DES MOINES, IOWA — A Polk County jury has found Bravon Tukes not guilty on all five counts he was facing for his alleged role in the shooting inside Starts Right Here educational center in Des Moines on January 23rd. The 20-year-old Tukes was accused of discussing the shooting with gunman 19-year-old Preston Walls beforehand and then giving him a ride minutes after the shooting that killed 18-year-old Giovanni Dameron and 16-year-old Rashad Carr and injured school founder Will Keeps, a former Chicago gang member and rapper who started the program for at-risk teens.

Tukes was charged with two counts of First Degree Murder and individual counts of Criminal Gang Participation, Willful Injury and Attempted Murder.  The jury, Friday, returned unanimous not guilty verdicts on each of the five charges on Friday afternoon.  Tukes has continued to maintain that he didn’t know Walls was about to open fire on classmates inside the school.

Walls was facing the same charges as Tukes in his trial last month.  A jury found Walls guilty of the lesser charges of Second Degree Murder and Voluntary Manslaughter for the deaths of Carr and Dameron.  Walls was found not guilty of the other three charges.  Walls faces up to 50 years in prison with the possibility of parole.