a Walmart in West Nashville, as well as a loaded 9 mm pistol, which had been reported stolen. A second loaded pistol, also reported stolen, was also recovered from inside the store, police said. A stolen Hyundai Santa Fe that the group used to travel to Walmart was also recovered. Yorlets' funeral has been scheduled for Monday. In a statement, his band mates wrote that they "are in a state of shock" and "heartbroken." "Our condolences for his family and loved ones and all the lives that he touched," the statement posted to Twitter read. "We will never forget Kyle, and though he is gone too soon his legacy is here to stay." Band mate Samantha Harrison described Yorlets as a "kind and forgiving person" in a statement on her Facebook page. "He was talented, always had a great attitude and made work not seem like work when he was around," she said. Yorlets' family are dairy farmers in Pennsylvania, according to a GoFundMe campaign created to help pay for funeral expenses.