MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — A 22-year-old Milledgeville man and one of his younger brothers have been arrested on murder charges in connection with last week’s shotgun slaying of Deandre Ricky Bolston.

Two other suspects also have been taken into custody by detectives with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office in connection with the murder case, while a second juvenile who disrupted detectives in an interview room on Wednesday also has been charged with a pair of crimes.

“At this point in time, we have two people charged with murder,” Baldwin County Sheriff Bill Massee said. “We will be taking out murder warrants against both of them.”

And at least three other men were taken into custody Wednesday afternoon and detained as suspects in a drive-by shooting that resulted in the apartment of two of those charged in the murder case being damaged by bullet holes.

Sheriff’s Detective Capt. Brad King said the C and D units at Pineterrace Apartments, off Lee Street, were damaged when one or more shooters fired 25 shots into them about 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Neither of those men had been charged with any crime as of early Wednesday night, King said.

“Right now, we want to question all three of them about the drive-by shooting,” King told the newspaper.

The names of those men were not released, pending further investigation.

No one was injured in the hail of gunfire at the local apartment complex.

King said he called for the assistance of agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Region 6 Office in Milledgeville to help process the crime scene of the drive-by shooting at Pineterrace Apartments. Other GBI agents also assisted sheriff’s office Detectives Bob Butch and Chris Youngblood in the two cases on Wednesday.

In the homicide case, meanwhile, King identified the oldest suspect as Kevin Dejuan Askew. He, along with one of his 16-year-old twin brothers, was charged with murder.

Askew was being held in the Baldwin County Law Enforcement Center on Wednesday night, while his younger brother was taken to a Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice facility in Augusta, Sheriff Bill Massee said.

The juvenile’s twin also was taken into custody after he was brought into an interview room at the sheriff’s office to talk with his twin brother and their mother on Wednesday afternoon. He immediately became upset about something after he walked into the room and damaged a wall. He was charged with obstruction of a law enforcement officer and interference with government property, King said.

Two other suspects also have been arrested in connection with the Bolston murder case. King identified them as: Voisel Renfro, 21, of Milledgeville, who was charged with giving false statements to a law enforcement officer, and tampering with evidence; and Javier Williams, 18, also of Milledgeville, who was charged with giving false statements to a law enforcement officer.

King said a shotgun, which was believed used to kill Bolston near the “I” Building of The Milledgeville Manor, off South Jefferson Street about 1:45 p.m. last Thursday, also has been recovered.

Information learned during the questioning of one of the suspects in the murder case by Detectives Thomas “T.J.” Hargrove and Greg See led to gun being found. It was buried near the Oconee River on the east side of Baldwin County, King said.

“It was wrapped in plastic and had been taped up,” King said.

The gun has yet to be examined to confirm whether it was actually used in the shooting of Bolston.

Sheriff Massee said he and detectives allowed the 16-year-old murder suspect’s mother to visit with him and another family member, “who evidently got angry because of his brother’s arrest. With a chair, he started damaging an interview room.”

King said the murder suspects were picked up earlier Wednesday at their residences for questioning.

“We had been basically working on the case all day,” King said. “The culmination of everything has now put us at the end of the day prepared to charged them with murder.”

The two murder suspects were the same two men whom authorities alluded to, but did not name in a news story that appeared in Wednesday’s edition of The Union-Recorder.

Asked whether a motive had been established for Bolston’s murder, King said not really, but that the murder suspects claimed the victim had a gun and that he shot at them first.

“They’re claiming a self-defense element,” King said.

It was not immediately known when the murder suspects would face first appearance bond hearings, or whether or not the juvenile murder suspect might be prosecuted as an adult.