Overview
- DHS, which filed an ICE detainer Thursday, urged Missouri officials not to release Yefry Archaga-Elvir from jail.
- Greene County is holding Archaga-Elvir without bond on first-degree murder and armed criminal action charges.
- Court records describe a planned ambush in which suspects lured 15-year-old Miles Young to meet a girl, trapped his car with two vehicles, chased him on foot, and shot him in the chest.
- A probable cause affidavit, cited by DHS, says Archaga-Elvir later made a bragging phone call about the killing, and witnesses reported Young pleading, “I just don’t want to die.”
- A second suspect, 18-year-old Praize King, also faces the same charges, and DHS says Archaga-Elvir entered as a minor in 2015 and was released, as Missouri’s practice of honoring ICE holds comes under fresh scrutiny.