By Vicky Wedig
Staff Writer
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 20 for a Milwaukee man charged in the robbery of a Town of Troy apartment during which a man was beaten and a woman was shot in the leg.
Drevon A. Grant, 19, was charged Feb. 6 in Walworth County Circuit Court with armed robbery, first-degree reckless injury, substantial battery and false imprisonment, all as a party to a crime.
Two other men, Jacob A. Curler, of East Troy, and Michael R. Craft, of Milwaukee, have also been arrested in connection with the crime. They are being held in the Walworth County Jail on $50,000 bond each and are scheduled to appear in Walworth County Court Feb. 19 for bond hearings. The criminal complaints for Craft and Curler were not available at press time.
According to the criminal complaint against Grant, three men entered an apartment in the Town of Troy on Oct. 20 and injured residents. A detective spoke with one of the residents, Afrim Lika, at the hospital. Lika’s left eye was purple and swollen shut and he had dried blood on his face in several locations, several stitches closing a cut above his eye and a cut on his head behind his right ear, according to the complaint.
Lika said he went to bed around 10:30 or 10:45 and was in his bedroom when two men entered the room with guns. He said the skinny robber yelled “Get up,” “Give me your money,” “This is a rape,” “Don’t move,” and “I’ll shoot you in the f—ing head,” according to the complaint. Lika said he kicked the skinny robber in the arm and fought with him and then the second man. He said the skinner man told the other man to tie up Lika’s wife, Altije Fejza, and Lika fought with both men, according to the complaint. Lika said the heavier man was going to tie Fejza with duct tape, and the heavier man beat Lika and Fejza, according to the complaint.
Lika said both men hit him with the bottom of their guns, and the fight moved from the bedroom to the living room where a third male intruder also fought with Lika. Lika said one man held a gun a short distance from his head, according to the complaint. Lika said as he fought with the three men, Fejza helped stop the men from hitting Lika, and one of the men shot her in the leg, according to the complaint. A bullet entered Fejza’s thigh and exited her right calf, according to the complaint.
Another resident of the apartment, Mrgim Fejza, said he was in the living room when the three men entered. He said one of the men pointed a gun at him and said, “This is a robbery, don’t move, don’t panic,” and bound Fejza’s hands behind his back with zip ties and pushed the coffee table against his legs to he couldn’t move from the couch. Fejza said one of the men went into his grandmother’s room and took two iPhones and keys to a 2011 Volkswagen sport utility vehicle.
Grant allegedly told an informant that he shot Fejza, and the informant identified Grant in a photo lineup. On Feb. 3, Grant admitted participating in the robbery and said he saw the other robbers fight with Lika and saw one of the other robbers shoot Fejza, according to the complaint.
According to court records, a fourth man, Jeremy L. Thomas, 26, of Milwaukee, is charged in Walworth County Circuit Court with armed robbery, first-degree reckless injury, false imprisonment and substantial battery, intending bodily harm in connection with the Oct. 19 robbery and shooting in the Town of Troy. A warrant was issued for his arrest Feb. 10.
Editor Tracy Ouellette contributed to this report.
