Two teens were arrested under suspicion of shooting a 19-year-old man on Friday. The man, later identified as David Noel Pleasant of Little Elm, died at a local hospital on Saturday morning, according to a Little Elm Police Department press release.
Alec Ray Adamson, 17, and Mason Enslow Schiller, 17, were charged with murder in the man's death.
Alec Adamson
Mason Schiller
At about 1 p.m. Friday, Little Elm Police Department officers responded to a call of a shooting in the 1600 block of Knight Trail, and found Pleasant wounded. He was transported to a local hospital.
Detectives from both the Little Elm Police Department and the Denton County Sheriff’s Office were investigating the incident and cleared the scene at about 5:30 p.m.
At about 8:15 p.m. Friday, officers detained a 17- and 18-year-old suspects, who are Collin County residents, for a possible connection of the incident.
The Little Elm Police Department gave an update at about 12:15 p.m. Saturday and said Pleasant succumbed to his injuries in the morning.
The two teens’ charges have been upgraded from aggravated assault to murder.
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