Times-News
January 14, 2015
The two teens who have been charged as adults in the shooting death of 21-year-old Stephanie Waters of Roaring Springs were being held without bail Monday in the Bedford County Jail, according to the Bedford County District Attorney’s Office.
Deauntay Dontaz Moye, 16, of Woodbury, and Ryan James Hardwick, 15, of Martinsburg, were taken into custody early Sunday morning and arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Brian Baker.
On Friday, the Roaring Spring Police Department received information that Waters was missing Thursday. A missing person alert was posted on the Altoona Police Department Facebook page.
The Pennsylvania State Police received information Saturday that an automobile fitting the description of Waters’ vehicle was parked at an abandoned house near Salemville Road in New Enterprise. Trooper Derek Schrader and Cpl. Brad Codd found Waters and her dog dead in the rear of the vehicle. They both died as a result of gunshot wounds.
Waters was pronounced dead by Coroner Sam Gordon at 4:54 p.m. Saturday.
Moye faces charges of criminal homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, theft, receiving stolen property, carrying firearms without a license, criminal use of a communication facility, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, abuse of a corpse, unauthorized use of an automobile, cruelty to animals and possession of a firearm by a minor.
Hardwick is facing charges that include conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, robbery, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, theft, receiving stolen property, carrying firearms without a license, criminal use of a communication facility, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, abuse of a corpse, unauthorized use of an automobile, cruelty to animals and possession of a firearm by a minor.