MOULTRIE —
A Moultrie man arrested on drug charges after a deadly Friday night shooting was released Monday on a $100,000 bond.
No charges had been filed as of Monday in connection with the death of 20-year-old Kirby Luis Yon as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation continued their probe of the violence that apparently erupted during a drug deal in Southeast Moultrie.
Yon’s body was found with gunshot wounds in a car at Circle Drive and Third Avenue Southeast, where he was pronounced dead. Danny D. Hill was stabbed the same night and spend most of the weekend in jail on drug charges.
“Kirby Yon was found in a vehicle along with some cocaine and marijuana,” said Steve Turner, special agent in charge of the GBI office in Thomasville. “We found that Kirby Yon and Danny Hill were involved in a drug transaction. We feel that Kirby Yon stabbed Danny Hill and Danny Hill shot him.”
A gun and knife were recovered, Turner said, but he declined to divulge where they were located or to describe the firearm.
“It’s still under investigation,” he said.
Hill, 22, of 180 Robin Lane was charged Saturday with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Moultrie police were summoned at about 8:35 p.m. to a store near where a Cadillac was found with the drugs and body. Hill collapsed in the store with multiple stab wounds to his upper torso.
A short time later a man approached police and told them that a man was motionless in a car on Circle Drive.
Hill was taken to Colquitt Regional Medical Center but released on Saturday morning, at which time police filed the drug charges and took him to Colquitt County Jail.
Hill has no felony convictions, although he has been charged in the past in cases in which charges later were dismissed, including a rape and armed robbery.
He was initially indicted in the July 2010 armed robbery of the Moultrie Winn Dixie as part of a sweeping list of gang-related charges. Charges in that case were dismissed after two witnesses who previously had put him among those involved in the robbery later identified another person and told authorities that Hill was not involved.
Hill’s father Danny Dewight Hill, 51, of Adel also was arrested over the weekend. Police said that the elder Hill, who was charged with disorderly conduct, refused to follow officers’ instructions Friday night at the hospital and used profanity toward police.
He also has been released.
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