19-Year-Old Student Shoots & Kills His Own Brother Over Basketball Game

19-Year-Old 10th Grade Student Charged With Shooting & Killing His Own Brother Over Basketball Game In Philly

Upper Darby Township police have charged a Drexel Hill man with shooting his brother dead over an argument about a pickup basketball game.

Amir Byrd, 19, a 10th-grade student at Upper Darby High School, was charged with shooting his brother, Anthony, about 3:30 Saturday afternoon.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, a group of young men had been playing a game at the YMCA in Haverford Township earlier in the day. Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt said the brothers were playing pickup basketball with other youth. One brother won the first game and then a second game.

 

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Back at home on the 2400 block of Cedar Lane, Anthony was taunting Amir over the games. “They were going back and forth on each other talking at each other,” Bernhardt said.

A witness told police that Amir Byrd went to the second floor of the home and retrieved a firearm, police said. The argument continued between the two, when Amir Byrd fired nine shots from a .40-caliber Glock handgun, police said. Police arrived at the home to find two males and a female in the living room, with the victim lying on the kitchen floor with a gunshot wound to the head.

Bullet cartridges were seen in the living room, dining room floor and dining table. Police recovered the handgun in a closet in a middle bedroom.

During an interview that evening with Upper Darby detectives, Byrd confessed to going up to his bedroom, loading the weapon in his room prior to the incident then coming downstairs and shooting his brother, investigators said.